waiting 3 months after filing I-129

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thank you all for your replies. To answer a question to me, I sent it to the Dallas office. I was unaware it could be sent elsewhere.

It was recently brought to my attention that I need to have spent a minimum amount of time directly visiting my fiance. My time spent with her was only 4 days. Is there a minimum?

thanks again.

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thank you all for your replies. To answer a question to me, I sent it to the Dallas office. I was unaware it could be sent elsewhere.

It was recently brought to my attention that I need to have spent a minimum amount of time directly visiting my fiance. My time spent with her was only 4 days. Is there a minimum?

thanks again.

Once you send it to Dallas, they will send it to either Vermont or California.

There's not a minimum amount of time you need to have spent with your fiancee; just that you have met in the last two years. Later, when she's going for her interview, you'll want to be able to show that you have an ongoing relationship. But that's once you're through with this awful wait.

Hang in there, it's worth it.

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It was recently brought to my attention that I need to have spent a minimum amount of time directly visiting my fiance. My time spent with her was only 4 days. Is there a minimum?

B_J is right about demonstrating that you have an ongoing relationship. Romantic gestures are always a winner during an engagement so deluge her! Send letters/cards/postcards, photos, packages (save postal receipts that you send stuff), take screenshots of you and she talking through online video, gather up evidence that you actually were there, if it is requested and you don't already have it together. She should have a folder already in the works where she puts this kind of stuff to take to the interview. Other people's experiences at that particular embassy can give you a better idea of what they ask for. (Sometimes they ask for weird things so it doesn't hurt to save everything they could want and dump it once it is all over.)

It is much easier to provide tangible proof of your relationship while you are waiting anyway rather then trying to scramble at the end. Besides, what else are you gonna be doing to kill the time?

~~Still waiting and hoping that super-romantic V-day card makes it in time.

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You know, one thing I worry about is that although I took many pictures of her, I have no pictures of us together. In hind site, a bad mistake. But, I do have my hotel bill in Manila. I also have the Credit card bill which shows I paid for her plane for her to visit me. She also saved her ticket.

thanks so much to all for your encouragement and suggestions