Dabawenya Babe goes to Hawaii

I’m so happy!! I received my green card today :). After 3 and a half months of processing, I’ve got my card now.  This is still a conditional permanent resident (since I came here in the States as fiancee) but this card is my valid proof that I am leggaly able to live here in [...]

AOS stands for Adjustment of Status or in short green card processing. My K1 (fiancee) visa when I get here in the US is equivalent of a visitor’s visa and since I married a US citizen and wanted to stay here, I need to adjust my status. We got married way back in June of [...]

Hi everyone, let’s talk again about my US Visa procedures and one of the requirement before I came here in the US. But firstly, let me emphasize this: All of what I’ve written here are based on my OWN experience; the process may or may not change so I would advice you to do more [...]

This is my checklist during my k1-visa processing:
I. The petitioner must be (any of the 3 choices):
a. Natural born U.S. citizen,
b. Naturalized US Citizen - in our case, he was naturalized (my hubby is a pure blooded filipino but they migrated here in the US when he was young so he is [...]

After the long period of waiting for my visa interview to come and after finishing the agony of completing the medical exam, here comes Monday- the day of my long awaited interview.
As expected it brought me sleepless Sunday night, it was a mixed emotion. I was excited and yet a little scared because I know [...]

Medical Examination Day
I remember my medical exam at Saint Lukes (SLEC) was a pain in the butt. If you happen to hear the phrase ‘ hurry up and wait’, well, you’re in when doing the medical test.
I stayed in San Carlos Mansion, a few blocks away from SLEC and is a 5 minute walk from [...]

Here’s a guide for anyone out there who wants some inputs on their k-1 (fiancee) visa processing time. I’ve already posted this with my previous blog but apparently I’m still working on with that blog right now so I have to re-post it here. I hope it helps and I’ll be posting my medical as [...]