I-129F Prep Questions - Flight Reservation = OK?

[Mrbip 1]

Hello everyone!

First time post here and I first wanted to say you folks have a wonderful site and community and I really grateful for all the information you have provided. I'm beginning to assemble the I-129F packed and I have a couple questions regarding primary evidence for meeting in the past two years.

First of all, like a doofus I have already thrown out my boarding passes when I went to meet my fiance in her home country(japan.) I do have a digital copy of my flight reservation though. Will that suffice instead? I also have my passport stamped. Would I need to make a color copy of the whole passport or just the reservation page. I am also planning on making a copy of my bank statement with transactions in Japan once it's available next week.

Many thanks!

-Ryan

Edited June 7, 2013 by Mrbip

[Tygrys 143]

You should be ok with passport stamps and bank statements. Copy all pages of your passport.

[julitathomas0810 30]

Plane tickets and passport stamps are good to include , but do not prove you met your fiance . What else have you included as primary proof ?

Also check your emails and do a search and see if you can find any mail the airline sent you . May be able to find the confirmation emails or itinerary for your flights . Can call the airlines and perhaps and ask about receipts for the flight .

[Mrbip 1]

I have photos of us together in Japan and with her family. I also have photos of us together when she met my family in the states this year. What else would constitute primary proof of us meeting?

[julitathomas0810 30]

I have photos of us together in Japan and with her family. I also have photos of us together when she met my family in the states this year. What else would constitute primary proof of us meeting?

You just have to prove you met your fiancee within the 2 years that you are filing the I-129F . Basically build a folder of how you met and when you met in person . This is what I included in my packet for the I-129F . First I included 6 color pictures of the two of us together . I then included all my plane information . Any flight information within the country . Followed up with all the hotel information . Backed up with receipts and credit card statements to prove the purchases . Any email confirmations for these purchases would be helpful . Then I included a attached sheet to Q18 on how we met . Also a sample on how we met and continued the relationship . This was done with emails , phone calls , letters , or cards . This proves the relationship which may or may not be needed at this point . I added these since the Philippines is a high fraud country . I also added the engagement ring purchase receipt . Not a requirement , but if you did purchase a ring it may be helpful to add it . I felt that built a good picture to show that we are in a relationship and we have met within the 2 years of my filing . Meeting the requirements of the I-129F .

My advice would be really read the K1 guides and understand the K1 process . You can find sample letters for the intent and cover letters on here too . That is my journey so far and everyone's is different .

Also letter of intent to marry from both the petitioner and beneficiary with in the 90 days once in the USA . Also the G-325A from both petitioner and beneficiary . Those are very important to include .

Edited June 7, 2013 by julitathomas0810

[Mrbip 1]

Gotcha I don't have the kind of paper trail that you have for my trip sadly. I didn't look up K-1 Visa applications until after I returned from the trip. I'll see if I can dig up any hotel reservation confirmation e-mails and I also have my flight purchase confirmation. I think that combined with my passport stamps from my trip and my fiance's trip to the US and maybe even her credit card statements too should do the trick. I also have a ton of correspondence I can dump from gmail. Thanks for all the info! I have a pretty good idea of how I want to write out the answer to my Q18 now.

[Mrbip 1]

Also letter of intent to marry from both the petitioner and beneficiary with in the 90 days once in the USA . Also the G-325A from both petitioner and beneficiary . Those are very important to include .

All set on that front

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Passport stamp. Make sure they see it. Hold their hand a little and tell them where it is, what it is, and what it is for.

[jft 12]

Most hotels will email you a receipt for your stay if you ask. I had to do this for one hotel when I misplaced the printed copy. Photos are good but strangely enough they are not ranked as high as receipts are (plane boarding passes, hotel receipts, cash machine receipts) so it's good to have some of each type. Hmm, if you got frequent flier miles for your trip perhaps you could get the airline to send you a printed copy of your account transactions? Since you only get FF miles for trips actually taken that might be good to have in addition to the itinerary.

[TBoneTX 45,312]

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[XHawkeye 0]

Include anything written in Japanese and dated on said dates. Ticket stubs (museum, subway, movies, atm, etc)

Too bad you threw away your boarding pass(es), Still have a luggage tag (shows your flight number) that the airline put on your luggage? Make a copy.

Any Japanese immigration papers?

Color copy every page of the passport, including front and back cover.

If you have access to a scanner it is better to scan, to a PDF/jpeg, then copy. That way if you have a backup and can print copies as needed.

Include photos of you + girlfriend + her family and/or friends.

Passport stamp. Make sure they see it. Hold their hand a little and tell them where it is, what it is, and what it is for.

Harpa is right. Make it easy for the Visa Center to read and follow.

I used Word.

For a header I put: I-129F Supplement: Part B, Question 18 Page X of YY

Used footers to explain what I was showing in each section. Example(s): Photographs; Email Logs; Chat Logs; My Mexico Visits.

Pasted the photos into Word and listed the location, date and identified the people in the photo.

Pasted the passport page(s) showing the Mexico entry stamp with a big red box around the stamp. (This is where making copies with scanner is useful. You will include the complete copy of the passport in your packet)

[jenni17 36]

Hello everyone!

First time post here and I first wanted to say you folks have a wonderful site and community and I really grateful for all the information you have provided. I'm beginning to assemble the I-129F packed and I have a couple questions regarding primary evidence for meeting in the past two years.

First of all, like a doofus I have already thrown out my boarding passes when I went to meet my fiance in her home country(japan.) I do have a digital copy of my flight reservation though. Will that suffice instead? I also have my passport stamped. Would I need to make a color copy of the whole passport or just the reservation page. I am also planning on making a copy of my bank statement with transactions in Japan once it's available next week.

Many thanks!

-Ryan

What the above poster said about "holding their hand" is crucial. The digital reservation plus the stamp should be just as good as a boarding pass as long as the date is legible. Circle the entry and exit stamp on the copy of the passport and put a post-it with the info specifying that it corresponds to the attached flight itinerary. If they see you entered the country on the day your itinerary says you should be fine. This is especially important if you have multiple trips that you want to prove, make sure you add post-its detailing the specific exits and entries to make it as easy as possible for them to make the connection between the stamps and the flight itinerarys. And be sure to make a copy of every page of the passport in color.

[Rose&Saif 0]

Wow, I didn't know you guys put so much proof into your petitions! I mean I know the interview should be filled but for my petition's evidence, if I recall correctly, I just put a copy of my passport (complete with stamps), a print-out of the front page of our wedding website (with a picture), a print-out of our "engagement story" page of our wedding website (with a picture) that had the date of our engagement (Oct. 18, 2012), and one of our save-the-dates with our picture on it. Plus of course I had the letters of intent and other required things. They accepted our petition with no problems or requests for evidence. Hey, if it isn't broken, don't fix it!

[KayDeeCee 4,893]

Wow, I didn't know you guys put so much proof into your petitions! I mean I know the interview should be filled but for my petition's evidence, if I recall correctly, I just put a copy of my passport (complete with stamps), a print-out of the front page of our wedding website (with a picture), a print-out of our "engagement story" page of our wedding website (with a picture) that had the date of our engagement (Oct. 18, 2012), and one of our save-the-dates with our picture on it. Plus of course I had the letters of intent and other required things. They accepted our petition with no problems or requests for evidence. Hey, if it isn't broken, don't fix it!

The I-129F petition actually does not require any proof of relationship. It only requires proof that you met face-to-face within the 2 years prior to filing, so your passport stamps took care of that. For some consulates, it is best to 'front-load' the petition a bit with evidence of a bona fide relationship so those things will already be in your case file and seen by the CO conducting the K-1 interview.