Help me finish my 129

[dazler 0]

Hello all 1st of all some info about me im working in the US military active duty and for that reason I have been in different places for the past 5 years.

so on the form 325a what I have to write on the section asking for that. the name of the base at wich I was stationed at that time. I been from North Carolina to South Korea to New York.

that without counting the bases at wich I receive training for several months.

should I send a copy of my military record brief in that paper it say the bases they have send me with the time month year. should it be notarize with the military lawyer?

also I have read on other sites about a letter from the bank for when you do the afidavi of support is that needed? cause all I see in the instruction it say tax transcript recent 3 years and copy of W-2.

also I havent seen much info about the American interview are they doing that or what?

so i guess I send the USCIS pictures of me and fiancee is there a max number of pic I send?

about the emails they have to be done by a translator or I can do that myself? I was thinking about printing the page from hotmail then attach another paper to it translated and signed by me.

thanks.

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

The list of residences is for the G-325A, not the I-129F. List everywhere you've lived, and not simply visited. Since you're military, I'd list every place you actually received orders for transfer, and not places you visited on leave or temporary duty assignment. A street address is probably not necessary. The name of the base, state, and country (if not US) should be enough. You can list the unit you were assigned to, but I doubt it's necessary. Use an extra sheet of paper, if needed. You don't need to include any documented evidence of this, so no copy of your military brief should be included.

What's needed with the affidavit of support is entirely up to the consulate (for a K visa using the I-134 affidavit). If they only ask for tax returns, then that's all you need to include. You don't send this to USCIS with the I-129F. Your fiancee will bring this to the interview.

The US citizen is not usually interviewed as part of the K1 process, but it depends on the consulate. Most consulates won't allow the US citizen to attend the interview. Some consulates will allow the US citizen to attend, but they don't interview them. Some consulates will interview the US citizen if they are present, and a few even insist on the US citizen being present. Check the regional forum for the consulate where your fiancee will interview.

There is no maximum to the number of pictures you can include with the I-129F petition. For the USCIS part of the process, a few are generally enough, along with evidence like boarding passes and visa stamps, to prove you met your fiancee in the previous two years. You can include more if you think it will help at the consulate stage. Some consulates don't ask to see much evidence, so including it with your petition is one way to ensure that the CO sees it. Whether it will help depends on the consulate.

Emails do not have to be included with the petition. Again, you can include them if you think they will help at the interview, for the same reasons outlined above for pictures. This sort of evidence usually does not have to be translated. Most consulates will accept documents or evidence in either English or the language of the local country.

[dazler 0]

thank you that where I got confuse cause I went to see a immigration relocation assistand here on base and she told me to fill out form I-864 affidavit of support. but I guess I have to wait for my fiancee to tell me which one I have to fill when she get the packet in Peru.

yes that where I get confuse as to include the bases where I was stationed (living) for a few months for training or not, and just expand the time for the one that I was actually assigned after training.

I was asking about here in the states if they ask us the petitioners for a interview.

if I dont find my 1st boarding pass can a flight itinerary be good enough it have the flight info plus what I paid for the ticket.

I assume I never send original to USCIS so i scan the boarding pass.

cause a paper they gave me here on base with some info say document not in english to be translated. so I guess if they dont say to be notarize I can do that myself.

thanks again!!

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

thank you that where I got confuse cause I went to see a immigration relocation assistand here on base and she told me to fill out form I-864 affidavit of support. but I guess I have to wait for my fiancee to tell me which one I have to fill when she get the packet in Peru.

yes that where I get confuse as to include the bases where I was stationed (living) for a few months for training or not, and just expand the time for the one that I was actually assigned after training.

I was asking about here in the states if they ask us the petitioners for a interview.

if I dont find my 1st boarding pass can a flight itinerary be good enough it have the flight info plus what I paid for the ticket.

I assume I never send original to USCIS so i scan the boarding pass.

cause a paper they gave me here on base with some info say document not in english to be translated. so I guess if they dont say to be notarize I can do that myself.

thanks again!!

No offense to your base immigration liaison office, because I'm sure they are sincerely trying to help, but I've found military liaison offices to often have outdated information, and sometimes they are just plain wrong. In this case, they've gotten cross-wired between the requirements for an immigrant and non-immigrant visa, or they've just lumped them together to come up with one general set of requirements.

The I-864 is required by law for immigrant visas. There is no specific affidavit that's required by law for a non-immigrant visa. When a consulate needs to make a judgment call about whether a non-immigrant may become a public charge in the US, they usually ask for the I-134 affidavit of support. The K1 is a non-immigrant visa. A K1 visa holder doesn't become eligible to become an immigrant until they arrive in the US and marry the petitioner. You'll have to submit an I-864 with the green card application after your fiancee arrives in the US and you get married, but it's highly unlikely the consulate will ask you to submit an I-864.

Whether or not you should list your training bases depends on whether you were stationed there, or just there temporarily. If you were stationed at base X, and got temporary orders to go to base Y for training, after which you returned to base X, then you don't need to list base Y. On the other hand, if you were stationed at base Y for training, and after your training was finished you received orders to transfer to base X, then you need to list base Y - you were actually living there. The point is that you are always living somewhere. There's no hard rule for determining where that somewhere is. Some people just list wherever they are having their mail sent.

There is no requirement to interview US citizen petitioners in the US at any point during a K1 visa petition or application process. After you get married and apply for your fiancee to get a green card then you both may be interviewed as part of the green card application process.

A travel itinerary is practically useless as evidence. I can go over to orbitz or travelocity or my local travel agent and get an itinerary for anywhere in the world without actually traveling anywhere. Did you get a visa for that trip? Can you make a copy of the visa from your passport?

Any document or form you submit that requires your signature or the signature of your fiancee should be the original. This means I-129F, G-325A's, letters of intent, etc. Everything else should be a photocopy. Your fiancee will want to have the originals of those documents to bring to the interview, as the consulate may ask to see them. However, even the consulate usually won't keep the originals as long as you have additional copies they can keep.

Any document or evidence that is required with the petition must be translated into English. Something like a copy of a divorce decree would be required evidence, and must be translated. Something like copies of your email correspondence is not required. There are really only three things you have to prove with evidence with a K1 visa petition package. You have to prove that you met within the past two years. You have to prove that you both intend to marry. And, you have to prove that any previous marriages have been terminated. Providing emails is optional "bona fide relationship" evidence that may be useful at the consulate stage (where translations usually aren't needed), but isn't required with the petition. USCIS probably won't even read them, but the consulate might, so there's not much point in getting them translated.

[dazler 0]

thank you again, since she told me, I already start filling the 864, I will download and do the 134 now.

does the bank statement have to be notarize? for the I-134

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would that sample letter be enought to use for supporting evidence section B. where it say: Statement of your employer on business stationery showing:

1.Date and nature of employment

2.Salary paid

3.Whether the position is temporary or permanent

or i have to use something completelly diferent.

also you think they can expedite my petition if I include a statement that say I will be getting deploy, but I dont have orders yet.

I just read that This version of the G-325A, Biographic Information, is a fillable form.

so that mean It be denied if I do it by hand.

[dazler 0]

i just found my boarding pass the 1st time I went to visit her to go over there, but I cant find the one from her country to the U.S.

so in this case the flight itinerary with this boarding pass would meet the met in person requirement. I do have the one from my last visit over there and the one coming back.

should I include the credit card statement how much I paid for the ticket, but anyway thats on the flight itinerary.

[Dakine 26]

i just found my boarding pass the 1st time I went to visit her to go over there, but I cant find the one from her country to the U.S.

so in this case the flight itinerary with this boarding pass would meet the met in person requirement. I do have the one from my last visit over there and the one coming back.

should I include the credit card statement how much I paid for the ticket, but anyway thats on the flight itinerary.

Submit COPIES of everything. You only need originals of the letters of intent to marry and the G325As.

More ammo the better.

Make 2 copies of everything you submit. Send one to your fiancee.

[dazler 0]

Hello, would it be a good idea to send a CD with more photos and a video of the day I ask my fiancée to marry me in a family reunion?

[TracyTN 237]

No officer is going to take a CD and view it. That'd be a waste of time.

[dakay ♥ 10]

Hello, would it be a good idea to send a CD with more photos and a video of the day I ask my fiancée to marry me in a family reunion?

I don´t think so, just think how much work they have

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

thank you again, since she told me, I already start filling the 864, I will download and do the 134 now.

does the bank statement have to be notarize? for the I-134

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would that sample letter be enought to use for supporting evidence section B. where it say: Statement of your employer on business stationery showing:

1.Date and nature of employment

2.Salary paid

3.Whether the position is temporary or permanent

or i have to use something completelly diferent.

also you think they can expedite my petition if I include a statement that say I will be getting deploy, but I dont have orders yet.

I just read that This version of the G-325A, Biographic Information, is a fillable form.

so that mean It be denied if I do it by hand.

To some degree, you should ignore the instructions that come with the I-134, and follow the instructions provided by the consulate. Most consulates will want a copy of your most recent tax return (or transcripts of the return from the IRS). Many will also want the employment letter. Most will not need your bank statements unless you're self-employed or you want to use cash in a bank account to offset a shortage in income. If you do decide to include the banks statements, then they don't need to be notarized.

You can use the format of that sample letter for your own letter, but don't print out the sample letter and try to get your CO to sign it. For one thing, the word "sample" is written across the front of it. For another, the letter has to printed on your unit's official stationary. Take the sample letter to your unit's main administrative office (whatever that's called in your branch of the service) and they should be able to prepare a letter on your unit's stationary and get your CO to sign it.

If you can provide evidence proving when you will be deployed then you should be able to get an expedite of the petition approval. However, the generally accepted evidence for USCIS is a copy of your orders. I'm not sure what they'd accept in lieu of actual orders.

When it says the G-325A is a "fillable form" it simply means you may fill it out on your computer. They will not reject it if it's filled out by hand. In fact, all of the forms you submit with the I-129F petition package may be filled out by hand. Things are a little different at the consulate stage, though. The Department of State is gradually moving to electronic forms that must be filled out online. You'll deal with that when you get ready to prepare the documents for the interview.

i just found my boarding pass the 1st time I went to visit her to go over there, but I cant find the one from her country to the U.S.

so in this case the flight itinerary with this boarding pass would meet the met in person requirement. I do have the one from my last visit over there and the one coming back.

should I include the credit card statement how much I paid for the ticket, but anyway thats on the flight itinerary.

A credit card statement is useful - it shows you charged something on your credit card. You can include the itinerary for the sake of completeness or organization, but it's useless as proof of anything. As I said, it's easy to create an itinerary without actually going anywhere.

What you need to prove is that you actually met each other sometime in the past two years. Part of this is proving that either of you actually traveled to meet the other one. Boarding passes and stamped passport pages are good proof of the travel. You should also include at least a few photos of the two of you together. The K1 visa guides here give a good description of the kind of evidence you should include:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?autocom=custom&page=k1guide

Electronic media, like CD's or DVD's, are not accepted as evidence.

[dazler 0]

thanks, now I discard the idea of sending a CD. I almost done with the 325a I typed all the placed I live in the past 5 years that I got orders to, including S. Korea but since it say for the past 5 year those 5 block were full before I finish covering a period of 5 year so in the last block I typed: continue see attachment...

and I finish on another page, date and signed it. I think im learning.

but wait Im kind of confuse now, since it say reside to they mean live or that I actually have residence in those places. can someone help me with that question in my case since im military and we get orders to diference places.

one more thing where it say last address outside the U.S. for more than 1 year should I type the S. Korea address, same one I use one the block above. I was there for exactly 1 year so I dont know if I have to write it or not.since it say for more than 1 year.

and on the money order I read to use the full name but on the 129F say Make the check or money order payable to U.S. Department of Homeland Security. So I dont have to write it United Stated Department of Homeland Security right?

[dazler 0]

Hello, I send and email to USCIS military help and got a reply, they telling me because im in the military I dont have to file the G325A. I got the email from nebraska service center.

I guess I will just print this email and sent it with my packet along with the I-129f my fiance 325A and other supporting documents.

thanks all you for all the help I see how it goes from here on.

ps: I will call USCIS and make sure about this.

I post back the results!

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

Hello, I send and email to USCIS military help and got a reply, they telling me because im in the military I dont have to file the G325A. I got the email from nebraska service center.

I guess I will just print this email and sent it with my packet along with the I-129f my fiance 325A and other supporting documents.

thanks all you for all the help I see how it goes from here on.

ps: I will call USCIS and make sure about this.

I post back the results!

No offense to whomever answered your email, but they may not know what they're talking about. The requirements for a petition package can be somewhat complex, and a customer service rep may not be the best person to seek advice from. They are notorious for giving bad information. Even people who live in Nebraska don't file a K1 petition at the Nebraska Service Center - they file at the California Service Center.

You can go ahead and file, including a copy of that email from USCIS. Don't be surprised if you get an RFE asking for your G-325A. I don't see anything in the instructions that indicate that military personnel are not required to submit one.