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Is it necessary to have lawyers to get a K-1 visa?

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Cryssiekins Proficient

Cryssiekins   976

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It is NOT required, but you can if it makes you feel better.  

 

It will be quite the expense and bears no effect on processing.

 

This website is an amazing resource.  A lot of the members do not have counsel retained are are progressing just fine :-)

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Lawyers are only necessary when you have a legal problem for example. Read the guides here, search through topics and you will be able to make it on your own without extra costs for a lawyer, it is no guarantee for (faster) approval.
http://www.visajourney.com/content/k1guide

01/13/2016: I-129F filed  07/15/2016: K-1 visa in hand
10/13/2016: Filed AOS + EAD/AP.   07/07/2017: Permanent resident (Conditional)
04/16/2019: Filed ROC  11/17/2020: Approved. (10 yr GC)

 

Naturalization                                                        
09/02/2020: Filed (Online)    09/08/2020: NOA1: (NBC) 
10/22/2020: Biometrics Reuse Notice.  12/22/2020: Online Status Changed to Interview Was Scheduled.  
01/29/2021: N-400 Interview - PASSED! 01/29/2021: Same-day oath ceremony.  
'Merica. 

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Cryssiekins Proficient

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14 hours ago, Dutchster said:

Lawyers are only necessary when you have a legal problem for example. Read the guides here, search through topics and you will be able to make it on your own without extra costs for a lawyer, it is no guarantee for (faster) approval.
http://www.visajourney.com/content/k1guide

This is a good point!!!  

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You most certainly can do it yourself. This site has incredible advice and you can print out all the forms.. 

 

If it is real and you fill in the blanks and provide proof of evidence, you can do this. 

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We met with a lawyer before starting this process.  She didn't come out and say that we didn't need her, but she strongly implied that we had a straightforward case and could do this on our own.  We did it ourselves and got our NOA2 on February 16th.  I'm a bit nervous about collecting everything for the embassy interview.  Although we don't have our NVC case number yet, I keep checking and re-checking our documents.

 

If you do it yourself, I strongly recommend having a friend who is good at paperwork look over your petition before you send it.  My coworker's husband, who successfully petitioned for my coworker to come to the US on a marriage visa, looked over our paperwork.  He caught one or two boxes that we hadn't filled out, and he also caught something I wouldn't have noticed.  The city where I was born and the city where I grew up have the same name -- but they are in completely different states.  He suggested that I attach a sticky note to my petition explaining that I was born in X city in X state and moved to X city in Y state and that I hadn't made a mistake when I wrote down the names of the states.  I don't know if we would have gotten an RFE for this, but neither me, nor my fiancé, nor my mother (who also looked over our petition) would have caught this since we knew the information was correct.  It was REALLY helpful to have a completely different pair of eyes look over the petition.

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11/19/2016                 Mailed I-129F packet
11/21/2016                 NOA1 received date
11/25/2016                 Date on NOA1 hard copy
11/28/2016                 NOA1 arrived in the mail
02/16/2017                 NOA2 (USCIS website and Case Tracker app)
02/21/2017                 NOA2 arrived in the mail
03/08/2017                 Case arrived at the NVC
03/09/2017                 NVC assigned case number
03/13/2017                 Case left the NVC
03/17/2017                 Case arrived in Montreal; status updated to "Ready"
03/17/2017                 Submitted DS-160
03/18/2017                 E-mailed Packet 3 to Montreal
03/20/2017                 Received Packet 4
04/26/2017                 Visa interview in Montreal - Approved!!!
04/27/2017                 CEAC status changed from "Administrative Processing" to "Visa Issued".
04/28/2017                 Visa arrived
05/29/2017                 POE Toronto (Pre-Clearance)/Minneapolis
06/01/2017                 Legal marriage
07/29/2017                 Wedding ceremony with family and friends

 

Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status:

06/16/2017                 Mailed AOS packet to Chicago lockbox

06/19/2017                 Chicago lockbox received

07/03/2017                 Notification texts & e-mails

07/12/2017                 NOA hard copies arrived in the mail

07/25/2017                 Biometrics letter arrived

08/02/2017                 Biometrics appointment

11/06/2017                 EAD and AP approval notice arrived in the mail

11/08/2017                 EAD card arrived (145 days after we sent our AOS packet)

03/15/2018                 Status changed to "Case is Ready to be Scheduled for an Interview"

07/21/2018                 Submitted paperwork to renew EAD/AP

09/01/2018                 Interview notice arrived in the mail

10/03/2018                 AOS interview (474 days after we mailed our paperwork)

11/08/2018                 InfoPass appointment to inquire about green card.  Learned that our file had been moved to the
                                       storage room for approved cases, but had not been marked "approved" in the computer system.

11/16/2018                 Online case status changed to "approved" (44 days after AOS interview)

11/21/2018                 Green card was mailed

11/24/2018                 Green card arrived!!!!!  (526 days after applying for AOS)

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