February 2017 I-129F Filers

[TriloByte 1,818]

1 minute ago, Kamikazi718 said:

 

 

All we can do is Hope :-)

I know :(. False advertising for sure.

[WayneAdoresWendy 232]

58 minutes ago, Williamsnelson said:

Wow I'm glad I learnt about this visa after the fact... that would annoy me ... also thankfully babe and I naturally take lots of pics. 

 

Im confused y y'all submitted receipts tho... 

All our package had for evidence was two legal sheets of pics with us. An appended table with date location and who was in each pic. Our letter of intent, our how we met story, flight stubs, pics of my passport and hers and a cover sheet outlining the package contents.

 

I really dont think yall y'all should be worried about the amount of evidence some ppl have met their fiancé once and in some cases none at all. 

 

note: we didn't use an officer. (We were approved)

     Remember they burden of Proof for USCIS and the Embassy is two different standards. If the Embassy is in a country of high fraud or has any suspicions, more proof maybe required. Being light on evidence for USCIS maybe sufficient, but may not be for Embassy. Remember, USCIS all you are doing is proving that you met. Embassy, you need to show ongoing relationship.

     Just for clarification, in your comment you said " some ppl have met their fiancé once and in some cases none at all. " This is a false statement. The statue says you MUST have met once in the last 2 years. This is exactly why you see so many sweat over RFE's. Please make sure you have more weighted evidence for the Interview. May I suggest you reach out to Members who have gone through the Embassy in your country and ask for their opinions. We do not need to reinvent the wheel. There are many who have traveled these roads before us. 

[TriloByte 1,818]

3 minutes ago, WayneAdoresWendy said:

     Remember they burden of Proof for USCIS and the Embassy is two different standards. If the Embassy is in a country of high fraud or has any suspicions, more proof maybe required. Being light on evidence for USCIS maybe sufficient, but may not be for Embassy. Remember, USCIS all you are doing is proving that you met. Embassy, you need to show ongoing relationship.

     Just for clarification, in your comment you said " some ppl have met their fiancé once and in some cases none at all. " This is a false statement. The statue says you MUST have met once in the last 2 years. This is exactly why you see so many sweat over RFE's. Please make sure you have more weighted evidence for the Interview. May I suggest you reach out to Members who have gone through the Embassy in your country and ask for their opinions. We do not need to reinvent the wheel. There are many who have traveled these roads before us. 

I'm pretty sure USCIS forwards all of the evidence presented to them to the embassy. Then the embassy might ask for additional evidence.

[Camie 72]

5 hours ago, mkm1993 said:

It's getting real that's for sure!! Let's keep an eye on the mail. I received in the mail on feb 26 I believe... but my receive date was 21 while notice date was 24. It is all based of received date right? 

I just checked my case status and I got an RFE

 

[Camie 72]

I just checked my status in the tracker, and I got an RFE

 

Received date: Feb 21

NOA1: Feb 24

RFE: June 2

 

I'm now worried our entire process will get pushed back. We're supposed to leave for the US in August because he starts schooling in the US in September. GAH Looks like he'll have to go ahead and I'll be left behind.

[WayneAdoresWendy 232]

12 minutes ago, TriloByte said:

I'm pretty sure USCIS forwards all of the evidence presented to them to the embassy. Then the embassy might ask for additional evidence.

Is true. But for their sake, I don't want them to necessarily think that what got them through NOA2 will necessarily get them through the Interview. I think they need some more reading on the Interview.

[TriloByte 1,818]

1 minute ago, WayneAdoresWendy said:

Is true. But for their sake, I don't want them to necessarily think that what got them through NOA2 will necessarily get them through the Interview. I think they need some more reading on the Interview.

Definitely. This stuff is serious business.

[WayneAdoresWendy 232]

2 minutes ago, camiej said:

I just checked my status in the tracker, and I got an RFE

 

Received date: Feb 21

NOA1: Feb 24

RFE: June 2

 

I'm now worried our entire process will get pushed back. We're supposed to leave for the US in August because he starts schooling in the US in September. GAH Looks like he'll have to go ahead and I'll be left behind.

Don't give up hope. With International Overnight Shipping, your RFE doesn't have to be a big drag. Keep the faith and just respond quickly.

[TriloByte 1,818]

5 minutes ago, camiej said:

I just checked my status in the tracker, and I got an RFE

 

Received date: Feb 21

NOA1: Feb 24

RFE: June 2

 

I'm now worried our entire process will get pushed back. We're supposed to leave for the US in August because he starts schooling in the US in September. GAH Looks like he'll have to go ahead and I'll be left behind.

I would be careful about mentioning the school thing at the interview. This is a marriage Visa, not a school Visa. They don't care about your school, in fact, they may see it as a fraud. My suggestion is, if they ask, say you have no specific intention of going to school or working in the US.

Edited June 5, 2017 by TriloByte

[Camie 72]

Just now, WayneAdoresWendy said:

Don't give up hope. With International Overnight Shipping, your RFE doesn't have to be a big drag. Keep the faith and just respond quickly.

Thanks

 

Just sucks that since we're both from the Philippines, our snail mail takes at least 2 weeks to get to us, so we won't know what kind of RFEs they would need til then. Nevertheless, we'll prepare everything we can possibly send and hope that would be okay. 

[Camie 72]

1 minute ago, TriloByte said:

I would be careful about mentioning the school thing at the interview. This is a marriage Visa, not a school Visa. They don't care about your school, in fact, they may see it as a fraud. My suggestion is, if they ask, say you have no specific intention of going to school or working in the US.

Actually it's him who's a US citizen, so he's allowed to enroll in a school. 

 

I'm the beneficiary  

[TriloByte 1,818]

Just now, camiej said:

Actually it's him who's a US citizen, so he's allowed to enroll in a school. 

 

I'm the beneficiary  

Ok, good, I hate to think of people going all the way through this process to just get turned away at the end.

[TriloByte 1,818]

Ok, well, if we look at June 2nd, it does look like the checker was working. Wow. I will keep scanning each day and we will see. Not fixed retro, so the data is off still, but it would be good news if they are logging approvals again going forward. The future dated stuff can be ignored, it's just my regular expression failing on a couple of unusual status updates. 

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BylNtFU5_k8dNGPLudamYloUieAcvX1hlexoV404Gsk/edit?usp=sharing

[WayneAdoresWendy 232]

Best Wishes Everyone. I hope God shares his Blessings with each of you this week. For me, Mondays always started a week of high expectations. May this week be the first week in you moving forward to the next phase of your Visa.

 

Wendy and I want to say many thank you's for all of the support and encouragement you have given us. Anything we can do to help, just ask.

[jeogla 11]

finally got my NOA2 in the mail...113 days later. 

NOA1 feb 6

NOA2 May 30,

snail mail received yesterday June 3. 

yayyy... i hope the processing time will be faster this time around when it gets to the US embassy. can't wait for our interview date.