Rome, Italy Embassy... I-130 by mail or in person?

[HtBlack 4]

Hello all. I've read that you can do both things in this case, send it by mail or take it in person to the embassy.

My question is, how can they know that my husband was in Italy at the moment you submit the I-130, if we mail the I-130 (since that's a requirement for the DCF) instead of taking it there? I don't mean to sound cheap, but we live in Friuli, which is almost the furthest away one can possibly be from Rome, and if we could avoid the expensive trip we would.

I wouldn't want that the fact we send it by mail ends up counting AGAINST us because we cannot prove my husband was still in Italy. Would it be okay if we submitted a copy of the plane ticket of my husband's return to the US together with the I-130, to show that he's still in the country when we sent the package? We wanted to have him go back to the States right after filing the form anyway, so we could simply book the ticket and then mail the I-130, adding inside a copy of the ticket itself.

What do you all think? If it's really better to give it in person we can just get an appointment and go there, but it seems like such a waste of money simply for delivering there a package that they say we can also send. :/

[Mark88 184]

Just send it. They might require evidence of his residence in Italy (employment record, flight tickets, utility bills, rent agreement). Frankfurt never asked in our case for anything, and we just sent it in, too.

[Darnell 8,478]

I thought the uscis offices was in Naples, Napoli ?

It's in Rome? OK.

[HtBlack 4]

Darnell, you go to Naples for the medical and interview, but you send in/go to turn in the I-130 to Rome, for some reason. *shrugs* weirdos, right.

Also that image in your signature is super cute, I can't stop staring at her.

Mark88, sadly we are sharing a house with my parents so bills and rent are either on them, or me who was here already before he arrived. :/ and he still up to now doesn't speak a lot of Italian so he didn't work while he was here.

But we have flight tickets, plenty of pictures, he also got his ID card issued in July (although we got his Permit to Stay in February) and he's diabetic - I guess I can ask his doctor to provide a paper saying that since when he got in Italy he was provided with insulin regularly, so hasn't really left. And maybe affidavits from family, seeing that he's lived with my parents, saying he's been here the whole time. From my employer also, considering my husband was around my workplace pretty much daily.

Really hope that is enough... but you said yourself that they didn't ask you anything so that's a good thing already.

WAIT - we'll send in a copy of the passport pages! His ID card isn't valid for international travel, not even within the EU, so if he travelled his passport would be stamped or something, for his travel?

[Vale 0]

Hi HtBlack, I'm from Friuli too, and my husband is from California. We sent the papers yesterday to Rome!

In the last few monts we spent lot of time looking for those things. I can be pretty confident in saying that evidences as the passport stamps, the doctor visits, the paper that you have done in the municipality (dichiarazione di ospitalità) and carta di identità + tessera sanitaria are good evidences that he is living here with yoi.

If it can help you, in order to make everything more clear, we made a timeline of our relation, a file with dates and pictures in order to give more evidence at our life togheter here.

Good luck!

[Vale 0]

Hi HtBlack, I'm from Friuli too, and my husband is from California. We sent the papers yesterday to Rome!

In the last few monts we spent lot of time looking for those things. I can be pretty confident in saying that evidences as the passport stamps, the doctor visits, the paper that you have done in the municipality (dichiarazione di ospitalità) and carta di identità + tessera sanitaria are good evidences that he is living here with yoi.

If it can help you, in order to make everything more clear, we made a timeline of our relation, a file with dates and pictures in order to give more evidence at our life togheter here.

Good luck!

 

[ValeZamp 5]

When we were stationed in Aviano, we mailed our package to Rome. It arrived in less than 24 hrs.

There is a list on the embassy website with the requirement you need to have to use DCF.

In our case was simply his military orders where it was stated that he was assigned to Italy. 

In your case you need to check the requirements for civilian which I believe is permesso di soggiorno, carta d’identità etc etc. 

 

[Haltom Family 40]

On 11/10/2014 at 6:06 AM, HtBlack said:

Darnell, you go to Naples for the medical and interview, but you send in/go to turn in the I-130 to Rome, for some reason. *shrugs* weirdos, right.

Also that image in your signature is super cute, I can't stop staring at her.

Mark88, sadly we are sharing a house with my parents so bills and rent are either on them, or me who was here already before he arrived. :/ and he still up to now doesn't speak a lot of Italian so he didn't work while he was here.

But we have flight tickets, plenty of pictures, he also got his ID card issued in July (although we got his Permit to Stay in February) and he's diabetic - I guess I can ask his doctor to provide a paper saying that since when he got in Italy he was provided with insulin regularly, so hasn't really left. And maybe affidavits from family, seeing that he's lived with my parents, saying he's been here the whole time. From my employer also, considering my husband was around my workplace pretty much daily.

Really hope that is enough... but you said yourself that they didn't ask you anything so that's a good thing already.

WAIT - we'll send in a copy of the passport pages! His ID card isn't valid for international travel, not even within the EU, so if he travelled his passport would be stamped or something, for his travel?

Htblack, Proof of stay: your doctors written sworn statement of being in his/her medical care from the given period up to present is good.   Certification from your local community that your husband resides on a given address's with a given specified date is good too. Hope this helps.