Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 November 2011 Filers	Well, my check cleared today! NOA1 must be coming pretty soon!	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-11-07 20:43:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 November 2011 Filers	California Service Center (2 applicants) VJName.............Date of I-751.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved.... HEATDEATH.............11/01/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... MARIE09...............11/07/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... YOUR NAME HERE........--/--/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... Vermont Service Center (6 applicants) VJName.............Date of I-751.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved.... M_RU..................11/01/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... BABYLONFARI_K1........11/01/11........11/03/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... MAGICFN1..............11/02/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... SHACH.................11/03/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... RBAL_TN...............11/07/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... KEVIN&LEILEI..........11/07/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... YOUR NAME HERE........--/--/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... IMPORTANT! * Make sure that your VJ Text Editor setting is set to Rich Text Editor. * Go to the MOST RECENTLY POSTED VERSION of this list (go to the last post and scroll UP) and "Reply" to it, deleting the "quote" tags in your reply. * Please DO NOT change the font, font size, add colors, stuff like that. * Please PREVIEW before posting to make sure it is properly formatted. * Please check that you have not deleted anyones NAME & DATA. * Please enter dates as MM/DD/YY. Date of I-751 = The Date you sent your application NOA Date = The Receipt Date on your original NOA letter Biometrics = The Date of your biometrics appointment Approved = The Date your case was approved * Please Capitalize your VJ Name when adding it to the list. * When you're on this list, please come back to update your information accordingly * If you cannot add your information yourself, please ask another VJ member to help you do so.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-11-07 20:34:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 November 2011 Filers	California Service Center (2 applicants) VJName.............Date of I-751.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved.... HEATDEATH.............11/01/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... MARIE09...............11/07/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... YOUR NAME HERE........--/--/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... Vermont Service Center (5 applicants) VJName.............Date of I-751.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved.... M_RU..................11/01/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... BABYLONFARI_K1........11/01/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... MAGICFN1..............11/02/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... SHACH.................11/03/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... RBAL_TN...............11/07/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... YOUR NAME HERE........--/--/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... IMPORTANT! * Make sure that your VJ Text Editor setting is set to Rich Text Editor. * Go to the MOST RECENTLY POSTED VERSION of this list (go to the last post and scroll UP) and "Reply" to it, deleting the "quote" tags in your reply. * Please DO NOT change the font, font size, add colors, stuff like that. * Please PREVIEW before posting to make sure it is properly formatted. * Please check that you have not deleted anyones NAME & DATA. * Please enter dates as MM/DD/YY. Date of I-751 = The Date you sent your application NOA Date = The Receipt Date on your original NOA letter Biometrics = The Date of your biometrics appointment Approved = The Date your case was approved * Please Capitalize your VJ Name when adding it to the list. * When you're on this list, please come back to update your information accordingly * If you cannot add your information yourself, please ask another VJ member to help you do so. Edited by HeatDeath, 07 November 2011 - 04:39 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-11-07 16:39:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 November 2011 Filers	I think it's actually supposed to go to Santa Ana - that's the nearest postal sort facility to the CSC in Laguna Niguel. From there it gets sent to the Laguna Niguel post office where it gets delivered to the CSC.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-11-07 16:36:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 November 2011 Filers	California Service Center (1 applicant) VJName.............Date of I-751.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved.... HEATDEATH.............11/01/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... YOUR NAME HERE........--/--/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... Vermont Service Center (4 applicants) VJName.............Date of I-751.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved.... M_RU..................11/01/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... BABYLONFARI_K1........11/01/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... MAGICFN1..............11/02/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... SHACH.................11/03/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... YOUR NAME HERE........--/--/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... IMPORTANT! * Make sure that your VJ Text Editor setting is set to Rich Text Editor. * Go to the MOST RECENTLY POSTED VERSION of this list (go to the last post and scroll UP) and "Reply" to it, deleting the "quote" tags in your reply. * Please DO NOT change the font, font size, add colors, stuff like that. * Please PREVIEW before posting to make sure it is properly formatted. * Please check that you have not deleted anyones NAME & DATA. * Please enter dates as MM/DD/YY. Date of I-751 = The Date you sent your application NOA Date = The Receipt Date on your original NOA letter Biometrics = The Date of your biometrics appointment Approved = The Date your case was approved * Please Capitalize your VJ Name when adding it to the list. * When you're on this list, please come back to update your information accordingly * If you cannot add your information yourself, please ask another VJ member to help you do so.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-11-07 11:24:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 November 2011 Filers	California Service Center (1 applicant) VJName.............Date of I-751.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved.... HEATDEATH.............11/01/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... YOUR NAME HERE........--/--/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... Vermont Service Center (3 applicants) VJName.............Date of I-751.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved.... M_RU..................11/01/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... BABYLONFARI_K1........11/01/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... SHACH.................11/03/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... YOUR NAME HERE........--/--/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... IMPORTANT! * Make sure that your VJ Text Editor setting is set to Rich Text Editor. * Go to the MOST RECENTLY POSTED VERSION of this list (go to the last post and scroll UP) and "Reply" to it, deleting the "quote" tags in your reply. * Please DO NOT change the font, font size, add colors, stuff like that. * Please PREVIEW before posting to make sure it is properly formatted. * Please check that you have not deleted anyones NAME & DATA. * Please enter dates as MM/DD/YY. Date of I-751 = The Date you sent your application NOA Date = The Receipt Date on your original NOA letter Biometrics = The Date of your biometrics appointment Approved = The Date your case was approved * Please Capitalize your VJ Name when adding it to the list. * When you're on this list, please come back to update your information accordingly * If you cannot add your information yourself, please ask another VJ member to help you do so.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-11-05 17:26:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 November 2011 Filers	Attempting to not waste paper with USCIS is a non-starter. They hate trees. <snark> If you feel really bad about it, buy a carbon credit when all is said and done. </snark> I would definitely include some (maybe up to a dozen) photos, clearly widely spaced in space and time, ideally including other family members. And I would certainly include the other random things you mention. It all goes towards painting a complete, unimpeachable picture of you two as a legitimate couple. Let's face it - faking the sports program would be a bizarrely otherworldly pain in the rear to fake, so it is awesome evidence of the legitimacy of your relationship. Pictures of the two of you there to go with it would be even better. I made a thread, a page or two back, with my full cover letter and list (personal information obviously redacted). Take a look at it - it is fairly similar to yours, but with more personal stuff. Here it is - http://www.visajourn...etter-and-list/ Good luck! Edited by HeatDeath, 04 November 2011 - 03:39 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-11-04 15:37:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 November 2011 Filers	California Service Center (1 applicant) VJName.............Date of I-751.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved.... HEATDEATH.............11/01/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... YOUR NAME HERE........--/--/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... Vermont Service Center (1 applicant) VJName.............Date of I-751.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved.... M_RU..................11/01/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... YOUR NAME HERE........--/--/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... IMPORTANT! * Make sure that your VJ Text Editor setting is set to Rich Text Editor. * Go to the MOST RECENTLY POSTED VERSION of this list (go to the last post and scroll UP) and "Reply" to it, deleting the "quote" tags in your reply. * Please DO NOT change the font, font size, add colors, stuff like that. * Please PREVIEW before posting to make sure it is properly formatted. * Please check that you have not deleted anyones NAME & DATA. * Please enter dates as MM/DD/YY. Date of I-751 = The Date you sent your application NOA Date = The Receipt Date on your original NOA letter Biometrics = The Date of your biometrics appointment Approved = The Date your case was approved * Please Capitalize your VJ Name when adding it to the list. * When you're on this list, please come back to update your information accordingly * If you cannot add your information yourself, please ask another VJ member to help you do so.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-11-03 22:03:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 November 2011 Filers	USPS Delivery Confirmation confirms it: Package accepted: November 1, 2011, 11:49 AM Package delivered to Laguna Niguel, CA, 92607: November 3, 2011, 11:00 AM Now we wait for the NOA1... Edited by HeatDeath, 03 November 2011 - 03:25 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-11-03 15:25:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 November 2011 Filers	Good luck!! Thanks!	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-11-01 19:57:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 November 2011 Filers	California Service Center (1 applicant) VJName.............Date of I-751.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved.... HEATDEATH.............11/01/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... Vermont Service Center (0 applicants) VJName.............Date of I-751.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved.... YOUR NAME HERE........--/--/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... IMPORTANT! * Make sure that your VJ Text Editor setting is set to Rich Text Editor. * Go to the MOST RECENTLY POSTED VERSION of this list (go to the last post and scroll UP) and "Reply" to it, deleting the "quote" tags in your reply. * Please DO NOT change the font, font size, add colors, stuff like that. * Please PREVIEW before posting to make sure it is properly formatted. * Please check that you have not deleted anyones NAME & DATA. * Please enter dates as MM/DD/YY. Date of I-751 = The Date you sent your application NOA Date = The Receipt Date on your original NOA letter Biometrics = The Date of your biometrics appointment Approved = The Date your case was approved * Please Capitalize your VJ Name when adding it to the list. * When you're on this list, please come back to update your information accordingly * If you cannot add your information yourself, please ask another VJ member to help you do so.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-11-01 13:47:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 November 2011 Filers	I became eligible to file in early September, but didn't get around to finishing the packet until now. Looks like I'm the first one for November. It feels good to finally get this off my desk! Let's get this party started! California Service Center (1 applicant) VJName.............Date of I-751.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved.... HEATDEATH.............11/01/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... Vermont Service Center (0 applicants) VJName.............Date of I-751.....NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved.... YOUR NAME HERE........--/--/11........--/--/11.......--/--/11........--/--/--.... IMPORTANT! * Make sure that your VJ Text Editor setting is set to Rich Text Editor. * Go to the MOST RECENTLY POSTED VERSION of this list (go to the last post and scroll UP) and "Reply" to it, deleting the "quote" tags in your reply. * Please DO NOT change the font, font size, add colors, stuff like that. * Please PREVIEW before posting to make sure it is properly formatted. * Please check that you have not deleted anyones NAME & DATA. * Please enter dates as DD/MM/YY. Date of I-751 = The Date you sent your application NOA Date = The Receipt Date on your original NOA letter Biometrics = The Date of your biometrics appointment Approved = The Date your case was approved * Please Capitalize your VJ Name when adding it to the list. * When you're on this list, please come back to update your information accordingly * If you cannot add your information yourself, please ask another VJ member to help you do so. Edited by HeatDeath, 01 November 2011 - 01:40 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-11-01 13:36:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	25 year age difference....Older women marrying younger men	Of course not! In many ways women are judged more harshly than men, cultural issues It's not that you're being judged harshly by the consulate. It's your young husband who is being judged harshly. The reality is that the consulate believes (rightly or wrongly) that young men from that part of the world marrying older American women for a visa is a very common pattern of visa fraud. At heart, they are trying to protect you. (The lack of respect for you implied in their assumption that you are being conned, and are incapable of choosing your own best interests, is incidental.) Edited by HeatDeath, 26 February 2010 - 05:06 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-26 17:05:00
Philippines	nov 24. .post decision activity	It wasn't my intention to scare you unduly. I went through the K-1 process and have no direct experience with the IR-1 process. For all I know that email is totally normal for IR-1 applicants. I just know that if that email showed up in aK-1 process, it would virtually certainly be bad news. The fact that in a week or so only one other person has responded with seeing the same email, and that even they don't know for sure what it portends, may very well be bad news. Or it may simply be an artifact of their being relatively few IR-1 applicants currently reading the PI sub-forum. I would post your question again up in the CR-1/IR-1 main forum, and see if anyone else has ever gotten an email like this. Above all, the most important thing is not to panic. Think like a bulldozer. Advance slowly and surely, and nothing can stop you. Just keep taking one step at a time. Even if this is bad news, absorb it as it comes, and take deliberate, measured responses to get around or through it. Like my sig says:	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-12-06 01:20:00
Philippines	nov 24. .post decision activity	It depends on whether or not you have had your interview yet, and how it went. This sort of message is what normally occurs when the interview goes badly, and the consulate believes they have discovered information which could cause USCIS to want to cancel the approved visa petition. Without more detailed timeline info from you I can't be absolutely sure, but I'll be honest, I can't think of any situation in which the consulate punting your application back to USCIS would be a good thing, except one. If the interview went well, and they basically said you were approved - CR/IR-1 visa entrants get their GC sent to them automatically, a few weeks after they PoE. This might require the consulate to send the case back to USCIS to process the GC. If this is the case then your message might be normal. If no one else with a CR-1 corroborates this, your message might be bad news. I think it mostly depends on how your interview went. If you haven't had your interview yet, it's almost certainly bad news.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-11-27 11:51:00
Philippines	JUST CURIOUS	I can't speak to the others, but diabetes is a class B condition - they have to make a note of it, and tell you about it if they find it, but you can't fail the medical because of it. It is not, in and of itself, a cause for inadmissibility.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-12-23 04:45:00
Philippines	Affidavit of support	The Vancouver Canada Packet 3 instructions I had said that one of the required items to bring to the interview was something along the lines of "Evidence that the intending immigrant will not become a public charge. Generally, a completed I-134 is used for this purpose". Check her Packet 3 instructions carefully, as this sort of thing can vary quite a bit from consulate to consulate, but generally speaking, she will most certainly need to bring "evidence that [she] will not become a public charge", and that will almost certainly need to take the form of a completed I-134 that meets the 100% poverty-line requirements. As she's applying through the Philippines, they will very likely not accept a cosponsor I-134, so you will need to document that you qualify by yourself.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-12-26 23:55:00
Philippines	Form I-751, Removal of Conditions	The instructions page on the USCIS website will list what versions they are accepting at the moment. They will almost certainly accept this recently expired version unless they make a substantial change in next few days. Just double check their right before you mail to make sure you're sending the most recent version (or the version you are sending is specifically listed as being accepted) and it'll be fine. Worst-case scenario, they'll send it back to you without cashing your check, you quickly fill out the new from which would be posted by then and resend. No big deal either way.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-01-05 02:19:00
Philippines	is this true?	I screwed up my first tax return and got the $400 "Making Work Pay" tax credit by mistake. The instructions weren't all that clear that you can't use excluded foreign income for that calculation. Oops. Turns out you can't do that. So no, the government doesn't give you $600. They don't even give you $400.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-03-19 22:03:00
Philippines	K-1 Petition - PI - beneficiary previously married...[edited title]	to get married in the Philippines, a US Citizen has to go to the US Embassy to obtain an Affidavit in lieu of Certificate of Legal Capacity to Contract Marriage. they do if it was initiated by the foreign spouse. the Filipino Spouse would then need to obtain a Judicial Recognition of Foreign Divorce. Good to know. Thank you. [See? I knew this forum would have much more specifically useful answers than the main forum this thread was split from!]	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-03-23 15:58:00
Philippines	K-1 Petition - PI - beneficiary previously married...[edited title]	I should clarify here: It's the PI beneficiary, male or female, who needs to have the CENOMAR. The US consulate should, I think, accept the US citizen's word that they are legally free to marry [just as US consulates everywhere else do], and the PI government wouldn't care about the US citizen's marital history unless the wedding were to occur in the PI, and perhaps not even then.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-03-22 19:39:00
Philippines	K-1 Petition - PI - beneficiary previously married...[edited title]	I don't quite understand the question. Did you not get an annulment? Or did you not get a CENOMAR? The thing I'm not quite sure about is if the PI government recognizes foreign divorces. If they do, she'll be able to get a CENOMAR. If they don't she'll have to get an annulment before they'll give her a CENOMAR. But I am quite certain that the consulate will want to see a CENOMAR either way, when they interview someone for a fiancee visa, and it could be quite problematic if you don't have one.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-03-22 18:58:00
Philippines	K-1 Petition - PI - beneficiary previously married...[edited title]	This should probably be it's own thread. You'll get more, better answers quicker. The only way to get a fiancee visa through The PI consulate is for the beneficiary to produce a PI government document called a CENOMAR - Certificate of No Marriage. If she cannot produce a CENOMAR, she will not be getting a fiancee visa. The normal course of action in PI is to get an annulment. This is a much bigger pain to get than a divorce, but serves the same purpose - it deletes the registration of the marriage from the government records, and allows someone who was once married to get a CENOMAR. If, for whatever reason, she cannot get an annulment, she will not be able to get a CENOMAR, and you will not be able to get a fiancee visa. You'll have to start looking at the option of marrying her first and going for a spousal visa. But even marrying her will probably be a problem if she's still technically married to her last husband - any officiant in PI will almost certainly want to see a CENOMAR too, and if you marry outside PI without a CENOMAR, the US consulate in PI [not to mention the PI government] may consider it bigamy on her part, and not consider it a valid marriage. If the first husband has vanished and/or is not willing to participate in the annulment process, an annulment in absentia can be done, but can easily take over a year to get, and you'll need that before you even begin either a fiancee or spousal visa process. You could be in for a long wait. You can find much more detailed information about this in the PI regional forum. This is just what I've picked up from reading PI folks posting around here.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-03-22 09:42:00
Philippines	How Did She Do This?!	it may be that she wasn't asked anything at the POE, as well. Exactly. If she just got waved through customs, as happens fairly often, she did not directly misrepresent herself, so all she has had to say, if asked, was that she decided to marry the USC after she entered the US, and only a telepath could prove her wrong. Deciding to marry a USC, entering on a tourist visa, marrying, and adjusting status is misuse of a tourist visa, and it is CBPs responsibility to catch that misuse, or at least force the entrant to misrepresent themselves in the process. Entering on a tourist visa, deciding to marry a USC, marrying a USC, and adjusting status, on the other hand, is perfectly legal, even if slightly frowned upon. As long as she did not directly misrepresent herself to the CBP officer, and claims to have decided to get married only after entering the US, the two situations look identical to everyone except God, and an AOS would almost certainly be approved with no problems. And that's in a normal situation. Her abuse and [presumptive] VAWA application makes it even more likely that minor irregularities in the early paperwork will be overlooked and/or forgiven. Edited by HeatDeath, 26 June 2011 - 01:29 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-06-26 13:29:00
Philippines	How Did She Do This?!	If she filed the big AOS package in conjunction with a VAWA petition after she escaped from the bad marriage (which is what she would have done if she was receiving even slightly competent advice from an immigration lawyer) she would have gotten an EAD straightaway. If her VAWA-AOS stuff is still being adjudicated, she should technically have been renewing her EAD each year to keep it valid (as she is totally entitled to do during adjudication of a VAWA-AOS application). If she hasn't been, though, it probably doesn't make too much difference: If her VAWA-AOs is approved, they won't care that she's been working on an expired EAD. If it isn't, she'll be removable, and having worked on an invalid EAD won't make any difference at that point.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-06-26 13:16:00
Philippines	How Did She Do This?!	Thanks Darnell. 2 questions please... 1) How could she get an EAD with a tourist visa? 2) Once they were married, isn't she require to return to PI to process the CR-1 visa? According to her, she aquired EAD 3 years ago and didn't apply for anything else... Once you are in the US, on any legal status, marrying a USC allows you to file for AOS, and stay until that AOS application is adjudicated one way or the other. It is CBP's responsibility, at the PoE, to determine if you have the intent to marry and adjust status, and [if you do] to deny you entry unless you have a fiance visa. But if you get past CBP without directly misrepresenting yourself (which can happen very easily if the CBP officer fails to ask you the relevant questions), you can totally marry in the US and adjust status. [This is a particularly common situation at Canadian-US land crossing PoEs - thousands of Canadians come in as [nominal] tourists, marry USCs, and adjust status every year. They shouldn't. It's technically cheating, and they run the very real risk of having seemed to misrepresent themselves. But it does happen all the time, and is usually successful. This is why a lot of Canadian lawyers will actually recommend this approach [shame, shame] and why Canadians who go to all the effort of doing this the right way are sometimes looked upon as a little weird by friends and family.] She got her EAD the same way most of us did, as part of an AOS-EAD-AP application. She just had to file hers in conjunction with a VAWA application, which is probably why it's taking so long to adjudicate. Nothing about her situation seems obviously illegal, except the first part of sneaking in with a tourist visa. But her subsequent marriage and abuse means that that is long since water under the bridge.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-06-26 13:05:00
Philippines	How Did She Do This?!	When she married a USC, she became eligible to file AOS, regardless of how she entered the US. When she was abused by her USC husband, she became eligible to self-file her AOS under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Once the VAWA application is approved, the status of the marriage to the USC abuser is no longer relevant. Sounds like a pretty straight forward application of VAWA to me. This is exactly the sort of situation it was written for.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-06-26 12:53:00
Philippines	No proof of vaccinations	If she tells the panel physician at the medical that she doesn't have the vaccination but that she's currently pregnant, and the vaccine is contraindicated by the pregnancy, the panel physician will indicate that in her medical report, and she won't have to take the vaccine right away. Depending on how the timing works, she may end up getting an RFE during AOS, months from now, after the baby is born, asking for proof that she received the vaccine in the US after the baby was born and it was safe. They won't make her take a vaccine that's unsafe during pregnancy. Edited by HeatDeath, 09 August 2011 - 05:03 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-08-09 17:02:00
Philippines	No proof of vaccinations	If it's anything like Canada, her doctor can. I needed 3 vaccinations: Varicella, MMR, and TDap. My doctor did blood tests for Varicella and MMR, confirming that I had had them in childhood. But there is no blood test for TDap, and my doctor couldn't give it to me because of the provincial regulations. So the medical clinic where I did my immigration medical arranged for me to get TDap at another clinic on the day of my interview.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-08-09 15:14:00
Philippines	No proof of vaccinations	Many (but not all) vaccines have blood tests they can do to determine whether you have had them. MMR and Varicella, for example. For other vaccines, if you can't prove (either by documentation or the aforementioned blood tests) you have had them, they make you redo them. Edited by HeatDeath, 09 August 2011 - 02:49 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2011-08-09 14:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Oh gleh.. forgot to include two items in frontloaded I-129F	You're going through Canada, so frontloading is not the critical matter it is in some countries anyways. The Canadian consulates tend NOT to assume that everyone applying for a visa is a desperate third-world con artist, the way some consulates do. To answer your question: no, they won't hold it against you if you want to introduce more evidence at the interview. Indeed, to the extent that they will even care about evidence at the interview at all [which they may not: we frontloaded, AND I brought a pile of new stuff to the interview. They never even asked to see any more at the interview], they're expecting it. Remember, they're not expecting you to frontload. That means they won't hold "incomplete" frontloading against you. Their checklist says to bring evidence of an ongoing relationship. So they are expecting you to bring something. But if you've frontloaded adequately, they may consider that requirement already fulfilled. So, by all means, bring the additional evidence to the interview. It will make you feel more confident going in, and that feeling of confidence IS very important. Just be aware that there's a good chance they won't even care about the additional evidence itself. Edited by HeatDeath, 10 January 2010 - 05:08 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-01-10 17:06:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Getting married on April 11th in Indonesia, will we have time for her to return with me?	Was so happy on Thursday when 129f went all the way to decision made and approved! Now even more afraid of how everything will work out? No stopping the wheels in motion of wedding seeing over 1000 will attend so i guess just hope for the best that visa is approved before April 11th! Well, the good news is that, compared to a wedding with 1000 guests, the $455+$131 you spent on the fiance visa is absolutely peanuts. The bad news is that having a "religious, but non-legal" wedding ceremony is very risky, and makes the next several steps in your immigration process very uncertain. A) if the visa is not issued prior to the ceremony, the IO at the consulate will require your fiancee to answer on a form "Are you currently married?" Depending on the very specific legal definitions of not just one, but two separate countries, she may very well be misrepresenting herself if she answers "no". Do NOT depend on the advice you received from the congressman's official: foreign weddings most certainly DO count in the US, and may do so even if they are not officially recorded by the local government. Without advise from lawyers expert in both US AND PI law, I would not risk answering no on that form after a wedding at which a thousand guests showed up. B) Even if she manages to receive a visa, CBP will not let her in if she, in any way shape or form, represents herself as married. They can and will cancel her visa right there and then if they come to think that. K1 visas can only be used by single people, and the border officers WILL ask about her current marital status. All she would have to do is inadvertently describe one of her belongings as a "wedding present" and it would be all over. C) Even if she manages to enter the country, the legality of the wedding ceremony and the issue of possible misrepresentation to both the consular officers and the border officers will almost certainly be rehashed and reexamined at the AOS interview, should you be unlucky enough to get one. D) Assuming her AOS is approved, the timing of the wedding is unlikely to be an issue at any potential Lifting of Conditions interview, but it could be. The issues may also possibly get reexamined at any possible future naturalization interview. My point is, if material misrepresentation (the intentional hiding, avoiding mentioning, or outright lying about a fact that, if known, would certainly affect approval of an immigration application) occurs at any step in the immigration process, it can resurface at later steps, like a cancer relapse, destroying all of the progress you had made to that date. Frankly, you're best off if it gets discovered early. The earlier you're discovered, the easier it is (by far!) to deal with the consequences. Mr. Ruiz will not be able to help you if your fiancee is found to have engaged in material misrepresentation. Most mistakes an immigrant makes can be corrected, but there are three absolute showstoppers: entering without inspection, representing yourself fraudulently as a US citizen, and material misrepresentation during the application process. If I found myself in your position, I would probably proceed with the wedding, but I would abandon the K-1 application, resign myself immediately to a significant period of separation after the wedding, and begin the process of applying for a CR-1 spousal visa. Your future married life is too important to risk. You've made a mistake, but you can easily recover with a minor change in plans - switching to a CR1 spousal visa. No real damage has yet been done, only a prolonged period of separation - but if you attempt to stick stubbornly to the plan of using a K-1 visa after a wedding ceremony which most of the guests will certainly think is legal, you will cause you or your fiancee to take steps which could seriously compromise her ability to ever come to the US. Don't risk it!	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-01-30 04:00:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Meetng in person within 2 years	I'm thinking that the postmark sets the date in question here, not when USCIS clerk gets around to opening the packet and actually doing some work on it. The "Received Date" on the NOA1 is USCIS's official opinion of when they received the packet. This date is usually several days before the "Notice Date", which is when the NOA1 was issued. The NOA1 does not record the postmark date from your packet, so I suspect that one of these two dates, probably the "Received Date", is what the adjudicator uses to determine the filing date, and that this date, therefore, must be within two years of the date of the couple's last meeting. We know, from the OP, that the NOA1 "Notice Date" is in February, well after 2 years after the couple's last meeting. If the "Received Date" is also outside the 2 year window, and if, as I suspect, the "Received Date" is the date the adjudicator uses, the OP could be facing a denial. If the postmark date is the one used by the adjudicator, everything is fine. If the "Received Date" is the one used, and is correct, then everything is also fine. I hope the USCIS adjudicator has access to the correct postmark date. But that's the problem. None of us, including the OP, know for sure. It's an element of uncertainty I would be very uncomfortable with if it was my I-129F petition. An InfoPass appointment would allow the OP to find out for sure, and to present the necessary evidence to correct the date, if correction is needed. From everything I've read here, I trust USCIS about as far as I can throw the California Service Center. If they sent me an NOA1 months late, and the date on it mattered for something as fundamental to the approval as whether I had filed within 2 years of meeting my fiancee, I would be very careful to make sure they had the dates correct, and would be very proactive if there was the slightest chance that their losing my file for 2-3 months was going to screw up my petition to that degree. I agree with others, that the OP cut things rather close by filing so close to the end of the 2 year window after their last meeting, and that the lack of more recent meetings MAY make things more awkward at the interview. But those issues are alll way down the road yet. The petition has to be approved first, and for that to happen, USCIS's official opinion must match the reality that this petition packet was mailed and received with 2 years of their last meeting. If their opinion is currently wrong, OP must schedule an InfoPass meeting to correct that opinion.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-07 17:22:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Meetng in person within 2 years	Agreed. Manila hands out more k1/spousal visas per month than anyone else. The CO's are very good about pre-approving genuine appllcations/relationships. OP: Just ignore the Buzzkill types who like to rain on parades here. You will be fine. Yeah, the one meeting thing doesn't bother me. I'm sure the embassy interview will go fine. I am, however, a little worried about your petition as it stands. That needs to get approved before the embassy even hears about you. And this date issue could be a problem, depending on what the "Received Date" on your late NOA1 says, What does it say?	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-07 16:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Meetng in person within 2 years	With the 19/11 check cashing, they can prove that even if the NOA1 was issued in February, USCIS had it at such a time that they HAD met in the two years prior to receipt. USCIS can't cash the check if they haven't received it! That cashed check is very important. It's their primary proof, along with the USPS delivery confirmation (if they ordered it and still have it) that the filing was received within 2 years of the meeting. The screenshot, unfortunately, means almost nothing. Give me 20 minutes and I can make you a screenshot showing the USCIS website saying anything you want . What concerns me is that if the "Received Date" on the NOA1 they've just received is more than 2 years after the meeting, that that may be the date the adjudicator looks at to determine if the couple had met within 2 years of filing. I don't know which dates the adjudicator looks at to determine the filing date. If the only filing date the adjudicator has access to is the late "Received by" date on the NOA1, then that will cause a denial, which will have to be appealed. They can, thank G-d, prove that they filed in time. My concern is that they may have to. It would be far easier to deliver that proof to an IO at an InfoPass meeting before adjudication takes place. If they wait until an adjudicator denies it before they take steps to fix this (which the cashed check should allow them to do) then that may cost them nontrivial amounts of money, and will definitely cost them nontrivial amounts of time. Edited by HeatDeath, 07 February 2010 - 04:35 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-07 16:33:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Meetng in person within 2 years	Joanne, you're exactly right. The important question is when the NOA1 was issued. If the "Received Date" on the NOA1 matches the date they sent it, more or less, and is within 2 years of their meeting, everything is fine. If it is not, immediate action needs to be taken before a USCIS adjudicator gets to the file and compares the dates.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-07 14:55:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Meetng in person within 2 years	If your I-129 was mailed within two years of your meeting, but the NOA1 was delayed (through no fault of your own) until after 2 years after your meeting, and the NOA1 filed date is after 2 years after your last meeting, you have a major problem. When an adjudicator sits down to look through the file (which no one has yet) and sees the gap in the dates, you will be denied out of hand, for simple failure to have met in the past two years. Make an InfoPass appointment NOW, and bring all the evidence you have that shows that the package was mailed, received, and the check cashed prior to 2 years after the meeting. That way they will hopefully change your NOA1 date, or at least add a note to your account correcting the filing date. You need to get on this. It could be a serious problem! Edited by HeatDeath, 07 February 2010 - 02:00 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-07 13:58:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	USCIS Slowing Down??	How do you guys get through this without going insane? You're assuming we didn't... I know I didn't! Why else would I have become a heavy poster here, starting primarily AFTER I got my 2-year GC? Part of it is giving back to the community, I suppose. This place helps you out so you want to pay it forward, so to speak. Part of it is: you've filled your head with all of this specialized knowledge, and it's hard to let go when you don't need it anymore. You're so used to thinking this stuff through it's hard to forget about it. That's the withdrawal part I think. And I wonder if for some, it's a continuation of something they had to deal with a lot in the home country before they moved here, and that continuing with it is therefore a kind of way of dealing with homesickness. Wow, US federal immigration bureaucracy as a little piece of Canada to hold on to... I'm a sick puppy Edited by HeatDeath, 10 February 2010 - 08:03 PM.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-02-10 19:59:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	any POE ok?	Any "International Airport" in the US (or Canada, for that matter) will have a US Customs and Immigration section, and will technically be fine.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-13 16:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	fly through Canada?	All Canadian international airports with commercial flights to the US have US Customs and Immigration Pre-clearance facilities. If you change planes in Canada, you will go through US Customs and Immigration at the Canadian airport. No choice in the matter. You will find it actually structurally impossible to get from the International Arrivals section to the US Departures section without going through the US Customs and Immigration booths. You may need a special visa from Canada to transit through a Canadian airport, and if you are entering the US with any kind of visa, you will show it to US Customs and Immigration at the Canadian airport, and they will process you there. Allow a significant amount of time (3-4 hours minimum) for your layover in Canada if you are entering the US with any kind of visa.	HeatDeath	Male	Canada	2010-03-13 16:53:00