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  1.    Willie_Overall reacted to a post in a topic: Getting a call from SLEC 5 days before I return for sputum culture results
  2. Willie_Overall
    We actually just spent some time in Thailand (we were trying to switch her case to that country, but got denied by NVC despite having a valid visa) and I'm also in California. Small world! Anyway, thanks for the encouraging words! Hopefully, our process will be smooth going forward. Best wishes to you as well!
  3.    Willie_Overall reacted to a post in a topic: Sputum test required.
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    Thanks for the detailed response, Chris! I really appreciate it. It definitely sounds like you guys had worse luck than most, a combination of extreme incompetence and Filipino corruption. Sorry you had to go through that. I'm sure your wife is probably fine and likely doesn't have tuberculosis (or any concerning condition). Good luck with everything and thanks again!
  6. Willie_Overall
    Also, can you elaborate a bit on this entire situation? It sounds like she was sent home, returned at the 8 week mark, and was told to get a CT scan for reasons unknown? Then she was just told to get some kind of treatment? They forced you to get a CT scan? Sorry for all of the questions. I told my wife about your thread and she's freaking out now.
  7. Willie_Overall
    Thanks. We're IR1 (married just over 2 years now). She has her sputum appointments next week. Hoping that it doesn't go beyond that. And, yeah, that makes sense. If you feel any better, I've seen a ton of "positive" chest x-rays from the Philippines for various things. They were all very obviously negative. I've never seen a CT scan from there. It would be interesting to see how badly they misread those. Congrats on the marriage and having your wife there with you!
  8. Willie_Overall
    I'm a healthcare provider in the US and my wife just found out she will have to submit sputum. Just wondering if your wife ever had that CT scan completed in the US. This entire process is frustrating. It's very clear that the "doctors" at St. Luke's don't know how to read chest x-rays.
  9.    Ara Burton reacted to a post in a topic: August 2023 I-130 filers
  10.    Willie_Overall reacted to a post in a topic: Mistake in signing a form for I130 petition
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    I've seen people make this mistake in the Facebook group. Unfortunately, it will likely get denied based on their anecdotal experiences.
  12. Willie_Overall
    I would say to sue, but you've waited so long that you might as well just wait until you could contact the ombudsmen at USCIS. Since you filed in February of 2023, you should be able to do that some time in February of this year, depending on the exact date of your PD.
  13. Willie_Overall
    Couples could be together much faster, which is important to many. I also know people who went to the US on a fiance visa and then was able to get a work permit fairly quickly. The difference in fees is minuscule. I do agree that we don't know what the K1 will look like in Trump's second term. In all likelihood, it will simply get much slower, but CR1/IR1 will also get much slower. K1s are averaging around 5-6 months total, while CR1/IR1 are averaging 15.5 months (and getting worse by the month) even without Trump in office. If I were applying today, I would go the K1 route for sure.
  14. Willie_Overall
    Do K1. If you file for CR1 tomorrow, based on the current rate of increase in wait time, you're looking at 2+ years just at the USCIS stage. K1 is much faster.
  15. Willie_Overall
    $5400
  16. Willie_Overall
    You need to file a mandamus at this point. You've been skipped over. This is becoming more and more common these days. Our PD was July 28, 2023. It was clear we were skipped over by late October. We hired an attorney, filed a lawsuit, and were approved in mid-December. Now we're DQ'd. Highly recommended.
  17.    Stiven26 reacted to a post in a topic: August 2023 | I-130 Filers
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  19. Willie_Overall
    Yeah, if you scroll up a bit, you'll see that I also recommended doing that. My state politicians were useless. So we had to go the Mandamus route.
  20. Willie_Overall
    Well, that's a single person and we don't know if they did anything to push that forward. I have seen some politicians willing to help. So that could be what pushed things forward. Many politicians are not willing to help (mine included). Also, if that guy would have filed a lawsuit at the time that he was passed over (which was May of 2024 since the wait time was about a year at that point), then his wife would likely already be in the US by now. Just depends on your priorities I guess.
  21. Willie_Overall
    Okay, N=1. I get my information from a ton of research and collective experiences. May of 2025 is way too long to wait for someone who applied in August of 2023. August has already been passed over. OP would be best served by filing a mandamus as soon as possible, especially with the incoming administration. Like I said, it's very unlikely that anything will happen without significant force on OP's part.
  22. Willie_Overall
    Strong disagree. From what I've seen (in this forum, Facebook, and Reddit, among other groups), if you're skipped over (meaning that many others around your PD were adjudicated), you will be not be adjudicated unless you take some action. That could mean intervention by your congressman, dealing with ombudsman at around the 2 year mark, or filing a mandamus. Everyone surrounding our PD was approved in the first week of October. Our congressperson was unhelpful (and actually gave me wrong advice, which I knew to be wrong at the time). I filed a mandamus the last week of October at the 15 month mark. Nothing happened at all until last week at the 16.5 month mark. Our result was definitely due to the mandamus. If I didn't file, we'd still be waiting. It's really the best solution if you've been skipped over because it forces USCIS to do its job.
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