Edward and Jaycel

How long have you been living in the Philippines? Your best bet, if you've been living there for more than 6 months is to get an NBI clearance for yourself and have your fiancée bring it with her to the CFO.

You should not wait to get a new place if you need to accommodate yours and your fiancé’s dog. Once the status on your I-129F changes to, “Case Has Been Transferred To The Department Of State”, give it 3 weeks or so and use their online public inquiry form to request your case number. They likely will not have it available yet but that’s fine because the real purpose will be to give them your new address. After asking for the case number, say something like, “Please also update my address to:”. Give them your new address and also take this opportunity to give them yours and your fiancé’s email addresses as well. This will ensure that the NVC and the embassy has both your email addresses and that you both get all future communications as they will exclusively use email from that point on in most cases.

Our friends got an RFE and the notice in the online account lagged behind the email notification by 2 or 3 days.

I would bet money on it

It's the receipt number for your case.... The NOA1 will come in the mail in a week or two. This means your case has been accepted for processing. Now I would put a temp freeze on your card so the 2nd case doesn't get created.

I think they are an "MSC" receipt which cannot use the online portal

Unless it is truly dire circumstances, I would NOT try to reschedule your embassy interview. You could face months of delay and uncertainty.

Yep... this is the reason that others have been denied for this type of thing. As far as what to tell the Consular Officer and CBP? The truth, that she coming to visit you both and her new grandchild.

The visa officer and CBP see this as her "working unpaid" in the US. I know it sounds crazy but it's an accurate representation of how they see it.

I would do this for sure

You should cancel the payment on the one still out there with USPS

That's great news!! 🎉 Congrats!!

Woo Hoo!! Congratulations!! 🎉🎉

Busy man at the receiving dock

That was who signed for our friend's package. It's in the right hands

Was it received by M.JOHNSON?

Yeah fingers crossed.... I think our friends here just got a negligent officer that did their interview. She started by saying she didn't have time to really review their case before the interview and their appointment was at 11:05am and they said she spent a good amount of time during the interview commenting on how hungry she was and how she needed to get lunch 😐

Just keep in mind for WoM, make sure you are making inquiries via Ask Emma, Service Requests, and Congressional Inquiries and keeping evidence of them to add as "Exhibits" in your WoM filing with the court to show that you have been trying every method available to you to get action taken on your case

We helped a friend file a couple months ago and when we sent it to the physical address via FedEx, we forgot the Suite 400 in the address. It was delivered on time with no issue and he got his receipt number via text message the day after it was delivered

Our friends just hit 78 days.... I don't understand why it takes so long AFTER the interview to adjudicate

Likely a workload thing

They did the vaccine verification for us here in Denver for $50

You have to dial 011 63 then the number starting with 02

Yeah it will most likely update tomorrow with the approval. Our officer told us when they approve it, there’s a 24 hour delay before it shows up in the portal

As long as the marriage is legal in the jurisdiction in which it takes place, USCIS will accept it. The only caveat is if the marriage certificate is in a language other than English, you have to have it translated. (Not applicable obviously if you get married here in the US or in Australia )