Filing Fee - paying at time of interview and not with I-129F petition?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Since it sounds like you are living in teh same country as your fiance, could you not just DCF and save yourself time and $$? If I'm wrong, ignore me, but DCF usually is done in a few months at most AND you have a greencard.

Would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to do DCF. From what I've read it is quicker which and he does get the greencard... all ideal... HOWEVER we would have to get married in Egypt which isn't out of the question but the problem comes with the fact that we must live together for 6 months (as I understand it) in order to qualify for DCF. Well, so even though I've been residing in Egypt for over a year we must get married, live together for 6 months, and then apply for DCF... so I guess all in all it would probably take about the same time as a K1 visa, right? That's the problem with that. But yeah, it would be so much easier and faster since we're both already here... if we could get over the living together part.

Such a pain in the butt.... grrr.

Yes it is a pain in the butt when you have incorrect information. YOU must live in Egypt for 6 months before getting married and filing for the DCF. You do not need to "live together for 6 months"

Read and study the guides.

Your questions indicate you have not done so and you will find the entire process, whichever one you chosse, much less a "pain in the butt" when you inform yourself of the procedures.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Dear All,

We are in the process of completing our I-129F form... gathering necessary documents, checking it over and over and over again to ensure there are no mistakes, etc. before we ship our package from Cairo, Egypt to Vermont.

The instruction of the I-129F states that we must pay the filing fee from a US bank account. I am currently living and working in Egypt, have been for over a year, and my paycheck is directly deposited into an Egyptian bank account. My US accounts have no funds, etc. The instructions said to contact the Consulate if the form was being filed from overseas (aka, we're not in the US and we're mailing the form to Vermont from Egypt...) for more information on the filing fee. I emailed the Consular and they told me that the filing fee could be paid at the time of the interview in Egypt.

Has anyone done this before??? I'm nervous! Paying the filing fee at the Consular at the time of the interview would be great (and I would feel much safer than mailing the payment from Egypt... it might never make it!), but will USCIS still process the application like normal or will they set it aside without payment??? I would HAAAAAAATEEEEEE to send in the package and wait and wait and wait to only find out that the process will be delayed because of no payment! It just seems strange that they would process the file like normal without payment?

Thoughts?

I don't think I have seen this in the guides....?

The consulate is referring to the visa application fee which is different than the petitions fee... the visa fee is paid to the consulate at interview time

True . the visa fee is 131 $ thats what he will have to pay it at CIB bank in Egypt . but the visa application fee is 455$ which you have to send the payment to USCIS .

What is the 131$ for? How is that paid at the interview?

Really, stop now and read the guides for all the visa options. The $455 is a petition filing fee, not a visa application fee. YOU do not apply for a visa, YOU cannot receive a visa to the USA as you do not need one, so there is no reason to apply for one. YOU file a petition to ALLOW your fiance to apply for a visa. If your petition is approved, your fiance can follow the consulates procedures to apply for a visa. The fee of $131 is when he files his visa application.