Oh, sorry, I confused you with another guy I talked with several years back when I was living in Vietnam waiting for my wife's visa. He also lived there and was having issues getting his visa for her.
I can't believe you are having issues with this. You have been physically living with her in Vietnam for how long now? Most people don't live with their petitioner in their home country. A couple of visits, marriage, then go home and file paperwork. Yet they question someone that has lived with their spouse througout the whole process?
Still could file, get I-751 moved up, finish I-751 then withdraw the n-400. Sucks it would cost some money but could get resolution. That said, I suspect the I-751 would come by itself at this late date before the n-400 would come.
If the job thing doesn't work out does it make sense for both of you to go to Vietnam, marry there with her family present and then let her stay with her family until she can arrive in the US? This would be the least expensive while living apart while giving her a support structure while you are not in the same household. I hate to say your chance of a tourist visa isn't great. Better than a normal single VN girl who has never left the country but still very slim odds.
It's a good way to lighten your wallet by $165. If you have already filed i-130 you have shown immigration intent and that drops the chance of getting a tourist visa fron PH from almost zero to zero. But, it's your money. Anyone can apply for a tourist visa as long as you are willing to pay the non-refundable application fee. They will give her an interview. It will probably be three questions and then they will deny her. It's just a money grab with no chance of sucess.
Vietnam definitely allows petitioners to attend for CR-1, not sure about K1. I attended ours. I actually answered most of the questions in the interview. I think my wife answered one. Ours was pretty short, maybe 5 minutes. A good portion was just talking about home since the officer was from a city less 30 minutes from my pemanent address in the US. I think it also helped because at the time the border in Vietnam was closed for more than a year due to covid so any petitioners that actually came were virtually guaranteed to be bona fide since we already had to have been in country for more than a year at the time of the interview. I was the only petitioner there out of 60-70 people that day.
All they would need to do one one parts is submit the tax transcripts and compare them to the tax returns that were originally submitted. Pretty easy to prove if they are fake or not fake.
I posted this in the January 2023 filer thread but for anyone that isn't following that specific month thread they wouldn't see this.
We just got our extension letters today. Instead of extending the expiration 24 months our letters are good for 36 months. Doesn't look like they anticipate anything getting better any time soon. At least it will avoid some of the problems people are running into with 24 month letters and still not being done and needing to make an appointment for an ADIT stamp.