Anyone with beneficiary from Brazil that has gone through DS-230 ????

[spouse_visa 1]

Hello fellow VJers with Brazilian beneficiaries.

Looking at the Rio consulate site, they give us a list of documents needed http://brazil.usembassy.gov/interview/forms-for-spouse-visas.html Keep in mind that they do not have CR-1s here, but K3 ( weird that they would not have updated this site )

I have a question related to the police records from Brazil. We need a local state and a federal statement.

We want to know if you have used the ones you can get via the internet, which are fast and accurate, which the site states that you can use, OR, you used the template given at the site, and called the authorities, to go get them to fill it up instead. Also, we assume that these need to be translated, since we need to send them to NVC

I know that there are a lot of Brazilian beneficiaries that have gone through this process already, so, can you please help us ?

Thank you much

H&L

[Sandra G. 5,048]

yep you can get via internet ok, and you need to submit with respective tanslation.

[GlobeHopperMama 95]

Are you sure about the K3 visa issue? That is so strange because I know at least a dozen people who have gotten IR1/CR1 spouse visas out of Rio in the past year. I see IR visas listed on the Brazil Embassy website:

http://brazil.usemba...-petitions.html

Also, K3 visas are only issued if the NVC and consulate receive an approved I-129f before the approved I-130, they are fairly obsolete now because this almost never happens. Did you file I-129f?

I would just want to be sure you're preparing for the correct visa process and if there's some way to choose, that you have the ability to choose IR1/CR1 since it's a much simpler process post-visa.

Edited October 28, 2012 by GlobeHopperMama