Proof of relationship on K1 visa app.

[Minya's wife 24]

Thanks. That's exactly what I was thinking. What I don't understand is if I can supplement my petition BEFORE being asked to.

The overseas won't (and can't) be licensed, so we will legally still be engaged until after the fiance visa is granted.

No, you can't supplement an already mailed petition. Once your petition is mailed and you receive the first NOA (Notice of Action - your official receipt from USCIS w/ your case # on it) the petition is recorded and it will be placed in a queue, waiting to be processed. There is no option to add items to a petition already received and logged in. You have to wait until a USCIS adjudicator looks at your case and decides if you have sufficient information to prove that you have met in person w/in the past two years....this is all you have to prove for the petition phase of things.

As far as your proposed timeline...I agree with the other posters here. There is no use planning ahead w/ any certainty....you may be hugely disappointed if you do. I see on your timeline that you filed at the Texas Service Center, which forwards petitions to California. Average processing times for California for I129f's is 92 days, so you're looking at approval of your petition sometime at the end of May or beginning of June. From there it is sent to NVC, then the embassy in your fiancee's country, Packet 3, Interview Medicals....honestly I don't think you'll have your fiancee here by that August date you propose. Just my cautionary two cents here.

-P

[Duke 0]

Our ceremony in april in london will be "unlicensed". The legal marriage won't happen until after the K1 is approved.

[Duke 0]

Thanks for the info!

I agree that we're being very ambitious with our August target date. Thankfully, the medical and police have already been done.

I thought Texas processed its own applications. The site lists processing times for TSC. Either way, I factored in 90 days.

Edited March 19, 2007 by Duke

[Duke 0]

Nope!

[TimsDaisy 0]

Hey Duke,

You know you can use the "quote" and "reply" and "edit" buttons to get all your thoughts into one post instead of so many follow-ups!

[Minya's wife 24]

Thanks for the info!

I agree that we're being very ambitious with our August target date. Thankfully, the medical and police have already been done.

I thought Texas processed its own applications. The site lists processing times for TSC. Either way, I factored in 90 days.

I'm not sure that you have factored in the 90 days, at least not realistically. Your NOA1 date is 2/27/07 (the 90+ days starts on this date.)

You can hope to get an approval from USCIS let's say 5/30/07.

USCIS forwards petition to NVC, then to the consulate and this can take a few weeks, so let's say your petition reaches the Sydney Embassy on 6/20/07.

From there its about a month to get an interview date, so let's say 7/20/07 and you are going to your interview. That's the end of July.

All of these dates are speculative and very down to the wire. If you get an RFE, or if the embassy decides to place you on Administrative Review (for whatever reason) your whole timeline is shot. That is why they usually say here on VJ not to plan ahead w/ weddings, buying plane tickets or anything requiring a serious expense....to save future disappointment.

That said....good luck, I hope everything works in your favor.

PS: Has your medical exam been done by a doctor certified by the embassy to perform such exams? Don't most embassies require that the medical exam be done by specific physician? Also I believe there are also date specifications, i.e. you can't get the medical done too far in advance because it may be invalid by the time you get to the interview.

[brnidokiegurl 0]

I think they request the medical two to three weeks from the interview, better check and they will give the list of doctors avail to use

[Otto 83]

(Edited - already answered in above posts)

Edited March 19, 2007 by Karin und Otto

[GabachaYucateca 0]

I think the lesson that many of us have learned is that we are no longer operating on our own timelines, but rather the timeline imposed on us by USCIS.

While I miss my guy terribly, I'm not particularly sweating our separation at this point....after all, we'll only be together for the next 60 or 70 years. A couple of months delay won't break us.

[Duke 0]

We got the list of doctors & forms from the Internet & she did the medical last week.

[brnidokiegurl 0]

i guess then the embassy will accept if the time for interview is months from now?? did you inform or get the dates they would allow thru.

[JoeMama 0]

We got the list of doctors & forms from the Internet & she did the medical last week.

Your replies are very chaotic! I cannot tell who you are replying to without having to jump back over a lot of posts to see where which person your reply is directed. I am curious, from what I've read about the medical for interview. It's supposed to be completed at a designated medical facility by the consulate/embassy fairly close to the date of the interview?

[Duke 0]

I believe the medical exam is good for 1 year. I could be wrong, though. The doctor was very helpful, as she only brought 4 of the 5 required medical exam forms, and the doctor provided the missing one. If we have to redo the medical ... no big deal.

[Otto 83]

And about your Apr.19 plans for your fiance to visit the US on a (VWP) Tourist Visa... have you thought that one through?

I haven't seen any response to it..but doing that can (not saying for sure)cause problems... (Just being helpful)...maybe others can explain it better than I...

Edited March 19, 2007 by Karin und Otto

[Minya's wife 24]

And about your Apr.19 plans for your fiance to visit the US on a (VWP) Tourist Visa... have you thought that one through?

I haven't seen any response to it..but doing that can (not saying for sure)cause problems... (Just being helpful)...maybe others can explain it better than I...

You're right Karin & Otto (don't know which one of you is posting sorry) the VWP is not a guarantee that they will allow the beneficiary to enter at the POE especially if a K-1 application is already in the pipeline....they may deny entry. But from what I've seen on the posts here, this is again a "crapshoot"....if you're lucky they won't bat an eyelash and let you in, if you're not they'll turn you away and you're out a significant amount of $$$ because tickets from Australia to US, especially if I'm reading correctly and the OP is located in San Antone, TX. Those tickets are not cheap, especially coming up on summer season.

I just get the feeling that the OP is relying on a LOT of optimism for best case scenarios. But hey, we all send our petitions off and hope for the best right? So I do hope that all of it works out as they planned and they can make all of those milestones they have listed on their "Proposed Timeline".

-P