Tinder K1 Interview

[EllenE1230 22]

I met my fiancé through an online chat site which has no intention of making couples out of people. You are literally just matched up with a complete stranger which you start chatting with.

I never brought TOS with me to the interview and never attached it to my I-129f form and everything went fine. At the interview I was just asked how we met and explained to him what kind of site it was.

 

Don't know if I'm of any help. 

[Lucky_Mimi 87]

5 hours ago, Shiran said:

You are so close! Hopefully you  will get your good news  in a couple of short months, without any Facebook RFE related delays! 

Hoping for the best. Thank you@Shiran Well, we did not check the IMB box as we did not use Marriage Broker. We made a letter entitled "Declaration of How We Met" and "Evidence of Meeting In-Person" letter attached to the evidences under number 54 of the 129f form stating that we met each other thru a common friend, started chatting on facebook then things went well then we met each other here in the Philippines. 

 

Are we going to be okay? We did not send tos or terms and condition of Facebook because we met thru our common friend. Facebook Messenger is just our way of communication.

 

As of the 2 letters, we copied what yuri and bruce did/ suggested on their Youtube channel.

[debbiedoo 2,339]

7 hours ago, WandY said:

They do not require you to print TOS (terms of service) for couples that meet online. That's a myth. I wish VJ'ers would stop spreading this bogus info. I went through a high-fraud country (we met online) and never an issue. Many of my friends and acquaintances married from dating sites - never an issue. No TOS print-outs. Almost everyone meets online. You only need to say that you met through online dating site. That's not a marriage broker. Quit worrying about it - not an issue in the digital age.

they dont require it, no but i have seen RFEs for tinder and even facebook

 

its not like its hard to find and print TOS. i sent the TOS from facebook just to cover my ###, cause with my luck id get some ####### who didnt know what it was.... 

[p-ana 933]

I just want to tell my story here, even though my i129f was adjudicated a few years back.

We met online on a website that no longer exists and would connect two people randomly. 

We simply answered that “we met online 20xx and then in person in city, state in 20xx”. We were kinda afraid we would get rfe for the website but we were approved.

To be on the safe side, I brought to my k1 interview a Wikipedia (lol) article about it and a statement saying it wasn’t an IMB and it was shut off, but it wasn’t asked.

Later on during the aos interview the officer did ask about it but we just said the name of it he made a face like he didn’t recognize it and then we said it was no longer active and that was it, can’t even recall if he wrote anything down.

 

So it’s most likely they won’t even bat an eye about it at all, but it’s always good to be prepared just in case.

 

good luck

 

 

[Shiran 1,134]

28 minutes ago, p-ana said:

We met online on a website that no longer exists and would connect two people randomly. 

 

I am more impressed that people were able to meet and form relationship through what sounds like chatroulette or omegle. Amazing!

[LeesaMarie 206]

8 hours ago, camlarcam said:

Because we saw that and brushed it off as it must be a mail order bride service or something. We really should have done more research.

Hi, 

 

I've come to hopefully calm your nerves. You are fine, you filled out the form correctly. Again for millionth time people, they want to know if you met in person, and when, they want to verify your first in person meeting.

 

Talking on a dating app is NOT a marriage website. If USCIS think they wanna know more about your time together, they will ask. People on this forum really need to stop acting holier than thou and freaking everyone out and fear mongering with outdated information.

 

Sorry if this comes across harsh, but so many responses to this thread are not helpful to anyone, and many should really re-evaluate the place they are coming from before giving any "advice". OP - please check your regional forum for advice on what comes up at the interview stage, and kind of evidence is genuinely requested and asked for. 

 

For anyone else: Follow the instructions for the form, and the filing guidelines as published on the USCIS website, use your regional forums for guidance, ask questions here if you really are confused. I appreciate understanding a lot of information and reading long documents is not everyone's forte. Relax, use the examples provided by USCIS and provide only the information that has been requested.

 

[britishandusa 446]

10 hours ago, TNJ17 said:

i129f does ask how you met. Do you not remember what you put down? If you didn’t mention the truth, you’re gonna be in a lot of trouble because of misinterpretation issues. You should have sent a copy of the terms of service from that website along with your application. USCIS demands it. They will either send you an RFE or you’ll be denied (I only say this because of the new rules about RFEs, but if your application is complete they may just RFE you ) in about 7-9 months time. Get the docs ready for when that time comes. 

NOT true at all. My fiance (now husband) and I met on tinder. We mentioned it once on our application and we NEVER sent in a TOS. And we never got an RFE. It could vary per officer but USCIS definitely doesn’t “demands it.”

 

OP, don’t worry about it. If an RFE comes, it’ll come. 

[midwinterrose 277]

10 hours ago, TNJ17 said:

i129f does ask how you met. Do you not remember what you put down? If you didn’t mention the truth, you’re gonna be in a lot of trouble because of misinterpretation issues. You should have sent a copy of the terms of service from that website along with your application. USCIS demands it. They will either send you an RFE or you’ll be denied (I only say this because of the new rules about RFEs, but if your application is complete they may just RFE you ) in about 7-9 months time. Get the docs ready for when that time comes. 

 

10 hours ago, TNJ17 said:

Towards the end. It says “describe the circumstances under which you met”.

 

10 hours ago, TNJ17 said:

Nope. Before that. I just checked mine and it’s question 34. 

 

10 hours ago, TNJ17 said:

It says so on the forms and the instructions. It is also very clear on USCIS website that you must submit terms of service from website if you met online.

 

9 hours ago, TNJ17 said:

The instructions say if you met online you must submit a copy of the terms of service so they can see the website is not an IMB site. Even with very obvious sites that they already have info for, you still must submit. Search on these forums, I believe the person who got an RFE a couple of months ago on here was talking about OK Cupid. You’ll find the info. 

 

Unless you used a different version of the form than the current one (which I doubt, because you filed after the current form was released), all of this information is completely untrue.  You should really make sure you actually know what you are talking about before giving advice.

 

OP:  I did not write anything about how we initially met, because like you, I read the form and the instructions and found that they very specifically ask about having met in person within the two years prior to filing (of which I included evidence), and they never ask about how you originally met.  They also never ask for any proof of not having met through an IMB, though it is true that a lot of people get RFEs down the line asking for such proof.  I think it just depends on the adjudicator whether they will ask for it or not, but it is not a requirement on the current version of the I-129F.  Though this version actually expired 8/31/18, so it will be interesting to see if any changes are made to the new version they put out.  

 

Don't fret--you followed the instructions as they are written, which is all anyone can ask of you.  You may get an RFE depending on your adjudicator, but the RFEs don't seem to be adding more than 3 weeks or so to the process.  I have an RFE on the way--I will let you know when I receive it if they ask for the story of how we initially met.  Good luck!

 

[p-ana 933]

1 hour ago, Shiran said:

I am more impressed that people were able to meet and form relationship through what sounds like chatroulette or omegle. Amazing!

Meeting based on a picture and looks alone makes me more impressed...

 

 

 

 

[Tylosand 8]

Could it be RFE-worthy if I did disclose that we met "through a dating app", but did not specify that it was Tinder? Everything depends on how you define things, and perhaps it would be strange to consider "a dating app/service" to also possibly include IMBs, but maybe it would still have been good to mention Tinder since it is so well known. Although, as has been pointed out here before, it does not say in the instructions that you need to prove that you did not meet through an IMB, and obviously I checked "no" for that specific question. I guess we'll just have to wait and see...

Edited September 3, 2018 by Tylosand

[p-ana 933]

3 minutes ago, Tylosand said:

Could it be RFE-worthy if I did disclose that we met "through a dating app", but did not specify that it was Tinder? Everything depends on how you define things, and perhaps it would be strange to consider "a dating app/service" to also possibly include IMBs, but maybe it would still have been good to mention Tinder since it is so well known. Although, as has been pointed out here before, it does not say in the instructions that you need to prove that you did not meet through an IMB, and obviously I checked "no" for that specific question. I guess we'll just have to wait and see...

It will all come down to the officer reviewing your case

[Lucy&Jason 808]

4 hours ago, EllenE1230 said:

I met my fiancé through an online chat site which has no intention of making couples out of people. You are literally just matched up with a complete stranger which you start chatting with.

I never brought TOS with me to the interview and never attached it to my I-129f form and everything went fine. At the interview I was just asked how we met and explained to him what kind of site it was.

 

Don't know if I'm of any help. 

Is this Omegle?

[Daniela M_______ 410]

6 hours ago, Rocko20 said:

My interpretation is you don't "meet" a person on tinder, you match and start talking on tinder. You "meet" them in real life when you go on some type a date to starbucks, the park, movies etc. I initially matched with my fiancee on tinder, but we actually met at a hiking trail, and that was the in-person story of how we met for the K1 Petition. It was accepted, no RFE, no delay, approved embassy interview, etc. She arrives here September 13th.

 

Printing out the terms of service for Facebook or tinder, being nervous about "meeting" online, etc. is all unnecessary. It clearly says "in person" meeting not "online meeting." As in, where you met them "in person." Atleast that's what I did, because it's true we met on a hike not on tinder. 

 

The entire point of of all these dating apps and sites is to meet someone in "real life," until you actually meet them in real life they could be a catfish or Russian troll bot.  In my book, matching with someone online is not meeting them.

I met my fiance on Tinder too and this was exactly my though, we matched and after a few days talking we decided to go out, we had 2 dates and then he went back to USA (he was on a work trip). Then he visited 5 times in the past 2 years lol. I didn't include T&C because I also saw the IBM thing too specific, I don't remember the part where USCIS "asks for T&C" otherwise I would have include it.

We did mentioned and described our first encounter in a "love story" way.

 

We are still waiting for approval so let's see if they ask for anything else.

 

It makes me mad because we failed in a few things and people is like "you were supposed to send that" mmm I followed the instructions and I could not find ANYTHING of USCIS asking for things like "Photocopy of the back side of a Birth certificate which is blank btw"... anyways... let's see how it goes I'm on day 189 so far.

[LeesaMarie 206]

7 minutes ago, Daniela M_______ said:

It makes me mad because we failed in a few things and people is like "you were supposed to send that" mmm I followed the instructions and I could not find ANYTHING of USCIS asking for things like "Photocopy of the back side of a Birth certificate which is blank btw"... anyways... let's see how it goes I'm on day 189 so far.

I'm glad I did not follow the guide on how construct my I-129F. I followed the instructions issued by USCIS and I have my VISA and I'm leaving the UK soon. So many delays must be caused by the extra work the adjudicators have to do by sifting through so much additional info that's not been asked for.

[Daniela M_______ 410]

8 minutes ago, LeesaMarie said:

I'm glad I did not follow the guide on how construct my I-129F. I followed the instructions issued by USCIS and I have my VISA and I'm leaving the UK soon. So many delays must be caused by the extra work the adjudicators have to do by sifting through so much additional info that's not been asked for.

Yes! And lately people is adding more things "just in case", like BC of beneficiary and other things that USCIS is clearly not asking for.