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K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNew to site and need help

Thanks I am waiting in my Fiance to help me with everything the dates are hazy at the moment. But I have read I am going to Montreal and they seem to have great reviews everyone says there very happy and smile alot when they are there. I really appericate your comment as you are the first.


My interviewer a montreal I got, was joking around in the interview a lot! It really relaxed me. The woman I got at the window seemed kind of angry at first but when she saw how organized I had all my papers she seemed to relax after. I think the key is dressing like your going to an interview and having all your papers organized. =)
InkyFemaleCanada2011-01-14 12:29:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresnoa2 in california?

in regard to the i129f i mean

thanks! :D



Really? K-1/I-129F is on the Igor list. Did you even look?
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-01 20:44:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures**IMPORTANT QUESTION** RE: TIME LINE
you can click the picture in my signature, it will take you to the ticker website, you can pick from many options. When you made a ticker you like it will give you a code. You need to copy that code then go to your VJ webpage, find settings on the top right corner, go to profile. Then select forum signature, there is a box you paste the code into and save it. The ticker will show up on every post you make after that.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-01-26 13:10:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures**IMPORTANT QUESTION** RE: TIME LINE
You can get an RFE through the whole process, even at the interview they can give you one.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-01-26 10:51:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures3 weeks after interview and no passport!

Yes, Here, I am. still waiting for my visa. I even got approval letter and congratulations!!! but......:clock:


I found some more people for you lol... unfortunately.


Hope you guys get your Visas soon.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-01 09:04:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures3 weeks after interview and no passport!
The Iranian woman who interviewed in Montreal was told she passed and was approved and was getting her passport with visa back in 5 days. That was back in November. She has still not yet gotten her passport. She called DOS and they told her she is in AP. She was specifically told as well but now she is stuck in AP the embassy is not telling her she is in AP but the DOS is telling her that she IS.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-01-28 11:08:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures3 weeks after interview and no passport!
Unfortunately it seems it happens to quite a few people from Iran even tho they do not interview there.

The same thing happened not long ago to a Iranian woman who interviewed in Canada, they told her 5 days and she phoned DOS, they told her she was in AP, its been quite a while now and she has not gotten her passport back.


You may want to ask in the region specific forum for other people from that country and see what they say happened to them.


Some have AP for only 1 month some 6+ months from certain places.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-01-27 22:04:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresApproved, what's next?
http://www.visajourn.../content/k1flow

Flow chart shows all the steps pretty much with explanations.


You can call NVC and ask for your case number or you can wait to get your embassy case number.

K-1 goes to the NVC for a week or less, it gets put in the system and assigned a case number to the embassy you will interview at. Then you prep for the rest of the work in your country. Medical,police report,forms, interview etc.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-01 08:39:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresevidence of financial support
If tax returns were not filed the USC will likely be asked for proof as to why they did not have to file.

My husband and I followed the instructions regardless of his previous returns not making the line. They looked at all 3 at the interview, but took the most recent into account.

I read an article on MSN news the other day saying even students need to file Tax Returns.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-02 15:51:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresevidence of financial support
3 years of tax returns, pay stubs, letter from employer etc

USC must make 125% of the poverty guideline for 2011.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-02 13:29:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresI 129 F payment in Australia
The fee must be paid from a US bank account or from a US money order.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-02 22:04:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresPease help me!! Need to file yesterday!
If you file a K-1 the USCIS time is 5-6 month for a petition approval. You then have another 2-4 months(for Vancouver embassy) for NVC and Embassy/interview.

If you file a CR-1 look at 1 year or longer.


There is no fast way, you will not get back there quickly together.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-02 23:09:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresMeeting online
You will be asked at the interview how you met. Not how you met in person but how you met each other, so if its online you will have to state online and explain.

If you met through a marriage broker website thats a whole different story.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-05 00:29:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures2 questions..
In a plastic bag and paper clip it to the spot you list it in on your cover page.


Print the photos on computer paper and lable them on there and put them in the packet where you lable them to be on your cover letter.


Paper clip the whole packet together with one giant paper clip.



Do not waste money on folders etc, they remove everything and put it in their own folder. Anything you pay for to make it fancy gets thrown away.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-05 18:09:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresQuestions about NOA2, Interview, Medical, etc
Do not send the hard copy of NOA 2 ANYWHERE! If you lose it its 400$ to replace it. It is needed for AOS from K-1.

You will need to send her a copy of the NOA2 for the interview most likely.

I would wait 1 week-ish to contact NVC. Ask NVC if they have your embassy case number assigned and what it is. Then see if it has been sent to the embassy yet.

If you do not want to call NVC you do not have to. The K-1 typically only spends about a week or less at the NVC before it gets sent to the embassy. There are no steps at the NVC stage for K-1 petitions that you need to do. Its just an automatic in and out, NVC will mail the case number to you in snail mail or you can call them to get it early.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-05 18:16:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresColor copies of Passport and Birth Cert?
K-1 only uses copy. Colour copys of the passport.


Only use originals WITH copys at the interview. Ask them to keep the copy and take the original back. You will need your originals in the US for other things.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-04 20:59:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhere do I file K-1?
Read the I-129F instructions. EVERYONE sends it to the Texas address listed.

From there they remove the payment. Repackage your packet and then send it to either VSC or CSC.

Edited by Inky, 05 February 2011 - 05:49 PM.

InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-05 17:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresOur K-1 Fiance visa

Exactly as long as she lives with you in germany (doesnt have to live ON base)and is command sponsored, you will have no issues. Biggest thing is the command sponsored thing...get her on your orders.. I am hoping to go to Italy by the end of the year. The time your wife will spend with you will count toward her citizenship clock too.



We were told by the immigration help on base that you have to live on the base, with your husband, and your 2yr green card to maintain legal US presence.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-06 01:44:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresOur K-1 Fiance visa

Not yet, once we married then she will. But this is just a question for down the road alittle


She will need to be listed on the orders and she will be fine, she can apply for removal of conditions from Germany (if you guys still live there at that time) as long as she has her 2yr conditional green card and she stays living on the base with you.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-06 01:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresOur K-1 Fiance visa
Does she have authorization to go on the orders with you as a spouse and reside on base with you?

She will need to file for AOS and get her green card before leaving and must live ON the base.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-06 00:46:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresG325A
No, wait till you get an RFE if you get one.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-06 00:21:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresAdvice for calling VSC after 5 months?
They will either put a service request for you and tell you to wait.
or
Tell you that they cant put a service request and tell you to wait.


contacting the Senator might work or might not. It depends on who your senators immigration liaison is. If they have a lot of contacts if they work really hard on your case etc. If they don't then nothing really will change with it.


VSC is currently working at around 6 months not 5 months.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-06 15:18:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNotice of decission was dismmised

ozgurls visa had timed out because she had family issues that had to be taken care of at the time. We thought we could sqedual an interview after that. She requested an interview and recieved a letter stating it had timed out. USCIS told us we could refile. So I refiled an I129f and sent a check for $455.00. USCIS recived that on July 7th 2010. December 23 2010 they sent me a a letter stating the I129f petiton had been denied.They claimed we did not have a relationship, Well They approved the first one so we had a relationship back then. I have been to Australia to see ozgurl about 10 times and she has been here once. This was the california Laguna Niguel service center.It stated I could file an apeal or a motion to reopen/reconsider the case on form I290b for another $630.00.I decided to file a motion to reopen /or reconsider the case. I filed out the form made copies of pics of us, copies of some of my pages filled with Sydney customs stamps and wrote a very long statement about our relationship. They cashed my check and on Jan 31st 2010 Sent out a notice of decision. It stated this motion will be dismissed Therefor the previous denial decission will remain unchanged. This document has the stamped signature of the director I dont know if I can state her name here or not but there is only one director.



Did you include other evidence of relationship? or just pictures and stamps etc. Other evidence being phone bills, skype chats, msger chats, emails, snail mail letters / cards / packages proof that you have an on going relationship?
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-06 21:36:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNever Recived the NOA2 and my petition expired

I recived a letter that said,


Dear Petitioner:

The state department's national visa center has recently recived an approved I-129F petition filed on behalf of your fiance. This is to let u know that within a week the petition will be forwarded to the appropiate visa-issuing post where your visa interview will take place.


It gives me a cdj# but there is not an expiration date anywhere. My fiance is finishing her degree that is why we took so long if i knew there was an expiration date we would have gone over to Juarez before it expired.



This is from the NVC, your case has been sitting at the embassy waiting.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-02 21:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNever Recived the NOA2 and my petition expired
The NOA 2 is the letter that says your petition is approved and being forwarded to the NVC or consul.


Nothing you can do now its expired. File again and start all over, hope you made copys of everything.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-02 18:25:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresExpedite
You want to claim financial loss due to your own large wedding?
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-07 11:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresI-129f Question
It is not a birth certificate number if you are unsure please see the EXAMPLE forms in the example section. It is a Naturalization Certificate Number.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-09 21:06:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresSending I-129f
Use a large paper clip to hold all the papers together, that is all. No need for folders or fancy things, the USCIS will throw it away and repackage your files in their own folders.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-09 19:16:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresFee Waiver for K1?
You may want to look into finding a co-sponsor before you start the process then because it sounds like you will need one if you don't meet the poverty guidelines for the I-864.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-12 23:27:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresFee Waiver for K1?
You don't say what country the person came from, that would help explain the I-94 issue.

Also if you can't aford the I-129F fees, like yuandan said, the rest is VERY expensive and you should look into the rest of the process more before doing this.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-12 21:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresI-129f filling out address
Do not use abbreviations. They will not know what they are. Write out the full country name and any city or place names etc in full.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-13 13:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresGet married in foreign country after K-1?
A legal marriage is a legal marriage, does not matter where in the world it happens.

If you want to marry in the Phils file a CR-1 after you get married and don't even bother with the K-1.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-10 12:12:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhat I can/can't do with a K1 visa
Get married and apply for AOS, EAD and AP. So that you can work and travel.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-06 21:23:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNot sure if I'll get an RFE about a signature
My husbands "signature" is a squiggly line that doesn't even remotely look like his name and he doesn't even really sign his name just a squiggly. They never questioned it during the process not even at the interview.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-14 09:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhat are some good examples of proof of engagement?
Do you mean the new letter of intent? We never provided proof of engagement at our interview.

We gave a new letter of intent to marry from the US citizen, and I brought pictures from throughout our relationship and other ongoing relationship evidence with me.

If you are talking about something cultural specific then you would provide pictures of your cultures engagement party/ceremony etc.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-13 16:16:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhich Comes First???
Never had a psychological exam, only a regular medical. Not sure if it is Philippine specific? I haven't seen anyone else post about psychological exams either tho.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-14 23:25:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresK1 Visa ...timed out
Can the USC come on VJ and post here to help clear up whats going on. He may be able to better tell us what was in the letters sent to him and what he did with the petition etc.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-06 21:21:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresK1 Visa ...timed out
Sorry this just doesn't make sense.

1. USC sends the I-129F petition

2. USCIS approves I-129F petition

3. USCIS sends it to NVC

4. NVC sends it to US embassy in the other country

5. Beneficiary has medical collects police report and books interview

6. Beneficiary attends interview and gets or doesn't get the visa.

--- Did you go to an interview at the US embassy in Australia?

--- What do you mean you didn't proceed when you were first-time approved?

--- Do you have TWO active petitions going on at the same time in the same year?

--- USCIS approved the I-129F and then the US embassy denied the visa at the interview? Then they sent it back to the USCIS who sent you an appeal and they denied your appeal?

--- Why did they believe there was no relationship? What evidence of relationship did you send?
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-05 20:21:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresK1 Visa ...timed out
Why was it denied? Cant really help any without knowing more details as to why it was denied when you reapplied and then got denied again when you tried to appeal it.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-05 18:01:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresPassport photo size
Not all countrys use the US size passport photos. Generally when getting them done in another country you have to be specific as to the size you need or they will use the generic size that their country follows.
InkyFemaleCanada2011-02-16 22:39:00