local/foreign credit card for DCF payment

[moeandlu 4]

hi, i'm American, husband is UKC, we are living in the UK and will be filing our i-130 form and supporting documents direct to the UK embassy.

 

for payment, we were planing to do credit card (with appropriate form). i have an american credit card, he has a UK credit card. Does the charge show as a UK or US charge (as it's US gov within UK)? Has anyone had any issues either way? as long as we notify our credit card companies of the potential foreign transaction either way it should be fine, right?

 

probably overthinking this but better safe than sorry!

[Mark88 183]

You are overthinking. Just pay with your credit card.

[HNE 2]

We recently paid our I-130 fee via my husband's UK credit card (HSBC). We had no issues with payment and it was charged in USD. We did have an additional fee at our end which I think was about £11 or so because of the currency, but we expected that. As a side note, we never use our credit card so I half expected the charge to be flagged but it went through just fine so I wouldn't worry too much. It took the embassy about 5 or 6 days to charge the card.

[jkstark 97]

I believe that it is going to be a US based charge...  The only reason you would need to inform any bank is for possible fraud protection measures - but the geographical fraud protection schemes are far more prevalent with US cards than they are with foreign ones - ie in my experience fraud protection schemes for European cards do not rely on where the charge is as much as other factors, so they are rarely flagged as fraudulent even if the charge is distant in the same way a US card might be...

[JMCKNG 156]

On 3/15/2018 at 10:41 AM, HNE said:

We recently paid our I-130 fee via my husband's UK credit card (HSBC). We had no issues with payment and it was charged in USD. We did have an additional fee at our end which I think was about £11 or so because of the currency, but we expected that. As a side note, we never use our credit card so I half expected the charge to be flagged but it went through just fine so I wouldn't worry too much. It took the embassy about 5 or 6 days to charge the card.

For your G-1450 Form did you just enter in your husband's UK address for billing information without including the "state" reference? We are paying our fees with my husband's spanish credit card and just entered in his Spanish billing address, but the form format is more fitting for "US addresses" any issues that you encountered?