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So in the above set of instructions - you are between 3 and 4. You have to complete the I-824 and pay the fees as others have said. How did you originally submit your case - online or by mail? The situation are likely in is that you on the I-130 form, in part 4 - you would have answered BOTH 61 a/b AND 62 a/b/c. If you have a copy of your submission (I know when you submit online they usually send you a .pdf?) and you DID NOT check both of the boxes, then you could reach out and indicate that USCIS made an error. I do know others where they DID NOT check both of these boxes and were successful in NOT filing the I-824 and had their case move on to the NVC. If you did in fact, answer both of those, then you would have to file it as others have indicated.

when the passport is "sent away: for the visa it's maybe gone for a week or two. You wouldn't plan on then leaving the country on a different passport and then returning a week later to get the passport with the visa in it?

You don't apply for either - you just submit off the I-130 for your spouse -- the visa you get is based on the length of marriage when your spouse enters the US. I hope you haven't waited all this time thinking it was based on length of marriage at time of petition!

I've been a nurse for a very long time - there are medications that someone can take who is NOT HIV+ to prevent them from becoming HIV+. If you are sexually intimate with your partner, it's very important that they know and understand this so they can protect their own health. In addition, there are 10 states in the US where it's a crime to NOT let a sexual partner know that you are HIV+. It's no longer the stigma it once was - there are many free clinics in the US and with proper medication, your healthcare and your partners are both protected - but I cannot in good conscience imagine entering into a relationship without your partner knowing. You can do your interview in Norway or any country that you have legal residency in (i.e. you can't just be a tourist in Norway)

the CR1 / IR1 does not have the name of the petitioner. And why are you assuming this person is a "he"?

So this person messaged me with the same on FB yesterday. He says that his parents are elderly and live 4 hours from Cairo and in Egypt you have to sign the paperwork there and it wasn't a "wedding" in Cairo, they were just signing papers which he explained during the interview. He said that she has been there with him 3 times and that he felt confident about all the questions they asked at the interview. I asked him if they had chat logs/phone logs that they just did not submit and he did not say. He told me that the photos were regular pics - taken at the pyramids, with family, at McDonalds, just wherever. I asked him to have his wife message me and I would try to give some basic suggestions (include more of the chat logs, write down all the questions they asked at the interiew to the best of his recollection and how he answered them) but the wife did not message me.

On our Morocco/US visa group - K1 interviews are taking about 6-8 months. People who received their NOA2 for K1 interviews last November have interviews scheduled for late July. Medicals are often after that. Maybe this was an auto generated email response not updated for awhile.

My husband (also Moroccan) and I had a similar experience. We went to the interview, about 3 hours drive from where we live and it was something about the 10 year green card file not being received yet (unlike you he had not received his). We reached out to the senator's office, got the 10 year green card a month later, and his N400 interview a few months after that. Inshallah yours will be going through soon.

Not that you keep wanting to apply over and over and over but if you could get some estimates of how much surgery/treatment would be either in Gambia, or in a country that he can travel to easily - and it would likely be an exorbitant amount of course - you could try based on your financial hardship for needing to help pay for this (presuming he is not able to work with this type of injury). As a nurse - I'm presuming you mean a brachial injury? If you are going to do try to do this I would also how how your insurance will cover this upon his entry to the US and proof of overseas cost. It may, of course, still be a no - but technically you would be applying for financial hardship to help him pay for this, not because of this injury.

Yes. I would think that the translators sworn seal and signature would have been enough though. I can send you pics of what we sent, etc if you send me a message

We had a different translation at USCIS, with the RFE, and at his interview and all was fine.

This happened to us too (my husband is from Morocco also). Ours said that it wasn't signed by a judge, but it WAS signed by a judge. We got a new translation for it from a US based company using a "USCIS guaranteed" agency - I think it was $20 and had a 24 hour turnaround time. We submitted that and our case was approved 2 weeks later. I think the bigger problem is your lawyer just doing whatever and not consulting you with feedback/etc. My husband and I both got a copy of our marriage certificate signed by the judge. Ours was registered properly and he has been here over 4 years.

His English was very good, he had a low paying job and no travel history. I will send you a list of questions they asked him if you msg me

(my husband is from Mohammedia too). A K1 is hard call in Morocco - it can either go fine, or not go well at all. USCIS does not post statistics on how many visas are not approved, but very few K1s are issued. We had an unapproved K1 years ago. Another frustrating thing that most people encounter is that there is NO requirement - NONE! - for them to look at ANYTHING you bring to the interview. So even if your fiance had been with you for a year, it could still be denied because you submitted after 1 visit. Getting married in Mohammedia isnt that awful - we did it in 5 days after our K1 disaster, and my husband has been in the US over 4 years now.

This link is not a USCIS site that reports factual statistics - it's a private attorney's webpage who wants you to hire them USCIS puts out statistics of approved visa issuances only - not how many are refused from each country.

Keep in mind that the worldwide visa issuances for K1 are around 45%. When my current husband and I first met and started researching the K1 you can google K1 approval rate and its like 98%-99% - but that's the USCIS approval rate for a K1 - not the rate of people who actually receive visas. So during my husbands K1 interview, we ended up being put into administrative processing and the visa petition was returned to the US - as the K1 only has a validity of 4 months they just say it's expired and you have to start over again. So we weren't DENIED a K1 but we had an unapproved K1. After that experience we started researching more and found the approval rate worldwide. In addition, rates of visa issuance worldwide are also going down. You mentioned Philippines and Thailand. While Philippines issued 4,804 K1s in 2022 (which is BY FAR the highest number of ANY country - the 2nd highest, Mexico, issued 1,166) - they were issuing 8,000+ pre-pandemic. Thailand has also decreased slowly - 700-900 routinely pre-pandemic but only 273 in 2022. Most countries have had their K1 totals start going down, and many countries have longer wait times for K1 interviews after USCIS approval. It's not just about the wait for a green card/the money - and you mention if you waited two years to marry then did a spouse visa it would be 4 years total - well keep in mind that if you wait 2 years for a K1 and it's not approved for whatever reason (and there's no requirement to tell you why a K1 was not approved and no grounds for an appeal, unlike the spouse visa) then you're back at the beginning again. Our spouse visa was approved at my husband's interview and we are now waiting on his naturalization, but the process made me realize how the K1s are less prioritized and less of a great thing than the spouse visa is.

Hospitals and other healthcare providers have a huge burden of providing medical care to immigrants who may not have traditional US insurance, and are not able to work / not eligible for medicaid - estimated at $35 billion yearly for the past decade or so. I've been an RN for 20 years and regularly, even in my midwest city, see immigrants who have been visiting and have had serious injuries or illnesses. I'm sure COVID did not help this healthcare burden. Wanting you to be able to sponsor your spouse doesnt mean you are responsible if she wants a new purse or to go to get her nails done with friends - it means that you will sponsor her so she does not end up relying on Medicaid for healthcare, or SNAP/TANF for food/cash assistance. Additionally, if she becomes a citizen (eligible 3 years after entry/green card into the US) then your I-864 is null and void at that time. I was nervous signing it too - no one goes into a marriage thinking "what if I get divorced?" but we all know that marriage can be difficult for everyone. Ultimately though, if you don't sign it, your marriage can't continue in the US.

On the I-751, it says information about YOUR children and says NOTHING about your step-children. The difference is, on the N-400 it specifically DOES mention stepchildren. So we did not mention my (US citizen) children on my husbands I-751 but we did on the N400. No issue at all during his ROC or naturalisation interview

Or - as you've admitted yourself, it's not reliable....

If none of it is processed by USCIS then whoever is extrapolating this data is reporting it based on what people are self reporting. People lie, people get lazy - this doesn't really mean anything if it's not official sites. Even on USCIS official sites the information can be confusing because the I-129 is used for both K1, K2, K3 and K4 so even when you look at those petitions (published quarterly) there's no way to know for sure how many are for each category.

I guess what I'm wondering in the bigger picture is - where is someone getting the original information from? I didnt think that USCIS / Dept of State published weekly numbers of incoming petitions?

Where is a spreadsheet with cases being processed weekly?