Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	YAAAY!! I'm going to be a Dad!!	I know when completing the I129F forms it specifically said that all children claiming K2 visas must be listed on the form. You could not add them afterwards. It must be different if the father is the USC and petitioner - I would follow Aussiewench's links - she knows everything!!! I would also suggest calling USCIS for confirmation. Michelle.....their child would not be applying for a K-2 visa as once the birth is registered the child is a USC and as with all US citizens they dont need a visa to their own country. There is no immigration process for the child. But there IS a birth registration that must be done!!	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-09 11:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	End of the road	hope u guys will work things out i sometimes feel the same way about my relationship. me and my SO are both 21 and i still think its too early to get married. we both still got a lot to learn. sometimes i feel like his love is just too much for me to handle. he loves me with all his heart and he wants nuttin more than being with me for the rest of his life. for me this means leaving my friends and family behind and starting a new life. sometimes i really do feel like its to early. but marriage its the only way for us to be together. dont get me wrong i love him more than anything else in this world and i culdnt b without him cuz he is making my life complete. but getting married scares me. Writing like an over-caffeinated 13 year old AOL user really annoys me. Hint: This is a message board, not a chatroom or a cell phone. Entire words CAN be typed easily, and should be. As such, here is the above post in English for any who couldn't translate it.... "I hope u you guys will work things out. I sometimes feel the same way about my relationship. Me and my SO are both 21, and I still think it's too early to get married. We both still got have a lot to learn. Sometimes i feel like his love is just too much for me to handle. He loves me with all his heart, and he wants nuttin nothing more than being to be with me for the rest of his life. For me, this means leaving my friends and family behind and starting a new life. Sometimes i really do feel like it's to too early; but marriage its is the only way for us to be together. Don't get me wrong; I love him more than anything else in this world and I culdnt b couldn't be without him cuz because he is making my life complete. but However, getting married scares me." Make that third sentence "My SO and I.." and add an upper-case "I" to the fifth, and you're on the way. I think Sabrina's English must have been influenced by someone else talking like that. She uses "dun" for "don't" if I remember correctly. I've never even seen that. Is that true Sabrina?	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-09 15:45:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	End of the road	Good luck to both of you. Take your time and hopefully you will come to a good conclusion. Thanks everyone for your support, i found out last night from a friend that if you graduate from uni in the states your allowed a 6 month working visa in the UK which she can get whithin 2-3 weeks!! But only 6 months after you have graduated. The thing is when we all started our VJ you have a very tough choice "who goes where" Now i think its best that both people are open minded in which place to settle. As for greenwood, IN i have been there lots of times and i do like it, so its not a matter of not being able to live there for me. Also whilst i am here that Pr!ck that keeps saying stupid 5 year old comments on this thread will you please give it a rest because its very boring now. GROW UP! So did you guys decide to give it another shot in London for six months???	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-08-24 07:00:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	End of the road	Im sorry to hear this. Maybe it's a case of cold feet and she'll reconsider. Your visa is good for six months. I don't want to give you false hope, but effectively you have till January to 'make up'. Majizee, if you are a 'real person' and not the troll I think you are, and if you think entering on a K1 and then marrying someone other than the USC petitioner 'works' you are dead wrong. In case you are thinking of doing what you implied the OP was doing. Just a little heads up. Oh I was just about to post both of those things! I'm glad you did first. How awesome are you? Majizee is a real guy...unfortunately. He also hates women in general.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-08-23 06:37:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	The news I've been waiting for	Congrats!!!!! Huge news! Change that avatar, kit kat!!!	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-07 09:25:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	IT'S PARTY TIME!!!!	Oh my goodness!!!!!! You Marchers are finally getting taken care of! Go CSC!	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-08 17:14:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Fiance Birth Certificate	My fiance is having trouble getting a copy of her birth certificate and may take her up to 2 months to get. Do we need it to file I-129 or is it needed when the packet goes to the consolate in Manila? Thanks in advance!! I think the I-129F requires a passport or BC, so you are going to need at least one of those. Since she will need a BC to get a passport anyway if she doesn't have one, you're kind of screwed until you get the BC. I suggest getting everything else ready now. Then when she gets the BC you are ready to roll! Gary: please read the above posts. The filing of the I-129F does not require the beneficiary's birth certificate. She still has plenty of time to secure the document.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-06 11:35:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	CSC on pace to finish March, April, May this month	I hope you're right because I bet my fiance we'd get the NOA2 on or before November 1, and if I win I get a 20-minute massage every day for two weeks. Edited by Alex+R, 17 September 2006 - 08:10 PM.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-17 20:09:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	touches mean nothing	touches mean something. its that you dont know what the resoult of a touch is til normally 2 -3 weeks later. it means they are updating or keying in information. its a sign of life if you will. it gives people " HOPE" in this hellish process. admit it. you were happy when you got " TOUCHED" as all of us were when we first started. I don't even think it's a sign of life. Remember that week in July when everbody was getting touched every day? We're such a small sample of applicants. If they actually looked at every case at that time, they would probably never be done. I mean, if they are spending time scanning the bar code on our case every time they touch it, I want my tax dollars used better. Touches are meaningless. They didn't touch me 10 days after my NOA1 and do anything productive. I mean, this isn't VSC we're talking about.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-08-31 09:48:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	100 days and finally a touch	I got touched yesterday and today for the first time in a LONG time. I hope we're both expecting approvals soon.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-19 12:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	July approvals in one fell swoop	Mine was approved this week and I had a July NOA1 date. My theory is that they looked at the backlog at CSC and decided to transfer a batch of cases to Vermont. They had to chose a batch that hadn't been opened yet, so they chose July NOA1s to send and then the Vermont people just raced through them, as they are known to get things done fast! This is COMPLETE HYPOTHETICAL IMAGINATION on my part, but it could explain things.... I am so happy we had this surprise, but I do think it should be fair and we should have had to wait our turn. If VSC approves them, then it'll show a Vermont number, not a WAC number. I don't think your hypothesis is correct. For all the conspiracy theorists, please read the detailed reports issued by the GAO and the USCIS Ombudsman. They clearly explain the issues with name/security checks. Some people will inevitably wait a long time due to name checks. The name checks are done by the FBI. USCIS has NO control over the speed of the name checks. If the FBI delays the name checks for whatever reasons, USCIS has to wait just like us. That also explains why some VSC members have waited since March and still haven't gotten approvals either. I strongly believe all these delays are due to name checks. It's not like they're purposely leaving certain files behind. They're all being processed, but some petitions have no problems with name checks and thus are approved very quickly. Others have more of a problem with name checks and thus have to wait longer. It sucks, but I don't think the blame lies with USCIS on this. It lies with the FBI. Just my 2 cents. Yeah, but that's just ignoring the facts. Plus, my congressman's immi liason told me that name checks actually SPEED UP the process many times because they only have to run one instead of two something-or-others (obviously I'm a little vague on this.) I'm especially upset because I have a June 29 NOA1 and I filed with the new form. So close yet so far.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-20 14:44:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	July approvals in one fell swoop	I've noticed that there have been about 10 approvals yesterday (and I guess today) and they've all been for people with first or second week of July NOA1s, with the exception of one. I'm not complaining that they didn't have to wait long (I've only been waiting since June myself) but it seems odd that they're all from the same weeks when that doesn't seem to be where CSC is in terms of processing times... What gives?	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-19 13:24:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	CSC NOA2 received	Congratulations! Don't let the thought of those who are still waiting make you feel like you deserve it any less. Just celebrate!!!	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-21 13:40:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Anyone touched the 18th and 19th	Guys, I've got an issue here. I've got tickets to Buenos Aires for next Wednesday. The RFE's not going to come in time, is it... If it's for more evidence of having met, wellp, I just don't have any. I could get affidavits from Rey's family, etc. The only other things I can think of are work history (lots of part time in college on there) or the fact that I submitted a receipt that was in Portuguese. I'm really devastated. I feel like I'm going to miss the RFE and have to start all over. I DID let myself get excited for an approval. Today I just feel awful about this.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-22 13:00:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Anyone touched the 18th and 19th	I was touched on the 19th and approved on the 20th. I didnt receive the approval email until the 21st though, so hopefully you will have similar luck and get an email today saying you are approved. Hehehe, I am trying SO HARD not to let this get me excited.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-21 15:05:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Anyone touched the 18th and 19th	my touch on the 19th was an RFE They sent you an email about that though, right?	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-21 13:38:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Anyone touched the 18th and 19th	Just curious if anyone else got those touches and then wasn't approved. Last time I was touched a lot of other people were too. I was touched on the 18th and 19th and no NOA2 either. I pray that it is in the mail. My NOA1 date is April 4th. Eeyeah, if yours is not an approval, I'll SCREAM. That's just TOO LONG for you to have to wait.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-21 13:19:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Anyone touched the 18th and 19th	Just curious if anyone else got those touches and then wasn't approved. Last time I was touched a lot of other people were too. me too i got touched 18 and 19 Dec and no approved. wish Noa2 soonnnnn. I wonder what they were doing with us. Sending us to VSC?	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-21 13:04:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Anyone touched the 18th and 19th	That's true, except it seems that the second touch was the approval. I fear that's not going to be the case with my petition. Also my NOA1 appears to have been (ahem) too early for this wave of approvals.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-21 12:58:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Anyone touched the 18th and 19th	Just curious if anyone else got those touches and then wasn't approved. Last time I was touched a lot of other people were too.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-21 12:48:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	August filers...	May filers and some in June filed with the old form, which means a longer processing due to RFEs They did not skip these people, but people that used new form are probably submitted to a compolete different processing. We still see a lot of people from March and April getting approved. They did not forget you. Your turn will come Keep the faith! Wellp, I filed with the new form.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-20 20:09:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	August filers...	Don't forget they completely skipped over May and June on the way to July...	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-20 12:47:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	WTF	Congrats!	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-22 21:36:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Does the RFE need a signature?	Thanks everyone! I guess before I go I will prepare more evidence of meeting, in case it's that. Other than that, I guess I'll just have to ask my mom for some help. If it's the IMBRA one and I need to sign it, I'll have to go through courier service or something. Even though they said they sent it on the 21st, I doubt they did. Steven said his IMBRA RFE was postmarked like 5 days after the e-mail claimed it would be... So I'll probably not even know what it's for before I go.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-24 12:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Does the RFE need a signature?	Cmon, nobody got an RFE here? Seriously, I must be the only loser who got one. I feel like the lonely depressed person at the biggest new year's eve party of the century.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-22 21:45:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Does the RFE need a signature?	Hey Nessa, The RFE was announced via e-mail. I haven't got it yet and I'm worried it's not going to get here before I leave. I'd at least like to leave someone with instructions to take care of it for me, unless it requires signing it. For example, if it's an RFE for more proof of meeting, will I have to sign anything?	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-22 21:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Lying Bastards at USCIS	Thanks guys. I'll just have to enlist the help of family members... I guess this'll hold us up for an extra month. GRR	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-26 13:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Lying Bastards at USCIS	This is my last day to collect mail before I'm off to Argentina/Brazil at 5 pm tomorrow. USCIS claims they mailed my RFE last Wednesday. Where the helllll is it guys?????? Why would USCIS play such cruel games with my heart? Am I alone in this? ---end rant----	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-26 09:39:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Is a lawyer necessary?	Yes, it can be done without a lawyer, and most of us here are doing it without lawyers. If you see any possible complications in your case, you should at least get a consultation with a lawyer, IMO. But if you are uncomfortable with doing it yourself, use a lawyer. I probably would have for the peace of mind, but my pocketbook does not allow.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-26 23:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K-1 and Marriage	If you can do DCF, you should. Now read the guides.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-26 09:15:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	G325A	USCIS made the rules of adding attachments, not me. It is there to help those who forget and need to add info later, have long answers or just need a larger space to write in. But doing your form one way and then adding an attachment saying that your original answer was wrong is not the same as adding new information or having a long answer. I don't see anywhere in the instructions that says it's ok to attach a note if you 'screw up' although I would be glad to stand corrected if I saw it!	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-28 18:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	G325A	If you haven't even sent the form in, why don't you just do it right the first time? I'm confused. Those forms are downloadable from the USCIS.gov website. Why don't you just do it again? please help help help... we've already finished filling up & signing the G325A... unfortunately...we forgot that there were gaps during my employment... we can't alter the form already but can we place attachment to it? eventhoug it is not arranged now? help help help please!!!! Sure, an attachment will be OK. PS, Joey, I don't mean to be rude, but how do you know? If you don't have personal experience, or can't provide a link or file, you shouldn't just provide information to people. You already misinformed some poor guy earlier today. Alex+R, The G-325A is fillable via computer or with an ink pen. If there's an error or something does not fit into the space provided, you can make an attachment. If he does not want to download it again, he doesn't have to. That is his option. Also, I am unsure which "poor guy" I misinformed earlier today. Share that with me, please. Not if there's an error, if something does not fit. Where does it say: "if you royally screwed up your form, don't take the extra time to fit it---just add a confusing note to the back!" That would be....stupid. The reason the form does not address this is, I'm guessing, because USCiS does not want people to do a half-### job and just scribble "oops!" on another piece of paper. This is a bureaucracy. You overconfidently told a guy worried about the IMBRA RFE that if he paid for it he should just write down the name of the company. You made it sound like you knew the answer when in fact your answer was incomplete and wrong. If you're going to spout wrong information, I think you should at least qualify it with an "I think, but I'm not sure" kind of statement.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-28 18:27:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	G325A	please help help help... we've already finished filling up & signing the G325A... unfortunately...we forgot that there were gaps during my employment... we can't alter the form already but can we place attachment to it? eventhoug it is not arranged now? help help help please!!!! Sure, an attachment will be OK. it's ok eventhough the dates are not in chronological order? what i mean is... all dates of employment are in the box & all the unemployed are in the attachment.. would that be fine? some are dated 2004 in the box & some 2005 are in the attachment??? People have been RFE'd for this before. Why on earth would you want to confuse USCIS from the get-go?? Please explain. The date are supposed to be in chronological order, and you are supposed to list periods of unemployment, not leave gaps. Check the G325 A here: http://www.visajourn...mp;page=k1guide It tells you not to leave gaps. Putting a note on an incorrectly filled out form on your first try seems, well, ridiculous. we can do it again but what about my signature? he is in the US & i am in canada....how am i gonna sign it again? it would take a long time again right?! help.... Listen, I know it's a pain, but I think most people here will advise you to do it correctly the first time. You download the form, you fill it out, you sign it, and you overnight it to your fiance in the U.S. No biggie! You're pretty lucky you're in Canada!	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-28 18:21:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	G325A	If you haven't even sent the form in, why don't you just do it right the first time? I'm confused. Those forms are downloadable from the USCIS.gov website. Why don't you just do it again? please help help help... we've already finished filling up & signing the G325A... unfortunately...we forgot that there were gaps during my employment... we can't alter the form already but can we place attachment to it? eventhoug it is not arranged now? help help help please!!!! Sure, an attachment will be OK. PS, Joey, I don't mean to be rude, but how do you know? If you don't have personal experience, or can't provide a link or file, you shouldn't just provide information to people. You already misinformed some poor guy earlier today.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-28 18:14:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	RFE?	Yes, this indian matromonal site charged me $30 3 months fees and its located in New York their office, so I wud write their address and phone in reply rite? Joeyjoey is pretty casual about handing out information to people when he's not sure, but you're pretty casual about accepting information without asking anymore questions. You didn't even mention if your fiance (or her family) also paid. IMBRA is a big deal. But if you don't really care, it's your petition...	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-28 16:58:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	RFE?	- Did the indian matromony site online charge $$? If yes, mark the "YES" box at #1. Provide the name of the agency and their address and telephone #. If this "indian matromony site" was free, mark the "NO" box. Nooooooooo. I do know one thing, and that's that money alone is not all there is to it.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-28 16:46:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	RFE?	It's the IMBRA RFE. Check out the IMBRA forum if you're not familiar. edit: I see you did kind of scrunchily answer your own questions. Sorry. The second and third you can leave blank (to my knowledge) and the first one... maybe someone will know. I don't know for sure. Edited by Alex+R, 28 September 2006 - 04:45 PM.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-28 16:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	what does RFE stand for	I know this might sound incredibly stupid but what does RFE stand for and what is it...I just started my application for my fiance so I have a long way to go learn all this vocabulary. there is also a couple of other words, which i have an idea of what they stand for but just in case, here it goes: CSC NSC NOA "touched" NVC RFE (IMBRA) NOA thanks all...and sorry "incredibly stupid" question but best to ask for the long process ahead.... RFE=request for evidence CSC= California Service Center NSC=Nebraska Service Center NOA= Notice of Action "touched"= the date on your USCIS case status page has changed. (i.e. it says "Updated September 22," you were touched Sept 22) NVC= National Visa Center RFE (IMBRA)= A specific RFE they sent out for everyone who filed on or after March 6 but before around June 15 which is when a new form came out (unless they filed with the old form later). It is to comply with a law to protect foreign fiances, so USCs have to disclose criminal histories for some crimes, and whether or not they used a marriage broker, etc. NOA=you already asked that! Anyway, I'm just posting this in case anyone who reads this is too lazy to read the guides and they ask later... Also procrastinating on going to the post office.	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-29 13:50:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	i-129f question	I can't speak for everyone, and I do know that people have been issued RFEs (or had the packet entirely sent back) for signatures because they were illegible. However, my fiance's signature is like "squiggle, similar squiggle" and mine is pretty much "Alz," which, incidentally, is not my initials. We didn't get our packet sent back. Is the main thing here consistency?	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-29 23:33:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	finally...	fabulous news!!!!	Alex+R	Female	Brazil	2006-09-30 10:51:00