Edward and Jaycel

My fiancee and I have been nothing but text and video chats for the past 11 months. No doubt it is hard but it made us so much stronger. If she has to go there for that treatment, I would imagine she would meet others in the treatment program too that she could bond with. Maybe look at getting her an inexpensive laptop that she could use to take some online courses, really study the AOS process and become an expert on it so that when she does get there, you guys can breeze through that? Sorry if I'm rambling here, just trying to spitball some thoughts for you both. I hope it doesn't come to all that but if it does, try your best to make it into a fruitful time.

The K-1 FTP is a letter attached in an email that the NVC sends you when they have shipped your case file to the embassy

I'm so sorry to hear this. Jaycel and I will pray for you guys. What is in the results of the CT Scan that you feel they will interpret as requiring actual TB treatment? (If you are comfortable sharing) I can't believe if her cultures come back negative that they would still want to treat her. It's just mind boggling

They did not... They only asked for her DS-160, PSA Birth Certificate, CENOMAR, NBI Clearance, MRV receipt and appointment confirmation

@rsiegel yes.. K-1 visa and I forgot one question... He also asked what my job is

@J.M. was spot on. Jaycel just had her interview a few hours ago and she was approved!! She said it was easy as long as you know your fiancé and know the important dates of your relationship. She was fortunate to get a kind, pleasant visa officer who put her at ease. The questions consisted of: "What is your name and DOB?" "Who is your petitioner?" "How old is he?" "What is his address?" "How and when did you two meet?" "When was the last time you talked to him?" Then he said, "Neither of you have ever been married before and neither of you have kids? Let's get you outta here! Congratulations I am approving your visa!" The final interview took about 3-4 minutes.

For sure... That's why I gave her the past 3 months of my pay stubs

Agreed... It says they may ask for it so Jaycel has it for her interview along with all the supporting documents (W-2s, Tax Transcripts, Employment Verification Letter, Pay Stubs, etc.) And she has backup docs for everything. LOL Gotta play the bureaucracy's games of the love of documentation 😬 Thank you!

Thanks so much for this! I'm confident that Jaycel will do fine.. She just got her degree there in the Phiippines and spent lots of time doing presentations in front of her professors, administrators, etc. and knows the details of our relationship that even I can't remember. LOL Plus we have a pretty uncomplicated case - Neither of us ever married before, neither of us have kids. The only outlier is her late-registered birth certificate, but like I said, she just got back from the province where she got the official, sealed Local Civil Registrar records and the official, sealed baptismal certificate to bring as supporting documents for the late-registered BC. I just shared this with Jaycel and she says thank you for taking the time to share it with us!

Thank you for the confirmation! Jaycel's interview is in 2 days, how was your interview experience?

I have seen many, many posts that wet ink is not required for the I-134.... they all could be wrong

I can speak to the K-1 interview process in Manila only as my fiancee has her interview there next week, but there is nothing original from the petitioner that is needed except for a divorce decree if you have been divorced. For the I-134, they will accept you signing the form in the US (No "electronic" signatures like in Adobe, etc.), scanning it and emailing it to your fiancee to bring with her to the interview. All the supporting documents that go with the I-134 can be scanned and emailed as well. The original docs they require from the beneficiary are; the MRV Receipt (Visa fee payment), NBI Clearance, the PSA Birth Certificate and the Cenomar (or Annulment Decree if your fiancee was married). This is based on the last 11 months of research I've been doing on the interview process there in Manila. (Yes waiting for USCIS action on your I-129F will drive you a little crazy.) My fiancee also obtained original Local Civil Register declaration and original Baptismal Certificate to have as supporting documents in case they question her "Late Registered" birth certificate. If I'm wrong on any of this, I humbly defer to the more experienced members to correct me.

Congrats to you both! My fiancee's interview is at the Embassy in Manila on Tuesday, August 13th. We plan to answer the "Wedding Plans" question like this: "Because of the uncertainty of timelines in the K-1 visa process we have not set a firm date for our wedding, however our plan is to get married at his county clerk's office there in Colorado within 30 days of my arrival in the US." Wish you both all the best and BTW, my sisters and niece and nephews live in Frisco. I love that town!

I know we just had to schedule our own for Manil but we are on a K-1 visa. I thought NVC scheduled the IR-1/CR-1 interviews for you but I'm not sure on that point. I hated the stress of checking every day for an appointment so I hope they do it for you.

Best of luck to you both!

Build the strongest case you possibly can. Give them no choice but to approve the petition. The packet I submitted to petition my fiancee was 110 pages. Photos (put in a Word document and printed out with dates and descriptions), airline tickets / boarding passes, passport stamps, hotel receipts, engagement ring receipt, letters from her mama and sister attesting to our relationship, receipts for gifts I sent her when we were LDR, etc. BTW... we still got an RFE but that was because I did not read the instructions carefully enough. If you (the petitioner) has had any kind of negative interaction with law enforcement (Arrest, conviction, etc.), anything other than minor traffic tickets, make sure you detail it in the application AND include ORIGINAL, CERTIFIED police reports, court records or whatever is appropriate. I only detailed in the petition what happened to me when I was a dumb kid but did not include any official records which cost us a few months in the processing time and caused us to get an RFE.

When I found the one for my fiancee (which was a cancelation I believe) i logged on and found it at about 9:13am Manila time

We scheduled Jaycel's medical without having an interview appointment as a precaution like @widude said above. We just happened to catch a cancellation on the schedule for the week after her medical. Fortunately she passed. And also to widude's point, I was was checking the calendar on the ustraveldocs site at 9:13am Manila time when I grabbed that appointment.

Congrats!! My fiancee goes for hers next week. I'll report here what she says about the experience

My fiancee and I got an email from the embassy about 10 days after CEAC said our case was ready. The email said that "You are now eligible to schedule an interview"... etc. But I also hear that not everyone gets one of those.

I was able to grab one last week... It was for Aug. 13 and it was the only one available on the calendar so it was likely a cancellation. All I can say is keep trying, we checked every day and just lucked out on finding that one.

My guess in this is their effort to get updated marital evidence so that they can adjudicate your I-751 before moving on to your N-400 since the I-751 was still pending when you filed. Just my semi-educated guess 🙂

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Exactly.... You don't want to be running around under the pressure of a 221g trying to get this information. Better to have it and not need it as the old saying goes

Any supporting documentation she can have with her at the interview is a great idea. My fiancee has a "Late Registered" PSA birth certificate so she took the time to go back to her province to get her LCR certificate and her baptisimal certificate to have on hand at the interview as supporting docs. We read that most times the Visa Officer won't make a big deal out of it if it's not too long of a gap before her birth was registered but we wanted to take no chances and are bringing the supporting documentation just in case.