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What is the process to bring your Filipino Spouse to the USA and then go all the way to US Citizenship? Topics covered include I130, USCIS, National Visa Center, US Embassy Manila, Philippines Statistics Authority, CENOMAR, Consulate Interview, Arrival to USA, Conditional and Permanent Green Cards, Naturalization to US Citizenship

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We prepare an application, it is submitted in the USA to the United States
citizenship and Immigration service (USCIS),

And then once USCIS has completed its review, the case goes to the US State
department’s National Visa Center (NVC) in New Hampshire.

And finally NVC couriers the case overseas to the US Embassy in Manila for the
inperson interview and approval of the visa.

Then your uses the visa to travel to and enter the USA

Now let's get into the details:

First we submit a thick package of application forms and supporting documents and
evidence.
This is the "front loaded petition" that VisaCoach is famous for.

My philosophy, the VisaCoach philosophy, which we rigorously follow on every case,
team VisaCoach works on, is that success, final outcome, final approval,
depends 99% on the quality of your application that you and we together
prepare and submit to US immigration.

We take every opportunity, leave no stone unturned, in making your application
as complete and persuasive as possible.

The quality of the work we accomplish at the start, at the "front" of this process,
determines the ultimate outcome.

When quality goes in, a positive result comes out.

The petition package is mailed to USCIS.

Spouse Visa applications go to Chicago, Dallas or Phoenix

After initial sorting then the applications are assigned and forwarded to one
of six USCIS service centers that are scattered throughout the USA.

At the destination USCIS service center your case is reviewed and processed.

USCIS takes many months to complete their review.

Normally, USCIS should complete their review in under 5 months, but recently however,
under Covid they have been taking around twice as long.

Hopefully this will improve. Recently I just had two cases emerge from USCIS in a
super fast, three few months. I don’t know if that is a trend for 2022 (I hope so)
or an anomaly. It’s too soon to really tell.

If I get good news later, I will post a short "In a minute" video to update processing
times. For the time being expect it to be slow.

Slow or fast, US immigration is like a one lane highway. The sooner you enter
and get in line the sooner you exit, and the cases that enter after you, will only get to
Their destination after you do. So the sooner you apply, the sooner this will be behind you.

The review at USCIS includes an FBI background check. This is usually only on the
US Citizen’s background, however it will also include your Filipino Spouse if she or he
had ever lived in the USA for a while.

When USCIS is satisfied with your application, they "approve", at least as far as
they are concerned, then hand your case over to the NVC, based in New Hampshire.

While your case is at NVC, two fees are paid, the visa application fee and the
affidavit of support fee.

Then we gather and submit to NVC various civil documents and evidence that they require


These includc:

Your Spouse’s Police Clearances
Marriage and Birth Certificates
And your financial Evidence

Once NVC has all of your materials they will review them. This review usually
takes one or more months. Eventually NVC says you case is "Documentarily Qualified".
Or DQ.

Normally, right after your case is documentarily qualified, NVC reaches out
to the US Embassy in Manila, checks the consulate’s appointment schedule and books
your spouse’s Interview. They email you to advise the date and time then pack your
application into a DHL mailbag and ship it off to the Philippines.

At least that is the way it normally works. The Philippines shut down and shut down
hard back in March 2020. Since then the shut downs and quarantines have continued,
and most businesses and services were closed for extended periods, some still have not
reopened, some only partially reopened.