Edward and Jaycel

Yes… from what I understand, you can now attend the interview and they will give a “Refusal under 221g” until they receive the medical with the completed, negative sputum tests. At that point they will then process the visa as long as there were no other issues at the interview.

Hahaha I figured but I read some posts here of people sending their original and never getting it back so I wanted to make sure 😁

When does it expire? My thought would be to have her reach out again, remind them of the medical expiry date and ask them if she should prepare herself to take another medical. Kind of prod them a little like, “Hey you have this long to screw around with this until I have to pay for another one of these.”

Make sure you send only a copy and keep the original 😊

If the foreign spouse had a medical overseas for the K-1 visa within 1 year of filing the I-485, you are exempt from the requirement to file the I-693 with your I-485. If your DS-3025 is complete and the box on the back of the form that says "K Visa applicant voluntarily completed vaccination requirements" is checked, then I would feel confident just including a copy of the completed DS-3025 along with your AOS package to remind them that you are exempt from the requirement and will also serve as a reminder to your adjudicator to look for your medical exam report that CPB took at the port of entry in your yellow packet and should have sent to USCIS to add to your A-File

Hi Everyone - I just wanted to share our experience filing our ROM with the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco. Timeline and a Screen Grab of our cover letter are below. We followed the information on the consulate's website exactly. This includes the "ROM Checklist" PDF that is downloadable from the site. Timeline: ROM Package completed and mailed via Priority Mail on 12/5/2024 USPS Attempted Delivery - 12/7/2024 Consulate Closed on Saturday USPS Delivered to Front Desk / Mail Room - 12/9/2024 Return package with Signed & Sealed ROM and Receipt delivered back to us - 12/20/2024 Total time for processing and return delivery from date of receipt by consulate - 11 days Screen Grab of our cover letter with itemized contents of package (Personal Information Removed):

Typo that I didn’t get to edit in time… Jaycel arrived in the US on August 30th not 20th

Jaycel arrived on Aug 20, 2024 and we got married on October 25, 2024. We filed AOS Packet (I-485 & I-765) on November 14th, 2024 (13 days before her visa expired) at the Phoenix Lockbox. We sent it via FedEx so we mailed it to the physical address and not the PO Box as the website instructed. It was received on Monday, 11/18/2024 and our checks were shown as cashed on the morning of Friday 11/22/2024. We also received the text messages with the receipt numbers on Friday 11/22/2024 in the afternoon and received the Account Acceptance letter with the Online Access Code on Tuesday 11/26/2024. We got the NOA1s for both applications in the mail on Monday 12/2/2024. Nothing happened after that until yesterday, Friday 12/20/2024 we got an email from USCIS that said, "We have taken an action on your case and it needs your attention". We logged in and saw that the status of the I-485 application had changed to, "Biometrics Appointment Was Scheduled". We were able to see the notice in the Documents tab and the appointment is scheduled for Tuesday, January 7, 2025. That's our experience so far!

I don't know how common it is but there's lots of questions here in VJ forums so I would imagine it happens quite often. We got an RFE on our I-129F petition. We gave them exactly what they asked for and they approved us 3 days after they received our RFE response. When the RFE comes, post it here with the personal information blacked out and we will try to help you as best we can

and you are still waiting for biometric appointment ? Case status updated to "Biometrics Appointment Was Scheduled" today!!! 🎉🎉

Case status updated to "Biometrics Appointment Was Scheduled" today!!! 🎉🎉

I think you're right because when Jaycel got her Online Access Code when we filed her I-485 and she signed up and added her case number, it has a documents tab

When I filed my I-129F for Jaycel, the online account they allow you to have for that did not include a documents tab. When I got an RFE, I had to wait for it to arrive in the mail.

That's a good philosophy! If Jaycel wasn't wanting to get to work so bad, we would just let it go too. I hope you guys have a great holiday together!

Oh Jeez.... sorry to hear

Oh Good deal! Best of luck!! It usually goes to Ready pretty quickly after it goes In Transit

How long has it been at NVC?

The Consular Officer conducting the interview will extend the validity of the NOA2 by 4 months at the time of the interview. They will not extend it beforehand. If it has been expired for a while, be prepared with updated Letters of Intent to Marry and proof of continuing relationship. This is nothing to worry about. They know that the interview stage can face several delays which is why they have the authority to extend the validity date in 4 month segments for up to one year.

Our application is at the National Benefits Center now, out of the lockbox which is where all receipts with an IOE go. The lockbox in Phoenix processed us quickly

This is a shot of the stats in our receipt block.... we are one of only 729 remaining who have had no action taken on their case since receipt.

Yes sadly..... Status still sitting at "Case Was Received and A Receipt Notice Was Sent". My wife just wants to be able to work and it's driving her crazy to see movement on over 90% of the cases in our IOE receipt block but absolutely nothing done on her application

Sorry I missed this - I was still sleeping Glad you got it figured out!

Good catch.... I missed the part about being a freelancer. 100% agree, should include that for sure

Yes it seems they send them separately now. Jaycel got an account acceptance notice in the mail with her online access code and then like 4 or 5 days later she got her NOA1s for the I-485 & I-765

The embassy in Manila over the last few months has been doing mass expedites of immigrant visas in order to help clear some of the backlog for interviews. They will expedite your case wether or not you requested it. When you have been expedited, you are required to schedule the interview yourself on their online scheduling portal once it shows "Ready".