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pbroz1

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  • Birthday 09/10/1969

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    MOVILLE
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    Iowa

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  • Immigration Status
    K-1 Visa
  • Place benefits filed at
    Nebraska Service Center
  • Local Office
    Omaha NE
  • Country
    Philippines

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  1. Thanks again for sharing your experience. At what point did you start on the immigration process? We're you in the K-1 process, then switch over, or did you wait until you were married to start the process?
  2. Thanks for the answer. What about registering with PSA to show you are eligible to get married? I'm divorced. I have a copy of the decree, but it's not apostisized. It's just a copy the court sent. Somewhere I read that you have to go to the embassy and they will notarize an affidavit that says as much. What documents did you take with you when you went? What did you send over beforehand? Were you able to send anything by email? Also, the city where she lives requires premarital counseling. Is this something that you could do over video call? Lastly, what should I expect to pay for everything start to finish? Thanks for whatever help you can provide me.
  3. I understand that process. My fiancée got sick and missed her window to come. The embassy denied her a reissuance. So were going to have to start over one way or another. We decided to research getting married first before refiling to see what that might look like. So it's an exploratory question.
  4. What does anyone know about the process of getting married in the Philippines? There's no CENOMAR here, so how do you prove that you're eligible for marriage? Does PSA accept scanned copies and emails for filing? It's nearly impossible to send something to the Philippines in my experience. I saw there's a premarital counseling requirement. Can that be done by video call? Would it be acceptable to have your Filipina fiancée act as a Power of Attorney so she could sign on my behalf? If I have to be present to originally sign everything, it looks like it could take 6-8 weeks between all the different filings at the different agencies. Who has that kind of time? How do people go to the beaches and get married? There's a lot of that.
  5. She finally called the embassy today since we never heard back. They are going to reject her request and force us to start back over. My other option is to move there.
  6. Will do! I have a feeling that will be it's own headache.
  7. I googled it after initially freaking out. That's what I learned. During the initial process, they never used that term. They had the status as "ready" instead. Hopefully we'll hear from the consular's office soon and know what our path to togetherness is going to be. Prompt communication is not our experience with the embassy though. Or maybe I'm just impatient. Lol
  8. The status on the CEAC website changed from "issued" and a November 2024 date to "refused" and today's date. It says if it's for administrative review, we would receive an email from the consular's office as to why. Of course, nothing yet. Out of the blue, my fiancée and I both received email receipts from LBC for the visa pickups last fall. We didn't request them, so I wonder if these were requested from the embassy, but without them reaching out, I have no idea what they want in order to process her reissuance request.
  9. Gotcha! No worries. I appreciate you trying to help.
  10. Yes, I received that email too. We sent everything back to the Consular's Office as instructed to the address the embassy said. It's the Visa Application Center in the Philippines. How long until you heard about a decision to reissue or not? What did she have to do again? What were the fees you had to pony up again? How long did the process take until she was able to leave her country and come to the US?
  11. I wish I had. I know these things take time, and you have to be patient. I'm not good at that, but I would be better if I knew timeframe of a typical decision on reissuance as well as process if they say yes, and a way to track it. The CEAC visa status website only shows it as issued. It would be nice to know if they use that same website for tracking a reissuance or not. As of now, there is one thing Google doesn't know because I can't find anything on a web search about tracking reissuances. All the replacement links have to do with a lost or stolen visa/passport. That's not the issue here.
  12. Yes I have. More than once. No response.
  13. We have been together for 2 1/2 years. I've been over there 3 times. I've seen the doctor's reports and spoken with the doctor on video call. I have a good friend who is a doctor and he verified everything that was said and the reports I got by snapshots was all indicative of what was described by my fiancée and the doctor. I've not found the embassy in Manila responsive. I have my Congressman's office involved too, trying to get answers and they don't even email them back.
  14. Does anyone have any experience with requesting a K-1 visa to be reissued from the US embassy in Manila? My fiancée and her two children were not able to meet the deadline for departure. The PDOS at CFO really screwed with her. They were closed one time on her scheduled day, so she had to go to the end of the list and wait another month, then they told her two children didn't need the "stamp" because of their age. Then, after she was there (finally) for her scare seminar, they told her she needed the children's visas to have the exit tax stamp too. She finally got that done with a week before the visa expired, and then had a medical emergency that kept her hospitalized past the expiration date. She kept telling me to leave her because she wasn't going to make it here by the expiration date. I told her I didn't want a government rule and bureaucracy to dictate my happiness and family composition. We sent the requirements to the VAC about three weeks but haven't heard anything. The CEAC website simply says her visas was issued, not that they received it back. I can't find a website to track the progress, much less to detail anything about timeframe or costs. I'm pretty sure they'll have to do the St. Luke's medical exams again, plus I'm sure there's some sort of processing fee, if they agree to reissue her visa. I'm not a patient person to begin with, so not knowing if the VAC has officially received all the paperwork required on the State Department website, no communication from the consular's office, no timeframe, and nothing else, I'm getting antsy about the process, the communication, and how much longer I will have to wait to have my family together finally.
  15. Here's a new one: the embassy can't find my fiance's passport and one of her sons' visa is not even in her application any longer. The embassy requested that her four-year-old make his formal interview for his K-1 visa application. Not his K-2, but his K-1. A four-year-old. My attorney suggested that I contact my congressman, so that's my next step. I really believe that someone from the embassy sold these on the black market. I did, however, find out that they issue each visa separately. I was holding out hope that perhaps my fiance's visa was being held back because they were working on the children's, and once that was done, they would be issued together. No! each one is issued individually, and supposedly within 10 days of the interview, or 10 days of receipt of the requested information.
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