Edward and Jaycel

Fantastic news!!! 🎉🎉

NVC does not issue a receipt number for K-1 visa cases. They are only issued for Immigrant Visa cases.

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There is no invoice number assigned to a K-1 case by the NVC

Great news!! 🎉🎉

I do not know the answer on this with any certainty.... I would reach out to their support. I think once you have the appointment scheduled, you have to cancel it and close that case on the website and start a new one and then select option one to just schedule the OFC appointment.

Your wife is likely going to be told she cannot attend the interview on the 12th.... I saw a story from Manila on another forum about this. Trying to find the details for you.

Are you selecting Option 1 which says something like (Biometrics appointment for a previously scheduled interview appointment"? Or are you selecting the option to schedule an appointment for "IR-1/CR-1....."? If you have an appointment already scheduled by NVC, you have to use option 1.

Is the passport inside the plastic wrap around the envelope of documents?

You will have to contact the CFO office and ask them to de-schedule that appointment. You will not be able to change the existing one and she can't go before the visa is issued

When the NVC sends it to the embassy, if they have yours and your fiancé(e)'s email addresses correct, you will both get an email letting you know that the file has been sent, with a K1-FTP letter attached to the email. While the case is sitting there at NVC, I highly recommend that you send them a Public Inquiry on their PI web page and ask that they verify that they have both of your email addresses in their system. This wiull ensure you both get any emails either from NVC or the embassy going forward. This is especially important as most communications from both entities come via email nowadays. I would word it something like: CEAC Case Number: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX I would like to make sure you have the petitioner and beneficiary emails updated in your system as follows: Petitioner Name: John Smith Petitioner email: john.smith@email.com Beneficiary Name: Jane Jones Beneficiary: jane.jones@email.com

Leave section 20 blank until you go before a Notary Public. At that time, the Notary will have you sign your names in ink and they will fill out the rest of that section (The part after "SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN....) That's how we did it and our ROM was accepted with no issues. The part about no hand-written forms is about the rest of the form.... the Notary part has to be hand-written

I don't know if it is Manila Embassy specific, but we tried this and the IV Unit responded with "K-1 Petition Approval Notices are only extended at the time of the interview by the Consular Officer and not before. If your approval notice is past its date of validity on the day of your interview and the Consular Officer approves your application, they will automatically extend the validity of the approval." OP I would suggest this, no matter when the interview occurs, bring updated Letters of Intent to Marry from both parties to the interview. This is good practice no matter what AND if the approval is nearing to the end of its validity date, according to the FSM, the consular officer can ask for updated letters prior to approving the visa.

Due to the gravity of a denied I-751 (USCIS no longer considers you a Lawful Permanent Resident) I would highly recommend that you consult a reputable immigration attorney. Preferably one who is a member of AILA.

I second this.... I have seen reports in other forums of people getting refused under 212(f). Not 100% sure those are accurate either.

Go to the interview with the assumption that it will be a combo interview but it wouldn't hurt to upload the I-751 receipt notice and request one

There are lots of petitioners from July 2025 who are still waiting. USCIS will often start adjudicating a bit ahead to keep their average time to adjudication lower than it really is. Having gone through this myself I'll say this; be patient, stop comparing on sites that show you "the cases around you" (because they can only give you data from people who also use their site) and use this time to prepare and become an "A Student" on the steps to come so that you will not stumble because you didn't know something.

Yeah I second this.... The US Embassy is not going to ask for police clearances for the US Citizen petitioner but there is a very good chance they will ask at the CFO for your FBI history report.

And no they cannot got to the issued stage unless they have the passport because they have to place the visa in the passport.

From experience with Jaycel's process in the Philippines, her status stayed as "Approved" until the administrative processing was complete so it appears that it can be both "Approved" and in AP at the same time. The AP is not completed until the status changes to "Issued".

This is how I did it for Jaycel's I-129F petition with the exception of the N/A. If a section didn't apply, I wrote by hand a big N/A over the whole section

Thank you for clarifying.... I misread that

If the consular officer didn’t indicate that something else was needed, it may just be that your fiancée’s case is in Administrative Processing. Many Embassies put the status into “Refused” while AP is being conducted

Just upload the new Tax Return Transcript from the 2025 tax year. You do not need to update the entire I-864. When you go to the "Unsolicited Documents" function on the I-485 in the portal, it asks you to tell them what type of evidence you are uploading. Use the option for I-864 evidence. This is what we did when we had our updated 2024 Tax Return Transcript available

For the I-134, if your income exceeds the requirement, you do not have to provide information about assets (bank accounts, etc.)