Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	what is the truth and how can i do?	Just forget about him and move on. You'll find another decent guy.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-02-03 00:14:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Marriage Question	QUOTE (Robby & Mini @ Feb 4 2008, 06:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Boaz @ Feb 4 2008, 09:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You have to get married within 90 days. also u have to file for AOS before her K1 expires & she gets out of status true but it's not important	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-02-05 16:39:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Last K1 submission question - declaration letter	If you're already divorced, they don't care about your ex-wife. It's the relationship with your fiancee that matters and that's what they want to hear about. Here's a thought - you can also use this declaration to make a nice statement of your love and commitment. That's what I did and mine would bring tears to your eyes.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-02-13 12:39:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Just a quick question...	Married name	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-02-15 11:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Approved K-1 - Pregnant Fiance- urgent	QUOTE (tommyle08 @ Feb 19 2008, 10:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I logged out the forum and went for a little refreshment. All of a sudden, a decision is made, just like a flash. I will advise my fiancé to tell the whole truth, nothing to lie about or cover up. Process can take a bit longer but what else i can do to improve it, right ? Honesty is valued in most cultures. Thank you everyone for you time and advices. I appreciate it. Now you've got it. And get her a notarized letter if you can. Edited by garya505, 20 February 2008 - 01:30 AM.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-02-20 01:29:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Approved K-1 - Pregnant Fiance- urgent	QUOTE (mswemi @ Feb 19 2008, 06:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (tommyle08 @ Feb 19 2008, 01:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hello everyone, I appologize if i've made same thread. I've read about the K-1 visa and pregnant case in this forum. However, my case is slightly different from others. Here goes: My petition has been approved and the Department of State National Visa Center (NVC) has scheduled an interview for my fiancee next week, February 27th, 2008. My fiancee is 9 weeks pregnant. . Questions : 1. Should i contact the USCIS office to inform about this pregnancy ? 2. Will my case be delayed ? 3. Should my fiancee tell her interviewer that she is 9 week pregnant ? 4. Will my child be automatically granted US citizen when he/she is born ? 5. What necessary steps should i follow up during this process ? I will always welcome all your feedback and instruction. Your help is greatly appreciated. I'm worried that if i'm doing it wrong, i will jeopardize the process of getting my fiance here. Forgot to mention, I am US citizen and my fiancee is Vietnamese citizen. Thanks again. don't even think about telling them about the pregnancy, because they might ask for DNA test for the baby, meaning u will have to wait till the baby is born, to have the test done, and as u already know, this will take forever. Just pray that everything is done before she has the baby Wrong. The medical exam results will go to the Consulate. Lying about that will cause problems.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-02-19 21:57:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Approved K-1 - Pregnant Fiance- urgent	QUOTE (b_weeks @ Feb 19 2008, 06:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I took the one the HCMC consulate provides for Birth of a Citizen Abroad and modified it. It's very formal, but it looks like it would work.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-02-19 20:46:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Approved K-1 - Pregnant Fiance- urgent	QUOTE (pushbrk @ Feb 19 2008, 04:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (WideAwakeInTheUSA @ Feb 19 2008, 01:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> They have been known to ask for DNA evidence at that Consulate. That means waiting for the birth, even though it is a Citizenship issue rather than a Visa Issue. Welcome to HCMC. The notarized statement from the USC father is an excellent idea and I would get on that post haste. Also, if the fiance is 9 weeks pregnant, there better be documentation that the USC was in Vietnam with her at the time she conceived. If not, a whole other can of worms is opened, so make sure your evidence of that trip is close at hand with the letter.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-02-19 19:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Approved K-1 - Pregnant Fiance- urgent	Actually I have to disagree on one point above. If the medical exam shows that the foreign fiancee is pregnant, and the CO suspects the USC might not be the father or might not know about the pregnancy, it could cause a delay while the CO confirms that the USC is aware of the pregnancy and still intends to marry the beneficiary. I'm not speculating here, as I have direct knowledge of such a case. I'm sure it depends on the Consulate, but it's better to be prepared. Just in case, I would give the fiancee a notorized letter from the USC stating that he is aware of the pregnancy, that he is the father, and he still intends to marry the fiancee. Anyway it will do no harm to have such a letter even if it's not needed. ETA: Hint - FedEx. Edited by garya505, 19 February 2008 - 03:00 PM.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-02-19 14:58:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Petitioner's misspelled names? can this be a problem during interview?	QUOTE (johnluz @ Feb 24 2008, 10:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My interview will be on March 11, 2008, The last name of my fiance was misspelled the first letter they misspelled, is it cause visa delays? But mine is correct only my petitioner's last name was misspelled. Any body can help this? Thank you...God bless. Blessy I had a similar problem, so I called the consulate and they changed it. Just to make sure, I also emailed the change and sent a letter as well. After that it wasn't a problem.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-02-25 01:09:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Best time to vist fiance in Philippines	QUOTE (adobocrazy @ Feb 26 2008, 08:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi VJ Friends, I am new to this forum and I just received the NOA1 for my fiance in the Philippines. I know there is a long way to go in the process but when would be the best time to visit her. Since the visa might be issued some time after her interview, is it better to wait until after the interview or maybe just go sometime in the middle so the wait will not seem so long? Just curious as to what most people are planning to do. BTW this site is awesome. Since your process will be a few months, it's nice to go in the middle. I did and it was well worth it. The Consulate will like it too.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-02-26 23:33:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Pregnant beneficiary while doing k1 process	QUOTE (frank_rhoge @ Feb 7 2008, 09:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hello, I'm just new here but we had started our K1 process. We submitted this January 22, 2008 and received NOA1 last January 25, 2008. My situation is that, I'm now 5 months pregnant... My due date will be on June 22, 2008. We haven't added the baby to I-129F Petition as he/she is not yet born. Will it affect our process? If the whole K1 will take 6 months I'll probably be giving birth before my interview. I want to know if the baby can go with me to the US eventhough he/she is not included in the petition, although we have stated in our I-129F evidence that I'm currently pregnant with my fiance. Want to know more about our case. Thank you so much! If your baby is born in the Philippines, the baby will still be a US citizen but your fiance will need to register the child with the US consulate, as a "birth abroad", then get a US passport for the baby.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-02-08 00:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Marriage not annulled before filing K-1	QUOTE (Dogwood_Poet @ Mar 6 2008, 07:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I am asking this for a friend of mine, his fiancée was in a brief marriage 10 years ago and the man walked out after a couple of months and has not been heard from since. She never got an annulment due to the cost and never thought she would marry again. In fact, she was not sure if the marriage was ever filed. He started the petition and now she has to get an annulment or her lawyer said the husband could be declared dead since no one knows how to contact him or have heard from him in several years. So, is the current petition now trash since she was not legally available to marry? Should he just withdraw the petition and wait until everything is done and start new? Thanks for everyone's advice! If she can get a CENOMAR in her maiden name the marriage probably wasn't registered. Even if that is true, if she has been using her married name and it's on her IDs (passport, etc.) she probably is going to have a problem. BTW, what name did they use on the I-129f?	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-03-07 12:08:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	I need information soon	QUOTE (chris4gretchen @ Feb 21 2008, 06:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This will be caught when you go to interview. Its why they now do the document verification. Women there will get a new name, birth certificate and passport to circumvent having to get an anullment. It is widespread enough they now verify every document to make sure its not forged and its really registered with the NSO. They will check her and if they find she is fraudulent they can deny her and put a flag that she is trying to get a visa fraudulently. That carries a ban with it. Be very careful here. Your I-129 F is not valid and you cant put it on hold.You both were not free to marry when you filed so its not any good period. You will have to start it again after her anullment. Secondly the G-325A has information on it that is fraudulent now since she was not truthful on hers. You send in the I 129F under penalty of perjury that the information is true and correct. They will not take this omission lightly or that she has 2 birth certificates and has a prior marriage. Thirdly why did she wait all this time to tell you when clearly this needed to be dealt with before you filed. That would be a MAJOR red flag on her. You have a mess on your hands and its not going to clean up easily. My advice is to cancel the K1 before its process in manila and verified. Get her anullment and then reapply, possible with a K3 since you will have IMBRA to deal with filing 2 petitions within 2 years. What you have here is serious and you need to stop the K1 before it gets worse. Get her anullment, then reapply. Anullments there cost and take time. Good luck... Apparently if they get the docs with new name through NSO they will verify. I personally know of one such case. Maybe they just need to find the right people to bribe at the NSO?	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-02-21 23:06:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	I need information soon	Wikki_Phil - PM me.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-02-21 20:01:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	I need information soon	QUOTE (Vikki_Phil @ Feb 21 2008, 05:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Our 129f has been approved and we are waiting for notice from Manila now. I was talking with my fiance this morning and she confessed to me that she had been married over 10 years ago. She was only with him for 5 months. She had never told me before. That is not my problem. She loves me enough to tell me now. I love her and forgive her for not telling me. My problem is that the G-325a is wrong now because she did not list any former husband. of course she does not have a former husband because it was never anulled. The second problem is she also has 2 birth certificates. I dont think I can explain this completly but will try to explain. She says that when she was born an aunt told the midwife to give her her name. Well this is where I get confused. She has a birth certificate with a different name that she has used since she was in her 20's(she is 43 now). She has a passport and other papers in this second name. The original BC is not listed in her registrar but she thinks it is in Manila. She used the original BC from time of birth to get married. We havent checked yet to see if it ever got registered, but she thinks it was in Manila. Can she still get an anullment and us use the same papers? Should i try to use info pass to try and change the info? Will we have to re file? can we put a hold on the embassy? Will this block her from ever entering the US because the paper work is wrong even if we try to correct it? I love her so much and I know she loves me. Her past is exactly that, the past. We are wanting to go forward with our future. My heart is absolutly breaking over this. I am even considering moving to the phils to be with her, but My mother is getting up in years and I have a 26 year old daughter with a 3 year old grandson. I am so torn trying to figure out what to do. PLease please give any info you can. Does the information on the G-325a match the first or second birth certificate? Be advised that getting a new name, birth cert, and passport is sometimes used by women in the Philippines to avoid having to getting an annulment.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-02-21 19:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Filed for K1 in october, getting married in India in April, is it wise?	K-1 is a Fiance(e) VISA.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-01-31 15:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Leaving the country on a K1	QUOTE (CraigCam @ Mar 16 2008, 12:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My fiancée is concerned that once she arrives in the US on her K1 visa that she won't be able to return home to visit her family for more than two years. She got this information from a friend of hers who is currently in the US on a K1 and recommended that we file for a K3 if she wants to return home sooner. I did some research here on VJ and just want to confirm my own conclusions. If we file for a K1, then my fiancée can return home once her I-485, AOS, is approved. According to the USCIS timetable that takes about 7 months to process(CVS). The 2 year period that her friend claims appears to be a worse case scenario. If my fiancée wishes to return home sooner than that, or just to be on the safe side, we have the option of filing for an I-131, Advance Parole, which appears to take about 6 months to process(CVS). Am I missing anything here? I just want to make sure I got all the facts straight before I explain them to my fiancée, so there wont be any confusion further down the road. Your fiancee's friend is mistaken and your conclusions are correct. Your fiancee will be able to travel outside the US after she receives her green card which will probably be 3-6 months after filing the I-485. Edited by garya505, 16 March 2008 - 02:34 PM.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-03-16 14:32:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Great news!	Story?	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-03-17 16:19:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Finace left to go home	QUOTE (YuAndDan @ Mar 19 2008, 01:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (wioombeen @ Mar 19 2008, 04:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> thanks. if either of us meet some in the future how long before either of us can petition another person? US Citizen has a 10 year IMBRA hold that will need a waiver filed in order to file I-129F for another person. Foreign citizen does not have such a limitation. 10 years? I thought it was 2 years between filings and a lifetime limit of 2 petitions.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-03-19 17:21:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Question 18 of I-129F, Met on internet not personally	QUOTE (MRS BILLY BONG @ Mar 20 2008, 03:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sorry if this sounds mean but I advise him to come meet you instead of you going to meet him. If he's the one he'll make the first move. Call me old fashioned. It might be difficult for a Pakistani to get a tourist VISA.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-03-20 17:21:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Question 18 of I-129F, Met on internet not personally	You're going to have to meet in person. There have been some cases of VISA fraud in our area involving Pakistanis lately, so you'll want to have good documentation of your meeting and relationship.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-03-20 16:32:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Is it necessary to buy return ticket for K-1 holders?	QUOTE (lucky_enough @ Mar 23 2008, 01:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi All, Does anyone know if DHS officials at JFK ask to see a return ticket for K-1 visa holders? Is it necessary to have a confirmed return ticket at all? I am actually looking through the prices and find that a One-Way is cheaper in my case !! Any advice would be welcome. Thanks in advance. It's only necessary to buy a round-trip if the K-1 holder is planning on going back.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2008-03-23 15:10:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Can anyone recommend a good Visa service for K1	I would like to do a K1 Visa for my fiancee, and while it seems stright forward enough I would like to enlist some professional help. Not necessarily a lawyer, just someone who know what they are doing and can avoid mistakes that can add time to the process. Has anyone here used such a service that they were happy with. Maybe one that has a good reputation and is priced fiarly. If there is a list of such services somewhere on the site could someone please point me in that direction. Thank you. Jeff I'm using http://www.4thelegalgroup.com/ K1 Premium Plan $465 No RFE yet	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-09-05 11:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Got to work this morning and THIS is what I saw...	Nice, but it's VSC so it's not the real world.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-08-29 12:28:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Transfers to CSC	Why are not all the Texas and Nebraska petitions sent to Vermont SC instead of clogging the CSC. Because then CSC and VSC processing times might both be 3 months and we wouldn't have as much to complain about.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-08-30 14:00:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Interesting Statistics	This is pathetic.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-08-29 22:38:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	VSC Approval	This is sick! Correct but it's not their fault the system is whack. In this case, hate the game, not the player!	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-08-30 13:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	VSC Approval	This is sick!	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-08-30 13:00:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	FINALLY NOA1....now what?	Now you wait and wait and wait Edited by garya505, 30 August 2006 - 06:51 PM.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-08-30 18:51:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	It's Happened	Can we one more "Congrats" here? Sheesh! Anything to help! Ah ... OK. Anything for another post! Ya, you got it baby!	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-08-31 20:52:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	It's Happened	Can we one more "Congrats" here? Sheesh! Anything to help! Ah ... OK.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-08-31 19:08:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	It's Happened	Can we one more "Congrats" here? Sheesh!	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-08-31 18:29:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	It's Happened	OMG I'm so happy .. Got home from work today .. and checked my email as usual.. and lo and behold .. we got out NOTIFICATION of APPROVAL !!! ****Application Type: I129F , PETITION FOR FIANCE(E) Current Status: This case has been approved. On August 31, 2006, an approval notice was mailed. If 30 days have passed and you have not received this notice, you may wish to verify or update your address. To update your address, please speak to an Immigration Information Officer during business hours.**** I'm so flippin' happy and dancing for joy I can hardly stand it Now on to the next step of getting an appointment for an interview and all that jazz.. I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself This site is the best and the only way to get thru this process.. I say this to everyone who is just starting on this journey.. STICK with it ' Thanks everyone Oh great, another Vermonter approved. You suck!	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-08-31 16:03:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	VSC...............still!!!!!!!!!	So we march on remembering those before us and truly truly feeling their angst but not their outrage. The least we can do, for all the good that can do, is to say "this too shall pass".... that ofcourse is easier said than done when the phone bills continue to pile up and the distance sometimes seems even further. Staying positive would be my approach once i am convinced that it is out of my hands and doing whatever else can shorten the process would also be a way to help ease the pain. Today, VSC sent out an e-mail approving the K1 petition. We move onto the next phase and perhaps now i can begin to truly ask questions about a variety of stuff...I-134, NVC etc etc.... To the >100 club members, no words can make that big an impact but we must put it all in perspective...you know...Sudan; Katrina; Pakistan earthquake; Tsuanami etc etc...The delay you are experiencing may actually pale in comaprison to some of these events and the lives that are still reeeling from them. When next you want to vent, please pause and consider those other people........... Now what do you say we............. ..... Hmmm, "we must put it all in perspective" is easy to say to others when you've got YOUR approval.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-08-31 22:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Original Letter?	The I-129F states that I should include "original statements from you and your fiancé(e) whom you plan to marry within 90 days...". I took original as meaning that we should write it ourselves rather than use the examples provided here. The problem is that my fiancee doesn't speak english well enough to write a legal-like statement. Any recommendations? Should I just use the example letter? Should she write something in her language and get it translated? I thought it might be good to use the example and then let her translate into her own words and language and include it under the body of the letter. Thoughts? Suggestions? Thanks in advance, Mat Ya, it needs to be the original signed paper. The only thing it MUST say is that you intend to marry within 90 days of the beneficiary entering the US as this is a requirement for a K-1. Everything else is fluff, but it's a nice place to say really nice things about your fiance, how you met, what you have been doing since you met, how you feel about your fiance, etc. I cried when I read my fiance's letter, and she did too when she read mine.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-08-31 22:42:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Vermont V CSC	Vermont has always been quicker than the other centers, why is a great question. But now, CSC is handling 3/4 of the country for fiancee visa's. Both the Texas and Nebraska centers now forward their I-129F to CSC so that explains part of the delay and of course IMBRA explains a lot of the current delays. As to the random approvals, well CSC has a pretty weird track record right now. The best thing is to try and be patient. That sounds easy but it can be maddening and down right frustrating waiting for these people to do their job. I know that when I and my new wife went for her green card interview, the file we had was quite extensive. They had stuff in that file I didn't even know we had done. Just remember all of your paperwork that was filed and multiply it by 10,000. That's about what gets sent to the USCIS centers every week. How else would you explain the huge backlog of applications. About filing in Vermont if you live out of that region, well it has been done. But you will need a regional address that can be used for your filing application. I have a friend from a western state that filed with his mother's address in New York. His application was approved in about two months and in December he will celebrate his third wedding anniversary. So, it can be done but you need to be careful and have someone you trust handling your mail. How he got around the aspect of reporting financial ability without disclosing his actual residency I don't know. Maybe because that is presented only to the embassy and not the USCIS he was able to get away with it. But, the thing is, it can be done. Hmmm, if you use an address that's not your real address that could be considered fraud and you could be denied just on that. Is it worth that risk?	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-09-01 11:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Vermont V CSC	If you lived in California could you still file at Vermont? Thank's for that. Sitting at my computer getting more than a bit depressed and that actually did make me laugh out loud! You are quite welcome dear.	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-09-01 11:01:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Vermont V CSC	Can anyone explain to me why Vermont is so much quicker than CSC but also seem to have no order to their approvals which appear to be approved willy nilly? Because USCIS is all buggered up. If you lived in California could you still file at Vermont?	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-09-01 10:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Finally - NOA2!!!	An approval from CSC in only 4 months, nice!	garya505	Not Telling	Philippines	2006-09-01 18:17:00