Letter of Intent in I-129F

[AlbaEagles<3 1]

In my hurry to get my I-129F in the mail, I must have overlooked the "letter of intent" bullet point, and I didn't realize I needed one until reading through some posts on this forum. Now that I am reviewing what I actually sent it seems that is the only thing missing. I did a very good job with everything else. I have a couple questions:

What are my odds of an RFE?

If I do get an RFE and need to send them letters of intent, how much time can I expect to lose?

Has anyone here forgotten a letter of intent and NOT received an RFE?

Thanks in advance.

AlbaEagle

[iampatricias 17]

If you do get an RFE only for a letter of intent, and you have the letters ready to mail out the day the RFE arrives, you may lose a week or two. Our RFE was very minor but our petition was approved 19 days after our RFE was issued (so we had to wait for the RFE to come to know what we needed to do, and then fix the mistake, send it back etc).

[Kaiser 0]

My fiancee just got her visa a couple weeks ago and we never sent a Letter of Intent with the I-129F. It never came up at all. When you think about it, the fact that you are filing the form should give them a pretty good idea that you intend to marry. I don't even think it's required to be notarized, so it basically means nothing anyway.

[AlbaEagles<3 1]

Thank you both for your responses.

iampatricias - i'll keep my fingers crossed that an RFE doesn't come.

Kaiser - I was thinking the same exact thing yesterday. The petition alone should be proof that me and my fiance intend to marry, as well as the fact that I flew to the other side of the planet twice in the last 6 months just to visit her. Thanks for putting my fears to rest. I hope my outcome is the same as yours.

[Barbara J 115]

In my hurry to get my I-129F in the mail, I must have overlooked the "letter of intent" bullet point, and I didn't realize I needed one until reading through some posts on this forum. Now that I am reviewing what I actually sent it seems that is the only thing missing. I did a very good job with everything else. I have a couple questions:

What are my odds of an RFE?

If I do get an RFE and need to send them letters of intent, how much time can I expect to lose?

Has anyone here forgotten a letter of intent and NOT received an RFE?

Thanks in advance.

AlbaEagle

We never sent letter of intent either but we did get RFE as my now hubbie did not include pics or anything lol but we get the RFE I had it together in a day and sent it over night express they got it and restarted our case 2 days later we were approved 1 week later.

[AlbaEagles<3 1]

Thanks Barbara. I included tons of evidence that we met, i.e pictures, airplane ticket stubs, passport stamps. I don't really see the letter of intent as an important document in my opinion. I mean, I am stating my intent by filing for the K-1 Visa, and they can ask my fiance about her intent all they want at the interview. I guess they just like having it in writing, but hopefully i'll be ok without one.

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

Thanks Barbara. I included tons of evidence that we met, i.e pictures, airplane ticket stubs, passport stamps. I don't really see the letter of intent as an important document in my opinion. I mean, I am stating my intent by filing for the K-1 Visa, and they can ask my fiance about her intent all they want at the interview. I guess they just like having it in writing, but hopefully i'll be ok without one.

They want it because the I-129F instructions specifically ask for it. "Provide original statements from you and your fiance(e) whom you plan to marry within 90 days of his or her admission, and copies of any evidence you wish to submit to establish your mutual intent". If the evidence you submit clearly establishes that intent then the statements would be redundant, and they could choose to approve the petition without them.

That said, I would never advise someone that the statements aren't required. The instructions clearly say that they are.

[AlbaEagles<3 1]

Thanks Jim

[Andy and Pui 16]

AlbaEagles<3,

I know another user on here a few months back forgot to send something in their packet. What they did was made a copy of their NOA1 and put that on top of the new documents they mailed in. They have since gotten their NOA2. Not sure if they sent it to their service center or the TX lockbox. It was the user kiwibird. Not sure if that is something you want to do but it is an option.

Andy

[baron555 934]

Thanks Barbara. I included tons of evidence that we met, i.e pictures, airplane ticket stubs, passport stamps. I don't really see the letter of intent as an important document in my opinion. I mean, I am stating my intent by filing for the K-1 Visa, and they can ask my fiance about her intent all they want at the interview. I guess they just like having it in writing, but hopefully i'll be ok without one.

You both are supposed to submit updated new letters of intent at the interview.

Thoroughly read and understand the VJ Guides. They are quite simple. If you had done that in the beginning.......

[AlbaEagles<3 1]

Thanks Andi and Pui, i'll have to try that. Perhaps it will help preempt the RFE.

Baron555, I found this site after submitting the packet, I wish I found out about VJ sooner. In my opinion VJ should be advertised in the I-129F paperwork as the VJ guides are more straight forward than the instructions in the I-129F.

Thanks,

AlbaEagles<3