June 2018 K1 Filers

[Greenbaum 12,259]

2 hours ago, Brazil/US2018 said:

Hey there! The number on the one in November is not the right one (it is for once it is approved according to the woman who answered the phone). I know some member get through the call fairly quickly since they know what numbers to hit and what not. Can you help on this at all?

Yes mam.

 

Option 1:

Call USCIS. Do not press anything. Do not choose a language. If someone who picked up the phone cannot answer your question, ask them to transfer you to TIER 2.

 

Option 2:

Dial 1-866-953-7684

 

Option 3:

Call 1-800-375-5283

Press 1 to continue to English

Press 2 for case status

Press 1 if you know your receipt number

Press your receipt number 922(WAC) then your numeric receipt number

 

Option 4:

Dial 1-800-375-5283 then press 1,2,2,4,2,1 then enter receipt number then press 1.

[Greenbaum 12,259]

53 minutes ago, GP1977 said:

scanned is 100% okay.  USCIS made an official policy a few years ago that wet signatures are no longer required. Same applies to documents submitted to the embassy.

Some embassy's are requiring a wet signature for the I-134. Just a few weeks ago someone finished their interview and received a 221(g) due to no wet signature. Besides embassy's are under DOS and not USCIS. Different entity's with different rules. So to be safe, I recommend that you email your embassy for clarification.

 

Indonesia requires a wet signature. Nigeria at one time required it but they have recently changed their policy.

55 minutes ago, Zhan_Mike said:

Thank you!!!!

see above

 

[Greenbaum 12,259]

1 hour ago, Brazil/US2018 said:

Ok @Greenbaum I just spoke to a tier 2 person and she said she cannot disclose the reason for the RFE? is that normal?

Follow @GP1977 example as others have used the same tactic and have been successful.

[Greenbaum 12,259]

2 hours ago, Zhan_Mike said:

We just received an RFE requesting that my fiancé submit evidence of her intention to marry me once she arrives in the US. In the application, we already wrote a joint letter with both of our signatures on it stating our intention to marry. Apparently, this isn’t good enough for USCIS, as they want her own letter. In addition to other evidence, we wanted to have her send in a signed statement, but I’m not sure if they need an original letter or just a scanned, signed copy. My fiancé is in Kazakhstan, and I am in the United States. Obviously, this would just go faster if she scanned it, but we don’t want to make any more mistakes. Does anyone know if the letter of intent to marry has to be the original? The RFE states that the RFE must be the original, but of course it is vague about this. Any help would be appreciated!

Create new Letters of Intent separately. She can sign and scan hers and send to you to print and include in the return envelope (because USCIS will take scanned copies of documents containing signatures). I've see both ways work where both sign the same letter (my wife and I did it that way with no problems) and I have seen others who have received an RFE much like you have.

[Zhan_Mike 5]

2 minutes ago, Greenbaum said:

Create new Letters of Intent separately. She can sign and scan hers and send to you to print and include in the return envelope (because USCIS will take scanned copies of documents containing signatures). I've see both ways work where both sign the same letter (my wife and I did it that way with no problems) and I have seen others who have received an RFE much like you have.

Thank you very much @Greenbaum!!!

[HP+IC 292]

5 hours ago, Greenbaum said:

Maybe it's someone's first day. Mmmmm.  Anyways, you are doing the right thing with going to the German sub-forum.

Generally, I am wondering about the same and my case too. My divorce decree says: blah-blah marriage between the claimant and the defendant is dissolved. The decree may be appealed upon within 30 day which will count from .... and that's all. And only below the text there is a stamp bearing a later date and stating that it came into force. No word 'final', 'ultimate' or such. The idea is that unless appealed upon, it becomes final and only then the certified copy will be issued to the parties. This is what our family law says: the marriage is dissolved on the day when the decree enters into force. The decree will not be released to the parties unless and until it is final. This has always been like that, the wording of the decree is something you can not control. The continental legal system is quite different from the US, but more or less similar elsewhere throughout Europe. If the USCIS thinks it is a Nisi and is not happy with such wording and wants something else, I may have an issue as well. 

[Mousey 80]

woke up to this. 

positive: they worked on our case

negative: i don’t know what would been missing cause we added everything 

fiance will call monday and see if tier 2 can tell us what’s missing before we get the mail cause he is deployed and mail takes long time to get there and we still need to try to get the missing papers. 

it sucks

[Shiran 1,134]

1 hour ago, Mousey said:

woke up to this. 

positive: they worked on our case

negative: i don’t know what would been missing cause we added everything 

fiance will call monday and see if tier 2 can tell us what’s missing before we get the mail cause he is deployed and mail takes long time to get there and we still need to try to get the missing papers. 

it sucks

 

In case you didn't know USCIS do work on Saturday, though it is a short day, so you don't have to wait until Monday to call if you choose to. 

[Mousey 80]

19 minutes ago, Shiran said:

In case you didn't know USCIS do work on Saturday, though it is a short day, so you don't have to wait until Monday to call if you choose to. 

no i did not know! thank you! i assume 8-12? 

[LukeU 413]

Running the risk of asking a stupidly stupid question but:

Receiving the NOA2 doesn't effect any admissability on a ESTA tourist visa does it? 

 

I always take a letterheaded letter stating my return to employment date etc to show my intent to return and ties back to my (current) home country.

Edited December 1, 2018 by LukeU

[Sk87 87]

29 minutes ago, LukeU said:

Running the risk of asking a stupidly stupid question but:

Receiving the NOA2 doesn't effect any admissability on a ESTA tourist visa does it? 

 

I always take a letterheaded letter stating my return to employment date etc to show my intent to return and ties back to my (current) home country.

You will be fine. I’m going over for Xmas and will be taking a letter from employer and also a copy of my NOA2 

[LukeU 413]

23 minutes ago, Sk87 said:

You will be fine. I’m going over for Xmas and will be taking a letter from employer and also a copy of my NOA2 

Thank you, yeah I thought that would be all. 

Ditto, I fly out the 21st December and it can't come soon enough! 

[Greenbaum 12,259]

9 hours ago, HP+IC said:

Generally, I am wondering about the same and my case too. My divorce decree says: blah-blah marriage between the claimant and the defendant is dissolved. The decree may be appealed upon within 30 day which will count from .... and that's all. And only below the text there is a stamp bearing a later date and stating that it came into force. No word 'final', 'ultimate' or such. The idea is that unless appealed upon, it becomes final and only then the certified copy will be issued to the parties. This is what our family law says: the marriage is dissolved on the day when the decree enters into force. The decree will not be released to the parties unless and until it is final. This has always been like that, the wording of the decree is something you can not control. The continental legal system is quite different from the US, but more or less similar elsewhere throughout Europe. If the USCIS thinks it is a Nisi and is not happy with such wording and wants something else, I may have an issue as well. 

If you can get a "legal" description to the process from your country and highlight the text within that explains what is true about your divorce decree then I think you will be in the clear to move forward. Or if you have a family marriage lawyer that can draft a letter that explains the same then I believe that will satisfy USCIS. This is only my opinion and logic.

 

This is your word against USCIS. At the moment USCIS won't except your document because they believe it is not correct. It's your responsibility to prove them wrong with legal facts that USCIS can verify either by your "document" you will use to back up your assertion.

 

Edited December 1, 2018 by Greenbaum

[HP+IC 292]

2 minutes ago, Greenbaum said:

If you can get a "legal" description to the process from your country and highlight the text within that explains what is true about your divorce decree then I think you will be in the clear to move forward. Or if you have a family marriage lawyer that can draft a letter that explains the same then I believe that will satisfy USCIS. This is only my opinion and logic.

 

This what came to my mind too. What I can not understand at all is that this has happened several times already (I've now looked through at least 5 discussions here at VJ in the last 5 years). USCIS should have well known by now that 2-step divorce procedure (Nisi + final) is only used by common law countries, i.e. a number of states in the USA and the UK. European countries do not have that and most probably never had. Looks like somebody needs to set aside some workload for a month or so

[Greenbaum 12,259]

4 minutes ago, HP+IC said:

This what came to my mind too. What I can not understand at all is that this has happened several times already (I've now looked through at least 5 discussions here at VJ in the last 5 years). USCIS should have well known by now that 2-step divorce procedure (Nisi + final) is only used by common law countries, i.e. a number of states in the USA and the UK. European countries do not have that and most probably never had. Looks like somebody needs to set aside some workload for a month or so

Let me know what you decide to do, what use to "educate" USCIS and what the outcome is from USCIS. Good luck. We're in your corner cheering you on.