I-129f, evidence of in person meeting

[Beauie & Hangie 0]

40 minutes ago, AndrewF said:

When I submitted my I-129f I had 2 trips to Vietnam for a total of about 25 days in the country and the relationship was about 4 months long at that point.  I think what was good about most of our relationship being captured on FB was that it provides a public narrative over time that's pretty hard to fake as her posts got a lot of responses from friends and dialog etc.  

 

My fiance have several other friends who have gone through the process with varying degrees of success.  Where it looks like they may require more evidence is if the beneficiary already has a lot of relatives in the US or where they got married but then the petitioner didnt come back to visit that often.   Then it can appear as though she may be using marriage as a pretext to get to the US.  Also, I think it helps tremendously if you can attend the interview with her.  When we went to my fiancee's interview, I was the only US citizen accompanying their significant other out of approx 12 fiance/spouses getting interviewed.  My fiancee was chatting some.of.them up and she told me that many of them got blue slips requesting more evidence .

Thanks Andrew! That's incredibly helpful info!!

 

I'm curious about the Facebook thing. Did the interviewers give you any feedback that it was helpful to them and the process? Or was that more of a gut sense you had? 

 

We are relatively private with fb postings, so we probably won't have much to work with there.

 

Attending her interview is a great idea! I will for surehave another visit during the whole process. And will then have to see how much vacation time I can continue to take when interviews roll around.

 

How long was your process from start to finish? We'd love to have a better sense of timing around everything. 

[AndrewF 69]

We created a big notebook of evidence for the interview, that included a timeline, plane tickets, visa stamps, photos, Zalo chat examples, etc.  After I sat down and my fiance was interviewed alone, my fiance said the only thing the CO asked to see of the supporting evidence was some more of the Facebook print outs from the time after we were engaged.  So, based on that, I'm guessing the FB was helpful for the CO.  That said, I only submitted our FB as evidence because I'm very careful what I post (I'm an active duty Army Officer), and because I was sure it supported our application and wouldn't raise any red flags.  Depending on what you have on your social media, your mileage may vary.  

 

We submitted the I-129F on 2 JAN.  Was approved by USCIS on 12 APR.  NVC received, processed it and sent it to the HCM Consulate by 15 MAY.  Got the P3 instructions from the HCM consulate around 23 MAY (this gets mailed to the fiance).  was able to schedule her interview on 11 JUN.  So, just a tad over 6 months for the whole process which was much quicker then I anticipated.  This was with no RFEs.

[Beauie & Hangie 0]

2 hours ago, AndrewF said:

We created a big notebook of evidence for the interview, that included a timeline, plane tickets, visa stamps, photos, Zalo chat examples, etc.  After I sat down and my fiance was interviewed alone, my fiance said the only thing the CO asked to see of the supporting evidence was some more of the Facebook print outs from the time after we were engaged.  So, based on that, I'm guessing the FB was helpful for the CO.  That said, I only submitted our FB as evidence because I'm very careful what I post (I'm an active duty Army Officer), and because I was sure it supported our application and wouldn't raise any red flags.  Depending on what you have on your social media, your mileage may vary.  

 

We submitted the I-129F on 2 JAN.  Was approved by USCIS on 12 APR.  NVC received, processed it and sent it to the HCM Consulate by 15 MAY.  Got the P3 instructions from the HCM consulate around 23 MAY (this gets mailed to the fiance).  was able to schedule her interview on 11 JUN.  So, just a tad over 6 months for the whole process which was much quicker then I anticipated.  This was with no RFEs.

Andrew, thanks again Andrew for more great info! Yeah that was really fast! I was expecting that much time for just the I-129f (that's what the USCIS website says anyway. Glad to hear it may not be as long as we thought!

[AndrewF 69]

Yes based on the USCIS website i was expecting the I-129f to get approved around June.  But, from what I've read on here, it looks like if there's no RFEs a lot of them are getting approved in the 3 month time frame!