biggish data

thank you, that gives me a great relief. one more quick question: when you say entire passport, do you mean all the pages from 1st to last page eventhough pages are blanks? Thanks

ChaHaT

Male

2013-05-17 01:10:00

Can you please tell me what was your rfe about, if you don't mind?

ChaHaT

Male

2013-05-17 00:38:00

Well! both updates state exactly same wording except the date. Don't have any clues what the heck is going on.

ChaHaT

Male

2013-05-17 00:09:00

today afternoon my status was updated again. it said a rfe was mailed on 5/16/2013.... #######. how many times they have to update before they actually send it? was your status changed too?

ChaHaT

Male

2013-05-16 23:57:00

I have this very same issue! I am on the same date as you, 10/18/2012. My RFE date was May 2nd. I have not seen anything in hard copy yet. In fact, when i log onto USCIS and put in my reciept number, is shows no information at all concerning our case! I have contacted USCIS twice now. The 2nd time they asked much more questions and are going to call us back in 3-5 days with more information on what is going on. It is really weird that our cases are so similar and have the same problems happening to them!

when you called them, did you call at 1-800-375-5283? when I called this number, the CSR did not have any information about my case. I just have her filed e-request.

ChaHaT

Male

2013-05-15 23:04:00

same here, my case number was also taken out from the system so that we can not check our case in USCIS website. IDK why they do that?

ChaHaT

Male

2013-05-15 20:57:00

I have not submitted passport-stamp. according to vj suggestions, it is important to submit. I am not sure, if it is what the RFE for.

I have applied for K1.

ChaHaT

Male

2013-05-15 20:49:00

I NOA1 date was 10/18/2012 after long and hopeless wait on May 1, 2013 I got text from USCIS. I checked website, it was RFE ( I live in Northern California, its been two weeks, I still have not gotten hardcopy of RFE yet.

Does anybody have any suggestions? What should I do? I already called National customer service and filed e-request.

It is so unfair. please help us.

ChaHaT

Male

2013-05-15 20:39:00

RFE Suggestions

Thank you all for the reply. I have sent Passport stamps, ticket invoice, and ticket itinerary. Hopefully I will get good news very soon.

ChaHaT

Male

2013-05-22 17:44:00

RFE Suggestions

I did not sent them passport stamps originally. and now looks like they don't care about the pictures, may be because there is no way to prove that pic was taken within the time frame. In my RFE, they did not mention the picture at all.

ChaHaT

Male

2013-05-21 18:03:00

RFE Suggestions

I got my RFE in mail last night. Finally ! The RFE states, and I quote "The petitioner and the beneficiary must have met in person between xx-xx-xxxxx and xx-xx-xxxx. submit evidence of meeting the beneficiary in person within the two year period preceding the filling of the petition. the primary evidence may include copies of passport pages that show the identification page and admission stamps. The secondary evidence may be airline ticket stubs and receipts, ATM and Credit card transactions, flight itinerary on airline/travel agency letterhead..."

I have scanned copy of passport identification page and stamped pages, which I can print easily. I do have duplicate copy of e-ticket, and receipt from travel agency with itinerary on their letter head. I don't have any ATM or CC receipt cuz I never used them when I was there. do you thing that will be enough what they are asking for?

Any comments will be appreciated.

thank you

ChaHaT

Male

2013-05-21 17:40:00

Next Step Help

thank you for the reply. There are not much people from my consulate office, I have posted another post in the regional forums too, but have not heard back from them.

so, that means do I have to pay twice fee for I-134 as you said I have to fill out two separate I-134 for me and my co-sponsor?

Thank you again.

ChaHaT

Male

2013-06-10 15:37:00

Next Step Help

I got approved from CIC. Now, I am trying to help my Fiancé to gather all required documents and getting ready for interview. I need a help from you guys at this point. At what Point I have to send I-134 Affidavit support? I am recent graduate, so I need somebody file Affidavit support for her? can my friend do that? what are the requirement to file Affidavit support on my behave?

any suggestion will be appreciated?

can somebody direct me to the post where I can see previous interview questions for K1 Visa?

Thank you

ChaHaT

Male

2013-06-09 18:41:00

Not sure what being white has to do with anything.

Yes, it's a different form for you, my bad. Here's the guide for I-134: http://www.uscis.gov.../i-134instr.pdf

See also: http://www.visajourn...content/support

Thank you very much.

ChaHaT

Male

2013-06-12 16:56:00

Your friend can, but it's a serious thing to ask someone. Your co-sponsor will be financially responsible for your beneficiary potentially years. They'll need to be able to show they have the funds to cover their own household plus the person they're sponsoring. This pdf shows what their income needs to be for each family size: http://www.uscis.gov...form/i-864p.pdf

As from the link above http://travel.state....nfo_3183.html#2

"A sponsor must be at least 18 years old and either an American citizen or a lawful permanent resident (LPR). The sponsor must also have a domicile (residence) in the United States."

Again, as with the comment above, please do let us know which country the beneficiary is from. We can offer better advice based on that, as acceptance of the financial sponsor can vary by country and the requirements may be more strict.

Thanks. I already talk to my friend, he is a white guy and an engineer. He agreed to help me.

One more quick question though, the above link is about i-186 (Affidavit support). don't we have to file i-134 for K1 visa?

ChaHaT

Male

2013-06-12 16:13:00

Co-sponsor needs to be a US citizen and be able to meet the financial requirements. Most people ask a family member, like a parent.

Thank you but I don't have my parents and relatives here in State. I have close friends who are ready to help as a co-sponsor. I was wondering if my friend can be a cosponsor for me. He meets all the financial requirements.

It would be better to name the country you are dealing with. Some will not accept co sponsors at all.

Co sponsors should be USCs; family or close friends. You will submit a 134 form and if allowed they will submit one as well. Review that form for some insight into what is required. Its a good idea to submit at least one years tax transcript with each form.

my consulate office is in Kathmandu, Nepal. I tried to search for the info, but could not find if they accept co-sponsor or not. where do you look for it?

ChaHaT

Male

2013-06-12 15:57:00

Since I am recent graduate and looking for job, I need a co-sponsor for the K1 visa. Does anybody have knowledge or experience to in-light in dept about cosponsor? My main questions are: What are criteria to be a cosponsor? Does counselor ask detail questions about cosponsor during K1 visa interview?

Thank you in advance.

ChaHaT

Male

2013-06-12 14:43:00

sample cover letter

does anybody have sample cover letter to submit CO? I am looking for sample cover letters to attach with relationship verifications like FB chat lob, phone records, receipt for gift etc. thanks in advance and appreciate your help

ChaHaT

Male

2013-07-18 10:34:00

K1 Approval notice expiration

Hello,

Because of police report and other family issue, my Faience is going to apply for K1 visa interview at embassy next week. she is still waiting for a police clearance report from her foreign country where she went for 4 years degree program (university). she has police report from her home country.

Anyway, my question is, the approval notice has expiration date October 5, 2013; is that mean she has to enter USA by that date or, does she have to apply for interview by that date?

any clarification or response will be appreciated.

thank you

ChaHaT

Male

2013-08-28 00:31:00

Okay, I do appreciate the time for each of the two replies. And yes, a surprise to me as I am in California while the one thing that isn't US is going on, the Dominican family law custody issue. And the grandmother used her advantage of being there to rig a trap that caught my wife having to decide whether to leave the kids and come to states or lose the whole 1-2 years of K1 work as the clock is already ticking. It is difficult for a "typical" westerner to get the idea of a Caribbean island country, a small town in southwest interior of the country close to Haiti and almost all official governmental things have to happen in the capital, Santo Domingo. (Yes I understand many here come from difficult situations, and that k1 issuance is hardly automatic.) For me I never intended to go anywhere near an international relationship in my life. It is actually pretty wild that I ended up being in love with a women from this little country town on Hispaniola in the Carribean and I from a town in northern California. It is also common in much of the Caribean for families to start with no legal or church structure, and then the guy just decides to move on with no consequences. What is a bit surprising to my frame of reference is that even though the guy was already permanently in Spain before the 2nd child was born, family law in the Dom Republic protects the father's equal custody rights 5 and 7 years later just because his name is registered on the birth certificate.

Further what complicates the situation is that being from that small town my wife is just old enough and her town small and in the interior country enough that her father got away with telling her he needed her at home and didn't send her to school. Yes it had long since been totally not legal in the DR. While my wife is totally capable of functioning on her own in a city of over a million, Santo Domingo, she is by our civilized standards a functional illiterate. Easy prey for grandma and her attorney. I am very working class and don't have unlimited resources. In the last 3 years I've made 4 trips to the DR and my is on her second. My first was not intended for a bunch of repeats, I'd saved up frequent fliers miles. For my wife to be there, traveling back and forth to the county seat, hiring her own attorney and the young woman from the wrong side of the tracks facing down "old stock" family from the center of town I look at as pretty brave.

After I went through the K1 process (and of course one can have self doubts like should I really be doing in this even if I am in love?) I at least naively expected a level professionalism from my own US government. To have all the work boil down to a decision point that is a less than 10 minute cursary glance at a file and be patronized through a 2X4 window by a bad attitude woman 1/2 my age was not what I expected for an event of such importance. And her attention to detail so poor that she had to call me back because she didn't even notice the two K2's in the file. Having to come back multiple times to the 7:30 AM line with hundreds of people because I am convincingly given exactly opposite answers from people in the same facility to an important proceedural question. Twice. To spend over a thousand dollars for a slew of medical stuff at the only facility that approved. Delay, delay in the states, travel to the nearest USCIS for the final interview and them act like it's my fault the file isn't complete, there's no medical for my wife. How am I supposed to know that, I did everything by the rules. Oh well, it happens regularly, no I can't try and find it. Shouldn't be much trouble. None of the approved docs want to truncate anything, they can't take anything in the USCIS letter to change anything. A full medical needed, all the vacinations over again, another grand please. The vaccinations could have been done at the local health dept for a few dollars by comparison.

I just expected better from the USA. Naive.

It's not my intent to be discouraging to others. After the second "They did their job" post in response for my asking for help, I'm sorry but difficult to take.

If I understand the rules correctly, since I am married to the children's mother (a legal permanent resident) this makes the chidren by definition my "stepchildren". This means they are defined as an immediate family minor child of mine in the eyes of the USCIS. I can file a I-130 and an adjustment of status concurrently without a visa number required. People regularly travel to the US on a tourist visa and stay 6 months and often get an extention and stay for a year total. I've followed all the rules to date, I should be trustworthy to say the kids will go back at any time such as is legally required and them be granted tourest visas for a stay with their mother instead of growing up without her and her (and my) marraige damaged. Seems morally reasonable. Any advice?

My wife's best friend here in my town is a Guatamalan with a very cute 2 year old, Sophie, that has become attached to me. Sophie's father is an immigrant. He is living as a family unit with another immigrant. I like Sopie's mother. And she tries hard to work and survive. To call all three of them undocumented is really being willfully blind. They are all documented. Soc Sec numbers and California driver's licenses with paid insurance. All the "documents" bought and paid for from a fraud mill in San Francisco. The woman Sophie's father lives with lies about him living there and earning wages at a job. She lives in Section 8 subsidized housing and pays $100 for a $900 apartment. The family receives food stamps based on the 3 children in the house. She is pregnant with her 4th by Sophie's father. And the mayor of Los Angeles indignantly calls for his city to be a "safe haven".

On one of my trips I was in a taxi that had a fiend of the driver riding in the front seat. He spoke good English and I asked some about his story. He had emmigrated to New York many years ago, become an entreprenuer and obviously made a lot more money than I ever will. He had both of his daughters in college, one at Columbia University, don't remember the other. Here he is in a cab in Santo Domingo with me bitterly complaining about how hard he's worked to get where he is, 2 kids in private universities, and the government doles out money like crazy to people just because they're there with his tax dollars. It really was ironic funny. Kinda hard to take for a guy that's played by my government's rules all my life.

Chico Carlo

Male

Dominican Republic

2013-06-30 14:00:00

Thank you for the information Aaron.

Chico Carlo

Male

Dominican Republic

2013-06-29 17:50:00

Oops, I'm sorry. Not Oct 2010. Oct 2011. Been here 1 & 1/2 years.

Chico Carlo

Male

Dominican Republic

2013-06-29 17:31:00

After all the high level fear of prep for the whole process, and all the money spent, when it finally came time in Santo Domingo and I was there at the immigration "cattle call" when it came time a 25 yr old took a cursury look at the file and just looked at me. "Well I believe it's sincere on your part. You're a big boy, you can do what you want." I later got called back up, only one I saw in the hours I was there, she hadn't even paid enough attention to see the 2 kids in the file. For the money, time and effort I've been through to this point giving status away to 10 million plus - not a big fan of our US immigration system.

Chico Carlo

Male

Dominican Republic

2013-06-29 17:27:00

USCIS totally lost wife's medical. I suspect it's because all 3 were tied together and her's never left Santo Domingo. Yet more $ to do over. Biggest reason for change of status delay.

Chico Carlo

Male

Dominican Republic

2013-06-29 17:20:00

Additional info: The K1 was originally applied for with the minor children included. The children went through the entire process with vaccinations and medical, the grandmother allowing them to believe they were coming. The birth father emmigrated to Spain before the second child was born and has a legal family there. The grandmother went through a sham of faxing legal papers back and forth to Spain for a voluntary custody status change, and convinced the children's mother that the kids needed separate passports when not true, so the passports were obtained at a different time. Plane tickets, hotel, Disney world in Orlando all prepurchased for the kids first time in the states. Then of course after the fact treat my wife like the poor girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Unthinkable in the US. Totally understand the DR is not the US.

Wife came to US Oct 2010. Green card actually issued less than a year ago.

Chico Carlo

Male

Dominican Republic

2013-06-29 17:17:00

I have not even looked at form #'s or anything else since the original process, so don't know what an I-130 is. Of course I can look. The general question is do we get hung in a total new process, hving to choose who has to live apart again or is their hope for any kind of reasonably rapid avenue. Thank you for any advice in advance.

Chico Carlo

Male

Dominican Republic

2013-06-29 16:50:00