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No. Just the original copy from NBI for the clearance and PSA copy for the birth certificate.

I did see one confirmed late May DQ date recieve one. Did you actually log into CEAC and check your messages? It seems to show up in CEAC messages first and some people last time said they never got an e-mail.

I think they are just repurposing the expedite system to allow self scheduling rather than NVC scheduling like they usually do. It seems they are just expediting everyone up to a certain cutoff date.

When they did the last mass auto expedite January 25 there were people getting the case not found message for several weeks into February. The ones who got the quickest resolution of that message waited until their CEAC status was ready and if they were still getting case not found they contacted ustraveldocs support and got the case found in a few days. That was january. Not sure if it will be the same this time.

They literally haven't scheduled a single non-expedited case since this thread began. Not a single case in 5 months. However, today they did a mass "auto-expedite" of CR1 IR1 CR2 and IR2 cases that have been sitting untouched since January. They did at least through February. Not sure yet how far they went in to their newly created backlog but those awaiting interview letters at US Embassy Manila check your CEAC status and if it's not showing there yet log in to CEAC and check your messages. There may be good news.

Honestly, I believe USCIS is well know and highly regarded as one of the foremost global purveyors of random nonsensical ...... can't write that here. OTOH, my wife and stepdaughter's I-130's only took only 49 days for no apparent reason at all. So who am I to judge USCIS. We are filing ROC a month from now. It's possible we depleted our luck in the first round. We have low expectations this time around.

Actually I think K1's are moving pretty fast now through US Embassy Manilla which is a huge reversal from a year ago. I think they cleared their legendary K1 backlog. It would be nice if they could prioritize both spousal visas AND fiancee visas at the same time, but it seems they flip flop prioritizing one or the other.

It's notable that it appears today they expedited/made self scheduling available to a large number of Fxx category cases. It doesn't do CR1 or IR1 any good, but at least there are signs of scheduling activity at US Embassy and possible good news for Fxx cases. F2A, F2B, F1, F3, F4 should check their CEAC status https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx As of today alot of Fxx cases are now "Ready" and can be self scheduled. CR/IR should probably check their CEAC status too although no one is reporting any new scheduling for CR/IR categories yet.

At the moment there seems to be a problem with that at US Embassy Manila. There are currently large numbers of CR1 IR1 CR2 and IR2 cases that became documentarily qualified as early as January this year who have not yet received received interview letters. There is really no one that has reported any new scheduling activity in those category lately other than expedited cases and reschedules. It's been that way since January or February so it is a backlog that seems to be increasing daily. So as of this moment the backlog for scheduling interviews for CR1 IR1 CR2 and IR2 cases has extended past 5 months for many. My guess would be that even a 5 or 6 month backlog could be cleared rather quickly whenever US Embassy Manila does resume scheduling so it could be some sort of temporary situation that would go back normal 'soon' (???). No one is sure what US Embassy Manila is up to and they aren't talking.

Once they both get to NVC when you pay the $120 AOS fee on one case, it automatically shows as already paid on the other case which is a good indication that NVC correctly linked the two cases.

In the Philippines it would not make any difference if lung scarring was due to, or suspected to be due to COVID, TB, smoking or anything else. It would trigger sputum testing and the medical exam would not be complete and the beneficiary would not be eligible to interview until the cause was no longer "undetermined" and it was found to either not be active TB or it was treated. The glaring discrepancy here is that apparently an interview did take place, despite the medical exam not being complete, which is not permitted in the Philippines. Where that leaves the case is uncertain without more information but the incompleteness of the medical exam would clearly seem to be the root cause of the problem.

Given that you previously posted that your fiancée was asked to come back for a second visa interview and now given this result, one could vaguely surmise that perhaps she was tagged for sputum testing at her physical but did not complete it and still somehow went to and was allowed to keep her first interview without a completed medical examination. Which might possibly explain why they said they would call her back for a second interview. Was a second interview actually completed with the medical examination still not completed ?????? Or is the paperwork mentioning "PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS UPPER LEFT LUNG ACTIVITY UNDETERMINED" some kind of instruction prior to a second interview being completed. You need to find out very specifically what is being written and by whom. It seems that clearly the previous mention of a second interview being needed and the apparently incomplete medical examination are related and not fully explained.

A "residual scar" on a chest x-ray is unfortunately not uncommon in the Philippines but is NEVER a cause for a rejection in and of itself. A scar on a chest x-ray would result in referral for sputum testing. That step has not been mentioned. Was that completed? Failure to complete sputum testing if it was ordered might result in a medical denial. If the three month sputum test WAS completed and active TB WAS detected in the culture then she would be required to complete a 6 month course of monitored daily treatment which would be followed by another three month sputum test. Was that completed? While that is a particularly onerous outcome it still generally results in a cleared medical. Only failure to complete testing and treatment as directed or ongoing active TB in sputum cultures would result in a denial based on TB. A denial would NEVER be based on an x-ray alone. It sounds like there may just be a misunderstanding where she is being asked to complete additional testing and if she doesn't it may result in a denial for failure to complete the next step. You need to get much more specific information about what was done and said but a chest x-ray alone will not cause a rejection.

My only comment is that anyone can present themselves as anything they want online, and could even keep up appearances in person for a fair amount of time before you start to know who they really are. So for something important like marriage you probably should spend a fairly significant amount of in-person time being around each other before you start making any serious decisions.

You need to create your account here https://www.ustraveldocs.com/ph/ and then you should be able to self schedule the interview. The medical must be scheduled online here https://slec.ph/registration/us/ and must be completed before the interview. Congratulations on the successful expedite, perhaps purchase some lottery tickets too since successful expedites have been rather rare at US embassy Manila lately. 😁

Chancy's advice sounds extremely relevant. My wife was in somewhat the same situation. Her parents were common law married when she was born and she was also like 6 years late registered to boot, so although her father did sign acknowledgment of paternity, my wife still had her mother's surname on her late registered birth certificate. Later her parents legalized their marriage and many years after that my wife subsequently had her birth certificate legitimized and annotated to change to her father's surname. If all of your wife's other documents are already using her father's surname, she should probably at least have her birth certificate legitimized to grant her the legal right to use his name. That is not an overly daunting process with the LCR if her parents did later marry. For the late registration, although the embassy did not explicitly ask us for it, we also submitted her Baptismal Certificate and high school "Form 139" school record (I noticed she failed 9th grade English🤣) For her elementary school Form 139 she received a formal letter from DepEd stating she had in fact been a student but her record had been destroyed by a super typhoon). Plus as Chancy mentioned we did also get her NBI clearance with her mother's surname as an AKA. We had no trouble at all even slightly with the US Embassy. They seem to take such things in stride.

Philippines requires an online marriage (or any K1 marriage for that matter) to file a Report of Marriage with the appropriate Philippine Consulate. That's all there is for it to be recognized in the Philippines.

CR1 is a very wise choice for the Philippines. I know. I have first hand experience with what an awesome choice it was. More or less any way will require at least a short trip by the US person at this point. Utah online marriages heavily tested at this point by both the US Government and the Philippine Government so your statement that online marriages may not be accepted by the philippine government is just plain false. One simply must register the marriage. EXACTLY the same as one would need to do with any K1 marriage if they wanted it to be recognized by the Philippine government.

It probably won't harm her chances for a CR1 or a K1 visa, but sadly it's safe to assume her prospects of another B2 visa at anytime in the future is virtually zero even though there isn't a ban. Reapplying in 6 months, or ever, for another B2 would likely just be a waste of $185. Since it seems you plan to marry anyway, I would wholeheartedly agree with Crazy Cat's suggested formula of "a Utah online marriage, a visit, then file papers for a CR-1 spousal visa" as the most practical way forward.

Here in California, at age 50 I was once denied buying a pack of smokes because all I had for ID at the moment was my US Passport since it was in my car and I left my wallet with my drivers licence at home. The issue is the cashier is a minimum wage employee who has been threatened with termination should they ever sell tobacco to a minor without ID. I'm a bit older than 50 now and was just carded last week for for some beer at a 7/11 in Las Vegas. When I said "r u serious" the cashier explained he had to scan the barcode on a licence or ID for the transaction to even ring up on his register.

These days that only works if they were Muslim when they married and that was reflected on their original marriage certificate. They no longer allow for any sudden spiritual conversions immediately preceding a Muslim divorce.

With my 9 y/o stepdaughter's we just signed her up online and once the counselor replied by e-mail they just ask for scans of the visa, passport etc. We e-mailed what they ask and they sent the link for the certificate. No actual class or anything. The key is just establishing e-mail contact with the counselor after signing up. Where in the process is it failing when trying to sign the child up???? They only process signups online 7:00am Manila time for an hour or so Monday through Thursday. They have some of their servers geo-blocking US IP addresses for whatever reason which means they may either have to sign up from there or use a vpn. Their notoriously buggy website is also known to fail signing people up and giving only a cryptic non-useful error message over something as trivial as a phone number entered in the signup page formatted as +63-123456789 rather than 09123456789. It's Philippine government CFO. Probably best in regional forum

I agree. I am no connoisseur of fine booze but do tend to drink a fair amount of rum and consider cheapo Tanduay to actually be pretty decent rum by my own global amateur standards. The ubiquitous Empi always packs a terrible hangover for me so I avoid it and the above mentioned Kung Fu will definitely kick your as-s in the morning.

It's been confirmed first hand by a number of people recently that Saint Lukes WILL let you take an immigration physical prior to having an interview letter by signing a waiver. What's stunning about this thread, is that when it started back in February, US Embassy Manila was up to about mid January scheduling CR1/IR1 and CR2/IR2. Back at the end of January there were multiple reports of people getting interview letters in as little as 2 weeks from becoming documentarily qualified. Here we are at the end of June already and I can't find a single normal non-expedited CR1/2 or IR1/2 that has received an interview letter for US Embassy Manila since. Not even one. Not here, not on any FaceBook groups, not on Reddit, not even on tiktok. Absolute silence about any normal non-expedited CR1/2, IR1/2 scheduling at US Embassy Manila since February and increasingly loud and more voluminous grumbling on social media about lack of ANY new scheduling of spousal visa interviews. I think it is accurate to say that at the start of 2023 the backlog seemed to be about 2 weeks. And now mid 2023 you have people still waiting from about the start of 2023. In the exact same timeframe US Embassy Manila has made stunning improvements in their backlogs for B1/B2 visas. Last year it was showing like 650 days to get a B1/B2 interview. Now that's down to about 150 days. I think K1's have gotten some relief at US Embassy Manila lately too. But if one were cynical, given the timeframe of spousal visa backlogs growing substantially longer, while at the same time nonimmigrant visa interview wait time dramatically shortened it would at least seem like they put spousal visa interviews on the back burner for a few months while they focused on other backlogs.

For her to change her name on her passport or any other Philippine documents she needs to file a Report of Marriage with the Philippine consulate. The Philippine consulate in Houston has consular jurisdiction for reporting any Texas marriage. https://houstonpcg.dfa.gov.ph/index.php/consular-services/civil-registry/report-of-marriage They would by default move her maiden last name to her middle name. Social Security supposedly doesn't care about middle names. https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0110205120 I have heard of varying experiences changing middle names with US entities. It may vary on a state by state basis??? It seems permissible upon marriage here in California but not sure about Texas.