Question about K1 I-129F

[KotshkiRybka 0]

Hi all,

We are finishing up your I-129F packet for our K1 visa! I am hoping to get this mailed off today but had some last minuet questions, sorry if these seem a little trivial but I just don't want to have any delays in this process... Details to know is I am the US citizen and she is Russian living and working in Moscow.

Payment - From looking at the UCIS website it looks like the current application fee is $340. Are there any other fees that I need to include at this time? I am planning on mailing a check, I am assuming that I make this out to the UCIS...

Pasport photo - So my Fiancee was reading on another site that in this first packet the passport photos need to be on glossy paper... hers is on very matte paper and mine is simi matte or standard stuff you get from printing out your photos. Is this really an issue? I want to think it is not but she is worried so I thought I would ask.

Birth Certificate - So I see here that I need to include my birth certificate to establish my US citizenship. As I understand it she would need to provide her birth certificate translated and copy of her Russian passport at a later date however she is reading somewhere else that this needs to be included now in the first packet. From reading here I never saw this included in the packet.

Amount of Evidence - There seams to be lots of question about just how much evidence to provide to establish a true relationship and also prove having met in the last two years. My Fiancee and I have known each other for over three years and have written many letters and have 16 pages of call logs from the phone company alone. We wanted to include personal letters and emails to each other spanning over the last few years. The thing is even after trying to pick the best letters and emails we are still looking at having around 60 pages of letters. Would this just be annoying to the people processing these documents or is this considered a good thing to have such correspondence over the last three years?

Any help with these details would be great! Thanks for the support and we will be posting our VJ timeline soon!

[Mike&Lena 3]

Hi all,

We are finishing up your I-129F packet for our K1 visa! I am hoping to get this mailed off today but had some last minuet questions, sorry if these seem a little trivial but I just don't want to have any delays in this process... Details to know is I am the US citizen and she is Russian living and working in Moscow.

Payment - From looking at the UCIS website it looks like the current application fee is $340. Are there any other fees that I need to include at this time? I am planning on mailing a check, I am assuming that I make this out to the UCIS...

Pasport photo - So my Fiancee was reading on another site that in this first packet the passport photos need to be on glossy paper... hers is on very matte paper and mine is simi matte or standard stuff you get from printing out your photos. Is this really an issue? I want to think it is not but she is worried so I thought I would ask.

Birth Certificate - So I see here that I need to include my birth certificate to establish my US citizenship. As I understand it she would need to provide her birth certificate translated and copy of her Russian passport at a later date however she is reading somewhere else that this needs to be included now in the first packet. From reading here I never saw this included in the packet.

Amount of Evidence - There seams to be lots of question about just how much evidence to provide to establish a true relationship and also prove having met in the last two years. My Fiancee and I have known each other for over three years and have written many letters and have 16 pages of call logs from the phone company alone. We wanted to include personal letters and emails to each other spanning over the last few years. The thing is even after trying to pick the best letters and emails we are still looking at having around 60 pages of letters. Would this just be annoying to the people processing these documents or is this considered a good thing to have such correspondence over the last three years?

Any help with these details would be great! Thanks for the support and we will be posting our VJ timeline soon!

If you look on the I-129F form, page 4, it tells you to make the check out to U.S. Department of Homeland Security. If you look at the VJ Guides tab, it gives you a very good description of all the things you need. I think it will help you in insuring all you need, is up to par...

[KotshkiRybka 0]

If you look on the I-129F form, page 4, it tells you to make the check out to U.S. Department of Homeland Security. If you look at the VJ Guides tab, it gives you a very good description of all the things you need. I think it will help you in insuring all you need, is up to par...

Ok, thanks! I guess we are both a little stressed, I have been going through the VJ Guide for the K1 and have everything they are asking, she was just reading some other things saying we needed additional information so I figured I would ask to see what people said.

Does anyone know at what point she will need to have her birth certificate and if this will need to be professionally translated?

[Mike&Lena 3]

Ok, thanks! I guess we are both a little stressed, I have been going through the VJ Guide for the K1 and have everything they are asking, she was just reading some other things saying we needed additional information so I figured I would ask to see what people said.

Does anyone know at what point she will need to have her birth certificate and if this will need to be professionally translated?

I truly relate to the stress....our petition just arrived in Moscow, and we are really stressing...last leg, and wishing we were already together:) If you read ahead, you can see certain documents will benefit in the long run having them professionally translated anyway...especially once she arrives to you to get married. So we had birth certificate, and divorce/death certificates translated, along with her police certificate...so copies of these along with your petition now isn't a bad idea....because they are required at the interview anyway. It never hurts to be safe to avoid time delays and getting a RFE...so I recommend go the extra mile, and you'll have them when you both go to get married.

Hope this helps....I know some documents they say aren't required professionally, and can be translated by anyone who can verify it's accuracy, but again...the main documents like the birth certificate...you should get it done professionally and we even had it certified to cover us in the future.

GOOOOOOOOOD LUCK

[mr&mrsc 5]

Hi! In regards to evidence of realtionship we included about 6 picture of us from my visits to U.S and his to U.K. He also wrote about how we met, time soent together and our trips we still had plan for the rest of 2012 when we filled. Don't worry about emails and call logs just yet but they maybe useful for interview. Also she won't need her birth cert etc until intrrview so don't worry. X

[baron555 934]

Ok, thanks! I guess we are both a little stressed, I have been going through the VJ Guide for the K1 and have everything they are asking, she was just reading some other things saying we needed additional information so I figured I would ask to see what people said.

Does anyone know at what point she will need to have her birth certificate and if this will need to be professionally translated?

At the interview. Just translated with a certification of the translation. My wife had hers done by an office.

[loughrey101 13]

Hi all,

We are finishing up your I-129F packet for our K1 visa! I am hoping to get this mailed off today but had some last minuet questions, sorry if these seem a little trivial but I just don't want to have any delays in this process... Details to know is I am the US citizen and she is Russian living and working in Moscow.

Payment - From looking at the UCIS website it looks like the current application fee is $340. Are there any other fees that I need to include at this time? I am planning on mailing a check, I am assuming that I make this out to the UCIS...

Pasport photo - So my Fiancee was reading on another site that in this first packet the passport photos need to be on glossy paper... hers is on very matte paper and mine is simi matte or standard stuff you get from printing out your photos. Is this really an issue? I want to think it is not but she is worried so I thought I would ask.

Birth Certificate - So I see here that I need to include my birth certificate to establish my US citizenship. As I understand it she would need to provide her birth certificate translated and copy of her Russian passport at a later date however she is reading somewhere else that this needs to be included now in the first packet. From reading here I never saw this included in the packet.

Amount of Evidence - There seams to be lots of question about just how much evidence to provide to establish a true relationship and also prove having met in the last two years. My Fiancee and I have known each other for over three years and have written many letters and have 16 pages of call logs from the phone company alone. We wanted to include personal letters and emails to each other spanning over the last few years. The thing is even after trying to pick the best letters and emails we are still looking at having around 60 pages of letters. Would this just be annoying to the people processing these documents or is this considered a good thing to have such correspondence over the last three years?

Any help with these details would be great! Thanks for the support and we will be posting our VJ timeline soon!

Whether the photos are glossy or matte papered is not an issue at all. What is an issue is that the person in the photo must have their person in the photo according to the guidelines and that it must be a 2x2 inch US visa photo and not the usual standard passport photos.