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  1.    BeefedRamen reacted to a post in a topic: Two questions - proof of asset (original or copy?); petitioner with only household member?
  2. appleblossom
    A copy will be fine. Make sure you take proof of value and proof of it being a second home/investment property as well. Lots have, but it will depend on circumstances. Best of luck.
  3.    JeanneAdil reacted to a post in a topic: Ready status for 30+days
  4. appleblossom
    I'm sorry, I don't have a link to hand, you'll just have to search for it. You can inform the consulate, it's probably worth a try.
  5.    SalishSea reacted to a post in a topic: US Citizen filing for siblings overseas, mother's exact day and month discrepencies
  6. appleblossom
    TAL and Pakistan will be the reason, but 2 years is a very long time. It's crazy as you couldn't adjust status anyway through your brother, and would be several decades away from a visa via him. You can file WOM yourself, there is a guide on here that you can use by a lovely forum member that's done it themselves and helps others - have a hunt and hopefully you'll find it. You can try ESTA, might want to give that a go first, but you will have to declare the previous denial.
  7.    mam521 reacted to a post in a topic: Ready status for 30+days
  8.    appleblossom reacted to a post in a topic: Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories
  9.    mam521 reacted to a post in a topic: Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories
  10. appleblossom
    I-130 approval could be a decade away though, certainly at least a few years. Which is why you should submit the I-130 stating that the DOB is to the best of your knowledge, then do the FOIA asap as well. You can then update as needed. Good luck.
  11.    appleblossom reacted to a post in a topic: Gold card application form is now available
  12. appleblossom
    Will be interesting to see how many people apply for this, I can't imagine many will when they could do EB-5 instead (also a super quick process) and potentially get their money back.
  13.    OldUser reacted to a post in a topic: Ready status for 30+days
  14. appleblossom
    I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. They’re already asking that people applying for visas set all their social media profiles to ‘public’. There’s no way I’d do that.
  15.    appleblossom reacted to a post in a topic: Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories
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  18. appleblossom
    That doesn’t make any sense. If they were included as derivatives and were eligible they’d have got visas. But to help please answer the questions above - which dates (PD, approval date of the I-130, birth dates of the children in question)?
  19. appleblossom
    No, that won’t be the reason. Sounds like you’re just in Admin Processing (background checks), perfectly normal and nothing to worry about. What kind of visa?
  20.    OldUser reacted to a post in a topic: US Citizen filing for siblings overseas, mother's exact day and month discrepencies
  21.    OldUser reacted to a post in a topic: US Citizen filing for siblings overseas, mother's exact day and month discrepencies
  22. appleblossom
    I'm still not sure where this 'haven't gone past mid 2024' has come from, this forum is only a tiny sample of EB applicants. I think the date given on the USCIS tool seems pretty accurate. Again, looking at the stats from May 2025 just as an example, London issued 107 EB-2/3 visas in that month, so those people must have had IL's at some point in 2025. But don't forget that for some of that time there were no visas available for EB2 (when there were for EB1). And there's always far more EB2 and EB3 applicants than EB1. So there will be a bit of a backlog to get through because they paused those applications so are now on catch up. I also think that unfortunately the Trump policies are slowing things down now, and immediate relatives will always get priority so if they're slower that has a knock on effect on the rest of us. Fingers crossed you don't have to wait too much longer, good luck.
  23. appleblossom
    **Thread moved to K-1 forum**
  24.    LMax reacted to a post in a topic: EB2-NIW Waiting for Interview Letter in London 2023
  25.    hamorflic247 reacted to a post in a topic: Question About The List of People who had got RFE on VisaJourney Webpage
  26.    appleblossom reacted to a post in a topic: CR1 over K1
  27. appleblossom
    See the link I gave you above, it's literally a step by step guide to the process. A lawyer isn't usually required, but start with the link, download the I-130 form and see how you feel about it. Good luck.
  28.    appleblossom reacted to a post in a topic: Spousal visa CR1
  29.    appleblossom reacted to a post in a topic: What do you call this beautiful country?
  30. appleblossom
    Funnily enough, I don’t go back and read the last six weeks worth of posts before I respond to something! I’ve got no idea what he said on the 2nd of November when I’m simply replying to a post made yesterday. And, I would point out, just trying to help. I’m on various EB-1A groups on WhatsApp and Facebook, some of them have had interview letters. You can also check the official stats if you don't believe anybody has had an IL past July 2024, for example May 2025's report which shows that 13 EB1 visas were issued by London that month. We have no way of knowing exactly when their IL's were issued, but it would have been well after July 2024 for interviews nearly a year later. Were you born in the UK? Have you transferred your case from anywhere else?
  31. appleblossom
    Our attorney who also specialised in EB cases at London told us to expect a 6 month wait for an interview, I told them them I reckoned the week I'd be expecting an IL (several months earlier than their estimate) and was spot on. They were gobsmacked. 😂 Attorneys should only have one or two cases on the go at a time, and most will be EB2/3's, so I wouldn't take their experience as gospel. I've seen plenty of EB1 applicants that were DQ'ed since July 2024 get their IL's in various groups. I don't think there are any other EB1 applicants on here currently waiting for an IL though, you may be the only one as most are EB-2's. I just looked up timelines, he didn't say on there he'd been expedited. But as above, there are definitely EB1 applicants who've had IL's that were DQ'ed long after July 2024.
  32. appleblossom
    Which applicants? If they're EB-2 then the DQ date is pretty much irrelevant, as they won't have been current until recently. But here's an EB1 applicant via London that's only applied this year and has an interview in 3 days - https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=448706
  33.    appleblossom reacted to a post in a topic: VAWA, Part 27
  34. appleblossom
    I'm sorry to hear this, I agree with @Rhema1 and unfortunately being from such a high fraud country will have had an impact on your case. It's not clear though, was your lawyer able to join via phone?
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