ForumTitleContentMemberSexCountryDate/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresEmail from State Dept
Sounds like if you asked for an expedite you didn't/wont get one. That they will finish when they finish and he will get his visa when they are done everything they need to do.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-27 11:23:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedureswhen does noa2 expire

What do you mean of it? I thought the case would automatically forwarded to embassy after NVC. It sounds like we have to check all the time of our case to make sure they don't forget it and showing that we are pro-active for it. Do I miss some piece of the explanation?


The OP had the NOA2 for 5 months and did nothing with the case. Not even responded to the USEM with packet 3 or a notice to inform them of holding the case.
After getting the NOA2 it does not take long to get to the USEM and send packet 3 to them.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-27 15:29:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedureswhen does noa2 expire

Somebody will probably correct me if I am wrong, but I think NO2 has a 6 month expiration date. Again, I could be wrong


Mine shows 4 months on it and that is only for the petition to get to the USEM. The USEM then extends the petition life automatically.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-27 14:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedureswhen does noa2 expire

i got the no2a about 5 months ago but i was having second thoughts at that time..i was getting cold feet..this process is very over whelming we put everything on hold..i no longer have cold feet i feeel 10000% sure now and wanted to go forward with the process i also got the case number just wanted to make sure its still valid??? any help is appreciated thank you guys


You should have expressed this issue in your original post as this is VERY important information that you left out.

You need to call and find out if your case is still valid, you also need to find out where your case is or if its been closed because of inactivity.

Your best bet is to call DOS 202-663-1225. As well as send an email to the embassy if you have your embassy case number.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-27 14:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedureswhen does noa2 expire
Noa2 has an expiration date for the process. Not for you.

Your petition will go to NVC. You can call them and ask for your case number.
You get your embassy case number and then wait for the embassy to get the case.
You can call DOS to find out if the embassy has it yet.
You can check online at your embassy website to see if you can download the forms early and have them ready.
When the embassy has the case you can send your forms etc. ( if they have been made available online ) If not then you need to wait for the p3 with the forms and instructions you would get.


Basically you have no worry what so ever right now about the NOA2 expiration. The embassy automatically extends the validity of the petition if it is close to expiration.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-27 13:41:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresI-134 questions (for K1 application)

So the savings in deposit banks can just be left blank? Does that mean it is not necessary to submit as evidence the letter from a bank about account balance, deposits made in the last year etc?


We left ours blank and never even got asked about it. You don't need to give any other evidence if your income meets / is above the 125% just the job stuff.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-27 20:26:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresI-134 questions (for K1 application)
You put N/A K-1 petition on the intend or not intend part.

Please see the example form. http://www.visajourn.../Form-I-134.pdf

http://www.visajourn...ontent/examples

Poverty guidelines http://www.uscis.gov...form/i-864p.pdf
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-27 15:36:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresK-1 Fiance(e) interview failed
You must find out why it was denied, EXACTLY why it was. If you file again or file for a spousal visa you may hit the same brick wall and be denied again for the same reason.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-01 20:10:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresFollow-up for K1
You wait until you get your NOA1. Then you wait 5 months to get your NOA2.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-27 13:58:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresIs this marriage feasible?
You need to check with your company we cant tell you if the company will have anything to do with a non US citizen spouse, nor can we tell you if they can even get her papers to live in Rwanda or if they even want to spend the time trying to deal with that.

Its completely dependent on what your company is going to do and willing to pay for etc and no one here can tell you that.

You cant get her a green card or citizenship right now. The issue of burden is on your company and what they are going to do to help her live with you if they will do anything. When you find that out then you need to make a choice.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-16 14:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresapplying for k1 visa for fiance in Pakistan
Its going to take around 7 months just to get approved at USCIS. Your going to need to change your aim.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-04-29 16:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresHaiti

hey all. i am new around here (just recently filed my i-129f and received NOA 1 yesterday!). When you say all haitian applications are be expedited, what do you mean? i know what expedited means, but where do you get that information? which step in this process is expedited?

also, i am an american citizen, but i live in haiti 9 months out of the year, teaching at a school in port-de-paix. can someone in the United States call USCIS for me so i don't have to call internationally or do I have to call?


You have to call them.

The expedite was when they big disaster happened in Haiti. All petitions there were expedited due to the health risks etc going on after the disaster.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-29 11:37:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresHaiti
See if a mod can move this out of the spousal visa area since its a K-1 petition.


Never set a date or book anything until the visa is in the hand.
Look after smaller things for the wedding ie colours, place settings etc.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-13 21:06:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedureswhere to cancel K-1 application?
Write to California service center because that is where your petition is at. Include a copy of the NOA1 with the letter.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-30 15:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhat proof of engagement did u present¿¿
Does your culture or country have a specific engagement party or process? then use that.
If not then you need no engagement proof only on going relationship proof.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-30 22:05:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresCan I transfer my interview appointment to someone else?
You can call and cancel the appointment. Then someone else who is waiting can get the open appointment.
You cant tell them you want a specific person to have the appointment it doesn't work that way.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-27 11:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresAny ideas on what next?

There are no UNUSUAl CIRCUMSTANCES to our case as you put it GringoD. I turned to this forum before we even filed in the hope of some answers. Our attorney is a big law firm and they are proving not very helpful. Where my fiancé lives however we did not have a lot of choice in terms of appointing someone. We are being fobbed off by them by being told to wait and be patient and I don't believe that is the answer, which is why I am asking others for their advice. if you do not have anything to useful to contribute then please don't bother adding a reply as it's most UNHELPFUL.

N&S this is most helpful and thank you so much, I will call the number as we have the EAC number and see if I can get some results. I'm at a loss the attorney just tells us to wait a month, which we have and we've not heard anything back. I just want to know what is a normal and acceptable time frame to wait without starting to worry.


From what you said you don't seem to even need a lawyer but you should be using an immigration lawyer not a law firm.

When you get the NOA1 then you wait 5-6 months after that for any kind of approval. This whole process is a giant waiting game.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-29 18:58:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresAny ideas on what next?
Do you have your case number?
Then call DOS and ask if the case is at the USEM.

If you don't have the case number you need to call USCIS and find out whats going on with your case and get a case number from them.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-28 14:29:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresAfter receiving NOA1, while waiting for NOA2
The medical and police certificate are only good for 1 year.


Its not advised to get them before the NOA2 unless you have an extremely long wait to get the police certificate for your country.
You will want the medical to still be valid when applying for AOS. Or you have to pay in the USA for a brand new full medical if its expired because you got the medical too early.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-31 13:35:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresk1 visa waiting for appt.
Did you send them the package with all the papers and forms? did you get your police records and your medical etc?

You do not state if you have done any of this yet. Generally they wait on you to provide them with the information they request before booking any sort of interview.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-31 12:25:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresK1 Visa questions.. conflicting advice..
CBP agents do not know the process properly and are not educated on the process.

Follow the VJ guide for Adjustment of Status and file AOS as soon as you can. There is no need for a lawyer unless you have red flags in your case.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-31 17:09:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresSS Number for Marriage License?
Check with the county doubt you need it to get the marriage license.

Only thing needed for us was birth certificate and passport. We had to follow the waiting period time which was 24 hours before we could marry after getting the license.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-30 19:40:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNext Steps. please help
Follow the guide for AOS. http://www.visajourn...content/k1k3aos

She cannot work until she gets the EAD or green card. That is some months away from now because you are not yet married and have not yet filed.

She can apply for the SSN 2 weeks after entry.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-11-01 21:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresvisa k1
English in the main forum so people can help you.

Other languages are for the regional forums.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-11-01 21:27:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresssn question
You need to call and check if that is correct!! even our state (Nebraska) does not require SSN for getting the license. All they said we needed was my birth certificate and passport.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-11-01 22:27:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresCalling your Congressman?
They have an immigration liaison. You ask them to look into your case when it is over the processing times listed. You send them forms that you sign saying you allow them to look into it for you. Then you sit and wait for a response. Its really helpful sometimes if your petition is stuck for a long time or if the liaison is a good and active one. If not sometimes it can really be no help at all.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-11-01 13:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresInterview
USEM automatically extends the petition.

Most of the people posting about interviews for manila talk about booking themselves the interview via the phone or internet. Check your regional forum for the complete information.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-11-01 23:05:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresGetting SSN for K! Fiancee

Yes this one, the Adjustment of Status interview. Can you give me some more insight on what is asked and what happens? Thanks.


Most people who enter on a K-1 visa do not have an interview. The chance is 50/50 that you get an interview or not. You don't even need to worry about this right now.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-11-02 10:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresGetting SSN for K! Fiancee
Not sure what your talking about interview! There is no interview for the SSN, you go in give the forms and your ID with marriage certificate, sit there while they type on their computer and that is it.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-11-01 22:25:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresneed help please so confuse

How about his US Passport? If he has one and it is in his american name, then that is all that is needed to prove his US Citizenship.


OP is not worried about proof of US citizenship, she is worried about him using 2 different names and how he listed them on the forms.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-11-02 12:42:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresneed help please so confuse
His birth certificate proves his birth name and his government issued IDs prove his other name used. There is no issue here. What he did is fine and normal. Do not worry about it.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-11-01 21:10:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresIntent to deny I-129F letter , please help

can you please show us were the uscias states that because I find that hard to believe?

if that were the case why even bother asking people for proof with pics when they should just send in one picture with the both of you holding a dated newspaper.


They ask for it in RFE letters to people. I have read it many many times on VJ people stating USCIS is requesting photos of them holding newspapers to prove dates and places.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-31 12:23:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresIntent to deny I-129F letter , please help

no, no , no, don't include pic show you holding a newspaper because some will view it as you try to stage something!!!!



Because this is exactly what USCIS requests when they send an RFE for pictures. One of you and your SO with a newspaper.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-31 09:52:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresIntent to deny I-129F letter , please help

It was 1 letter that was signed and dated by both of us. Can she just email or fax me her letter and i print that at home and send that along with my letter and other stuff they need, or it has to come in mail from pakistan to here ?
thanks


No everything must be original signatures. It cannot be a scan or fax. She will have to mail any forms or letters etc to be used with original signatures on them.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-30 10:33:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresIntent to deny I-129F letter , please help
I'm not sure if you sent only 1 letter of intent with both peoples signatures or 2 separate letters written differently by the both of you but they want 2 letters one from each person not 1 signed by 2 people.(your wording is a little hard to understand on that one)
Submit all the stuff they want again and send extra.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-29 23:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresIS MY I129 QUESTION 18 SUFFICIENT?
Mine was only 3 sentences long.. this is way more than enough.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-11-02 18:17:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresQuestion on submitting I-129F Package and proof of relation
He can send it as long as he has a check for a bank in the USA. If not then he has to wait till he gets home. The funds must come from a USA bank in the USA.

Use the step by step guides on VJ thats all you have. USCIS does not have guides.

Proof on going relations -
lots of pictures from trips/vacations/time with family his and mine.
Passport stamps to prove travel as well as tickets and itinerarys.
Emails/chats/phone call logs.
Snail mail cards and letters and scanned boxes that were sent.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-30 20:51:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresGet married before the fiancee visa apporved

So is not okay to tell the officer during the interview that we're going to have a big weeding first outside the state? Because both of our families and friends are in Taiwan. We're not thinking about Taiwan marry certificate either. We're just trying to host a big weeding in the hotel.


You will likely be denied at the K-1 interview if you tell them your going to have a big wedding in Taiwan.

Side note.
You cannot use the K-1 after you get married in Taiwan, you are to marry in the USA on a K-1. Your AOS will be denied because you must provide a marriage certificate at the time of AOS. They will obviously see you used the K-1 to enter married because your marriage certificate will be from Taiwan and not the USA like the requirements state for AOS from a K-1.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-24 20:24:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresGet married before the fiancee visa apporved
You get married before K-1 visa and before you are in the USA = NO MORE K-1 VISA.

You are married you cannot get a K-1 FIANCE visa.

You start all over again from the bottom. New fees, new waiting time of 1 year, new forms, new everything. You do not " change " or " switch " you start all over again.

K-1 is a ONE TIME USE.
If you enter the USA and then leave without filing AP/ AOS and without the AP card or GC then you have to file all over again to come back to the USA.
If you enter on the K-1 then leave to the Phils to get married you cannot use the K-1 you wasted the K-1. You will have to file a spousal visa to come back to America.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-10-24 15:39:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNVC's Reply
It seems as though they haven't started working on the case yet so it wouldn't have a number yet.

Call the NVC and speak to an operator and ask for the MNL case number to be sure.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-11-03 14:54:00