Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K-1 or bust	This doesn't make sense to me. You were waiting for the appeal and you got married in the meantime and now you want to go back to using the K1 visa. Looks like you're looking at "bust" from your two options.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-02-28 01:45:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Proof of meeting and ongoing relationship stuff	I included a receipt for a coke I got at Narita airport. I don't believe in the word overkill.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-02-28 05:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Confused about Item 11 (Form I 134)	Put na for that question. Look at the example form here. Sorry I am posting from my phone so it's difficult to find the link but it should be at the top of this page.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-03-01 23:32:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	k1 fee	If you google 129f fee you can see it's $340. Search takes 5 seconds.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-03-02 00:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Recent Super fast NOA2s (in 30 days or less)	You have it all wrong. First the idea would not work for people who have a difficult time to get a visa to come to the US. People in most countries cannot just come here and go to the USCIS office. Second, USCIS doe not approve or issue VISAS, they approve petitions. Yes, it wouldn't be fair to everyone but its not like this process is fair to everyone as it is now. And I was just considering the 129F petition approval part.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-03-04 15:25:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Recent Super fast NOA2s (in 30 days or less)	If for 129F petition all you have to do is prove that you have met within the last two years and that you both are free to marry, I wish USCIS had a service where you went to their office and took your official picture together and signed a sworn affidavit that you are both free to marry. No boarding passes, receipts, visa stamps, etc.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-03-04 05:51:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Receipt Number	Which service center is yours headed to? Did you try checking your status online? Try using WAC####### or EAC#######? I don't know which one it is but its likely to be a 10 digit one. https://egov.uscis.g...is/Dashboard.do Edited by Yagisama, 07 March 2011 - 12:24 AM.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-03-07 00:23:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	5 months since our NOA1	VJ timeline is currently a mess. It's including approved jan/feb filers to overall processing. You'll get a better sense of it by looking at this to see the flow in approvals: http://tom.ae/igor_completeness.php However, it's NOT precise it still gives you an idea. I don't know the answer to your other question, unfortunately. Thanks for posting that link! I had been looking for it! I find the consolidation of data that was made there very helpful!	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-03-07 15:06:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NOA2 Finally	Congratulations!! About time! Your I-129f was approved in 211 days from your NOA1 date.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-03-22 17:22:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	small income and no co sponsor	What is your income now? Wait until you've saved this much (19,000 - income) x 3 and then apply.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-03-23 22:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Proof of relationship	Yeah each evidence by themselves is flimsy but taken as a collective they can at least give some assurance of a bona fide application. I visited Japan 9 times in the last 3 years. I just happened to keep most of my boarding passes and receipts only because I stashed them into my Japan trip boxes and didn't think much of them until I realized they might come in handy for the K1. What really really amazes me is the chat/phone longs though. I've read that some people print them out. I can picture the CO going over a few hundred pages. "I see on like 234 you have a 'nighty night pumpkin" and there is a "good night cupcake" so it passes the relationship test! Or worse yet you see a bunch of 'lol u 2" IM message. Anyhow, what location is she in? I wouldn't count on any expedition. On the night of the quake I freaked out and asked for our case to be expedited and it was rejected the next day. We were almost at our 5 month mark at that time so it didn't really matter for us though.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-03-25 23:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Proof of employment	Direct deposit, and my pay stubs are web pages on the company intranet. In this modern check less age, that's what pay stubs are. I printed all of mine for 2010 until now.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-03-26 16:16:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Proof of employment	Personally, in my opinion, a third party verifiable report is much more relevant than a letter stating "Bob currently is an active employee at ABC company with income XX,XXX. - Signed John" Many companies including mine utilize the work number. The report ends up being generated on company letterhead and is authorized and approved via electronic signature. When I follow my work's "Immigration Verification" this is what I get. This along with the pay stubs and tax transcripts should do the trick. It might not be needed but I'm taking it with me just the same. It takes less than a minute to generate the report. Immigration Verification Get an employment status verification for use with immigration forms. Do you need to verify your employment status for immigration purposes? If so, you can obtain a verification of employment status here. To obtain a verification of your employment status to use when submitting immigration forms, click the "Continue" button below. The verification does not satisfy the requirements for the following forms: 1. Application for Family Unity Benefits (Form I-817) 2. Application for Temporary Protected Status (Form I-821) 3. Application to Preserve Residence for Naturalization Purposes (Form N-470) More information can be found at USCIS.GOV. NOTE: The verification may not be used to confirm employment or apply for credit. Information Current As Of: Employer: Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN): Employee: SSN: Division: Employment Status: Active Most Recent Start Date: Original Hire Date: Total Time With Employer: Job Title: Rate of Pay: Salary History: Year Total Pay 2011YTD 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 Edited by Yagisama, 25 March 2011 - 09:41 PM.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-03-25 21:38:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Evidence Question	When I click print screen in the skype chat window nothing happens. Print screen just captures the screen. You will need to open another application such as MS Paint or MS Word and paste (Control-V) the screen shot and then you can print it.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-04-04 02:48:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	RFE's	When it comes to an RFE, one blessing in disguise is that you can use the opportunity to send more evidence that you have accumulated since sending in the petition, which will help your case in the interview stage. An RFE seems to add a setback of 2 -4 weeks, so its not a really major issue provided that you can address it adequately.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-02-15 00:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NO SHUTDOWN	No shutdown.....until next Thursday!	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-04-09 00:05:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Tax Forms for the I-134	You can also go and pick them up at the local IRS office.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-04-10 22:33:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	the elusive NOA2	Congratulations!!	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-04-11 18:16:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NOA1 hardcopy	It's completely useless. You're not missing anything. It's the NOA2 that you need later.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-05-14 00:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	3rd I-129F app	http://www.visajourn...esting-divorce/ Man that thread hurt my head. It's like someone doing all the wrong things.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-01-31 22:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Quick question regarding updating one's address!	Not a dumb question at all, since it's best to be diligent about this entire process. Your timeline isn't up to date, so I don't know what step in the process you are, but I would imagine you'd want to update your address to make sure that you get all correspondence. You can think of it as just the mailing address if it helps but I don't think it will matter. Maybe someone else will have a more concrete answer.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-10-14 03:39:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	I-134 (Use Original Copies?)	Thanks for the welcomes and tips. Although we may be a ways off from the NOA2 (our NOA1 was 8/30 and we're at CSC) I want to be on top of things so I know exactly what to expect once it arrives Keeping my fingers crossed. Is it just me, or is waiting for the NOA2 the worst part overall? The variance on time is insane (for JP and CSC, the numbers are just nuts - some are done in 80 days, some 6 months? ugh!) Could be tonight, could be end of January. Really grateful I'll be going to visit her next month, and that we're on our way to getting through this thing It's not just you. That part of the process was the worst. Once the NOA2 was done, I made the interview appointment myself and flew to Tokyo for the interview a couple weeks later. My income is well over the poverty guidelines, but I'm operating on this idea that providing multiple levels of support evidence is good - ie Savings, employer letter / paystubs, tax return documents, promise to purchase a bond, etc. You know how this thing can be - don't want to leave any gaps that could give them any reason to extend or delay the process. What exactly did you provide with your I-134? I think there comes a point of diminishing returns and I definitely crossed it myself at times. Even though we got ticket #1 in the Tokyo Embassy during the interview, we waited longer than many others who had higher numbers. My guess is because I had included way too much #######. I had included paystubs for 1 year (2 each month), 3 tax transcripts, employer letter. I had even included savings statements for one year. All it came down to was the interviewer asking me how long I had been with my present employer. For the I-864 I kept it simple and just included income info and left out the savings.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-10-18 14:45:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	I-134 (Use Original Copies?)	Quick question for the group - We are about 30 days post NOA1. Is it too early for me to prepare and send the 1-134 doc / supporting evidence to my fiance? I'd like to get this done... and it gives me something to work on! Just wondering if anyone has had any issues with the paystubs, bank statements being from a couple months prior to the NOA2. Thanks for any insight you might have! I think its better for those documents to have dates close to the interview date. I included paystubs, etc with a date of one week before the interview. So I'd suggest to at least wait until the NOA2.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-10-18 00:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	I-134 (Use Original Copies?)	Copies are fine, even for the employer letter. Heck, my company has an automated immigration process that utilizes the work number. The report is generated on company letterhead and is authorized and approved via electronic signature. I just included a copy of that for the I-134 and now for the I-864EZ. Edited by Yagisama, 14 October 2011 - 03:32 PM.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-10-14 15:32:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Email translations	I concur with the others. Don't include email, IM, etc. It's completely meaningless and doesn't add anything to the application. I was at the Tokyo US Embassy during the interview and they didn't even look at half the pictures/documents.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-10-13 16:57:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Visiting my Fiance in UK	I visited my fiancee in Tokyo numerous times while our 129F was pending. Heck, I event attended the interview and got called to answer some questions. I went back again and we did the POE together in the Citizen/permanent residents line. So there shouldn't be any problems.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-10-26 19:26:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	I 134 Question # 10 ) INTEND or DO Not Intend	Since it's already in my clipboard due to answering the other question: N/A ( K1 visa process for permanent residence ) without checking either of the boxes	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-10-28 03:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	k 1 visa problems	Gary is right, everyone who tries to beat the system here has issues, not to say everything goes smooth. I'm not sure I follow. Who has tried to "beat the system" in this case?	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-10-31 17:35:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Infamous roundtrip ticket question...	Why wouldn't a one way ticket be OK if the whole point of the K1 visa is to move to the US?	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-11-10 02:50:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K-1 Interview - What Evidence to Bring?	I attended the K1 interview with my fiancee in the US Embassy in Tokyo. This list contains what she needs to bring: http://japan2.usemba...kchecklist.html I had front loaded our 129F with copies of visa stamps (me visiting Japan and she visiting the US), copies of boarding passes, copies of hotel receipts, and lots of pictures throughout the previous 3 years. I took copies of all that to the interview. The interviewer didn't ask for any of it. Personally I never considered letters, email, phone bills,etc to be very useful. That goes triple for chat logs. So I never included any of that. Obviously, birth certificate, police certificate, etc, you're going to need originals. The rest of the stuff we just used copies. Japan is an extremely low fraud country so the interview should be very simple and fast. The interviewer even called me up to the window and just asked me where I worked and for how long. A couple minutes later he said congratulations and we were on our way to get breakfast. It was easier than any trip I had to the California DMV.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-11-16 03:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	INS Making it up as they go along?	You're talking to a brick wall. No matter what you say they will be right. Time for an end to this thread. I'm sorry I started it. Had I known there were such self-righteous individuals here that just have to be right in pushing their opinion, I definitely would not have. Are we reading the same posts?	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-11-30 20:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Tax Transcripts?	The tax transcripts are actually preferable.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-12-01 13:55:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	POE problems	Wow! Quite an ordeal! Very glad everything worked out at the end!	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2011-12-16 17:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K1 Visa - Missed the two year deadline by 5 days?	The K-1 visa has only two requirements: 1. The couple has met sometime in the last two years. 2. Both individuals are legally free to get married. That's it. I understand that the issue here may be only 5 days, but that still violates the first requirement. I would wager that this would cause the petition to be denied, and require the filing of a new petition.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2012-01-22 03:24:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	She is HERE and i need help!	What's keeping the OP from visiting her in Mexico? And "grammar-correcting" is hyphenated (as is "#######-retentive"), si man. No, it is not hyphenated. So, no man. Or should that be no hombre?	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2012-01-13 02:03:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	She is HERE and i need help!	Oh dear, rather harsh there, especially as a real grammar pedant would not pick up someone else after such an error. Similar to.... "I have a job interview, do I have to go, or can I just send someone to take my place"? No period is required. Question mark is required after quotation mark. Just sayin' like Edit - Even the use of quotation marks at all could be argued Everyone's a stickler for the facts. Give me a break! I'm just a pedant in training.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2012-01-13 01:53:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	She is HERE and i need help!	Thanks for the spell check. It was a grammar check. You're welcome all the same.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2012-01-12 21:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	She is HERE and i need help!	Didnt I say that? Look you dont have to repeat everything I say! I dont need a echo. Didn't I say that? Look, you don't have to repeat everything I say! I dont need an echo. (A new and improved, grammar correcting echo!)	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2012-01-12 21:05:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	She is HERE and i need help!	im sorry but it made me laugh It made me laugh too. And really, to be honest, it IS a pretty silly question. Similar to.... "I have a job interview, do I have to go, or can I just send someone to take my place."	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2012-01-12 20:53:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Fiancee has owes 200k on Credit Card. Help!!!	Hello everyone, My fiancee owes 200k on her Credit Card and hasn't paid in 6 months. Will this affect our fiance visa? A little thing like whether it's USD or other currency really can change a sentence. Not that it has any impact on this thread, but a couple more keystrokes to give relevant information really goes a long way. I just bought airfare for my New Year trip to Tokyo so I got over the equivalent of 200K pesos on my card just this month alone. I wouldn't sweat it at all. Edited by Yagisama, 28 November 2010 - 10:08 PM.	Yagisama	Male	Japan	2010-11-28 22:05:00