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K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWell!

Oooh! Take pictures! I wanna see what it looks like after it's been sorted and stuff!
I'm glad you hear there is some progress! :)

:star: Cass (bebop the great)


Will do. They attached the photos to my bio form like I said and they took my evidence photographs out of the Ziploc I sent them in and put them in an opaque envelope with "photos" handwritten on it. They seem to have rearranged the order of my evidence and they removed the cover letter. My check is stapled to the I-129f. The whole thing is bound with a metal clip thing at the top and there is a Notice of Action stapled to the front that says it's a rejection notice. The NOA has a case number on it. I wonder if I'll have the same case number when I resubmit? There is another paper stapled behind the NOA with a list of rejection reasons and a check beside the one that applies to me, missing signature.
heisheFemaleEngland2006-08-29 12:44:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWell!
Forgot to sign the main application. :bonk: Oops! They sent me back the file. It's kinda cool, though, it's already been sorted through and labelled and stuff. I'll send it back today!

Unless...

My identification photo is included, it's been put in a little white holder and stapled to my G-325A. But Pigu's isn't there! There are staple marks on his G-325A in the same place the photo is attached to mine, but no envelope and no photo! What. The photo he included was a bit too small, it was already cut to ...

Nevermind. I found it. It was stuck behind mine, attached to MY G-325A. Sneaky CSC!
heisheFemaleEngland2006-08-29 12:23:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhat if a baby is born during K-1 process?
There's some stuff about it on USCIS.gov. It's a little confusing, but looks like Yodrak might be right. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere else, though (maybe state.gov?) that the kids DO get automatic citizenship. Who knows? We will have to investigate this further.

Yodrak, I'm wondering if you could explain the conditions or point me in the direction of a link that explains them. I'm curious now.

:star: Cass (bebop the great)


heishe and Cass,

Not necessarily. There are some conditions that in some cases will mean the child is not a US citizen.

garya did not give enough information to determine whether or not the child will be a US citizen.

Yodrak


heisheFemaleEngland2006-08-29 16:01:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhat if a baby is born during K-1 process?

You may be asked to prove that you did not have the baby to expedite the K1 process.


Can we get rid of this troll? Sometimes the ####### s/he posts is kinda funny, but it's really not okay to be spreading misinformation to people with real questions!
heisheFemaleEngland2006-08-29 15:55:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhat if a baby is born during K-1 process?
Any child of a US Citizen is automatically a US Citizen. You just need a certificate of citizenship from the local embassy if the child is born abroad. I doubt the beneficiary parent can get that, probably the US Citizen has to be there with his passport and the kid's birth certificate showing him as a parent. You don't have to petition for the baby's immigration, however.
heisheFemaleEngland2006-08-29 15:25:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresFor your enjoyment


This is interesting. I guess it'll actually help with some questions about how to organize the forms in the package. For one, staples are okay, even though we all thought they hated them. :lol:

D'oh, Mew. Take your time when reading stuff... :blush:


Staples Mew? You will never live that one down!!!! :lol:

Although they did apparently staple the G-325A's together? Go figure.


They stapled all the pages of the G-325As and the I-129F together.

Edited by heishe, 29 August 2006 - 08:02 PM.

heisheFemaleEngland2006-08-29 20:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresFor your enjoyment
Oh, pardon me. The cover letter isn't gone entirely; it's just hidden back with my fiance letters of intent.
heisheFemaleEngland2006-08-29 18:33:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresFor your enjoyment
They sent my application back because it was missing a signature, but first they put it all in order and got it ready to file. Some people asked for pictures of what that looks like, so here you go!

My original submission was pretty much exactly according to the guide here. Here's what's been changed:

1: Cover letter removed
2: Multi-page forms stapled together
4: A sticker with a case number and bar code has been put at the top of my I-129f
3: My passport photo has been put in a little translucent paper bag and stapled to my G-325A
4: My fiance's passport photo is in the same bag as mine and stapled to MY G-325A, not his.
5: Photos removed from ziploc bag I sent them in and put in a paper envelope with USCIS return address
6: Not sure, but it seems like some of my evidence has been re-ordered slightly.
7: The mailing label and return address from my original submission has been cut from the envelope, stapled to a piece of paper and put at the very back of the packet
8: All of this is held together by a metal clip at the top

I don't suppose this will really help anyone, but those of you who were curious please enjoy! By the way, I did not include dividers or tabs with my original submission and there aren't any now. Oo, also, at the explanation page behind my rejection NOA, there is a field at the bottom that says "ID#_______" and there is a seven digit number stamped in that. I wonder if that shows who looked at my file?

Attached Files


heisheFemaleEngland2006-08-29 18:15:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresThe Value of Exeidited Approval
I wouldn't be willing to pay that. It's much more than I spend on communicating with my fiance even in a whole year, and it's more than a trip to England would cost me. I'm glad it's not allowed, or my application would be pushed back by people with more money than me.
heisheFemaleEngland2006-08-31 12:13:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresHelpful Note
Both me and my fiance have long middle names that didn't fit in the field when we tried to type them. So: handwritten!
heisheFemaleEngland2006-08-31 15:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresmilitary
Hi, I'm a woman marrying a foreign dude!
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-01 08:32:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNOA1! Yay, in the system! Way before expected.
Yeah, and they told me to send it back to CSC and not NSC, so that should knock some time off. Maybe.

Well with heishe getting their rejection today, I'd expect to be seeing yours withing a few days, for sure! Maybe, if like heishe, they'll have already sorted it and you won't have to go trhough that again when you resubmit!

:star: Cass (bebop the great)



Hey Jezbelseven, I just checked my bank account this mroning and my check was cashed. So that went trhough the day after I got my NOA1 via snail mail.

:star: Cass (bebop the great)



Excellent! With both you and heishe getting a responce now, hopefully I don't have much longer to wait to hear something back. I wouldn't be so worried about it if I knew whether I'll be getting a rejection notice or an NOA1, and I'm fairly sure itll be a rejection, but I just want to KNOW, one way or the other! :P


Edited by heishe, 29 August 2006 - 02:50 PM.

heisheFemaleEngland2006-08-29 14:47:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNOA1! Yay, in the system! Way before expected.

I'm sure it'll arrive soon, especially considering we sent it from such a close region of the country.
I was in Bloomington this morning. :)

:star: Cass (bebop the great)


Congrats! I wonder where mine is...


I'm so restless, checking my bank account all the time. Who knows, though? Mine could take a long time. CSC seems like a real twilight zone.

As for Bloomington, it's a zoo here this week, all the new students shuffling around in giant groups and their parents driving like morons. God help anyone trying to find a spot in the the Target or Wal-Mart parking lot.

Just sent mine on Aug 21st! NSC as well. So i guess bebop, heishe, and kirsten you are all on the month of august like we are, so ill check an eye on you about the progress of our respective cases!

I wish us all the best :) like everybody on this website of course :D


Yay! Maybe if we're lucky we can make our own 100 day club in a few months. :unsure:
heisheFemaleEngland2006-08-29 09:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNOA1! Yay, in the system! Way before expected.
Congrats! I wonder where mine is...
heisheFemaleEngland2006-08-28 18:58:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNOA2 received..what is next...
Do you need another signed original of the letter of intent to marry, or can a copy of the first one do? I mean, is copied signature alright?
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-05 06:25:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresQ10 on the I-129F
I thought that was for naturalization certificate number and if you were a US citizen from birth in the US you didn't have to put anything at all there.
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-06 08:48:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresYay, I exist!
I sent mine directly back to CSC. I'm hoping that since it shows up on the website that means the case is opened. Not sure, though! Really I'm just happy to see it got there and exists and all that.

Same for me, my received date way August 17th, but my notice date was August 23rd. I'm assuming that's because of the NSC-to-CSC transfer. It got to NSC on th 17th, but by the time it traveled and the case was opening, it was August 23rd.

:star: Cass (bebop the great)


heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-06 10:14:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresYay, I exist!
Wow, that's a huge gap! I wonder what took them so long. Anyway, I'll wait till I get my NOA1 in the mail to determine what that date really means.


My application was returned last week because I forgot to sign it, but they had already given it a number. The number sticker had a big red R on it, I suppose for REJECTED, so I thought maybe they'd assign it a new number once they accepted it. But every now and then I've been checking the old number in the system and lo and behold, today it's there:

..received on September 5, 2006..

so is that the NOA1 date?



I'm not sure if the "received" date is the same as the NOA date .... my NOA makes this distinction:
Received Date: July 3
Notice Date: July 21

And I acutally received the NOA on July 29


heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-06 09:32:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresYay, I exist!
Whee! This is very exciting to me!
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-06 08:08:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresYay, I exist!
My application was returned last week because I forgot to sign it, but they had already given it a number. The number sticker had a big red R on it, I suppose for REJECTED, so I thought maybe they'd assign it a new number once they accepted it. But every now and then I've been checking the old number in the system and lo and behold, today it's there:

..received on September 5, 2006..

so is that the NOA1 date?
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-06 08:01:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresDoes IMBRA make a difference in processing time?
I'm planning a wedding and have submitted a K1, so I guess I'm officially engaged. I can't really tell you when it happened, though. I don't have a ring and there was no one moment when we decided to be engaged or he asked me to marry him or something. We kinda just developed that understanding over months. Maybe the moment we told my mom would qualify. Hmm. It was certainly scary.
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-06 10:58:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresSad news, how do I cancel the petition??
Can you just abandon it? I don't know if your former fiancee would try to get the visa on her own without your cooperation, but if you don't send her the necessary documents it seems that would be nigh on impossible.

If you think you might want to petition for a new foreign fiancee in the future, I suppose it would be more important to officially cancel the application. Maybe contact the embassy in Manilla?
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-06 08:53:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWe all know touches mean nothing (or close to nothing).
I've had love-induced analism a couple times.. it was better than I thought it would be!
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-06 20:36:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWe all know touches mean nothing (or close to nothing).
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Clausmeaning to touches!

bebop + rocksteady - Buzz Kill!!! This is a warning! One more thread like this and I will have to issue a citation. LOL! Cheers!!!

Sheriff Uling


heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-06 10:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWe all know touches mean nothing (or close to nothing).
Work is boring! What else are we gonna do? Touches DO mean something, they mean we're not forgotten or discarded, and that's nice to know!
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-06 10:17:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresI'm so sorry!
You're old, neener neener.

I’m so sorry for all of you that have had to endure additional time and stress because you were not allowed to hear how I handled my petition.

Today I received my NOA2, my Petition was approved. I filed in May, with the old form, and I never received an IMBRA related RFE.

I did include in my Petition extra documentation, and I wrote on this forum what I did, and why. However, it seems others do not want to hear something that is “different” from their own narrow way of thinking, and saw fit to delete everything I wrote.

Once, again, I do feel for you, but as for me and my family, we are going to celebrate, as we are approved and are now only waiting on Moscow!

I wish I could say thank you to this forum, but I can’t, it has not been helpful.

I wish the rest of you, God Speed, and please, hang in there, eventually you will get results.


:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:


Edited by heishe, 01 September 2006 - 12:16 PM.

heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-01 12:13:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresHelp Plz :(
All the pages of your passport should suffice alone; including a copy of the birth certificate is fine but unnecessary.

You and your dad should both fill out an I-134. Claim what you can, which isn't much since you have no income, and your dad will be a co-sponsor. You don't need that form till your application is approved and forwarded to the embassy, though.
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-07 09:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresAttachments on G-325A
Certainly couldn't hurt.

Hmm, this frightens me a little. I graduated from college last year, and while in school was working 2-3 jobs at all times, so my employers in the last 5 years is upwards of 5-6 (after all, going back 5 years puts me at 18). But, after school, I've been working a full-time job (without unemployment period) and if I do end up switching jobs before our interview, there will be no time of unemployment. I'm worried if this will be of concern to the consular? I will be making more than enough to cover the 125%, but maybe I should think about having a sponsor lined up just in case they are concerned about my job history?

:star: Cass (bebop the graet)


Mat,

Are you sure? More than 5 different employers in the last 5 years? (If you've been changing jobs that much you may possibly face a problem with sponsorship.)

Yodrak


heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-07 11:57:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresAttachments on G-325A


I included a work history supplement with my fiance's G-325A. I only put one page, and it doesn't have his signature because I prepared it after he sent me his papers. I don't know yet if it's okay! But I too am interested in what other people have experienced with this.


The guide on this site says to sign and date attachments, so I would have them signed if it's possible. I don't see anything on the I-129F instructions about signing and dating though, so you might be okay.


Yeah.. I guess we'll see. I am a little worried about that too. At the time I was so impatient to send the packet out I didn't want to wait for my fiance to post me a signed copy of that supplement. I should probably have him send it to me now in anticipation of an RFE. I think it might not be a problem, though. His work history is complete on the actual form that he signed, the supplement just adds the gaps when he was unemployed and in school.
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-07 10:50:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresAttachments on G-325A
I included a work history supplement with my fiance's G-325A. I only put one page, and it doesn't have his signature because I prepared it after he sent me his papers. I don't know yet if it's okay! But I too am interested in what other people have experienced with this.
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-07 10:44:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresOh gods, I'm shaking...
Mine came today too :)
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-09 17:26:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWaiting on receipt
CSC got my package last week and issued the NOA1 just a couple days later; I got that in the mail yesterday and they still haven't cashed my check. So weird that they did the opposite for you.
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-10 13:12:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresGetting Nervous
I think you just gotta wait a bit more.
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-10 13:09:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresEnd of the road

Instead of wasting the visa, I would look for another lonely person and ask the embassy to remove the visa from one passport and place it on the other person's passport and life will go on just as fine.


lulz
heisheFemaleEngland2006-08-23 14:37:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhat is the visa approving process?
At Vermont, the application assembled into a file by people who do that, then sent to adjudication and entered into their records (NOA1) then enters the adjudication queue. The adjudicators look at files when they make it to the front of the queue and either approve or RFE.

At California, the application is assembled into a file by people who do that, then sent to adjudication and entered into their records then put in a storage box at the back of the third stall on the second floor ladies' bathroom. Sometimes they move the boxes to clean the toilets, this is known as a "touch." Once every four months, the CSC adjudicator hauls out a box to go through the files and either approves or issues RFE or, if he feels like it, tosses aside unopened. Then he glues the applications to his office ceiling. It takes three to six months for the glue to weaken sufficiently for an application to drop back to the floor. Every morning when he first arrives he picks up the applications that have fallen from the ceiling, and because they have shown the most effort, forwards them to mailroom so the applicants can be notified.

P.S. I made that up.

Edited by heishe, 06 September 2006 - 06:21 PM.

heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-06 18:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresI like touches.


There, I said it.

I'm sure you do... you horny little pervert. LOL! Cheers!!! - Sheriff Uling


:blush: :yes:
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-12 15:13:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresI like touches.
There, I said it.
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-12 15:05:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNOA2 in it's way. WOO HOO!!!
Eek, it went to junk mail?!
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-12 09:25:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresDated pictures

With all of our pictures, which were taken digital, we didn't have a date stamp on it. My brother showed me exactly how easy that was to fake. What we did have was the date each photograph was taken (approx.), the location (at least city and state - or city and country), and the names (as many as we could remember) of those in the pictures.

We had pictures from local events we attended, and also had letters from friends stating that they saw us at those events in that location so the letters back up the photographs.


I did about the same - wrote the date on the back (in some cases, just the month or week) and the people in the picture and the location. I'm not really worried it will be any kind of problem, more just curious.

See: http://www.visajourn...h...c=25799&hl=


Thanks!
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-14 10:48:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresDated pictures
I've been reading through the appeal decisions here (very interesting) and I notice a lot of them mention "undated photos" that can't establish when the people were really together. So what counts as a dated photo? Do they have to have a timestamp put there by the camera (easy to fake)? Should there be something in the photo itself, like a newspaper, that shows the date? Or is it enough just to write the date on the back?

I know USCIS can be kinda capricious about what they RFE for, but I'm just wondering if anyone has experience with this dated photo issue.
heisheFemaleEngland2006-09-14 10:38:00