Military K-1, need a little help.

[clairegie 265]

By the way, I'm not familiar with how the process is if you are filing overseas. You can read a lot about it here though:

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=731ad4d176d1e110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD&vgnextchannel=68439c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD

You can call them to clarify. Deciphering government forms absolutely kills my brain cells.

[andrewbisgnar 0]

By the way, I'm not familiar with how the process is if you are filing overseas. You can read a lot about it here though:

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=731ad4d176d1e110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD&vgnextchannel=68439c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD

You can call them to clarify. Deciphering government forms absolutely kills my brain cells.

That makes two of us! Thank you for the link (;

-Andrew

[Pitaya 2,577]

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[andrewbisgnar 0]

~Moved from K-1 Process to Military Immigration-Related Discussion Forum~

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Nooooooo! ):

[jkelly07 120]

I think you should call the military hot line immigration department on Monday 1-877-247-4645 their you can get help possible expedite your case since your in the military, good luck

[SYLIVIA2000 0]

you should do it as soon as possible attaching copy of your orders and a letter requesting expedite, that is what i did personally and you should be good to. About you address in state you should use chicago

Good lucky.

[hissweetheart 1]

You could try direct consular filing , will take so much less process time. No one is gonna expedite our case just because you are activ duty unless upcoming deployment. good luck

[lierre 224]

My husband will PCS back to CONUS in a few months but no orders yet. Hence, this immigration visa application... for ours... We put "To be determined pending military orders" on the US address where we intend to live. We had no issues with the I-130 (ours is CR1) and got out our notifications fairly quickly. By the way, we're also here in Japan.

What I would advise you though is to put your physical address in the US if you have one. We didn't put it for ours because his childhood/pre-military home doesn't exist anymore. Most of his immediate family members are also military and all based allover the US so, we can't really put their address.

Good luck!

Edited September 7, 2013 by ivyanddan

[clairegie 265]

You could try direct consular filing , will take so much less process time. No one is gonna expedite our case just because you are activ duty unless upcoming deployment. good luck

this is a good suggestion if you have lived in japan for 6 months. would save you loads of time waiting for k1 visa. however, dcf is only good for marriage based visa's so you guys would need to decide if you wanna get married now and do the DCF route or keep going with k1.

In case you're curious about DCF, here you go:

http://www.visajourney.com/content/dcf

http://japan.usembassy.gov/e/visa/tvisa-ivpetition.html

Good luck!

[lierre 224]

They don't do DCF in Japan anymore. Stopped in 2011. We could have gone that route if it was remotely possible.

[andrewbisgnar 0]

Sorry everyone, I've been on duty(stuck at work for 24hrs.)! I appreciate everyone's concern and suggestions. We've looked into a lot over the past few days, but I'm very happy to say that tomorrow we're going to mail it off from the post office on base!

-Andrew

They don't do DCF in Japan anymore. Stopped in 2011. We could have gone that route if it was remotely possible.

Good to hear from another family in Japan! Are you guys CFAY, CFAS, or Oki?

[lierre 224]

Good luck!

[KoKo_Marteen 0]

Good luck shipmate:

CFAO here as LS

[andrewbisgnar 0]

Good luck shipmate:

CFAO here as LS

Thank you, same to you!

[lierre 224]

Sorry everyone, I've been on duty(stuck at work for 24hrs.)! I appreciate everyone's concern and suggestions. We've looked into a lot over the past few days, but I'm very happy to say that tomorrow we're going to mail it off from the post office on base!

-Andrew

Good to hear from another family in Japan! Are you guys CFAY, CFAS, or Oki?

We're in Oki Ahh I am so not ready to leave Japan, I love it here!