June 2018 K1 Filers

[Stefannievs 267]

47 minutes ago, Crowlz said:

Guys we’re now into August! Another month closer! I’ll update y’all when we get to September 

HAHA Thats so true I dont know why Im so obsessed but Im folowing the january filers group and they are still getting aprovals. Then febreaury, march, april, may and usssss hahaha time please go fast 

[Monicalalfonso 67]

16 hours ago, Stefannievs said:

HAHA Thats so true I dont know why Im so obsessed but Im folowing the january filers group and they are still getting aprovals. Then febreaury, march, april, may and usssss hahaha time please go fast 

AMEN! I've seen some 1/31 get approved. So they may be moving to Feb faster than we thought

[doyle1292 11]

Hi All,

USCIS received my i129f package on 6/29/2018 and approved it on 7/29/2018. I just received the i797 in the mail today (the status did not update on the website yet). I am petitioning to bring my Cuban fiancee to the U.S., and I sent a very much front-loaded and well organized accordion folder as my i129f package. This was sent to the California Service Center and somehow got approved in one month's time- not sure if it was purely luck, or if the very thorough and organized nature of the submission helped. Just figured I'd post here to inspire some hope that the 5-7 month timeline might be shorter than you expect! 

[Artelle2019 45]

2 hours ago, doyle1292 said:

Hi All,

USCIS received my i129f package on 6/29/2018 and approved it on 7/29/2018. I just received the i797 in the mail today (the status did not update on the website yet). I am petitioning to bring my Cuban fiancee to the U.S., and I sent a very much front-loaded and well organized accordion folder as my i129f package. This was sent to the California Service Center and somehow got approved in one month's time- not sure if it was purely luck, or if the very thorough and organized nature of the submission helped. Just figured I'd post here to inspire some hope that the 5-7 month timeline might be shorter than you expect! 

Omg...isn't that amazing!!! This has given me so much more anticipation. Thanks for the update. Now I'm going to keep looking on updates every 2 minutes...🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Chair_force1 195]

1 hour ago, Artelle2019 said:

Omg...isn't that amazing!!! This has given me so much more anticipation. Thanks for the update. Now I'm going to keep looking on updates every 2 minutes...🤣🤣🤣🤣

Awesome but it’s a weird fluke for some reason.  January filers here, 186 days this far.  I wouldn’t check your status everyday lol .  Good luck to us all 

[cywrainide 21]

3 hours ago, doyle1292 said:

Hi All,

USCIS received my i129f package on 6/29/2018 and approved it on 7/29/2018. I just received the i797 in the mail today (the status did not update on the website yet). I am petitioning to bring my Cuban fiancee to the U.S., and I sent a very much front-loaded and well organized accordion folder as my i129f package. This was sent to the California Service Center and somehow got approved in one month's time- not sure if it was purely luck, or if the very thorough and organized nature of the submission helped. Just figured I'd post here to inspire some hope that the 5-7 month timeline might be shorter than you expect! 

Could you elaborate on how did you frontload it? We're all taking tips. 😛

[doyle1292 11]

7 hours ago, cywrainide said:

Could you elaborate on how did you frontload it? We're all taking tips. 😛

I put everything in the package that I possibly could just due to Cuba being considered a higher fraud risk. I believe that her birth certificate, her police letter, and her medical/vaccination history are the only documents utilized in the entire process (not just USCIS portion) that were not in the package. The folder weighed a little over 7lbs as it included an approximately 100 page Word document of chronologically ordered photographs, each with annotations explaining the date, individuals in the photograph, and what was going on at the moment (many photographs included family members to demonstrate seriousness of the relationship). I also included a Facebook messenger history that took up about 60 Word document pages, with three chat screenshots per page. The messenger history was spaced to show that we communicated in this manner several times a week. A dozen screenshots of video chats were also included. The final large piece of the package was a complete history of phone records to show daily communication, whether long or short phone calls. I use an application called Keku that offers lower calling rates, so I just went on their website and printed the complete call record/transaction history. As far as frontloading goes, I also prematurely included the I-134 affidavit of support along with its evidence (bank letters, employment letter, investment account information, 3 years’ tax transcripts, etc.). I proved the requirement of visiting in the last 2 years with flight reservarion emails and annotated passport stamp photocopies. Like I mentioned earlier, all of this checked a dozen times and placed into an accordion folder with color coded tabs separating sections and then separating the evidence chronologically. My biggest worry was that the nature of the US/Cuban relationship would result in more scrutiny and RFE delays, so I stacked the petition to a laughable point, but because of this I made sure to be extraordinarily organized so it wasn’t just an eyesore that no one wanted to get around to. My goal was to have documentation that would answer absolutely every question or doubt and that it would be broken out in a way that the reviewer could easily find that proof within the package. Fiancée and I are both under 30 years old with no marriage or criminal histories. Hope that helps, good luck!

 

P.S. To people saying they’ll check online every day, my status online has still not been updated even though the letter was mailed to me five days ago. I checked every day online religiously to no avail, but I accidentally saw that my roommate had collected the mail and left a USCIS letter for me on the dining room table. 

[Fer Schvarztman 217]

Wow! That's great!, we'd sent a packet just like yours, but still waiting a month already.

Even if it takes longer, we just pray to have it aproved.

Congratulations! I dream every Night  to hug and kiss my loved one, the day we finally reunite, we all dream the same, aren't we? ❤

 

[HP+IC 292]

13 minutes ago, doyle1292 said:

I put everything in the package that I possibly could just due to Cuba being considered a higher fraud risk. I believe that her birth certificate, her police letter, and her medical/vaccination history are the only documents utilized in the entire process (not just USCIS portion) that were not in the package. The folder weighed a little over 7lbs as it included an approximately 100 page Word document of chronologically ordered photographs, each with annotations explaining the date, individuals in the photograph, and what was going on at the moment (many photographs included family members to demonstrate seriousness of the relationship). I also included a Facebook messenger history that took up about 60 Word document pages, with three chat screenshots per page. The messenger history was spaced to show that we communicated in this manner several times a week. A dozen screenshots of video chats were also included. The final large piece of the package was a complete history of phone records to show daily communication, whether long or short phone calls. I use an application called Keku that offers lower calling rates, so I just went on their website and printed the complete call record/transaction history. As far as frontloading goes, I also prematurely included the I-134 affidavit of support along with its evidence (bank letters, employment letter, investment account information, 3 years’ tax transcripts, etc.). I proved the requirement of visiting in the last 2 years with flight reservarion emails and annotated passport stamp photocopies. Like I mentioned earlier, all of this checked a dozen times and placed into an accordion folder with color coded tabs separating sections and then separating the evidence chronologically. My biggest worry was that the nature of the US/Cuban relationship would result in more scrutiny and RFE delays, so I stacked the petition to a laughable point, but because of this I made sure to be extraordinarily organized so it wasn’t just an eyesore that no one wanted to get around to. My goal was to have documentation that would answer absolutely every question or doubt and that it would be broken out in a way that the reviewer could easily find that proof within the package. Fiancée and I are both under 30 years old with no marriage or criminal histories. Hope that helps, good luck!

 

P.S. To people saying they’ll check online every day, my status online has still not been updated even though the letter was mailed to me five days ago. I checked every day online religiously to no avail, but I accidentally saw that my roommate had collected the mail and left a USCIS letter for me on the dining room table. 

Congrats. This sounds pretty much like our file, i.e. CSC, a heavy file posted in a box, everything neatly arranged and in excess, however without I-134 so far. Same filing date by the way, but we are both mature,  were married with kids and divorced eventually. Ukraine is probably a high risk country too. It will be interesting to compare our timeline when we have some progress and see what comes by effort and what comes by luck. We don't expect any news before January 2019 though

[Stefannievs 267]

25 minutes ago, doyle1292 said:

I put everything in the package that I possibly could just due to Cuba being considered a higher fraud risk. I believe that her birth certificate, her police letter, and her medical/vaccination history are the only documents utilized in the entire process (not just USCIS portion) that were not in the package. The folder weighed a little over 7lbs as it included an approximately 100 page Word document of chronologically ordered photographs, each with annotations explaining the date, individuals in the photograph, and what was going on at the moment (many photographs included family members to demonstrate seriousness of the relationship). I also included a Facebook messenger history that took up about 60 Word document pages, with three chat screenshots per page. The messenger history was spaced to show that we communicated in this manner several times a week. A dozen screenshots of video chats were also included. The final large piece of the package was a complete history of phone records to show daily communication, whether long or short phone calls. I use an application called Keku that offers lower calling rates, so I just went on their website and printed the complete call record/transaction history. As far as frontloading goes, I also prematurely included the I-134 affidavit of support along with its evidence (bank letters, employment letter, investment account information, 3 years’ tax transcripts, etc.). I proved the requirement of visiting in the last 2 years with flight reservarion emails and annotated passport stamp photocopies. Like I mentioned earlier, all of this checked a dozen times and placed into an accordion folder with color coded tabs separating sections and then separating the evidence chronologically. My biggest worry was that the nature of the US/Cuban relationship would result in more scrutiny and RFE delays, so I stacked the petition to a laughable point, but because of this I made sure to be extraordinarily organized so it wasn’t just an eyesore that no one wanted to get around to. My goal was to have documentation that would answer absolutely every question or doubt and that it would be broken out in a way that the reviewer could easily find that proof within the package. Fiancée and I are both under 30 years old with no marriage or criminal histories. Hope that helps, good luck!

 

P.S. To people saying they’ll check online every day, my status online has still not been updated even though the letter was mailed to me five days ago. I checked every day online religiously to no avail, but I accidentally saw that my roommate had collected the mail and left a USCIS letter for me on the dining room table. 

Wao congratulations. You deserved it after that hard work you put in your file. So happy for you. I made a big file too haha I always thought people who send bigger files they will see those files first because there are so many proofs even thought they need to look at all trough so I really don't know. Let's all have faith and expect the best 

[Snicda 16]

12 hours ago, doyle1292 said:

Hi All,

USCIS received my i129f package on 6/29/2018 and approved it on 7/29/2018. I just received the i797 in the mail today (the status did not update on the website yet). I am petitioning to bring my Cuban fiancee to the U.S., and I sent a very much front-loaded and well organized accordion folder as my i129f package. This was sent to the California Service Center and somehow got approved in one month's time- not sure if it was purely luck, or if the very thorough and organized nature of the submission helped. Just figured I'd post here to inspire some hope that the 5-7 month timeline might be shorter than you expect! 

Hey is there any difference between i797 and i797 c because we got i797 c form and i guess thats our NOA 1. ??

[VikaShew2017 150]

11 minutes ago, HPIC said:

Congrats. This sounds pretty much like our file, i.e. CSC, a heavy file posted in a box, everything neatly arranged and in excess, however without I-134 so far. Same filing date by the way, but we are both mature,  were married with kids and divorced eventually. Ukraine is probably a high risk country too. It will be interesting to compare our timeline when we have some progress and see what comes by effort and what comes by luck. We don't expect any news before January 2019 though

hi! your is fiancee from Ukraine? 
i am from Ukraine and i learned and read a lot information about visa process for fiancee from Ukraine. And Ukraine is in the normal term! You should't worry that Ukraine in high risk list.

[doyle1292 11]

24 minutes ago, Snicda said:

Hey is there any difference between i797 and i797 c because we got i797 c form and i guess thats our NOA 1. ??

Check out this link, they are different!

 

https://www.uscis.gov/i-797-info

[HP+IC 292]

16 minutes ago, VikaShew2017 said:

hi! your is fiancee from Ukraine? 
i am from Ukraine and i learned and read a lot information about visa process for fiancee from Ukraine. And Ukraine is in the normal term! You should't worry that Ukraine in high risk list.

Thanks. Hi, I am the Ukrainian fiancee My fiance is working hard to earn extra days off so that we can have more face time together. I believe our case is not the simplest out there (several red flags), but we spent a whole month on Viber pulling everything together. We have faith and expect everything to come eventually. I still have a lot of things to complete in Ukraine and early approval, though much appreciated, would complicate it significantly

[Carpe Vinum 2,327]

1 hour ago, VikaShew2017 said:

hi! your is fiancee from Ukraine? 
i am from Ukraine and i learned and read a lot information about visa process for fiancee from Ukraine. And Ukraine is in the normal term! You should't worry that Ukraine in high risk list.

I went through the process with my ex-wife in Kiev in 2010. Absolutely painless if you don't have any huge red flags...

Edited August 3, 2018 by boris64