Vermyndax's US Immigration Timeline
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Petitioner's Name: Jason Beneficiary's Name: Marilou VJ Member: Vermyndax Country: Philippines Last Updated: 2024-07-15 |
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Timeline Comments: 22
Justxxxx on 2020-02-26 said:Hello did expedite?
Vermyndax on 2020-02-26 said:Hi there... no, I did not expedite. I did file a K-3 visa, but it was about 5 months after submitting the I-130's. But I didn't expedite or do anything else out of the ordinary.
Justxxxx on 2020-02-26 said:Did they transfer your application to Potomac?
Vermyndax on 2020-02-26 said:I did not receive any transfer notices. When I filed, my receipt numbers began with "IOE" for "Integrated Operating Environment", but my NOA-1 came from Nebraska. This made me assume that NSC was processing our cases. However, we were approved *much* sooner than Nebraska's processing timelines, so it was obviously picked up by someone else. I don't know who, though. Maybe after I get the NOA-2 notice in the mail, I will be able to tell which center processed it.
Justxxxx on 2020-02-26 said:Ohh ok congratulations
Vermyndax on 2020-02-26 said:Thanks! Best of luck to you!
Justxxxx on 2020-02-26 said:Thank you
✓ ° ® on 2020-02-26 said:Whats is your os for k3
Vermyndax on 2020-02-26 said:NOA-1 date for the K-3 was January 9th, but I suspect they'll be dropping it now.
Vermyndax on 2020-05-16 said:Received a notice on my stepdaughter's case that she was "documentarily qualified" and is ready to be scheduled for interview. My wife's case had a rejected document. I resubmitted that yesterday.
Vermyndax on 2020-06-18 said:NVC finally accepted all documentation. We're just waiting for the appointment letter now.
Vermyndax on 2020-10-09 said:Got our appointments, finally.
Ron Babb on 2020-11-25 said:Congrats. Guess I had better get my CENOMAR/AOM as the petitioner. Great tip, thanks. Also, did your wife and step-daughter interview at the same time or same day?
Vermyndax on 2020-11-25 said:Yes, definitely visit PSA ahead of time and have that on hand.
They did interview my wife and stepdaughter at the same time.
Vermyndax on 2020-11-30 said:Visas were issued today, 11/30/20.
Kido Biti on 2020-12-01 said:Congrats can you please share the interview questions
Vermyndax on 2020-12-02 said:Sure :)
- How did you meet your husband?
- When did you meet your husband?
- What is your husband’s work?
- What time does your husband start working?
- When was your first in-person meeting?
- How many times did your husband visit you?
- What places did you visit together?
- How many people were at your wedding?
- What are your husband’s hobbies? What does he like to do?
Probably the only curve ball was that they wanted an “Advisory of Marriage†for *both* of us... she and I... from PSA. The marriage certificate wasn’t enough to prove the wedding (even though we had gotten that from PSA too). So be sure to get your AOM/CENMAR from PSA and bring it to the interview. This document was not listed on the site for us. A friend of hers mentioned that she had to provide it. That didn’t make sense to us, so we didn’t go get the AOM from PSA. Turns out we were wrong, that is a requirement. That caused a 2-week delay on getting visas.
User555 on 2020-12-07 said:How long from your interview did you have the visa in hand? How long did it take from when you did the CFO seminar to when you got that certificate or stamp?
Vermyndax on 2020-12-10 said:We just received the visas from 2GO. Note that we did NOT receive a Manila envelope in the packet, just visas inside the passports. There is an "Annotations" section that lists: 221(g)(2)(B), and apparently this means they do NOT need a visa packet to enter.
Interview was: 11/13/20 - We returned the CENOMAR on 11/15/20. The visa has an "issued" date of 12/01/20 and we received it in the mail 12/09/20.
Vermyndax on 2020-12-10 said:Also, wanted to say that interestingly enough, the USTravelDocs passport tracker says the passports are still being prepared for delivery - but my wife already received them.
Vermyndax on 2020-12-17 said:@User555 - regarding CFO... the hardest part of CFO is actually paying for the seminar/certificate. We did the CFO seminar on December 13. CFO is actually very responsive to email and did the telephone interview/seminar on the same day we started the process. However, paying for it was an entirely different matter. Even though the website says it is available, the CFO online payment process is completely broken. The only way to pay for CFO right now until "sometime in January" is to do a cash deposit at LandBank. Get to LandBank early - every branch she went to was super crowded and it took almost an entire day to pay for it. They sent the temporary certificates the same day we sent proof of payment... again, very responsive via email. They already have the temporary certificates in hand and the stamp is on the way. Total processing time for that due to weekend and payment problems was 1 week.
Vermyndax on 2024-07-10 said:Our immigration journey ends today! Marilou passed her citizenship interview and took the oath the same day. Whew!
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