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RFE!! Help please

Have tried calling the airline(s) to give you a print-out of your boarding schedules? At least they should give you something that shows you boarding at certain airport & time and your arrival & time? The pictures alone is not enough - you used boarding passes. If you don't these then make clear copies of your arrival and departure stamps in your passport.

A notarized affidavit from your landlord that BOTH of you live at that address or location should help. Also, do have any receipts of you two transferring money to each other? Any gift receipts? Do you receipts of any valuables, example an appliance or furnitures that bear the name of both of you? The more pieces of evidence you provide will go a long way to support your case.

Good luck!

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I found a few time stamped photos from 2011 and I have 8 separate stamps of admission but the RFE says all foreign language documents must be submitted with complete word-for-word English translations and then must certify it. Do we have to translate the stamps then? Keep in mind that two of my stamps are not your normal, cross the border stamps. One is a courtesy visa from Peace Corps in Spanish and another is an extension of my tourist visa.

I could potentially do the letter from the landlord but that is just going to delay us more but I also don't want to rush it if that document could really help us. Other people on here, the majority I believe, haven't lived together so part of me just wants to send in my passport stamps (translated if necessary), a certified letter from Peace Corps saying I lived in Guatemala, the one itinerary I can get my hands on and 5 time stamped photos.

Christina y Geo

Female

Guatemala

2013-02-08 20:24:00

RFE!! Help please

You are talking about evidence of meeting in the past 2 years? The passport stamps will be added evidence. Send the pictures and put the date behind and write who is in the pictures and where. What about boarding passes showing that you were there.

Yes, the evidence of meeting. I sent like 10 pictures with the date and where on them when we initially filed the petition. On the RFE it says to send ticket stubs or itineraries if you have them.

Christina y Geo

Female

Guatemala

2013-02-08 18:37:00

RFE!! Help please

Ok, so my fiance and I just received and RFE in the mail that says we need to send more evidence. Here is my problem...I was in the Peace Corps in Guatemala from April of 2010 through March of 2012 then I lived with my fiance from April to September. During my time in Guatemala I flew back and forth three times and I flew there again in November and I am going again next week. The problem is that up until the beginning of last year we hadn't decided what we were going to do in the future so saving my flight itineraries and whatnot had never even cross my mind. Now when I get on Expedia they have all been deleted. I have my info from November and from this coming trip and an email confirmation from a trip I made in April of 2012 but other than those flights I don't have proof of my flights even though I was living there. We have been together for 2.5 years and have plenty of photos but I want to make sure I have a sufficient amount of evidence in for them. Unfortunately we have nothing but photographic proof we even lived together as there really is no such thing as a lease and the power bills were always in our landlord's name. Could getting a certified letter from our landlord in Guatemala saying when we lived there and for how long help us out?

I can get a certification from Peace Corps confirming my time in Guatemala so I know that will help. I am also going to copy my whole passport and all of the stamps but to me that seems really easy to fake since there are no identifying numbers on the stamp pages...I don't understand how that will stand up as proof for them. I copied my front page and some of the stamps when we submitted the petition, will photocopying it all make a difference? I just don't want another RFE so I want to be as thorough as possible. If anyone has any advice about the plane tickets or what else we should send that would be much appreciated!

Christina y Geo

Female

Guatemala

2013-02-08 18:24:00

k-1 and official invite for tourist visa

If you have an I-134 for the tourist visa, and also one for the K-1 visa, this will not affect the K-1 visa. Just that when you do your I-134's, you need to include the person from the other I-134 as a member of your household and have enough money to support for the household size. For example, if you do the I-134 for the K-1 first you obviously will put yourself and your fiance (and anyone else that you provide support to). When you do the tourist visa I-134 second, you will need to include yourself, his mom, AND your fiance (because its on another I-134).

Basically you need to put down everyone you are supporting on the I-134, including people that are on previous I-134's you are still obligated to support. As long as you have enough financial support to support your household size then there will be no problems.

Ohh thank you! That is very, very helpful and makes complete sense.

Christina y Geo

Female

Guatemala

2013-02-21 12:32:00

k-1 and official invite for tourist visa

You won't be able to do anything to help with the tourist visa. His mom will have to prove strong ties to her country on her own. The I-134 you do for the K-1 visa will have no effect on his mom obtaining a tourist visa.

If you want to send an offical invite you have to do an I-134 for her too. I have done the tourist visa process already so I know what she will have to prove. I am talking specifically about having two I-134s out at the same time and how that could potentially affect our K-1 visa.

Not sure why you are going for a K1 if that is such a major parameter.

Having his mom at our wedding is the USA would be much easier than having my entire family in Guatemala for a wedding. That is why.

Christina y Geo

Female

Guatemala

2013-02-21 11:42:00

k-1 and official invite for tourist visa

My fiance and I are in the process of the k-1 visa. Our wedding is in July and it is really important to both of us that his mom is there. I want to do the official invitation but I dont know how doing two I-134s will affect our current visa. Should we wait on the tourist visa for his mom until our visa is complete?? At the rate the csc is working I'm afraid we may be pushing it timewise if we don't start the process now.

Christina y Geo

Female

Guatemala

2013-02-20 22:37:00

I-864 or I-134

Thank you all! This was very helpful, I really appreciate it!

Christina y Geo

Female

Guatemala

2013-02-28 17:15:00

I-864 or I-134

No question is a ridiculous question!

Since you are the sponsor, use the I-134. The purpose of the forms are below.

I-134: To show that visa applicants have sponsorship and will not become public charges while in the United States. The sponsor must file a separate affidavit for each applicant.

I-864: To show that the applying immigrant has enough financial support to live without concern of becoming reliant on U.S. government welfare.

Thanks! I was leaning towards the I-134 but on a link I was sent from a friend who is about a month ahead of us in the process it says to bring form I-864. The link is from USCIS to her and her husband. Is it different for them because they are doing the K3? Our cases are almost 100% the same but they chose to get married right before we left Guatemala. Also, based on your definitions it looks like we could do either...

Christina y Geo

Female

Guatemala

2013-02-28 12:59:00

I-864 or I-134

I know this is going to end up being a ridiculous question but I have honestly been looking all over for which form we need to fill out and I haven't found a concrete answer yet. So, I am swallowing my pride and asking here. We are doing the K1 fiance visa, just for my fiance. I will be his only sponsor and I meet the guidelines for sponsorship. Do I fill out the I-134 or the I-864? Thanks in advance!

Christina y Geo

Female

Guatemala

2013-02-28 12:19:00

CENOMAR?

CENOMAR is only for Philippines.

Ohhh, I was wondering why I only saw reference to it periodically. Thank you!

Christina y Geo

Female

Guatemala

2013-03-18 23:33:00

CENOMAR?

Neither my fiance nor I have ever been married. Does he have to have a CENOMAR for our K1 visa?? If so, how does he get it?

Thanks!

Christina y Geo

Female

Guatemala

2013-03-18 23:27:00

Flight help!!

I am sure someone, somewhere on here has been in this predicament or has some suggestions. I am contemplating flying down for our interview on April 11th. Part of my decision involves being able to fly back to the States with my fiance. Obviously this is contingent 1. on him getting visa and 2. the visa being in hand on time.
I don't know how other embassies work but with Guatemala you have to select a cargo express location for them to send your visa to which takes most people about 5-7 days to receive. My issue is this...I am flying in the day of the interview and with my vacation time I will be able to stay Thursday to Thursday. I am going to buy a round trip ticket but I am unsure how to make my fiance's reservation. I don't want to buy a ticket and when it comes down to our flight day his visa still hasn't arrived... Have people purchased refundable tickets in this situation? Or have people purchased insurance for flights and then cancelled them if things didn't go as planned?
I know it is crazy to try and get both the interview and the actual flight out within a week but I really want to see if it is feasible.

Thoughts?

Christina y Geo

Female

Guatemala

2013-03-26 20:03:00

DS-157 HELP PLEASE!

Not sure about Guatemala but in Chile my fiancé had to bring the form in person they didn't want anything submitted before the interview date. Good luck

We will definitely bring the form but like the DS-156 had to be generated by hitting "continue" but since we can't access the actual link I don't know if that "continue" function is part of the DS-157

Christina y Geo

Female

Guatemala

2013-04-10 16:04:00

DS-157 HELP PLEASE!

Our interview is tomorrow and we got a link from the embassy in Guatemala saying we needed to complete the DS-157. When we click on the link for it, it says our internet doesn't support the form. I can find the form in a PDF format easily. Does anyone know if the 157 has to be submitted electronically or if we can just complete and print the PDF?? Thank you!

Christina y Geo

Female

Guatemala

2013-04-10 14:40:00

The RFE Master List

Hi all
I joined the site a few days ago and I currently am at my wit's end.
My fiance and I received NOA1 on in mid August, however, I cannot recall if he submitted the "Intent to marry within 90days" part. We have yet to receive RFE, I'm just worried. Should we not have received and RFE by now if that were the case?
I'm super stressed about the whole process
Thanks

We are a July 31st filer and just got an RFE today so, no you probably would not have received it by now. Sorry I can't put your mind at ease but at least they are moving along, an RFE means they are actually touching our petition!

Christina y Geo

Female

Guatemala

2013-02-01 14:38:00

Hi guys...i just having a really hard time to schedule an online appointment over consular, and also they indicate that CBRA application are only except by appointment... so incase i can't schedule any appointment during my stay, is there any other way to apply for CBRA from the state???

metoosiexxy

Not Telling

Vietnam

2013-06-28 07:04:00

THANK YOU SO MUCH A&B, YOU GUYS ARE SO AWESOME..... ^ ^

metoosiexxy

Not Telling

Vietnam

2013-06-22 06:59:00

thank you so much NikiR......for this awesome reply.... thank you thank you ^ ^

metoosiexxy

Not Telling

Vietnam

2013-06-21 08:40:00

K-3 Spousal Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

Dear all

Hello everyone, i just google on website for an immigration information and found this fabulous website, and yet i still haven't find out the answer, so please please anyone with a useful information really help on my scene here.... thank you for the best of your time and sharing information to help me here.

i'm an us citizen and i applying for a package of I-129F for my fiance and USCIS have received the package and continue their examine our paper work in Feb, 2013 till now, i just got a notice said needed to update some more proof of our established relationship, during the time my fiance is pregnant and ready to give birth to our first daughter before the time of she received the k1 visa... " i understand that having a child doesn't speed up the processing our visa ", so my point here what should i do? i have gather some information from friends said that i should:

1. have a copy of birth certificate of my daughter with both parents name on it.

2. have a talk with us embassy in vietnam, so they can ask me and my baby have a DNA test

3. obtain a test result, and bring back to US to apply for US passport for my baby?

please many information sharing would be much much appreciation from our family

many thanks

best regard.

metoosiexxy

Not Telling

Vietnam

2013-06-21 06:30:00

anyone sent their I-129f to the NBC Overland Park, KS

We are on the same boat, I got my NOA1 yesterday.

YulingZhu

Not Telling

2013-10-29 17:01:00

USCIS Service Centers

Is there a new NBC office at overland park, KS?

I called last week, and the agent told me they haven't got any information regarding NBC for a while, and they are not authorized to inform the customer about it.

YulingZhu

Not Telling

2013-10-16 13:02:00

For me, my casefile was adudicated at a local office in Irving, TX.

I learned that none of the stuff I frontloaded made it over to NVC. So I sideloaded at NVC, shoving stuff in with the DS-230 submittal for EP. It took a bit of time to get a case complete, as the NVC folk had to detach my evidence and add it into the SAFEFILE version of the casefile.

If yer casefile isn't yet with NVC, plan ahead, aye?

Aye, better to plan ahead then get caught off guard :-) I am also consider getting a lawyer in Guangzhou in case we get a blue slip......... I hope I am not thinking too much............

I just sent my stuff in on July 5th, and I received the unofficial NOA1 last Friday. Thank you for letting me know the case file abdication, I will make sure to side load and back load during the phases

YulingZhu

Not Telling

2013-07-15 14:58:00

Welcome to the forum. I also live on the Eastside.

I traveled to Guangzhou to provide encouragement and support for my then-fiance at her K-1 interview, yet was barred from attending the interview (per consulate policy), I gave her an EOR, inserted lengthwise in my passport, to present to the IO at the start of the interview. The IO took my passport and enclosed letter, glanced over the letter, returned my passport to her, and commented that the USC was in Guangzhou. I don't know if it helped, but I know it certainly didn't hurt our case. Guangzhou is known as a high-fraud consulate, it is my impression anything supplemental data that you can provide to the IO to support your case if a plus.

YMMV.

Happy trails, likely see you on the 405 sometime.

Thank you for the reply, I just completed my EOR letter yesterday, I will turn it in during the nvc and interview phase.

I also front loaded my i-130 petition with 5 notarized affidavit letters, tons of communication (QQ, email, and skyp) records, and 16 photos (many included us and family/friends). I will give it to nvc during that phase and another copy to my wife for the interview. Hopefully this will work for me............... keeping my fingers crossed.

see you on the 405 as well, since it is a parking lot.......

YulingZhu

Not Telling

2013-07-15 14:41:00

if that's a tourist visa application, done in China, it won't matter on interview day.

Yes, it was a tourist visa application and she got from the consulate in Shanghai

Thank you for the quick response, much appreciated :-)

YulingZhu

Not Telling

2013-07-14 14:55:00

You won't find it listed as a requirement from DoS or GUZ IV.

However, in blue slips issued at GUZ IV, it was a thing asked for.

Rather than be reactionary, many folk have included it with I-130 or I-129F,

then again at NVC (for spousal visas)

then again on interview day at GUZ IV

Why all of that, you ask? a relationship grows over time, so an Evolution of Relationship letter would grow over time, as well.

Never subitted one prior to interview day? That's ok - you can still submit one on interview day, in yer lass's hand to the Vice Consul, the first 20 seconds of the interview.

It's not a requirement. If'n you have red flags not addressed in submittals to USCIS (or NVC) then it's best to submit an EOR and address those red flags in the letter, on interview day.

Thank you for the response Darnell,

you and Ryan both mentioned red flags. Such as married after first meeting, age difference is too great, set up by a family member, no english lanaguage skills etc...

Thank heavens we don't exactly fall in any of those catagories (we were not married after first time we met, our age difference is about 7 years, we were introduced by a mutual family friend and she went to college in the states so english is not a problem).

The only red flag I can think of is she was denied entry to United States this May, she was given the option to withdrew the visa. The reason she was denied is because we picked up our marriage certificate in Feb of this year and she can't convenice the CBP officer that she will leave the country.

But several ppl on this forum said this is not a big deal since she was not deported with a bann. Should I mention that in the EOR letter?

Thank you

YulingZhu

Not Telling

2013-07-14 14:30:00

Good afternoon all,

I was browsing through this site and I keep finding that you need an EOR letter at Guangzhou consulate. But I don't see that requirement any where on packet IV on their website.

Is it true that an EOR letter is required for interview at Guangzhou? Thank you for your help

YulingZhu

Not Telling

2013-07-14 13:10:00

Why you did NOT use K-1 (Chinese cases)

K-1 was not the best option for us, is we are married..........

YulingZhu

Not Telling

2013-10-24 12:54:00

Days to issue CR-1 visa in Guangzhou China

Hi where is the subforum? Can you please display the link? Thank you for your help.

*** Country-specific thread moved from the CR-1 Process forum to the China regional subforum. ***

YulingZhu

Not Telling

2014-10-11 01:50:00