ForumTitleContentMemberSexCountryDate/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNOA1 Approved, Now what?
At this time can we complete and send back the DS-230 and the OF-169 with EMS Label before my fiancée receives packet 3? - no, unless there is a timetick for 'P3 sent' at GUZ IV unit.

You need to know the date for the time tick 'P3 sent' at Guangzhou IV Unit.
DOS Hotline knows this date, if the casefile has made it to that timetick.
Suggest you keep calling DOS Hotline, get a Human™ and inquire for case status, every coupla days.

Please re-read the GUZ P3 shortcut at http://www.visajourn...GUZ_P3_Shortcut


Also - there is 'timing issue' on this casefile, as well. Suggest you call NVC back, get a human™, and inquire as to HOW, exactly, the casefile was sent out to GUZ IV UNIT. You want to know if 1--SafeFile Solely or 2--SafeFile AND DHL. If SafeFile and DHL, expect a wait anywhere from 1 to 6 months, prior to GUZ IV unit receiving the casefile. If SafeFile Solely, expect a wait from 3 days to 6 weeks, and keep checking DOS for 'P3 sent' status.

This 'P3 sent' status, from DOS HOTLINE, is ONLY the date that GUZ records the P3 packet to be sent out - it is never the actual date that 1--it left the GUZ IV mailroom or 2--the date yer lass received the P3 postal mail packet. Once it's recorded as 'P3 sent' - it's another 2 to 10 days before it actually leaves GUZ IV mailroom, and another 2 to 12 days before it arrives at yer lass's address.

Yer approval date was only on the 29th of March - and it takes a long time for a casefile to get opened at GUZ IV unit once it's left NVC, if DHL is involved.

Good Luck !

Edited by Darnell, 20 April 2010 - 11:32 AM.

DarnellMaleChina2010-04-20 11:26:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNOA1 Approved, Now what?
the DS-160 is NOT USED for K-1 visas. DO NOT USE IT.

re: EMS - what? EMS, as I know it, is express mail for China Post.

Since you cannot USE the DS-160, at all,

Strongly suggest you follow the GUZ P3 shortcut, and the OF-169 from the Packets and Forms, links, above.

You can send in the docs via EMS, you betcha.

SERIOUSLY - a K-1 VISA applicant (yer fiance) cannot utilize the DS-160. At All.

FWIW, there was a GUZ chat this year, about it -
see http://www.chinafami...indpost&p=26104
for a snippet of that transcript.

Edited by Darnell, 16 April 2010 - 01:31 PM.

DarnellMaleChina2010-04-16 13:22:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNOA1 Approved, Now what?
Packet 3 instructions can be found here -
http://guangzhou.use...and_packets.htm

yer supposed to send back the DS-230 and the OF-169.
Everything else is to be handed in on interview day.

are you using the GUZ P3 shortcut, or no?
http://www.visajourn...GUZ_P3_Shortcut

also, have you gotten the NVC Casenumber yet? Starts with 'GUZ'.
If you haven't, call NVC, get a Human™, give them yer USCIS casenumber, and they'll give you the GUZ casenumber. Ya need the GUZ casenumber for the other forms.

Good Luck!

re: the title of yer post - you meant 'NOA-2 Approval', yes?

Edited by Darnell, 16 April 2010 - 12:11 PM.

DarnellMaleChina2010-04-16 12:07:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresDS-230 & OF-169
I'll take a swag (scientific-wild-@ss-guess) and predict last week of June or first week of July.
DarnellMaleChina2010-04-30 12:47:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresDS-230 & OF-169
1. I SAY YES, one in English, one in Chinese.
2. Yes.
3. Put name of school and city.

have you reviewed this? -> http://www.visajourn...GUZ_P3_Shortcut

Good Luck !
DarnellMaleChina2010-04-30 10:13:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresAPPROVED !!!!
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Edited by Darnell, 10 January 2010 - 01:23 AM.

DarnellMaleChina2010-01-10 01:22:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresVisa Question
Have a read here - http://www.visajourn.../content/guides
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-04 11:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNeed to know about the I129f Form!!!
Yer waiting on the NOA-1, Notice of Receipt, formletter I-797-C

Expect to wait up to 45 days for this. IF after 45 days, and the check NOT cashed, then there was some problem.

When you sent it in, was any tracking info for the service used to send it in? USPS? UPS? DHL? FEDEX?
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-06 10:17:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresDoes my fiance need passport before interview?
Yay !!!
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-08 02:37:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresDoes my fiance need passport before interview?
No - she needs a Cambodian Passport to leave Cambodia.
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-03 21:13:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresDoes my fiance need passport before interview?
Yup - need a passport, sorry !!!
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-03 17:32:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedureshelp blue slip
So time to get it fixed? Go to yer passport office, bring yer birth certificate, and inquire on how to get it changed...
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-08 02:42:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresnext step??
please review the k-1 flowchart in the guides section . Train yer eyes UP, find the word 'Guides' and click it.

Good Luck !
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-08 18:21:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresProof of Employment
That format should work, absolutely.

Usually these are printed on 'company letterhead' and signed by someone in the Human Resources Department (or the Boss/Owner, if a smaller company)

re: 9 month employee - (you work at a school?)
if yer contract is renewed yearly, then I think yer 'date of hire' is really that first year's 'start date' and not the 'current year's start date'.

Edited by Darnell, 09 May 2010 - 01:51 AM.

DarnellMaleChina2010-05-09 01:47:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresHELP... What Income Documents are needed???
Fill out the I-134.

Provide Tax returns with 1099s, W-2s, etc, for TY 2009, then tax transcripts for TY 2008, and TY 2007.
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-10 02:12:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresDoes VO keep the documents?
jackc - it's my understanding, for a K-1 - it all goes into the sealed 'do not open' envelope that yer fiance receives back via EMS.
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-10 21:29:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresDo I have to use the paper forms in package 3 & 4?
Nope, you can use yer own forms.

Good Luck !
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-11 17:36:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresCAN HAVE MANY TRAVEL STAMPS IN MY PASSPORT CAN SEND ME IN FRAUD PREVENTION UNIT OR AR???
tourist stamps - no. not a problem.
DarnellMaleChina2010-02-17 02:37:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresHow To: get my filipina's visa approved, already been denied once
ya, this is weird - if a K-1, and was denied, would have gotten at least 1 piece o paper. Maybe she applied for tourist visa, instead?

I'm still not convinced it was done at the US Embassy-Manila.
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-13 01:26:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresQuestion about 2nd Meeting
A G-325A form - for her signature.

Now's a GREAT TIME to review http://www.visajourn...content/k1guide
and print yer forms, study them a bit.

Edited by Darnell, 13 May 2010 - 05:34 PM.

DarnellMaleChina2010-05-13 17:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhich is our POE?
Oh Bernie C - that's just such a meanie thing to say !!!
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-16 16:03:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhich is our POE?
The first US City where the wheels touch the pavement.
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-13 19:41:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresMarrying and then living abroad on K-1
I have other option to present to you -

get married in USA - leave -

then 6 months into yer FOREIGN COUNTRY RESIDENCY - file an I-130 via Direct Consular Filing at the Embassy in that FOREIGN COUNTRY.

Forget the K-1, Forget the K-3.

Good Luck !

Edited by Darnell, 16 May 2010 - 03:34 PM.

DarnellMaleChina2010-05-16 15:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedureshow long it will take to know the interview date
You can shave off 2 to 3 weeks at GUZ for the P3 process -
http://www.visajourn...GUZ_P3_Shortcut

But for now - for case status -

NVC needs to receive it, rebundle it, and ship it out to GUZ.
Figure 1 to 3 weeks for that to happen.

You probably want to get the GUZ casefile # from NVC - you'll need to call NVC in a bit, get a Human™, inquire for GUZ casefile # (give the Human™ the USCIS receipt # , they'll give you the GUZ casefile #) .

Then, about 4 weeks from NOA-2 date, start calling DOS Hotline about once a week, inquire for status. When you hear 'P3 sent' then you can utilise that shortcut.

Good Luck !

Edited by Darnell, 24 May 2010 - 12:12 PM.

DarnellMaleChina2010-05-18 12:18:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresHelp requested from Knowledgable VJ Members!
yup - 'assembling', 'assemble' 'acco' - those terms bring up mucho gold.
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-11 16:40:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresPersonal Letter
I would suggest - copies on initial I-129F submittal,
and then show the originals on interview day.
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-22 22:44:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresevidence of ongoing relationship

Cheap International calls, and the call details are on the web which can be printed,, Does anyone see any issue with this type of evidence?


Nope, no problem at all, as those 'call details' are 'call detail records' - easy peasey to use as evidence. Yay !
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-23 23:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresevidence of ongoing relationship
was it a list with dates/times and duration ? (that's a CDR, btw)
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-23 14:48:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresevidence of ongoing relationship
IMO, it's not that useful UNLESS you can extract, print, and submit
Call Detail Records (CDR) from the Service Provider.

Many Service Providers have 'web portal access' to print this stuff.

If your Service Provider does not provide CDRs, then, IMO, this evidence will be useless. All you can show is that you bought them - you can't show that you used it to call yer lass.

got reciepts to prove that i used phone card to call my fiancee. -- if these receipts are the actual call detail records, then yes - is useful. Otherwise, no - is not useful.

Edited by Darnell, 23 May 2010 - 01:59 PM.

DarnellMaleChina2010-05-23 13:58:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresFrontloading I-129F w/ Evidence of Ongoing Relationship

Okay.. so how should I separate it?

-Passport pictures (met w/in 2 yrs?)


You prolly mean 'copies of passport stamps/visas, with entry/exit stamps'
not 'passport pictures', right?

Edited by Darnell, 17 May 2010 - 10:43 AM.

DarnellMaleChina2010-05-17 10:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresFrontloading I-129F w/ Evidence of Ongoing Relationship
Should I separate the "proof that we've met within the past 2 years" from "evidence of our ongoing relationship"?

Yes, seperate it. IMO, pare back the 'meet' evidence, go nuts with the 'relationship evidence'.

Good Luck !
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-16 22:05:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresLawyers?
What controls speed of the process I notice some peoples journey is far shorter than others?

There's LOTS of variables on that, back at USCIS.
The one I try to pay attention to, is CASELOAD. A single case takes x amount of time. The thing that drowns the caseload, IMO, is an influx of other petition types, such as applications for H1-B visas or the Haitian Special 'thing' that's going on.
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-23 02:27:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresLawyers?
IMO, for a K-1 visa, having an attorney does not slow down the process.

OTOH, again, IMO, if you filed an I-130 petition, having an attorney SLOWS DOWN the process (unless the attorney is quick with turnaround during NVC processing).
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-22 18:42:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresI need help with my fiance's k-1 visa
initiate a 'service request' to find the petition.

Can do this via USCIS help line, or via an infopass appointment.

Good Luck !
DarnellMaleChina2010-01-31 16:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNext step after marriage (Green Card Process) K1 Visa.
File a complete AOS package. See :

http://www.visajourn...content/k1k3aos
http://www.visajourn...m/content/k1aos
http://www.visajourn...content/k1k3ead

The work permit and travel document fees are waived IF the forms are filed at the same time as the I-485 form, and typically come in prior to the green card arriving.

Have a longish read, let us know if you have any questions, after reading?

Edited by Darnell, 26 May 2010 - 12:06 PM.

DarnellMaleChina2010-05-26 12:04:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWill pregnancy deem a K-1 petition null and void???
No, not at all.

OTOH, a legal marriage will void out / invalidate a K-1 visa, should the Consular Official learn of it , on or prior to, interview day.


If she has the child prior to arriving in the USA, she can file for CRBA at the Embassy in Manila (no need to file I-130 for the child, unless USC father has less than 5 years of USA residency )
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-26 13:07:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresEOR and I-129f package
She cannot have it notarized at US Consulate-Guangzhou - she's not an American Citizen.

I suggest you sign it, notarize it
--in Houston if yer not going in for interview week
--at GUZ if yer going in for interview week.

Good Luck !
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-26 21:22:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresEOR and I-129f package
GUZ tends to 'ding' a visa applicant if it's NOT CLEAR about the 'communication ability' between the petitioner and the visa applicant. Usually results in EITHER a blue slip (give us more evidence of something after interview day), 221(g) form, OR an outright denial.

This 'communication ability' can be covered in a paragraph in the EOR letter - it should cover languages used, your chinese ability (if any), her english ability, any translators used, any info about her being in an english language program in China.

It's still up to the VO to actually read this EOR, on interview day. I wouldn't say you are 'red-flagged' at all, since the case is going to GUZ - but only you know the red flag issues about your casefile. If you are really freaking out, I suggest that you contact Marc Ellis, pay for a coupla hours of consult time, and have him go over all of the casefile, prior to interview day. Google 'Marc Ellis Immigration' for his contact info.

Have a read, here --> http://www.visajourn...hl__appointment
and see if you have any of those 'red-flag' issues.

Good Luck !
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-26 12:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNOA1??????
these 'NOA's, or 'Notice of Action' - come in the form of a formletter, an I-797-C, via postal mail.

NOA-1 is the receipt notice
NOA-2 is the approval notice
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-27 20:38:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresHow Long To Come To The US?
Usually it's 6 months - but it could be less (there's some exceptions, based on RFE dates or medical issues)

Pay attention to the expiration date on the visa, once it's issued.
DarnellMaleChina2010-05-28 19:40:00