January 2018 I-129F Filers, Part II

[CnMjourney 44]

6 hours ago, Chair_force1 said:

Confessions of a k1 petitioner:  i can’t sleep past 6am any longer, I wake up to check the site for any updates, then can’t go back to sleep.  😏🙄

I do the same exact thing every morning! And slam my cell on my nightstand when it hasn’t changed 😕

[JayHouser 209]

So thanks to everyones advice I was able to reach a tier 2.

 

Heres what they told me:

I would most likely not being getting a RFE at this late in the game (218 days)

My case has no red flags

Theres no particular reason why my case is taking longer such as background checks its just simply every worker works at different speeds and every case is not worked in an exact order

7 months is just an estimate and cases can and will take longer

I would likely get an answer in 2 weeks

 

All of the above information was the opinion of the Tier2 officer and does not confirm anything but the RFE thing was comforting.

[VickeySis 318]

10 minutes ago, Clecuona said:

I do the same exact thing every morning! And slam my cell on my nightstand when it hasn’t changed 😕

I check st 6 and at 6:30😒😒😒 I am soooooo over this and the fact that tomorrow is Friday yeah I hate these days too now😭😭😭😭

[SilverMonk 194]

36 minutes ago, Snuffles said:

Honestly, we probably had maybe 15? Maybe 10? Maybe too little 😕🙂

Mine is 52 including form g-28 and the I-129F. If you take that stuff our petition is 32 pages, and most of those are pictures since the lawyer only put one picture per page.

 

24 minutes ago, Deehotstepper said:

i had alot of pages including 60 pages of chatting history, receipts for hotels, travel, engagement ring, 20 pictures of us together. i figured there was no such thing as too much. my binder was big and i organized it using the paper clips and cover pages plus tabs on the side. wanting to leave no stones unturned. many have sent way less and got approved too.

That's a lot of chatting history lol  we didn't put any in out petition. Just pictures, boarding passes, itineraries and DS-2019 from when I was there on a J-1. I'm sure that if my fiancee and I had organized it that we would have had more pages AND that we also would have been organized since shes a neat freak AND would probably have been approved some two weeks ago. Big regret not doing it ourselves. Too late now, unfortunately. I just hope that what we sent will be enough. 

[Adam Zollinger 130]

1 minute ago, JayHouser said:

So thanks to everyones advice I was able to reach a tier 2.

 

Heres what they told me:

I would most likely not being getting a RFE at this late in the game (218 days)

My case has no red flags

Theres no particular reason why my case is taking longer such as background checks its just simply every worker works at different speeds and every case is not worked in an exact order

7 months is just an estimate and cases can and will take longer

I would likely get an answer in 2 weeks

 

All of the above information was the opinion of the Tier2 officer and does not confirm anything but the RFE thing was comforting.

I got basically the same info today and I am on day 204. We are close! 

 

[Tokenfreak 223]

1 hour ago, Chair_force1 said:

I’m right there with you...  30 January 

Yeah hopefully tomorrow will be out lucky day!

58 minutes ago, Snuffles said:

No one will be left behind. There's still a few of us before your date. Hang in there my friend!

Thanks!  I just hope it isn't much longer for all of us.

[Stefannievs 267]

1 hour ago, SilverMonk said:

Guys, just outta curiosity, how many pages did your petitions have? Mine only has 52 and I see some people's petitions looking like a encyclopedia lol 

If they have more pages that means they have plenty of proofs that they love is real so kinda easier 

[SilverMonk 194]

16 minutes ago, Stefannievs said:

If they have more pages that means they have plenty of proofs that they love is real so kinda easier 

Could be, but it could be stuff that the adjudicator is not even gonna look at. Ive been with my fiancee for 5 years now. Would we sent 5 years worth of emails, chats, phone logs and pictures? Of course not, thats just overkill lol. But to each there own
And if a couple wanted to pretend that their love is real in order to fraud the process for immigration benefits,  than im sure that in just 6 months they could come up with over hundreds of pages of ''evidence''. And USCIS knows this too. Thats why there's an interview for the k-1 and then another interview for the AOS and then another interview for lifting conditions.

[Adam Zollinger 130]

1 hour ago, Rodney & Julissa said:

195 Days waiting.  200 days club soon.   Praying for an approval soon for myself and everyone else.

204 Days waiting for my Peruvian fiance so far, but it will come very soon! 

[Stefannievs 267]

11 minutes ago, SilverMonk said:

Could be, but it could be stuff that the adjudicator is not even gonna look at. Ive been with my fiancee for 5 years now. Would we sent 5 years worth of emails, chats, phone logs and pictures? Of course not, thats just overkill lol. But to each there own
And if a couple wanted to pretend that their love is real in order to fraud the process for immigration benefits,  than im sure that in just 6 months they could come up with over hundreds of pages of ''evidence''. And USCIS knows this too. Thats why there's an interview for the k-1 and then another interview for the AOS and then another interview for lifting conditions.

Yes totally get your point but if you have a relationship for 5 years you could put some pictures of each year so they will know is truth and long for example; I took screenshots some of my posts on Facebook showing dates and places from different years. I have been 3 years with my fiance so you could tell which one is fake or no. I think is about the quality of how the relationship has been since you met each other and no quantity, but let's be positive and trust in our files 😀😍

[Greenbaum 12,259]

I have been reading the last few pages and what popped into my head was the agents who answer these calls are probably saying after they take a call "the weekend can't get here fast enough, I just want to be done with these _______. The same ones call 2, 3, and six times a day." Then the sound of a rough huff.

😁

[Greenbaum 12,259]

When I assembled our package it was maybe 30-35 pages max. Never overloaded at any level; I-129f, AOS or ROC. If I couldn't prove to the adjudicator that our relationship was genuine then I didn't deserve the reward from which I was applying for.

 

I'm telling you this is not hard, but you set high expectations and when you fail you're pi$$ed. USCIS didn't promise that it would be completed with the exception in 5 months. Now it's busy and it's running 1-2 months beyond and you're up in arms. USCIS doesn't make your life hard you do it to yourself.

 

Here is what you do. You file your case then follow the time lines and then when you're close, check CEAC once a day. Get your life back under control. Just some advice from someone who has walked this road before you.

 

I hope for my sake you get your approvals soon. 😁

[JDP91 118]

I aimed to be as thorough and clear as possible while not overdoing any part of it / giving them a mess to sort through. Here's what my packet looked like:

 

1 page: cover letter

1 page: g-1145

13 pages: i-129f

5 pages: i-129f continuation sheets (foreign addresses, beneficiary’s employment history, etc)

1 page: petitioner letter of intent

1 page: beneficiary letter of intent

12 pages: complete scan of petitioner’s passport (arranged to fit two scans per printed page, so four total passport pages per sheet of paper), partial scan of beneficiary’s passport (bio page + stamped pages) and itinerary for shared trips as proof of meeting

5 pages: flight bookings for proof of meeting

6 pages: captioned and dated pictures during various trips, at family functions, etc for proof of meeting and small sampling of screenshots of chats over 2+ years for minor "front loading" 

2 pages: TOS for online dating service we met on

2 pages: beneficiary’s US travel history and most recent I94 

 

Total: 49 pages + passport pictures

 

Approved without RFE (although still waiting for the website to update...) 

[JDP91 118]

Whoops, can't edit my above post but I forgot one page -- the copy of my birth certificate! (Just the front -- the back was blank.) That makes 50 total.  

[Greenbaum 12,259]

45 minutes ago, JDP91 said:

I aimed to be as thorough and clear as possible while not overdoing any part of it / giving them a mess to sort through. Here's what my packet looked like:

 

1 page: cover letter

1 page: g-1145

13 pages: i-129f

5 pages: i-129f continuation sheets (foreign addresses, beneficiary’s employment history, etc)

1 page: petitioner letter of intent

1 page: beneficiary letter of intent

12 pages: complete scan of petitioner’s passport (arranged to fit two scans per printed page, so four total passport pages per sheet of paper), partial scan of beneficiary’s passport (bio page + stamped pages) and itinerary for shared trips as proof of meeting

5 pages: flight bookings for proof of meeting

6 pages: captioned and dated pictures during various trips, at family functions, etc for proof of meeting and small sampling of screenshots of chats over 2+ years for minor "front loading" 

2 pages: TOS for online dating service we met on

2 pages: beneficiary’s US travel history and most recent I94 

 

Total: 49 pages + passport pictures

 

Approved without RFE (although still waiting for the website to update...) 

Bam! Just my point. GREAT JOB.