The date on I-129

[princessmiaa 0]

Hello all I am new to JV and needed some help on this issue.Met my fiance in 2008 and he is Haitian. However because of PAP issues we decided to vacation and meet over in Dominican Republic. I have been there in 2010 and 2011 and now he is back in his country and I'm going there Oct.31 2011. We started our process in February 2011 with a Immigration Attorney but had since been in limited contact with him. We sent copies of our pictures, all receipts, copies of passports to show we have been together and well just everything, but never heard anything more for months. now it is going into a new year soon and I wanted to know will we have to do our paper work all over again because we have heard nothing from the lawyer except that we need to send more proof with pictures and that was in September. I am having a bad feeling about the lawyer and wanted to know since I have copies of all the paperwork, would it be best to pursue another lawyer or just go it on our own? Can I still use all the paperwork we have? or will we have to take new pictures, and change the dates on the forms? How many pictures is enough because we sent 10 and can someone recommend a good lawyer in Maryland because we were using a lawyer in New York which is far from me and harder to tract down. Confused..My fiance wants us to get married in Haiti but I really feel its better to do it in the US but this is getting frustrating for us both.HELP!

[Inky 1,110]

You need to find out what is going on with the case through the lawyer. You need the case number and information.

Your going on 9 months and don't know anything of the case. It should of been approved around 6 months and been at the embassy by now waiting for interview.

If you have copys of everything why have you not called NVC or USCIS about the case yourself to follow up on things?? That is another option to do, get on the ball and get going with things. Its not going to just go by itself.

[princessmiaa 0]

You need to find out what is going on with the case through the lawyer. You need the case number and information.

Your going on 9 months and don't know anything of the case. It should of been approved around 6 months and been at the embassy by now waiting for interview.

If you have copys of everything why have you not called NVC or USCIS about the case yourself to follow up on things?? That is another option to do, get on the ball and get going with things. Its not going to just go by itself.

INKY THANKS SO MUCH FOR REPLYING AND I HAVE BEEN CALLING AND EMAILING THE LAWYER WHOM I AM ALWAYS TOLD BY THE SECRETARY THAT HE IS WITH A CLIENT OR NOT AVAILABLE , LEFT MESSAGES ON HIS MACHINE AND HE HAS GIVEN ME NO INFORMATION AS FAR AS NUMBERS TO TRACK WITH BUT I WILL CONTINUE TO PURSUE HIM AND MAY NEED TO TAKE A TRIP TO NEW YORK. i WENT TO THIS LAWYER BECAUSE HE SAID IT WOULD TAKE 3 TO 5 MONTHS BUT I WISH I HAD WENT TO A LAWYER CLOSER TO MY HOME.

[Inky 1,110]

INKY THANKS SO MUCH FOR REPLYING AND I HAVE BEEN CALLING AND EMAILING THE LAWYER WHOM I AM ALWAYS TOLD BY THE SECRETARY THAT HE IS WITH A CLIENT OR NOT AVAILABLE , LEFT MESSAGES ON HIS MACHINE AND HE HAS GIVEN ME NO INFORMATION AS FAR AS NUMBERS TO TRACK WITH BUT I WILL CONTINUE TO PURSUE HIM AND MAY NEED TO TAKE A TRIP TO NEW YORK. i WENT TO THIS LAWYER BECAUSE HE SAID IT WOULD TAKE 3 TO 5 MONTHS BUT I WISH I HAD WENT TO A LAWYER CLOSER TO MY HOME.

If you have to make a trip out there I would do that then. You need to really get to the bottom of this!

Other than that I would still suggest trying to call the USCIS and see if you can get information on the case by providing details about you and the beneficiary. Explain the situation with the lawyer see if they can maybe give you the case number on the phone or atleast some insight as to what the case is doing right now.

[wissnan4ever 10]

I personally wouldn't even waste my time or the money to track down the lawyer. Call USCIS to even see if the lawyer even sent in your paperwork. If not than do it yourself the bad to that is you already wasted 9 months which like the poster above said your man could have been by your side already or just about to have his interview. When you go in October just take some more pictures it wouldn't hurt as well as the letter of intent which he need to sign as well as the 325A which is his biographic information go to the USCIS website and search 129F instructions and hit the floor running.

[princessmiaa 0]

I personally wouldn't even waste my time or the money to track down the lawyer. Call USCIS to even see if the lawyer even sent in your paperwork. If not than do it yourself the bad to that is you already wasted 9 months which like the poster above said your man could have been by your side already or just about to have his interview. When you go in October just take some more pictures it wouldn't hurt as well as the letter of intent which he need to sign as well as the 325A which is his biographic information go to the USCIS website and search 129F instructions and hit the floor running.

I have all those papers and I have downloaded blank sheets from online just was wandering what to do now cause i don't know if the lawyer sent the information at all. I will contact USCIS to see if we have a status or not and thank you so much for you advice, we have been really stressed out over this.

[wissnan4ever 10]

I have all those papers and I have downloaded blank sheets from online just was wandering what to do now cause i don't know if the lawyer sent the information at all. I will contact USCIS to see if we have a status or not and thank you so much for you advice, we have been really stressed out over this.

You welcome once you find out from USCIS if you have an active petition or not than you can from there their is so much information on this website as well as you can always ask questions from any VJer please save your money and most of all the headache and do it your self. I don't believe your lawyer sent your paperwork at all you should have gotten something by now via the mail to your house. Dust yourself off and try again. At least you'll have a piece of mind because your handling your case and nobody will care about your paperwork more than you best believe that.

[Mochamich 7]

Hello all I am new to JV and needed some help on this issue.Met my fiance in 2008 and he is Haitian. However because of PAP issues we decided to vacation and meet over in Dominican Republic. I have been there in 2010 and 2011 and now he is back in his country and I'm going there Oct.31 2011. We started our process in February 2011 with a Immigration Attorney but had since been in limited contact with him. We sent copies of our pictures, all receipts, copies of passports to show we have been together and well just everything, but never heard anything more for months. now it is going into a new year soon and I wanted to know will we have to do our paper work all over again because we have heard nothing from the lawyer except that we need to send more proof with pictures and that was in September. I am having a bad feeling about the lawyer and wanted to know since I have copies of all the paperwork, would it be best to pursue another lawyer or just go it on our own? Can I still use all the paperwork we have? or will we have to take new pictures, and change the dates on the forms? How many pictures is enough because we sent 10 and can someone recommend a good lawyer in Maryland because we were using a lawyer in New York which is far from me and harder to tract down. Confused..My fiance wants us to get married in Haiti but I really feel its better to do it in the US but this is getting frustrating for us both.HELP!

Hi princessmia

I must say that as a VJ person who filed for my fiance your are better off doing it on your own. I was lucky to find this website right before we filed and my fiance is here now. Lawyers can help but sometimes they don't know what they are doing. If you take your time to read through all the information and ask a lot of questions you will be just fine. Take all your paperwork and file by yourself.

good luck

[princessmiaa 0]

Hi princessmia

I must say that as a VJ person who filed for my fiance your are better off doing it on your own. I was lucky to find this website right before we filed and my fiance is here now. Lawyers can help but sometimes they don't know what they are doing. If you take your time to read through all the information and ask a lot of questions you will be just fine. Take all your paperwork and file by yourself.

good luck

I was feeling that way too because we started to do it ourselves but listening to other people who never been in this situation told us it would be faster to use a lawyer so thats what we did and now that money gone and we have to start from the bottom. The good thing is that we have cpoies of all our paperwork and I could just send the filing fee and paperwork now. Per advice today I contacted USCIS and there is no information on either of us that they could locate so, I am sending our paperwork off on Friday October 28th and hopefully it will not take 9 more months. Thank you all for your advice, I really needed confirmation on what to do.

[JoyDee 21]

Did you ever write USCIS a check for the 129? track it down. then, ditch the lawyer and do it yourself. no need to go to new york.