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HypoLoveTriangle   2

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My fiance is Japanese and coming to the USA on a K-1 VISA. She just got her plane ticket for Friday April 6th. WOO WOO!

She was curious on what sort of legal documents or paperwork she might need to bring, in case of future issues and AOS and Green Card application. I tried to search for it but everything was just about the K-1 Application process.

I am assuming:

-koseki (japanese birth certificate)

-her passport with the VISA

-her Japanese license?

What other sorts of things would be good to bring? Evidence of relationship? receipts? copies of all the paperwork we turned in for the VISA? bank accounts or monetary statements?

etc etc?

If anyone knows I would greatly appreciate it if you would share. :)

Thanks a bunch

Phil

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Hank_   9,174

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She will be given a packet marked DO NOT OPEN, and there will be a visa stamp in her passport. Those are the necessary items to bring.

Don't need any of those old receipts and such.

always keep copies of your paperwork.

copies of birth certificate (translated) will be good for down the road.

Oh ya...... Congrats!! :dance: :dance:

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Inky Grand Master

Inky   1,111

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Any medical papers for her new doctors here - any schooling papers, in case she decides to go back to school

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Your interview took 67 days from your I-129F NOA1 date.

AOS was approved in 2 months and 8 days without interview.

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TBoneTX Grand Master

TBoneTX   45,394

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Not necessarily for immigration, but she should bring any and all official or personal documents that would be expensive, inconvenient, or impossible to get from afar. Examples include medical records, vaccination records, employment records, school transcripts, birth certificates, divorce certificates if applicable, and anything else that you and she can think of. If she has children, even if they're staying behind, she should get similar records for them, to have with her.

I very highly recommend procuring MULTIPLE copies of everything -- at least two, more if she can get them.

Also, if she has a driver's license, she should renew it for the longest term possible. If she doesn't have one, she should do everything in her power to earn one.

Her visa is probably already in her passport because you say that she has her airline ticket, but others who are reading this message can tell their beneficiary to renew the foreign passport for the longest possible term.

Congratulations to both of you, si man! :)

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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HypoLoveTriangle   2

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Also, if she has a driver's license, she should renew it for the longest term possible. If she doesn't have one, she should do everything in her power to earn one.

Her visa is probably already in her passport because you say that she has her airline ticket, but others who are reading this message can tell their beneficiary to renew the foreign passport for the longest possible term.

Congratulations to both of you, si man! :)

Thanks for the replies everyone.

You mention renewing Driver's License and Passport. She has her VISA already stamped in it her passport. I don't know if she has a driver's license as she doesn't drive a car at all, but she has her ID Card. However, her passport Expires on December 3rd 2012. So in 9 months. Should she renew her passport before she comes to USA in April or wait until we apply for AOS/Green Card? Would she lose her VISA if she got her Passport renewed?

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TBoneTX Grand Master

TBoneTX   45,394

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You mention renewing Driver's License and Passport. She has her VISA already stamped in it her passport. I don't know if she has a driver's license as she doesn't drive a car at all, but she has her ID Card. However, her passport Expires on December 3rd 2012. So in 9 months. Should she renew her passport before she comes to USA in April or wait until we apply for AOS/Green Card? Would she lose her VISA if she got her Passport renewed?

Unless someone here knows for sure, you couldn't go wrong by e-mailing or calling the embassy to see if they could simply reattach the visa into the renewed passport. I have no idea whether it's an easy, straightforward operation or not.

However, I do know that having an expiring/expired passport is a headache. (Some countries won't even let you in if there's less than 6 months' validity left on your passport.) Consider the extra stress if there's a family emergency and she has to travel back pronto, perhaps on emergency Advance Parole. I'd investigate renewal as a priority, starting with the embassy.

There's so much to do in a short time that maybe it's not feasible for her to learn to drive. Others here who are reading, however, can take the advice that it truly helps to have an existing driver's license, albeit foreign, upon coming to the U.S. In your case, perhaps have her renew her ID card (if such things expire there).

Let us know what the embassy says, and in the meantime some authoritative posters may happen along here, si man.

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

 
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