ForumTitleContentMemberSexCountryDate/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhere do we start?
Hello,

my boyfriend and I have been together for about 3 years now. We met in college and he graduated last December 2011 and had to move back to the Bahamas and began working full time. I am still in school and will be graduating this December 2013, and we plan to get engaged before I graduate and married sometime after. I am starting to put together a scrapbook of everything for our documentation, but what we need to know (I am the American citizen) is when do we need to file the I-129F form. We dont want to be rushed in the 90 days to get married, so should we wait to file that? Also is it wise to get a immigration lawyer? Any help is much appreciated!!!
BahamaWifeFemaleBahamas2013-01-13 16:16:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresk1 visa

probably they didn't get the documents because as i know it usually takes about 6-8 months all together



I don`t think so because my fiance called several times to the US office he had submitted the documents and the last time they told us to wait 60 more days. 40 days have already passed and still no result.
They took the money for the visa so they must get the documents.
happyfoolNot TellingBulgaria2013-03-03 15:15:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresk1 visa
Hi everyone,
We have submitted documents for K1 visa since 20 of may 2012 and we are still waiting for it.
How long will still take time to get ready? What rights do I have as a fiancee? And what can we do to accelerate the process?

Thank you!
happyfoolNot TellingBulgaria2013-03-03 12:44:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresK-1 Citizenship.
Thank you for your replies!
To Alla: ???????! yes, my son has a passport and he's also included in mine. Turkmenistan passports, not Russian of course. I'll mail to the US Embassy! Thanks a lot!

To Chealse: Thank you for your quick reply! That helps alot!
UppsyDaisyFemaleRussia2013-02-27 10:52:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresK-1 Citizenship.
Hello everyone! I have a question. I am a citizen of Turkmenistan. Our family moved to Russia in 2011 for permanent stay. I still didn't get Russian citizenship. And the problem is that I don't know when I'll get it.
My fiancee is coming to Russia in two months time!)) and he'll file the K-1, K-2 petitions for me and my son. But the problem is my citizenship. I am Turkmenistan passport holder. We can not go back to Turkmenistan and don't have Russian citizenship yet. Is it possible to receive K-1 visa in Russia, without going back to Turkmenistan? And do I have to get Russian citizenship before we apply for K-1?
Thank you very much for your time and reading this. I really need help with this. Thank you!
UppsyDaisyFemaleRussia2013-02-27 09:42:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresPreparing Information ahead of beneficiary pack recieval from embassy
You can apply for the police certificate here: http://www.acpo.poli...tificates.aspx. It's not the same as a CRB check. It's valid for a year.

You might be able to get your childhood immunisation record from your GP. It depends how old you are really - if you had them pre-computer days like me they may not be available, particularly any you had at school as I understand those records are not kept after your 25th birthday. But you don't need many so it's not too much of a problem to have them done again. My GP is going to do mine.

Good luck.

Edited by cathy2904, 25 June 2011 - 08:02 AM.

cathy2904FemaleUnited Kingdom2011-06-25 08:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresQuestion on VSC -> NVC for I-129F
We received the NOA2 for our CR1 petition on 2nd August and it reached NVC on 8th but after almost a month we are still waiting for a case number. It seems like the delay has moved from time taken getting to NVC to time taken for NVC to get it in their system.
cathy2904FemaleUnited Kingdom2011-09-06 15:04:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresBeneficiary Quiting her Job - any impact

Her next job will be Domestic Goddess. (L)


:lol: :lol:
cathy2904FemaleUnited Kingdom2011-09-15 02:22:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresTransferring money...what's the best way visa wise?
I use the Post Office. It is free and very quick.

http://www2.postoffi...tional-payments
cathy2904FemaleUnited Kingdom2011-09-25 02:03:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWaiting time for medical....

Hello to all my London people!!
I was wondering how long you guys waited from the time of you getting your case number to getting your medical appointment in London.
THNX!


About 5 minutes! Booked it as soon as I had a case number and then had my appointment just over a week later. The results are valid for 12 months so there is no need to wait.
cathy2904FemaleUnited Kingdom2011-10-26 14:19:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresOne year and still no NOA2?
Some of them are probably just people who have never updated their timeline. Or have created a new profile for some reason and only updated that one.
cathy2904FemaleUnited Kingdom2011-10-29 16:08:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresdo we need co sponsor?
Oh my fiance is in the same situation, she makes like 400 dollars over the income guidelines but she has savings over 10.000 dollars and we are including that in teh affidavit of support! also ask her to see into asking for a raise, I see your fiance has been working there for a while, maybe she can apply for one? my fiance did and hopefully this week we will hear good news and be a bit farther from the poverty guidelines limit!.. I hope everything turns out great for you two!
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-07-30 21:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresIs this normal after NOA2?
our NOA2 approval date was July 7th and the NVC received it the 8th and then they told us our case was mailed to the embassy the 13th :S lol.. I wonder if they even looked at our case cuz it seems it went by the NVC too fast! ... I think you should give a call to the NVC.. it is busy sometimes but we did get to talk to someone there!.. I bet they will help you out
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-07-23 22:28:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresHow is the Speed of Vermont Now?
for us it was really fast I got my NOA2 in 22 days!
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-08-06 23:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresOld birth certificate TwT
you have to have a recent birth certificate, and I dont know where you're from but for me, the embassy requested me to bring a Recent birth certificate and get it legalized so it can be used outside my country and the way to do it is getting the apostille which is the prossess to make your BC acceptable for use outside the country. Again I dont know the whole process in mexico but thats what they asked me
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-08-15 23:45:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresJust venting
I am happy with our K1 process and we got our interview date in 2 months! or maybe a little less than that, it was super fast which is a plus because I have heard spouse visas take longer than that.

I have to agree with heatdeath, the forced separation time is awful, I have a friend who applied for a spouse visa a while back and they were apart for over a year!.. I mean if dealing with distance just being boyfriend and girlfriend is hard! imagine as husband and wife!... imagine after your lovely honeymoon to have to go back to each ones home country... !.. I think that must be a hard experience... thats why we went for the K1... after our honeymoon I want to go straight home with my soon to be WIFE! :D and no matter how much it costs! its totally worth the trouble

of course this is just my opinion!
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-08-16 10:05:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresI-134 Savings balance & Annual earning
if you dont meet the poverty guideline then they will be really important


GJenMaleVenezuela2010-08-17 15:03:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWe got an Interview date!!!
congrats! :D
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-08-17 20:05:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresa raise in anual income at 11 days away from interview

Well she didn't submit any info of her income when she sent our package to the USCIS!... we are applying for a K1 visa so the affidavit of support will be evaluated in the interview.



Amorrrrr, tranquiloooooooooo!

I asked the CFO to write me a letter yesterday! She began typing it before I even left and said it'd be ready by tomorrow.

I got this, okay?
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-08-20 04:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresa raise in anual income at 11 days away from interview
Well she didn't submit any info of her income when she sent our package to the USCIS!... we are applying for a K1 visa so the affidavit of support will be evaluated in the interview.

If she didn't qualify to support you they would have rejected the affidavit in the first place.


Edited by GJen, 19 August 2010 - 11:15 PM.

GJenMaleVenezuela2010-08-19 23:14:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresa raise in anual income at 11 days away from interview
Hello

This is G (beneficiary), as some of you know our interview was scheduled for August 31st and we were worried a bit about my fiance sponsoring me since she was making $18.800 per year and it was just a few hundred above the poverty guideline limit for two, Yet we went ahead and file and well she has 15,000 dollars in savings so we thought that was a plus, too.. right now we are 11 days away from our interview and my fiance was given today a raise at work.. now she is making 22800 dollars a year!.... now this raise will be reflected in her next paystub that will be sent to her before the interview.. now my question is.. should she ask her boss a letter stating that she was given a raise to back up that info or do you think that she will be fine just taking that last paystub, even tho the others will show a different anual income?...

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HELP
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-08-19 22:46:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresDS-230 PTII
I was asked by the embassy to only fill out PART I only... are you applying for K1 visa?
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-08-21 18:44:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresam i passed
well I think you are fine as long as your doctor didnt mention anything! Im sure if something would come up wrong .. you would have been told! so yeah You passed your medical :) good luck for your interview now! :D
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-08-22 00:38:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures17 Days since NOA2 approval but still no sign of Packet 3
I think you should call NVC, we did and they told us that our cas had been forwared to the embassy. We also emailed the embassy with our names DOB and CRS number and they answered back with our interview date.
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-08-23 08:32:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresMistake on DS-156
I read somewhere that you could just let know the person who will interview you at the embassy and they can correct anything for you... I was wondering the same thing because I left dates blank, in questions like Have you ever been to the USA? and since I havent, I left it blank, now I wonder if I should have put N/A .... even tho there was not much space to type that lol but I'm worried now
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-07-28 08:59:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresQUESTION ON DS 156
Hey
Yeah I can't redo it, it is an online form and creates a bar code so I don't think there is a fix, still I was very concern it was gonna be an issue... :(
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-08-27 17:17:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresQUESTION ON DS 156
Anyone??? pleasee
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-08-27 14:59:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresQUESTION ON DS 156
Hey everyone

I just realized I made a mistake on form DS156... where it asks for my home address it asked me to list it and also state, country and zip code... so I put it all there and then again it says Country zip code and state so I put them there again without thinking!.. and then when I print it off.. the country state and zipcode were listed twice.. like

my adress, state, Venezuela 5002 state Venezuela 5002 ..


do you think I will have a problem with that???? I KNOW such a stupid mistake.. and I did the same with my fiances address :(


GJenMaleVenezuela2010-08-27 13:17:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresInterview on 7/7
if he is freaking out over the picture format here is a link where he will find the format of passport picture... http://travel.state....de 10-01-04.pdf

just go to any photo studio and ask for Visa photos.. thats what I did.. I only needed a different photo style for the medical exam.. but for the visa its just passport style!.. :) hope that helps..

I was freaking out a bit about the pictures too... :P
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-09-02 15:22:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures; HOW MUCH TIME DID YOUR K-1 PROCESS TAKE FROM BEGINNING TIL END?
see timeline :D
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-09-05 15:46:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresAPPROVED!!!
congrats!!!Posted ImagePosted Image
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-09-03 21:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhat to do now??I just found out that my middle name in NOA1 & NOA2 spelled incorrectly
I think at this stage ur case is at NVC.. so you should contact them.. just my opinion! lets wait to see what other people think!
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-09-09 22:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresHow important are Phone records?
I was wondering the same thing, we are getting ready all the paper work for the interview and I dont have many phone logs, just like 3 bill phones with her phone number and for only 1 minute because I would ring her when I was back from work and she would call me back with phone cards, it does show some calls that last longer than 17 minutes tho but I don’t know if its enough. Now after a while we got Magic Jack, I’m not sure if you guys are familiar with it, but its amazing but sadly they don’t keep records of phone calls, but I was planning on including the receipt she got from purchasing 2 years of magic jack service for me, it has her name and address on it. Do you think it would help at all? .. we mostly talk on Magic jack and Gmail chat! And well Im including chatlogs too … am I ok with that?



Sorry John for taking advantage of your topic to ask this haha but I was thinking the same thing about phone records!




GJenMaleVenezuela2010-08-16 16:18:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduressome help on entering the USA
THanks for the help! I feel better now.. you guys are awesome!!!
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-09-16 11:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduressome help on entering the USA
Hey guys

so Im purchasing my ticket for Nov 1st... and well maybe this is a dumb question but I rather sounds stupid here than have problems once im at the inmigration office at the airport haha Anyway here's the thing ... my destination is Atlanta where my beautiful fiance lives.. but direct flights are pretty expensive with delta it costs $ 1130 a one way ticket, I checked American airlines and they have a flight to Atlanta with one stop in miami and it costs $900 one way.. but I found an amazing deal with LAN.. from Caracas to Miami for $450, isnt that great? and my fiance will buy with her skymiles a flight from Miami to Atlanta, but heres the thing, that flight from Ccs miami takes off late on monday Nov 1st so ill spend the night there on monday at a friends house who lives there legally, and then hang out with them on tuesday and then leave to Atlanta Wednesday...

do you think he will find this suspicius? of course ill flight to Atlanta to see my fiance and stay with her forever!!! but I dont want to have problems with the officer for staying in miami.. I dont know why but I feel he will ask me what I am doing in miami and not in atlanta and maybe questoin me why im staying one night in miami and with who? will this raise any suspicios ?? I really odnt want to have problems with them.. so I just want some thoughs on this...

thanks
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-09-16 01:07:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresK1 Visa Holder

I believe you need copies of the medical exams and vaccinations. When my fiancee had her exams and vaccinations done we asked the civil surgeon to make certified copies so she could submit them with her AOS. If you do not have certified copies of your medical exams and vaccinations, from everything I have read, you will have to get them all done again.


as far as I know you wont need anything from the brown envelope the embassy gave you.. they are supposed to keep everything at the POE.... about the medical exams I read that you will only need the copy of the form DS-3025 which is your Vaccination record and the doctor probably gave you this... thats the only thing you need copies of from your medical exam.. you are not supposed to have copies of the rest since those forms were supposed to be sealed in the enveloped the doctor handed u... and if you have the DS-3025 and if you submit your AOS package within the year you took your medical exam, you wont need a new one.. you will need to take your DS-3025 and have a civil surgeon to certify this.


if you checked the check list for the AOS here http://www.visajourn...content/k1k3aos
you will see that the things that you will ahve to submit again (that you already submitted for package 129F) is
G-325A which you can fill out again or if you have a copy in your computer I think you can use it
your birth certificate which you gave to the embassy but they only asks for a copy so you probably have the original
and your copy of NOA2

the others formas are new ones and new documets from your marriage!.. :) hope this helps
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-09-21 15:08:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhat am I forgetting?
I think its ready!!! :D good luck! hope everything goes smooth and fast! :D

Ok, so I intend on sending our original I-129F package tomorrow, and I've gone over it three times, but feel like I'm missing something. I have...

1) My check made out to the US Department of Homeland Security for $455.
2) Form G-1145 (I know, it's optional).
3) Cover letter - signed, dated, and marked "original submission".
4) Form I-129F - signed, and dated.
5) Form G-325A - for me w/attached passport photo.
6) Form G-325A - for my fiancée w/attached passport photo.
7) My birth certificate & copy of passport (I included both for the fun of it).
8) Letters of intent - both mine and my fiancée's, signed and dated.
9) Under proof of meeting I've included a copy of my fiancée's passport, a copy of her plane tickets to the US, and some receipts of hers while in the US. I also included a copy of my plane tickets to Paraguay, passport stamps, receipts while in Paraguay, and photos from both our meetings in the US and Paraguay.
10)I front loaded the package with proof of ongoing relationship - including e-mail log, phone log, text log, and Skype log...all unnecessary I'm sure.

I'm mailing it to the Dallas lock-box via US mail (should I choose delivery confirmation?): USCIS, P.O. Box 660151, Dallas, TX 75266

We're so excited to get this started!


GJenMaleVenezuela2010-09-21 15:57:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresQuestion About Sponsor / Co- Sponsor
For your interview at the US embassy!.. you will need to provide info that you can support your fiance! or find a cosponsor!
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-09-21 18:52:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhere can I get the A number?
lol sorry for my silly question but waht is the A#? and what do I need it for? lol thanks
GJenMaleVenezuela2010-09-22 15:18:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresK1/K2 VISA
Well if what you wanna know is if you will have any issues for going to the USA months later after you were appoved.. I think you wont have any issues.. I think your visa would expire in Feb 2011 or march.. so if you leave in January you would still have time! so I think you would be fine.. maybe they will ask you why it took so long for you to go over there.. but you can explain your reasons... I got my visa Approved in August 31 and I wish I could have left right away .. I miss my fiance so much.. but since I didnt know if my visa was gonna be approved or if I was gonna have any kind of delay, I couldnt book a ticket and I couldnt quit my job either! so now my trip will be for novermeber! I wish I could have left THIS MONTH! but I had stuff to do before leaving (like quitting and working a month notice, getting other stuff sorted out)... so Im sure they would understand!.. you can explain to them the real reasons.. maybe things you had to do before leaving...just my experience.. and like randy said most people leave RIGHT AWAY! but I think there are others that have things to do before leaving! so yeah!

just BE CAREFUL WITH THE DATE YOUR VISA EXPIRES

Edited by GJen, 22 September 2010 - 07:48 PM.

GJenMaleVenezuela2010-09-22 19:46:00