madmanmike

Update on i us. Fiancé has her medical sppt next Monday. She will attend by herself, with a friend for support. I am flying in on the 12th to bring all my original papers and we will be together for her interview on the 17th. Of course, even though it is the US Embassy, I went be allowed inside. How unbelievable is that? I’ll find a coffee shop and wait for the smiles. Best case scenario, we will pick up her passport/Visa on about the 20th. But who knows? Then we start the mysterious Philippine CFO process. We have no idea how long that will take, but as soon as we get the certificate, I’ll buy plane tickets and we will make our way to the USA. Long road to get here. Months and months of waiting and nothing and then everything seems to happen at once.

You worry too much. It’s gonna be fine.

We waited 30 days to send our first inquiry (I wish we had started sooner). The first reply said the case was at NVC, but awaiting input. Sent 2nd one week later, got our case number.

As far we can research, there is no more online seminar. In person only.

Thank you. I was able to directly download transcripts from the irs.gov website using id.me for verification.

Just another case of a govt entity trying to mask It’s inefficiency. Your scans have been above and beyond. Thank you for what you have been doing, and don’t worry about what is happening now. We could not ask more of you.

Next question. Paying for the physical at SLEC. Can you pay at the clinic? The instructions online mention pre-paying at Security Bank, but there are no branches anywhere near in my finances area.

Thank you. As long as what I wrote and gave her to submit gets her thru the interview in Manila and I bring her here, we can deal with this in a few months. Thanks again.

Tremendously helpful and stress relieving. Thank you for this response.

Hmmmm. Perhaps I misspoke. Is just regular SS checks I qualified for early because of the disability. What do you call that? I guess I should call that SS(Disability)?

I am at the tail end of the K-1 visa process. I have created a DS-134 for my fiancé to submit at the interview with a letter of explanation. We will see how that goes. i am a disabled veteran. I get monthly disability checks from the VA, and that money is non-taxable. I also receive SSI, and at tax time, my AGI is below taxable levels. So the IRS refuses to accept a tax return from me. So I have no tax transcripts for the last 5 years. I wrote all this in a letter of explanation to accompany the DS-134, along with benefit letters from the VA and the SSA. I sent letters from the banks detailing my savings and the deposits into those accounts. I hope that will suffice for the K-1. My gross income is well above the required level for sponsorship. My question comes because the AOS seems to be much stricter on the income requirements and I am just wondering if you folks have suggestions on the paperwork I should start gathering. i am 62 years old and worked and paid taxes for over 45 years, just not in the last 5 years. Thank you for your time.

I will echo this request. My finance is going to Manila without me for the physical, but we will return together to Manila for her interview the following week. Surely there are some folks out there that have stayed recently and would have suggestions?

Gosh. I cannot imagine the pain, frustration and anger of those folks in the 4.5% of the cases still untouched.

From everything I have read here lately, I would go ahead and send an inquiry now. It’s been over 3 weeks for you guys, and NVC seems to be speeding things up lately. Just my opinion.

My fiancé had her CFO course scheduled for last Monday. This was scheduled without the visa. She received an email 6 days before the course saying she had to cancel because they no longer will do the course without a visa in the passport. Her interview is in 3 weeks. Now we have no idea how long it will take to get the CFO certificate after the interview. CFO is a giant black hole of zero information.

We got the NOA2 by regular mail, of course, but everything else has been email. We received 2 emails after the package got to the embassy. A short email giving us the case number and a longer one listing the next steps. But we didn’t need them. As soon as our case went to ‘Ready’ we submitted the DS-160, made the payment, and scheduled the appts. We have only 2 concerns at this point 1. Will something go wrong at the medical checkup? (TB test), and 2. The CFO process is a big black hole of unknowns.

Thank you very much.

Regarding the medical appt. Is that one day and done? I can fly her to Manila the day before the appt and fly her back home the day after? She says she heard from some places that they make you return the second day ‘sometimes’.

DS-160 payment was processed today. She got an appointment for 17 October. Booking the medical now.

Payment was processed. She got an appointment for 17 October. Booking the medical now.

She paid the fee and setup up her account at the embassy website today. Told them where she would pick up the passport. Just waiting for the payment to get processed, then she can make the appts. Let’s go! Endgame!

Super helpful. Thank you.

Can you be a little more vague? What are you trying to say here?

Yikes! More than the DS-160 submission. 😮

Do you happen to know that cost?