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Keep it professional and keep the small talk out of it. Just give the facts only.

My nephew moved to Philippines before the pandemic hit and put his Pinay wife into law school there, She recently graduated and pass the bar in Philippines after 3 plus years. She had a Master in Business already. I am aware US and Philippines law schools are based on different critera, and she would more than likely have to repeat law school in USA to sit for bar in Texas, but did she gain anything by getting her bar card in Philippines, other than being able to work as a law professional there. Degree like nursing you can basically take test like NCLEX and work as RN in USA if you have the requirement for each state. I am not sure how long he will survive in Philippines, I figured he would of gotten kicked out of the country or got bored and came back to USA, He pretty much sold his house and a couple of rental properties he had in USA. When he does decide to come back to USA with her, Did she gain anything he decides to return to the USA?

Not really, Have you been a CO officer? What Embassy or Consulate did you work at? What do you base this on? Have you or your family done a Tourist visa? OP appears to be young, it is quite common for others to pay for a trip if you are young or elderly, the CO's know this, this is common knowledge. When my MIL did her recent Tourist Visa the CO asked whom was paying, it wasn't a a negative factor.

Same here my MIL is like family She got just got approved for Tourist Visa from Philippines, I haven't seen her in person in years, she has been very good to me and took great care of me when I visited and first met her daughter and family the first time, they even allowed me to stay in their home and had a bathroom added onto the house so I would have my own bathroom and stand up shower so I would be comfortable. She will be coming to Texas in March and I will get her and open ended ticket and right now plan is for her to stay for a couple months, but if weather doesn't get too toasty I may extend her stay another month.

Just tell them who is paying for your trip, no biggie. We just got approved for a Tourist Visa for my wife mother in law in Philippines, they asked her whom is paying for her trip, she answered we (Me and my wife) was paying. Just answer the questions they ask, don't provide extra comments, or try to make small talk. I thought you said you had a previous Tourist Visa, did they ask you about funding for your trip before? Or were you a youth?

Apply for a Tourist Visa it only cost $185, To get an answer. Here is the general rule I have found: The Rich and Old get easily approved, the rest don't Good Luck and please update after interview.

Why do you make a comment like that? Why is he brave for a MIL to visit?

Did I say it was new? I said recently

The I-129F whole process is much more difficult. You have to get paperwork from their country and get it shipped to the USA, You have to visit the forgein country, show evidence you visited, etc and then you get to go attend a actual Visa Interview to get approved. You do the I-485 and send in paperwork you already have and then most likely no interiew and approved. Major difference and I-485 is overall a much simple and easier process.

I have her I 485 paperwork in front of me now, it looks about the same. I personally handled the I-129F myself, once it got to rest of the paperwork I handed it off to my wife, it's simple and she needed to learn how to deal with US based and US Paperwork, it was a good learning for her, I just scanned it over, and signed the check. She must of done good, no AOS Inteview and approved.

I have her I-485 in front of me now. It looks about as thick as the I-129F. She did all those forms EAD/AP add G325A The I 485 application has much more than one page

I had my wife do it, Seems rather straight forward and rather easy DYI. My job was to get the K1 approved, which I found to be a rather simple DYI project as well. I get a good laugh from some of the people especially if they used like a "Lawyer" to fill out their paperwork, or even a agency. You gonna do most of the work anyways, I am not gonna pay someone to fill out simple paperwork and mail something, I want complete control of the whole process.

I just looked it over and I think I had to sign it, but compared to the K1, it looked alot less complicated and less questions and less paperwork.

Yes, I am basing my own actual experience, thus why I gave the background material. I heard they were now processed at one service center now, but that is a change recenlty. I can remember when Texas Service or Vermont Service Center was the fast processing center and if you went to California it was the slow center. Things change and evolve , you just got to deal with it.

I have never heard of anyone using a visa processing for AOS, isn't that like just one page applicaiton? I always had my fiance/wife take over the paperwork after the K1 process for AOS, I looked over it one time, it looked very simple to fill out. Interesting you had a AOS Inteview, My wife were all waived and approved with paperwork only.

I would suggest to do it yourself, The K1 is a very simple application, and now of days even USCIS has pretty good directions, and you can get extra support from this website which is very helpful. Since you mentioned "DateInAsia" and "Philippines" and if you just wanted to not mess with it doing the application yourself, then they have company called RapidVisa and they actually have a office building across the street from the US EMbassy in Manila off Roxas Blvd. I have heard they will even go thru mock visa interview with the applicant and they would know exactly what US Embassy in Manila requires for visa interview or visa application. I would still suggest do it yourself, you will have to provide all the paperwork and gather documents, so why not just fill out the forms yourself. Either ways you have options, Come back if you have any questions.

Red Flags? Please tell what "Red Flags" you think you see?

Wrong again. K1 from Philippines have generally been approved faster than many other countries, and guess what back when I did mine you either went to the Texas Service Center or the California Service Center and around 2015 the California service center was approving much faster than Texas. My buddy got approved in 9 days which is the fastest I have ever seen, mine took like 31 days Have you done a K1? Have you done a K1 from Philippines? I have been directly or indirectly related to 5 K1 from Philippines over the past 2 decades, back when you had to hand type the application. What is your personal experience with K1 from Philippines?

Nope Processing time for a K1 from Philippines usually moves much faster compared to other countries. Processing times means from submiting your K1 to your actual approval which some call a NOA2.

Actually it does, K1 visa from Philippines tend to get approved much faster (NOA2) than many other parts of the world, Been that way for decades. I see people on US Embassy In Manila FB page crying about waiting for interview spots for CR1 from 2022, they should of done a K1 visa instead.

What country? CHina?

The Physical Interview takes place at the US Embassy in Manila. In general K1 filed gets approved much faster than most other countries, Ours took about one month for approval

Update: MIL got her visa on Friday, It was delivered to her home via LBC, took like 4 days. Visa is good for 10 years. I give the US Embassy a hard time on FB, but in reality they provide very good customer service and it took about 30 days after paying for the visa and getting approved. Good to see the US Embassy in Manila getting back to normal processing times, I saw someone just got their K1 approved in 90 days, hopefully they will get that time much faster.

I said I was an American Citizen in the Philippines. Americans are treated very well thanks to MacArthur and the US liberating the country from Japanesses invasion during WW2. I have never heard anyone call the Philippines a "Brown" country, Nor did I ever say I was a "White" American, You post is borderline racist

When I attended the visa interiew it was a K1, that means fiance as in not married. From what others have told me if you do a marriage visa interview then the Husband is usually not allowed to attend the actual interview.