Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
K-3 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	PROOF OF REALTIONSHIP AT INTERVIEW	I asked at my bank about the same thing and they informed me that unless my fiancé is there to sign the forms they will not accept her as part of the account. Their reasoning is that I can use her name and ruin her credit without her knowing it. I was not happy but it makes sense to me that they want to protect her credit. Hopefully when I go see her we can open an account in Bosnia that we can both use. I think it will be much easier that way. Don't know if this is helpful but that is what I've learned. Perhaps you might want to investigate further since I didn't really ask around a whole lot, with the exception of my bank.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2008-01-10 19:04:00
US Embassy and Consulate Discussion	Questions for I-134	Thank you both for the replies! Gary: On Q #4 asked about what my sister would put, not me. I know I'm supposed to put N/A K-1 Visa.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-07-22 13:22:00
US Embassy and Consulate Discussion	Questions for I-134	Here are some questions I have for you. 1. I make over the 125% needed for the Affidavit, but we thought it best to get a co-sponsor just in case we need it. My sister agreed to co-sponsor for us. My question is, will there be opportunity to submit her I-134 if it is needed or do we have to submit it right away in order for it to count. 2. I have a statement from my employer, my pay stubs for 6 months and my W-2's from last year. However, I'm having problems getting a statement from my banks. Is it absolutely important for me to send that too or can I just print out my online statement and have them certify it at the bank? Would that be enough? 3. In the I-134 on Question 7 there is a section that states, "I have other personal property, the reasonable value of which is." What property are they talking about exactly? Is it just big things like vehicles or do they mean appliances or books, furniture and things like that too? Also, do you have to provide evidence as to the ownership of the reported value like you do with everything else? 4. At the end of the I-134 there is a part where you have to check whether you "intend" or "not intend" to make contributions in support of the beneficiary. My sister as the possible co-sponsor does not intend to make any contributions to our household. If she checks "not intend" will that count against us? That part was kind of confusing for me but who knows? I'm sure I have other questions but these are the only ones I can think of at this point. Thanks in advance for you help. Edited by EasyRider, 21 July 2009 - 05:07 PM.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-07-21 17:04:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	CSC NOA2 in 31 days???	Jealous.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-03-23 19:01:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	March 2009 K1 Filer	QUOTE (malamu @ Aug 18 2009, 12:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (EasyRider @ Aug 18 2009, 09:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Today is the day of our interview!!! I'm very excited but nervous as hell. In a couple of hours we'll find out whether or not we get the visa. I need to remember to breath. I wish I was there with you, baby. Everything will be fine. No matter what happens, we'll always be together. I love you with all my heart. :********************** I wish you were here too. It would be much easier for me. People, thank you for your good wishes! It wasn't a breeze, but I'm going to get my visa tomorrow at 4 o'clock. Yay!!! I'm so happy the process is finally over!!! Phuck that interview guy, baby. What the hell does he know?	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-08-18 13:19:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	March 2009 K1 Filer	Today is the day of our interview!!! I'm very excited but nervous as hell. In a couple of hours we'll find out whether or not we get the visa. I need to remember to breath. I wish I was there with you, baby. Everything will be fine. No matter what happens, we'll always be together. I love you with all my heart. :**********************	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-08-18 02:51:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	March 2009 K1 Filer	Congratulations to all of those whom have gotten their NAO2's recently. And for those who haven't, hang in there! It's coming soon!!! After calling the NVC about 50 times since Monday and getting nothing but a busy signal (How is that possible? Must be really busy now.) I finally got through today and found out that our petition was received Wednesday 6/24/09 and was sent out 6/26/09. So it's on it's way to the embassy!!! I'm very happy right now since I get to see my baby soon!!!	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-07-01 13:27:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	March 2009 K1 Filer	QUOTE (rainschild2007 @ May 7 2009, 03:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (EasyRider @ May 5 2009, 10:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> We got engaged May 12/13. So here's the May Engagement Club so far 5/12.....Danu 5/13.....EasyRider 5/14.....Rob in Cali 5/16.....CZ & CF 5/17.....FranziskaS 5/27.....rainschild2007 5/13.....EasyRider & Malamu Just thought I'd add my baby on there.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-05-07 16:36:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	March 2009 K1 Filer	QUOTE (CF&CZ @ May 1 2009, 06:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Now, wouldn't it be nice if we received our NOA2 on our anniversaries? How cool would that be? Anyone else on this thread have a May anniversary? So far: 5/12.....Danu 5/14.....Rob in Cali 5/16.....CZ & CF 5/17.....FranziskaS 5/27.....rainschild2007 We got engaged May 12/13.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-05-05 23:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	March 2009 K1 Filer	After I sent our petition and received our NAO1, I mentally and emotionally settled in for a long wait. Don't get me wrong, I was hoping for a fast approval but I know that the process is long and I was trying to be realistic about the whole situation. But all this news about fast approvals got me excited and now I can't help but expect our NAO2 in the mailbox every time I check the mail. I should have never learned of this fast approval business. It has made the waiting so much harder.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-04-12 15:18:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	March 2009 K1 Filer	I just sent out K-1 Petition not 15 minutes ago!!! We're both very excited, as you can imagine. We should get conformation they received it in a couple of days! FINALLY!!! Good luck to all March 2009 Filers!!!	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-03-04 17:36:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Need Lots of Help!!!	QUOTE (Gary and Alla @ Feb 9 2009, 05:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ok, so I am doing nothing else so it isn't a bother. First some caveats. You do not need any other sites, I doubt they will do anything but confuse you. This is the best by far. You do not need an attorney but it is a persoanl decision if you want to waste your money. Do not bother to call the VSC or CSC, unless you like to wait on hold and get no answers, oh forgot, the standard answer..."about 6 months" OK , those time and money wasters out of the way, lets get to the good stuff... 1. Enter "jr." after your last name, always enter names exactly as they are on your PASSPORT. If there are any decrepencies on any documents...passport trumps. For your fiancee also. 2. You are a US citizen so you do not have one of these. Write "NA". Always use NA, None or Unknown as answers as appropriate. "NA" is not always appropriate, but in this case it is. 3. "NA" would also be appropriate here. 4. Include apartment number if there is one. Squeeze it all in. Attach a sheet if you have to. 4a. For Ukraine I used the "Oblast" Whatever is the largest political subdivision under the "nation" is the correct one to use. 4b. You should be OK to use internationally recognized country codes in the addresses portion. I used "UA" for Ukraine and for her birthplace I used "Ukraine SSR" which is what it was at the time. 5. This should be stated on her passport. My wife's has two entries, her citizenship is "Ukraine" and her nationality is "Russian". I used her citizenship, Ukraine. 6. You must spell her name exactly as on her passport, don't be messing with any name changes or spelling changes now and do not worry how they pronouce it, for the next few months, go with exactly how anything is spelled on the passport. On the I-129 you will have to write her name in her native alphabet also if it is different than ours. 7. Sounds like you were self-employed as a consultant. And sounds like you kinda forgot about taxes and all that nuisance stuff, hey it happens. I was self employed for 7 years so I can sympathize with Tom Dachle forgetting like a couple million in income. It happens to the best of us. But now it will bite you in the a$$, maybe. The consulate will use your CURRENT income as the first qualifier. If your CURRENT gross income at the time of the interview is more than the minimum (and you can prove it), you WIN!!!!! If not, then you will have to use assets, etc to justify the support need. I'll leave you to sort it out, but if you haven't filed for 2008 yet, keep that in mind when you are deducting all those legitimate business expenses and reducing your gross income. What they are looking for is the net profit from the bottom line of schedule C, your "gross" personal income that you put on the 1040 and pay income (and that DAMN "self employment tax") on. You cannot wiggle out of that 15.3% self employment tax as hard as you try. Dammit. 7a. If there are documents ANYWHERE related to her employment, YES she should list this on the G-325. For the most part the USCIS and consulate couldn't care less about your fiancee's employment history. You CAN list her job as "self employed consultant" which is not a lie and covers all her contracts. Really there weren't any bonehead questions (well OK maybe the "jr." thing) and I hope it helps so you don't get an RFE. Good luck Thank you for your replies. They were all very helpful! 1. My fiancee suggested that I list "Jr." as part of my last name but I wouldn't listen. I guess she's right, as always! 2. This makes more sense to me as I wrote in my reply above. 3. I'd rather write "---" but maybe you guys are right. 4. It's not a matter of squeezing it since it fits fine. My fiancee is adamant to follow the question exactly. The form asks for "Street and Number" but it says nothing of the apartment number so she doesn't want to include it. Her opinion is that if they wanted the full address they would ask for it. And my opinion is that having it and not needing it is better than needing it and not having it, especially since including it won't make much of a difference if it is not needed. 4a. Next subdivision after Country, makes sense. In this case it would be Federation of BIH. 4b. I would think that it should be ok with international codes but for some reason it makes me nervous!!! 5. Always following the info on the passport is good advice, thanks! 6. Same as above! But on the I-129f form it states that we should write it in the native alphabet if it is not the same as Roman letters. Technically it is in Roman letters since it is not in Arabic or Chinese or something. But do Roman letters include "??" 7. Just to be clear, I never "Daschled" out of any taxes. I didn't forget or ignore or anything like that. As I stated before, some of my clients were my state and local government so they had the info so it's not like I was lying or something. But I guess I cleared it up. I do feel like we're picking on old Tom Daschle. It's not like he's the first or the last politician to have "discrepancies." 7a. We will use that for both of us. Makes sense. Thanks again!	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-02-09 19:55:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Need Lots of Help!!!	QUOTE (Karin und Otto @ Feb 9 2009, 04:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I would put it just after your last name "Smith Jr." - this has to have come up in your lifetime - right? The correct answer is "NONE" - not N/A. If you live in a house - under Apt.# it would be appropriate to write "N/A". Follow the example in the Example Form In Germany they don't have states - they have Bundesland but we knew what they meant and put the 'state' under State. You can always leave the form blank (when typing) and complete it by hand after printing - that way you can make it fit. See above It is very likely it will be written with letters available on an english keyboard. The G-325A is a biographical information sheet - it is important to be accurate - it sounds like you are an indipendent (mostly) contractor or some might say 'self-employed.' Again - this form should be answered accurately (with no unexplained gaps) - it is not a tax-reporting document. Thank you for taking the time to reply. 1. It has come up but there is always a box for suffixes, usually. And where there is not, it usually isn't important and it's simply left out. 2. This is where I get confused. I would think N/A would be more appropriate since I don't need one since I'm a citizen. So it doesn't really apply to me but maybe you're right. 3. The reason I wouldn't write N/A is because sometimes apartments are given letters instead of numbers. 4. I looked at the example before I posted this. 5. There isn't anything in Bosnia that is equivalent to a state or Bundesland, whatever that is. 6. I figured so. 7. See above. 8. Of course. 9. Accuracy is my enemy, at this point. 10. This makes sense. Its not a tax reporting document just a biographical one. Good.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-02-09 19:37:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Need Lots of Help!!!	I know these are going to seem like dumb questions to most of you VJ pros but for a novice like me, it is all very puzzling. My fiancee and I tried looking for the information ourselves so that we don't have to bother anyone but it's very confusing to us since different sites say different things and even when they do agree we still need some clarification. I have also tried calling the service center but I waited half an hour for them to answer 1 question and in the end, I lost the connection before she could answer. So I will post all of our questions here in one thread with the hopes that somebody out there has an answer to at least some of them. And lets be honest, if VJ'ers don't have the answer then we're in deep trouble. So anyway, here goes. 1. I am a "Jr." However, in both the G325a and the I-129F forms there is no suffix box. There is only "last" "first" and "middle" name. So where do I put the "Jr.?" On my passport it's written right next to my last name in the same field. I don't want them to think that my last name is "Jr." and I certainly don't want them to think that my middle name is "Jr." either. Any suggestions? 2. I don't have an Alien # so what do I write, "N/A" or "none?" 3. I was told that we should not leave any boxes blank, so should I write an "-----" in the "Apt." box since I live in a house? Or should I leave it blank because it would be obvious that I live in a house if I don't write anything? 4. Speaking of address, the G325a form asks for the address for the last 5 years, but it asks for only the "Street and Number." Do they want the full address including the Apt. # or just the street and number as they ask. 4a. Also in that question it asks for the "State or Province" but my fiancee is from Bosnia where they have not states or provinces but they do have two "entities" that make up Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Srpska and The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also lives in the Kanton of Sarajevo but this is more like a county than a state. Should she use put any of these or put nothing since technically there are no states or provinces? 4b. Also, in that same line it asks for the "Country" and as you may imagine "Bosnia and Herzegovina does not fit in there. Can we just write Bosnia? Or can we use the international Country codes like "BIH" which is used in her passport in that field. Or must we hand write "Bosnia and Herzegovina" in all the fields that require the country? 5. Related to (4b.), there is a section in G325a that asks for Citizenship or Nationality, can we just write "Bosnian?" 6. Her last name has a "?" in it which is pronounced "ch" as you may know. I would prefer if her name were spelled correctly so we are writing the "?." However, will they write it like that or will they just write a "C" instead? 7. Lastly, I have a question about employment. I have done some consulting work in the past. In fact, a good portion of my income has come from consulting. However because I have worked for a lot of different firms, including my state and local government, but only for short periods at a time and only for small jobs at a time I was never sent any tax forms to claim during tax time. And to be honest, I can't even go back and check which firm I worked with which time and for how long or how much I earned. So, should I include this information in my G325a form or should I leave it out since I don't have any accurate records of it nor did I claim in during tax time? 7a. In a related question, my fiancee is also doing some consulting work. She has signed a very specific contract stating that she is not a employee or representative of this firm and they also do not report her income since it is a foreign firm and its headquarters is in another country. I don't understand the employment or tax laws in Bosnia and I doubt that even the people that wrote them do either but should she include this in her employment history? I know some of these are bonehead questions but I really want to avoid stupid mistakes on our forms to try to avoid an RFE so any help that you can give us would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading this far and thanks in advance for your help! EasyRider and Mala Mu	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-02-09 17:38:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	What does this mean?	QUOTE (DavChels @ Feb 13 2009, 09:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And that they will probably soon be issuing the NOA1...which contains your case number to be able to review the status of your case online. They also put the case number on the back of the check, so if you have online banking you will probably be able to get that case number now. The NOA2 is what you are really really looking for...and what so many of us are still waiting for. Get in line and pray for patience! How exactly can you see the case number on the back of the check if you have "online checking?" Does your bank write that info in your online statement? Just curious to know so I can look for it when I send our petition.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-02-14 19:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Drug testing	QUOTE (Cailyn10289 @ Feb 19 2009, 01:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My fiance and I have applied for the K-1 fiance visa and I'm just learning that they perform a drug test. He smoked weed recently but it will be over a month until the test will take place. How long until the drug is out of his system and how far back is the test for? Please help I'm so worried! I know you weren't asking for a morality lesson so I'll just answer your question. From what I've heard, the time frame is about 6 weeks. But that's usually for people whom are moderate to heavy smokers. Moderate could mean 4-5 times a week and heavy is pretty much an everyday smoker. If his smoking is sporadic then a couple of weeks should be enough time to flush out the THC. A month is much better. But just in case, he can take those detox kits. They shouldn't be too hard to find. Oh and one more thing. When he gets to the "do you do drugs" question...**	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-02-19 16:07:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	adobe text	If you have Adobe Acrobat Professional, you can use Adobe Designer to change the font of the individual fields. I think they both come in the package when you install it. And if you don't have it, I'm sure you can "borrow" a friend's copy. Edited by EasyRider, 23 February 2009 - 07:04 PM.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-02-23 18:59:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Economic Crisis causing delays?	QUOTE (Bobby_Umit @ Mar 2 2009, 09:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (eatnbugs @ Mar 2 2009, 09:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Does anyone have information supporting or dispelling the information that my fiance received from an attorney in Brazil who told her that due to the economic crisis in the US, fiancee visas are taking close to 11 months to process? The Attorney told her that it would be faster for me to get married in Brazil and after file for a k3 which would take about 6 months. The graphs surely don't show this trend but I guess it could be a recent change. Thanks. No effect from what I have seen getting approved - seems situation normal. I really hope this is the case. We're getting ready to file our petition in a couple of days and I don't think I can take much more than the 6 to 8 months. 11 months is just cruel and unusual punishment, if you ask me.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-03-02 23:06:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Apply fiancee visa without proff met in person?	I'm confused. You say he can't come and see you and if you go to see him you would be committing fraud because it's a tourist visa and not a K-1. Well who says you have to get married on your first trip. Go see him and if everything goes well, the both of you can spend some time getting all your paper work ready. You can even submit your petition while you're still there with him. You'll have to go back to your country and re-enter the US, if I'm not mistaken, but who cares at this point? Just go and meet him and get it out of the way.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-03-02 23:14:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	RFE - Is it Good or Bad	QUOTE (Gary and Alla @ Mar 4 2009, 11:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If you submit your passport stamps as evidence you MUST submit copies of ALL pages of YOUR passport, icluding the front and back cover. When they say "all", they mean exactly ALL. That means blank pages, empty pages...ALL. When you say "front and back cover" do you mean the inside cover or the outside cover as well? I only sent in a copy of the inside cover. I didn't think the outside cover would matter. I hope that's the case.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-03-05 00:53:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Can petitioner accompany benificiarly to the interview	I think it depends on the embassy. I know in some places it is not permitted and in others it is perfectly acceptable, if not required. If it is possible for you to go then even if you're not in the interview with her, you can at least be in the embassy waiting for her. This would show your support for her and your relationship. It can't hurt. Others might be able to give you more information for Thailand since I'm not sure. Edited by EasyRider, 12 March 2009 - 12:41 AM.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-03-12 00:41:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Met on the Internet... worried about prejudice	QUOTE (eyoa @ Mar 13 2009, 09:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There would be more of a concern with the manner of how you met if you had met through a marriage broker or family member. I've read this a lot here on VJ and I'm wondering why that is the case. I get the whole marriage broker thing but what's so bad about meeting through a family member? Just curious. I met my fiance online too, by the way.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-03-14 13:38:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	How Can I Print My Email Inbox Pages or Folder List Pages	You don't have to do the whole prtscn thing. It just takes up too much time and it's not necessary. I haven't used msn, ever, so I don't know how well it works. But in gmail it worked perfectly. All you have to do is set up your email account to show 100 messages per page so you don't have to print 20 pages or something. Then go to your web browser <file> then <print preview>. This should open a new window showing you the page you're printing. You should see all the emails on there, at least all the ones on the page, 1-100. If you don't see them or if the page is cut off then at the top you should see an option where you can zoom in or out of the page from 10% to 100% and more. Choose <shrink to fit> and this should change the page and show all your emails. Then just print. Follow the directions for the rest of your pages. Don't worry about the smaller font when it shrinks. If you have a decent printer it'll be read easily. I did this with my emails and it worked out just fine. Good luck!	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-03-18 15:08:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Read some scary things about marriage fraud	QUOTE (paschwartz @ Mar 18 2009, 02:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You guys are awesome! After reviewing of all that has been said here, I need to step back and take a good look at the big picture. While the law simply says you must have met in person within the past 2 years, the inference from everything I've read here is that you really should be extremely familiar with each other. That doesn't happen in a week, and it is made more complicated by virtue of the fact that USC is not exposed to the foreign fiancé(e) on a daily basis simply due to geography. Daily exposure via the phone or the internet really doesn't seem sufficient, yet the USCIS and the CO's continue to approve K-1 visas for marginal cases. My case would be marginal at best if I filed now. So time will tell if this is going to be the real thing or not. Forget about the fraud thing for a second. Lets say that she's genuinely interested in you and that your relationship is "legitimate," to use a very cold term to describe a relationship of any kind. But lets put that aside for a second. There are countless threads started here regularly talking about how two people met and the relationship soured soon after the spouse came to the USA. Then you read about the history and you see that they've "known" each other for about a year some even much less and petitioned for a K1 visa after the first visit. These relationships failed not because there was some kind of fraud but because some of these people didn't take the time to get to know their spouse before they got married. So there are other things to consider besides fraud. I would take the advice of everyone here and take it slow. If you can, go visit her as often as possible and stay a little longer than a week. Give yourself the time to get to know her and her family and most importantly give her the opportunity to get to know you. After all, she's leaving her family, her home and everything and everybody she knows and loves for YOU! She's risking a lot too. Who knows, you could end up being a horrible person and now she's a foreigner stuck in a country that doesn't like foreigners married to an a$$hole. I'm not saying you are one but you get my meaning. Don't be put off by the horror stories you've read here, you may be passing on something wonderful. But be careful and take your time.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-03-18 14:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	About to send in I-129F petition.... checklist....	QUOTE (pushbrk @ Mar 5 2009, 02:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I like that you put the passport pictures near the front. It's a nice touch. Good idea. I agree. I wish I would have done this with mine. It looks better, I think.	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-03-05 17:13:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	hi there everyone	QUOTE (Laura+Tom @ Feb 12 2009, 02:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The OP has got to be a troll or seriously hasn't got a clue. That's what we thought. She's just trying to get some angry responses. No way this person is this clueless!	EasyRider	Male	Bosnia-Herzegovina	2009-02-13 16:03:00