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heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp plzz

Party?? I don't even have an engagement ring - my choice since I don't wear jewellery, I know it'll likely come up at the embassy interview but I'm really not worried about it.

CaMic

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2009-12-08 18:23:00

the sponsor and income

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Thanks for your help so far and just have one other issue,, i will go to the Philippines and see fiance come back here to the states and file fiance visa. The issue i have is this---I am on social security Disability {ssd} i have been told immigration does not consider SSD as income, in other words i will be denied to sponsor her because of my income, is this true?? My ssd income barely surpasses the 125% poverty medium. My other question is that when I come back from the Philippines when will I know they will deny me to bring her here because of income? Howmuch money will I throw away before they inform me of denial?? i know of getting another co sponsor but that is not possible.

The process is not as simple as going to the PI and bring her back to the US and file for the K1 visa!

Start by reading the K1 visa Guides on this link
http://www.visajourn...mp;page=k1guide

I'm not sure that the OP was implying he intended to bring his fiancee with him straight away, I think his wording may have been slightly confusing.

I worked out the costs a long time ago and it was around $1600 to get to the embassy interview stage (based on the I-129F filing fee, London embassy fees and costs I will incur getting various reports for the interview). I think that the AOS processing fee is around $1700(???) if I remember correctly. A serach on the USCIS website and relevant embassy website will give the most up to date fees.

CaMic

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2009-12-08 18:12:00

Employment Hiatus & Living with Fiancee Overseas During K1 Process

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There are no "rollover minutes" or "extra points" in the visa process. Living with your fiancee while you file the petition does not make up for a lack of income or assets...period. You do not have to live with her to qualify for a K-1 as can be testified to by 99.999995% of K-1 petitioners. In fact, if you ask me (and you did) it is hardly rock solid proof of anything except an extended vacation with a nightly bed-warmer. Neither qualify you for a K-1 visa.

Assets will need to be 3x the poverty guidelines at the time of the interview, many months down the road, something like $60,000 at that time. Is that what you mean by "several thousand" in the bank?

I do not encourage what you are doing. You intend to be married and live with her in the USA (hence the K-1 visa, if that is not your intent, no need to put your shirt on, dude, kick back and live with her in the PI) so get your @ss back here and prepare a life for your family with an INCOME a HOME, and those other troublesome things we all have to do.

You need to have a permanent US domicile to file a petition (again, if you do not you have no need for a k-1 visa) you can reside anywhere you want while the petition is processed and you need to provide an affidavit of support at the interview which indicates an ongoing source of income OR enough liquid assets

the Op said several HUNDRED thousand so I think he/she is fine on the affidavit of support - lucky person!!

CaMic

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2009-12-13 17:33:00

Passport scanning issues, and a couple other I-129f ?'s

could you take a photograph of the passport page and lift the paper carefully out of the way? Some of my document copies were photographs rather than scans/photocopies and they printed out looking just as good. You could photograph/scan with the paper in place too and send both. I was never good at keeping my boarding passes and though I had 4 (or 5) per visit I usually only has one or two that I could find to copy - though I included the email itinerary to show what leg of my journey they were from.

CaMic

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2009-12-14 03:39:00

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HACKED-OFF HACKED-OFF HACKED-OFF

VSC are now returning our entire package. Process not even started. What with Christmas and new year, looking at a 2 month delay. Happy ******* christmas to us.

UGH. Im sorry to hear that.
Do you know why?

It will probably be less than 2 months, but still sucks.

Thanks kizza, feeling sorry for myself and my other half is busy just now so I can't moan with him, lol. Didn't get an indication of why it's being returned BUT my paperwork was all signed in August - the day before I was due to fly back to the UK (then I changed my flights and stayed an extra 5 weeks, hehehehe) and it kind of worried me that the package wasn't sent for a further 3 months. Since I just booked flights to fly out on Sunday, I'm going to reprint all of the paperwork to take with me just incase. My question was why bother sending the letter with the request last week if they are now returning the whole package? Hey-ho, maybe all this means that we won't get any REAL RFEs - we can hope!!

CaMic

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2009-12-14 17:45:00

HACKED-OFF HACKED-OFF HACKED-OFF

VSC are now returning our entire package. Process not even started. What with Christmas and new year, looking at a 2 month delay. Happy ******* christmas to us.

CaMic

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2009-12-14 16:38:00

thanks everyone.

one last question - should we trust the prepaid envelope they supplied with the letter or send it signed-for as with the original package?

CaMic

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2009-12-13 17:20:00

My fiance can get a copy of the certificate with official seal within a day or two and send it back (hoping it'll be received and processed b4 christmas) but since there is no case number or receipt number or A# on the letter he got and we never received an NAO1, I'm at a complete loss as to where we are in the process. It's taken too long to get an NAO1 but seems too early to get an RFE. Hopefully the people who man the helpline will be able to clarify all of this tomorrow because right now I'm totally lost. I'm a stress-head, lol.

CaMic

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2009-12-13 11:23:00

Maybe it wasn't even a proper RFE that we got if there is no case number on it?

CaMic

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2009-12-13 06:12:00

Thanks for that. I know I told my fiance to get a certified copy of his divorce certificate but he must have forgotten or assumed what the court gave him was the right thing and didnt question it. I've just been desperately waiting for the NOA1 for the last month to plug into my timelineand get an estimated approval date, lol. Not having a case number on the request scared me though - thinking that our NOA1 date isn't going to be until AFTER they get the certified divorce certificate and with christmas holidays so close we could end up being 6-8 weeks behind where we thought we were going to be in the process. It's been a bad week with false criminal allegations against my fiance n me losing out on a much needed job so I've been on edge n may be over-reacting. Didn't help that this came on a Saturday and we have to wait until Monday to find out/do anything. Hmmm, 2am in the UK, frayed nerves, time for bed, lol.

CaMic

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2009-12-12 21:02:00

the letter has a stamp in place of a signature - John Morton or Mortan, anyone dealt with him? They sent a pre-paid envelope to return it which has "ref. alb" written on it but I assume that is just a very small part of what our case number is going to be.

Off to search the forum for anything similar.

CaMic

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2009-12-12 19:36:00

QUOTE (kizza @ Dec 13 2009, 12:00 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hmm, I just reread your post and might have answered a little fast. I see what you mean. Im surprised there would have been no case number with the request for more evidence.

Could yor fiance have missed the number?

Hahaha, I replied too fast too. He seemed pretty sure there was no case number but I asked him to check the letter to make sure there was a specific person's name on it to return it to since there is no case number.

CaMic

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2009-12-12 19:08:00

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my fiance got a letter today asking for a certified copy of his divorce papers - he just sent a photocopy that the girl at the court gave him - no case number or anything. He sent the I129-F on 10th November and we've never had an NAO1, not been given a case number, this is the first we heard. Is this normal? I figured this was an RFE but how can it be if we haven't been given a case number to go with it?

was your cheque cashed?

Sounds to me like you just never got the case number and the NOA1 hard copy, but your case has been "opened".

Sometimes, people get their NOA1 months after sending their petition, and then get their approval or an RFE a week later.

If your cheque was cashed, you can find the case number on the back of it.

Once you get your case number, I would bet that if you logged on the USCIS website, it would say your petition was received in mid-November, which would be your NOA1 date.

My fiance sent a money order so we can't get a case number that way. He called on Monday and asked about our file but the woman refused to give him a case number and told him to call back Friday if he hadn't received anything in the post. He waited until well after 4pm Arkansas time for the postman yesterday and by then it was too late to call. Guess we need to wait until Monday but I wondered how they would tie together the case file and any new documents he sends if there is no case number on it.

CaMic

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2009-12-12 19:05:00

CaMic

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2009-12-12 18:47:00

No NOA 1 yet?

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I have been waiting for 28 days already !! You people are lucky if you got yours in 5 - 8 days !!

good luck and call if you haven't got it after 30 days!!!! our whole package is being returned this week - even though we already had a letter requesting an additional document at the weekend.

CaMic

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2009-12-15 05:42:00

What Document do I need to attach when I send my I-129F?

the checklist is here:

K1 Guide

As far as evidence of meeting in the last 2 years/ongoing relationship we have: 4 photographs (marked on the back when and where where taken, some people aslo say names should be on the back), emails, chat logs, phone (skype) records, photocopies of my entry stamps from my passport AND the info/photo page, boarding cards for parts of my journeys and the email itenerary to show where those fitted in to my trip (I always lose at least some of my boarding cards and for the last trip only had UK-Newark which on it's own didn't prove I'd been to Arkansas), ATM receipts from USA tied into my UK bank statement.

CaMic

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2009-12-15 06:50:00

still no NOA

the USCIS tell you to wait 30 from sending packages before calling, just be patient and hang in there. You may get your NAO1 after 4 weeks but have a date that is only a few days after your 'sent' date, or you could be unlucky like me and wait 5 weeks to find out it's being returned to you - I hope you hear something from them soon, it's very stressful waiting to get that NAO1 but that's only the begining as many Vjers farther along in the process will be able to testify to. Good Luck!!!

CaMic

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2009-12-16 04:32:00

Fiancee visa for third time

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Hi there...the last 3 years I got 2 fiancee visas. The first time my fiance wasn't sure about marriage so I came back home. the second time we got married but the marriage lasted for only couple of months. I had my change of status interview in february but I left the country before I get the greencard since then I've never heard about USCIS anymore. Only 2 weeks before I leave I met an wonderful guy who came to visit in my home country this month. We want to start another fiancee visa process since I'm legally divorced now. Will I have any problem asking for it? My boyfriend hasn't done this before. Please I need some helpful information.

Wow, you're the first I've heard who went through all this two times! After your divorce and AOS interview I believe you could have petitioned to stay on your own. But that's water over the dam now. You should be fine to try again. Good luck with number 3!

teehee

its : "thats water over the bridge now"

water under the bridge hehehehe

dang it LOL your right

alright, I got my water and bridges/mixed up! I hope the baseball metaphor doesn't apply - three strikes and you're out!

Good luck

your bridge could be an aquaduct of course in which case you'd be right, lol

to the OP, I'd advise that you take your time and be certain about the relationship this time before going ahead. it may well be the real deal and the two of you could be made for each other but to someone on the outside looking in, it does raise a red flag that this is your 3rd visa in as many years. think to yourself how much time have you spent physically with this guy and is it long enough to know you can live together day-in-day-out? Good luck.

CaMic

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2009-12-17 06:38:00

Fiancee visa for third time

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teehee

its : "thats water over the bridge now"

water under the bridge hehehehe

CaMic

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2009-12-16 04:23:00

Medical Appointment - Pre-consulate Packet?

I imagine it would be unlikely but don't know. If you can't get a definitive answer from fellow VJers I would say to call the embassy directly and ask - it can't hurt any to try.

CaMic

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2009-12-13 17:57:00

I know that the whole thing sounds fishy and to be honest my fiance isn't perfect but we can't choose who we fall in love with. I've met his kids and yes that's all genuine, the two older kids (twins) have a degenerative disease and need lots of help and support, one is now exclusively home schooled. The younger boy had a form of leukaemia and had to undergo a bone marrow transplant out of state, complications meant that he had to go back to hospital for several months the following summer, his mother was with him all of this time and couldn't work either. I've seen the photos of him in hospital and on steriods - his little body swollen out of all proportion and him still smiling through it all, seen the "care-pages" he had on the hospital website, he's now back home, doing okay but still has to be home schooled because they can't risk him picking up any infections. In the last 2 and half years, he spent over 12 months in Cincinnatti childrens hospital and still has regular treatments at a local hospital as well as check-ups in Cincinnatti. My fiance worked part-time on a casual basis as and when he could, he didn't do things right as far as income tax goes, he didn't earn much but I understand that he should still either have filed or gotten a waiver.

That's really trying to simplify things, its all way more complicated than that, and believe me if I hadn't witnessed it all I'd be having a hard time believing it myself.

CaMic

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2010-01-16 14:03:00

Thanks to everyone for the responses, guess we just need to try harder to get everything in order and expect there to be a lot of delays in our processing until we get it all sorted.

CaMic

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2010-01-16 11:19:00

1. HIS children are HIS children, regardless if he was ever married to the mother. They COUNT in family size until they are at least age 18 and emancipated. You CANNOT make babies and not be responsible for them, it is not up to the mother or anyone else. USCIS specifically requires all children be claimed reagrdless of living arrnagelnets and/or child support.

This is what I needed to know regarding the USCIS. He doesn't want to shirk his responsibilities and when he does earn money, most of it goes to his kids, I understand that and know that that's how he will always be.

2. He can GET a legal visitation order regardless if he was married or divorced or ever paid child support and whether the children like it or not. IF he was an axe murderer who killed children and was on death row, he could get a visitation order for his children and the state would deliver his children to him in prison for visitation. There is NO WAY the mother can deny him visitation if he wants it. IF he chooses not to that is his decision, not hers, and not the children's. They count in his family size whether he ever sees or talks to them again in their lives.

It is good to know that he CAN see his kids legally, he just doesn't want to do it against their wishes. He is however still trying to reconcile with them and if they ever say they want to see him then he'll be there in a second.

3. If he does not meet the guidelines for a family of 5, he needs a new job or you need a co-sponsor.

Seriously, either this guy has no clue or something is not being told to you. I suggest you find out which. You are entering into a relationship with someone that is being shoved around by someone who is not even an ex-wife, he also has an ex-wife (is she pushing him around also?) and you will be jerked around with him all your life. And there is nothing to prevent her from demanding child support once he marries you (sounds like the type that would do it just to take money from you, especially when she finds out she cannot keep the children from him) She is feeding this guy a bunch of BS and he is eating it up. Get it strait or get out...seriously. I do not make judgemnts about people, I really don't care, but this is something you are voluntarily joining into that sounds like a LOT of trouble.

It IS a lot of trouble. His ex-wife hasn't been in touch since the divorce and is no problem but the mother of his kids will do anything to make his life miserable and yes, I fully expect she will try to get access to my money if and when my fiance and I get married. He's not the most responsible when it comes to money/taxes etc - he knows it and I know it. Honestly, with his kids not wanting to see him we may be just as well trying to bring him to the UK instead of me going there but at the moment he's looking after his elderly stepfather and neither of us want to leave him alone. I can have 3 x 125% poverty line for a household of 5 once I sell my house in the UK, but not in time for the I-134. I was over visiting at christmas in the hope of meeting my fiance's oldest brother and explaining the situation to him in the hope that he'd agree to be a co-sponsor for the I-134 part only but for one reason or another he didn't make it into the State to meet up.

CaMic

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2010-01-16 10:33:00

Also - Just because your fiancee hasn't earned income does not preclude him from filing an annual tax return. Matter of fact - even if he hadn't paid anything in taxes, he could have been eligible for an Earned Income Credit. Income or not - he has to file a tax return every year. Failure to do so can lead to an IRS lein and other legal actions.

Are you sure that you've been given all the facts by your fiancee?

I'm not very sure of anything right now.

The kids get Medicaid(???) - I get confused with medicaid/medicare/etc. I don't think there is any outstanding support due to the county as he just had a 'warrant' check and all there was was an unpaid traffic ticket but I will tell him to check with the child support agency to be sure. He has no legal visitation/custody in place as his children have now indicated they do not want to see him and he will not force them to do so against their will. Although he was married in the past, it was not to the mother of his children so there is no relevant divorce decree pertaining to them. They obviously don't live with him now and he has never claimed them on his tax returns as his ex claims them on hers. He hasn't claimed any type of benefits himself while he has not been working regularly.

CaMic

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2010-01-16 09:20:00

I've tried searching the forums for an answer to this before but haven't found anything specific and since I've just returned from USA without being able to meet with the only person who could potentially have been a co-sponsor for us, it's more critical than ever.

My fiance hasn't worked regularly because he was looking after his 3 sick children (2 are physically disabled and one had leukaemia, two of them are permenantly home-schooled as a result) and he will use this info to show why he hasn't filed tax returns the last 3-4 years. Ever since his ex found out we are getting married, she has refused him access to his kids (and turned them against both he and I) and he pays no child support - she has not and does not intend to file for child support as it would mean he would be given access to his kids legally and I would therefore get to see them too. SO, he needs to mentions his kids in order to clear up the tax situation and get the waiver letter, but we don't want them to count as part of his household size as it will mean he is well below the 125% poverty line for a household of 5. My question is IF HE DOES NOT PAY CHILD SUPPORT AT THE TIME OF FILING I-134/I-864, DO WE HAVE TO INCLUDE THE KIDS IN THE HOUSEHOLD SIZE?

CaMic

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2010-01-16 08:39:00

Wow! I can't believe you have been through all that! What are the chances of someone with the same name as your fiancee filing a petition around the same time? Does he have a common name? I

He has a VERY common name. I have a much less common/typical name and there were two of 'me' at Aberdeen University at the same time so I guess two people with a common name applying to the USCIS on the same day is possible.

CaMic

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2010-03-09 04:21:00

az110965 no offence taken at all. I did question the situation with the divorce decree as I knew it should have been an RFE but my fiance told me that a clerk was reviewing all files before submission to ensure that they were complete before being passed on for adjudication in an attempt to speed up the processing times. Yes there are other things that irk me about the situation. He was supposedly given a case number over the telephone at one point and he promptly lost this (before ever getting to check it online), he'd sent a bank draft (or whatever the equivalent is) as he doesn't have a chequebook so that didn't help tracking things. When he phoned back to get the number again, he was told the NAO1 had been sent but not actually told the number, any time he called back after that he was told to call back later. I was curious as to how the USCIS could send one "John Doe's" document to another "John Doe" in an different state and vice versa. I just don't know. It's very frustrating indeed that the USCIS will only talk to the sponsor and not the beneficiary. I'm really confused to be honest.

CaMic

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2010-03-08 18:30:00

thanks sachinky and TracyTN

CaMic

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2010-03-08 17:45:00

maybe I'm niaive, but I'd have thought they would OFFER to expedite a new application since 1) it's their fault and 2) they've been fobbing my fiance off since January over the phone instead of just telling us and letting us get a new application together.

CaMic

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2010-03-08 15:53:00

I would also find out if you can expedite the second filing. They don't do that often, but in the event it was their mistake, they have been known to.

http://www.ehow.com/...te-request.html

Thanks for that, I'll take a look. Just don't know how much more I can take. This was our 2nd supposed application, the first one being an online scam that took us months to figure out - wasn't until I came on to VJ and started reading and I realised we hadn't been asked for half of the documents needed that the penny dropped. I've literally been waiting for this to happen for us for over 18 months so it's pretty devastating.

CaMic

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2010-03-08 15:19:00

So my fiance got in touch with his governor's office last week and we found out today from them that USCIS has lost our file. That's it. That and they'll issue a refund within 30 days. I'm completely gutted. In tears. We've lost some of the originals of our evidence of meeting along with the file (I couldn't access a photocopier n sent some original boarding cards etc). 4 months of waiting and that's it, lost, nothing they can or will do about it apparently. I dunno, I feel like the unluckiest person on the planet right now.

CaMic

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2010-03-08 14:50:00

wow, thanks. I didn't realise that congressmen/senators had people to deal with immigration stuff. I will tell my fiance to give it a try this week. If it had been me, I'd have forwarded the package to the other 'Joe Bloggs' and requested he do the same but my fiance sent it off before we spoke about it. Confuses me as to why they can't just give us a case number though so we can check if there is ANY progress in 3 & 1/2 months.

CaMic

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2010-02-28 18:33:00

no-one have any suggestions what we can do?

CaMic

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2010-02-28 17:17:00