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CFO has been undergone all kinds of wild changes this year but they seem to have somewhat emerged from the total meltdown they were having in like June and July. As far as I can tell, at this time there is no way you can find out when you could get an appointment before you actually have the visa on hand, but people who do have visas no longer seem to be having difficulties getting appointments in the reasonable short term future. As far as I can tell they only do in-person GCP now. The online option seems ended. Take your choice Manila, Cebu, or Davao whichever is most convenient.

If you haven't received the Green Card after three months I wouldn't even worry. USCIS is slow. If you haven't received the SS card after 4 weeks, it's time to go down to the SS office. SS is usually either fast, or else nothing at all. If it took that long probably something got missed and it needs intervention.

You could print what you want them to see on the website. They will look at paper copies of websites.

Ordinarily I think one would apply for the child's Philippine passport at the same time they filed the report of overseas birth with the consulate. The consulate should be able to process both simultaneously. Also, are you sure the PCG in San Francisco is the correct consulate? Just asking because your profile says you are in San Antonio and if the child was born in Texas then only the PCG in Houston can process the ROB.

Since pretty much all I-751's since about May of this year have been receiving IOE numbers and are being scanned for electronic processing, it seems predictable that in the future frequent changes of service centers may become more common. Also, since all these new IOE cases have not started being processed or approved in large numbers just yet, it would be difficult for anyone to predict what impact electronic processing will have. But it is predictable that things will be "different", once all the paper cases start working their way out of the system. So predictions about how new cases will be processed based on how older cases were processed may not be valid.

I have seen several instances of various agents mistakenly following procedures for someone who is "in the US on a visa" because they see a visa in a passport and don't know any better. What has to be explained to them is that it is no longer a visa at all, it is a temporary I-551 Green Card. So they must follow whatever the procedure is for a green card because it is NOT a visa, it IS a temporary I-551 Green Card.

No chance whatsoever you could register your marriage in the Philippines. Any ROM would be rejected. It is no issue at all for US immigration purposes.

Apparently she decided to fight after about shot number four. Mom had to hold her down for the last two. She was fine once it was over. It was six shots in our case. Some of them contain more than one vaccine. In the Philippines they routinely vaccinate children with a shot they call "Penta" which combines 5 vaccines all into a single shoot. I'm not sure why SLEC doesn't just use that rather than going one by one.

Ouch is correct. My 9y/o stepdaughter got SIX shots. Two in each arm and one in each leg. My wife only got four shots.

Yes. The existing history will update with the social security number whenever a creditor reports the information in the future. My wife even had one where she was an authorized user 6 years earlier and I had closed the account 4 years before she got here and she was even using a different surname. Somehow the credit report agencies still put two and two together and correctly attached the old closed account to her credit report. She arrived with a 760ish FICO score.

Not directly applicable to immigration but Social Security could care less about middle names. https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0110205120#:~:text=A middle name or suffix,shown on an SSN card.

For my wife we had to put several good faith best guess estimates for dates, and for addresses the best we could do was narrow it down on a map to specific neighborhoods within the respective cities so we wrote the addresses as just that. It worked fine for us.

She just re-clears security and finds the next gate. NRT is super easy.

Just come to whatever POE works out best for the flights. They are all going to admit you. Leave plenty of extra time if there are any domestic connecting flights. My wife and stepdaughter came through LAX and they were quite friendly.

It seems the CFO rona era madness has settled down a bit and they are getting back to normalish. Such as that ever was. CFO has simplified the appointment process. Basically you fill a form online and they handle it by e-mail. For added confusion they also still have the old system too where you had to sign up at 7:00AM exactly on Mondays through Thursday. So older advice may work but is not the easy way. They will ignore you if you do not have an actual visa so don't waste your time trying to be prepared or to get a head start. They are generally more or less responsive once someone actually has a visa and imminent travel plans. https://manila.cfo.gov.ph/GCP-Manila-Appointment/

SS On a DS-260 those seem like completely valid and correct answers. I can't see how it would make any difference for immigration. Presumably they would request SS issues a new card when the immigrant arrives. SS would most likely look up the old number and process the request as a replacement card rather than a new number. If you want a new number due to fraud, just get whatever card SS sends you and go down to the SS office once you get here. They will want hard documented proof of the fraud to change the number. Whatever SS does or does not send , it would be an easy problem for the new immigrant to solve with a trip to the SS office once they get here. No need to worry about it before arrival and not an immigration issue.

My wife stubbornly rounds her height up by one inch and becomes defensive and vehemently questions the validity, calibration and measurement skills if anyone ever gets any different result.

It seems they arranged 300 immigration fraud sham marriages for Filipinos. Used the same props and backgrounds in allot of the wedding photos. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/los-angeles-man-convicted-large-scale-marriage-fraud-scheme

From a legal and immigration standpoint camera tickets are generally not charged as infractions. The fine is a "civil penalty" or in the case of NY State it seems it is a "notice of liability". It's legally equivalent to a glorified parking ticket. While there certainly are infractions or more serious charges that could be made, if they did that on camera tickets then everyone would have the right to their day in court, right to be served notice, etc etc. It's unprofitable applied to a camera ticket scheme. In terms of immigration, I don't think a "civil penalty" or a "notice of liability" has any significance at all. It's not even an infraction.

The only one they don't do at Saint Luke's is Covid vaccine. They should get that one done now if they haven't already. The rest are all included in the price of the physical. My wife and stepdaughter went in with no records other than their rona-vax. At her physical my wife got Tdap, HepB, MMR, and Flu. Four shots. Two in each arm.🤣 Her daughter got all of the above plus Polio and Varicella. Six shot's total. Two in each arm and one in each leg.😧 If you have any records bring them since they may avoid a few shots. If they don't have records that's fine to. Even if the child got the full course of childhood vaccines they are probably due for boosters and Saint Luke's will give any needed. Also keep the vaccine worksheet Saint Luke's will give her plus any other records for the child since you will need those to enroll the child in school in the US.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/have-passport/limited-validity.html Here they list issues with a naturalization certificate as a possible reason??? There could be different reasons too. Was it a first passport or a renewal? It sounds like you need more info from the passport office.

If they told her to come back for her results January 22nd and they don't call her back any earlier than that, you can be pretty confident it's a negative result. When someone tests positive, the results are usually known in the first month and they call them to come back immediately and start treatment. The more time that passes with no news, the more likely everything is fine.

There should be no "new medical" and no new x-ray. If everything goes according to plan she goes back, gets her negative test result and gets sent upstairs for immunizations. Medical completed. Ready for interview.

Why would you need that?

Well since we will be mailing our packet tomorrow I guess it's time to start a September 2023 thread. Our 90 day window started the last week of July but we were out of the country last month so we put it off until we got back to avoid any surprise biometric appointments or missed notices. It looks like we will be sending in.... G-1450 credit card authorization. G-1145 E-notification. I-751 of course. Copies of their green cards, front and back, and passports. Copies of California Real ID Driver Licenses for my wife and I plus California Real ID card for my stepdaughter all at the same address. IRS tax return transcripts of our 2022, 2021, and 2020 joint US tax returns. Statements from our joint checking account showing joint ownership of the account and direct deposits of both of our salaries plus payments of bills in each other’s names. However only the last 5 months. Prior to that we had separate accounts and just shared expenses. Dated photographs of our family together in numerous places at intervals throughout our time together in the US, plus photos of my almost 80-year-old American mom meeting her Filipino in-laws on vacation in Manila. Copy of a California car title showing joint ownership and two years joint car registration. Copies of various car insurance notices and proof of insurance listing both drivers, covering almost the entire period they have been in the US. Copies of both of our 401K’s beneficiaries with each listing the other spouse as beneficiary. Copies of our Visa, Mastercard and Discover credit cards showing joint accounts. Copies of various club cards and membership cards showing joint accounts. Copies of various airline boarding passes and receipts for vacations we took together. Copies of my stepdaughter's continuous registration from our address in our neighborhood’s public elementary school for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade. The school registration lists both of us as emergency contacts with full authorization to pick her up from school. Copy of my stepdaughter's California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress test results showing two years results with her living at our address and enrolled in our neighborhood public elementary school. Paystubs for my wife periodically throughout her time in the US showing her continuous presence at our home address. We’ll be double triple checking everything this evening and probably send it by Priority Mail flat rate mailer ("if it fits, it ships") to Phoenix drop box in the morning. I'm hopeful that is good enough, however notable deficiencies would include not having any joint lease or other paperwork associating both names with the house. All of our health insurance is separate since my wife and I each get it from our employer and neither plan is any good for adding the step-daughter so we just pay her insurance separately out of pocket. No kind of joint utility bills or anything like that and as I mentioned only the last 5 months have we had a joint checking account. I also didn't bother to get any affidavits from anyone. I guess we will find out if it was good enough in like 2025 or something.