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  1. appleblossom
    I’m not sure why your marriage license would be required for an IR5, but original or certified copies of all documents uploaded to CEAC are required at interview stage usually. You can check Manila’s specific requirements though - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-10-prepare-for-the-interview/step-11-applicant-interview.html https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Supplements/Supplements_by_Post/MNL-Manila.html#pre_interview_checklist
  2. appleblossom
    We used Fragomen, and they were great. https://www.fragomen.com/
  3. appleblossom
    You said above your PD is January 2017 and it took 2 years and 5 months for the I-130 to be approved, so that doesn’t equate to July 2019, it would have been approved sooner than that - when your PD wasn’t current yet. Your dates are all over the place and I’m afraid without exact dates on your timeline you’re making it really hard for anybody to help you. I’d get yourself a new lawyer (urgently) as it seems your whole application has been cancelled so you need to prove that the delay was on NVC’s part and not yours. You should have had a visa at least 3 or 4 years ago, so something has gone very wrong somewhere, a good lawyer is needed to work out what has happened and how to rectify it. Good luck.
  4. appleblossom
    It wasn’t a consulate issue at that point, it was NVC. Did you contact them and ask why you hadn’t had your Welcome Letter after so long?
  5. appleblossom
    Really odd. You should have had the Welcome Letter a long time before that, as F2A had been current for 18 months by then. Did you not chase it up? It sounds like they think you should have ‘sought to acquire’ before July 2020 (a year after your PD became current), but it’s really not clear. I asked above, do you have an immigration lawyer? If not, I think you need one.
  6. appleblossom
    And when did you get your Welcome Letter from NVC with the invoice number for paying the fees etc? The AOS application isn’t relevant, as you didn’t have a visa available to you when you filed it so it was always going to be denied.
  7. appleblossom
    As I said above, F2A was current for many, many years, presumably your I-485 was (rightly) refused if you applied for AOS before it became current in July 2019. But from that point on you had a visa available to you for a long time. So when did you submit the DS-260 etc?
  8. appleblossom
    You need to select OSI55A on the drop down menu as that’s what your receipt number is related to - not a I-90 as you haven’t filed one of those.
  9. appleblossom
    OK, so your I-130 was approved in mid 2019 ish? When you were about 21? This isn’t making any sense. F2A was current for many years from summer 2019 to spring 2023, so you should have had a visa a long time ago and shouldn’t have aged out of F2A. When did you fill in your DS-260, submit your documents etc?
  10. appleblossom
    And how long did the I-130 take to be approved? This is why you need to fill your timeline in! All these dates really matter.
  11. appleblossom
    Sorry, I missed your PD in the post above. How old are you now?
  12. appleblossom
    Much more info is needed to help you. What Priority Date, which country, how old are you now, has your parent got citizenship at any point, why do you they think you didn’t seek to acquire the visa within a year of it being available to you (did you delay things and if so, did you take any action during that time i.e. logging in or proceeding with anything). And is the date for your interview above accurate - Dec 2022? Please fill in your timeline so that people have some basics when you ask questions. Do you have an immigration lawyer?
  13. appleblossom
    As said above, no. But where are you now and what is your visa status if you’re in the US? And when was the I-140 filed, and which country were you born in?
  14. appleblossom
    I’m so sorry that it’s having an even wider impact on your life. Get the application cancelled asap so that you don’t have that hassle at least. As for your church, if you are honest and repent then nobody should judge you for that. We all make mistakes, it’s how we deal with them that define us. I wish you and your daughter the very best.
  15. appleblossom
    I totally agree with this - I also thought that she might suddenly change her tune once she realises that Trump has cancelled the TPS program. That’s only just happened so once she hears the news and realises that the OP might end up being her only route to a green card, I wouldn’t be surprised if she suddenly becomes a much more loving wife!
  16. appleblossom
    Then if she’s not leaving I agree with the above, I’d be cancelling the application personally. Too many red flags and it certainly doesn’t sound as though she genuinely loves you or sees a future with you. It does sound as though you were just ‘back up’ in case her asylum case didn’t work out.
  17. appleblossom
    OK, then you have to wait until you get your Interview Letter. It’s all set out on the usual website, you’re at step 9/10 now. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-8-scan-collected-documents/step-9-upload-and-submit-scanned-documents.html I think Bangkok has a fairly lengthy wait unfortunately. And please do fill your timeline in, there aren’t many of us EB applicants around, so the more data we have the better! Thanks.
  18. appleblossom
    Was his son born before or after he got his US citizenship?
  19. appleblossom
    Depends on the type of case - please do fill in your timeline so that people know when you’re asking questions. I think @JeanneAdil is assuming you’re a K1 applicants (who usually have to schedule their own interviews), but if you’re applying for an immigrant visa NVC schedule it for you.
  20. appleblossom
    Also, I assume you’re aware of the Visa Bulletin, but just in case, here’s this months - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2025/visa-bulletin-for-january-2025.html Assuming that your mother is a USC, and that your sister isn’t married, then maybe another 3 or 4 years as a rough guide?
  21. appleblossom
    ELIS makes no difference at all, it just means the case is now electronic. It will depend on if your mother is a US citizen or green card holder, and if your sister is married or not.
  22. appleblossom
    I’m sorry to hear that’s so tough, marriage can involve hard work sometimes but shouldn’t be *that* hard! That does sound very odd to me, every relationship is different, but most people would still be in the honeymoon ‘can’t keep our hands off each other’ stage after only 6 months of marriage. Personal question I know, but is there a big age difference? How long were you together for before marriage? I see from your other thread she’s thinking of going back to Nicaragua which will mean her AOS is abandoned. Maybe that will be the test of her true feelings and help you work out if she genuinely wants to be married to you for the rest of her life, or is just using you for a green card?
  23. appleblossom
    That’s over 5 years ago though, it may well have been the case back then.
  24. appleblossom
    You’re also saying you have a K1 in another thread and asking about entering the US, so I’m very confused as to where you are and what visa route you’re taking? Obviously if you have a K1 then you have to do AOS, that’s the whole point of it! I think we all assumed you didn’t have a visa other than the B? If you do have a K visa then there’s no way I’d marry and try to apply to apply via CR1/IR1 as your intentions would have been pretty clear and you can’t really claim to have changed your mind when you’d already applied for a visa allowing you to marry and stay in the US. But you can just leave the US, reenter on your K1, and then marry and apply for AOS without any worries. If you can clarify where you are right now, and what visa(s) you have, we can try and help.
  25. appleblossom
    The DS-160 is for all non-immigrants visas, it’s not specific to B visas so some of the fields may not be as relevant. I-134 is more for other visas like F1 (student visa - i.e. somebody whose parents are paying for them to study abroad). And you can’t assume that he’d be able to come ‘without any issues’ if he were a western European student, people are still refused ESTA or entry on the VWP. Unfortunately, rightly or wrongly his application is tainted by those who have come before him. The refusal rate for Georgia will be so high because his fellow countrymen have a history of overstaying or violating their visa terms, which then impacts everybody else that follows.
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