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Hello all,

 

I'm preparing the initial petition and the i-129f form with my fiancée, and I know that we have to submit evidence of meeting within the past two years.

If we've met in person 5 or 6 times in the past two years, how many times should we document in the petition?

Is just 2 or 3 times sufficient? Or will including all meetings increase the chance of being accepted?

 

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Send boarding pass of last (most recent visit ) and in a short cover letter , list the other visits (arrival and departure dates)

always good to see people getting to know each other even if embassy is not high fraud 

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I would mention all the visits, plus of course future ones. Not that I would expect them to be that interested.

 

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We sent passport stamps/boarding passes for the one required meeting, and then just listed the other dates and locations of all of our other trips together in the years leading up to the petition.  


For low-fraud consulates, you don’t get “brownie points” for multiple meetings, but it’s easy to document them, so why not?

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Unsure why you would omit evidence of anything that is relevant and easy to include. If you're already listing the dates, and have boarding passes available, it is not much more work to scan them and include copies.

 

Including docs of all visits can only help your case, or at worse just be ignored in favour of the most recent.

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We included all of the dates for our visits.

We also closed I think about 10 pictures across all visits. And just labeled when and where each picture was taken.

 

It's not gonna hurt to include more evidence that you've met in person. In my opinion more visits just shows the commitment you have to each other.

 

USCIS wants to see if it's a bona fide relationship, multiple trips is part of what proves that

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Thank you to everyone who replied.

It looks like including evidence (flight receipts, boarding passes, hotel receipts, photos) for the most recent visit, while also listing the other visits is the best method. I will also include photos of other visits as evidence of an on-going relationship

 

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Is there a reason you decided to go for the K1?

 

We wanted to wait a little bit to get married, especially since we're still students. Both of us will have graduated by the time she arrives (hopefully). I also have a co-sponsor.

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1 hour ago, nleung5 said:

We wanted to wait a little bit to get married, especially since we're still students. Both of us will have graduated by the time she arrives (hopefully). I also have a co-sponsor.

But is she going to want to put that new degree to use?  She won't be allowed to work until her work authorization is issued, IF you file for it (it's an additional fee).  K1's have become monumentally more expensive with all of the follow up requirements (AOS, ROC). Food for thought.  

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4 hours ago, mam521 said:

But is she going to want to put that new degree to use?  She won't be allowed to work until her work authorization is issued, IF you file for it (it's an additional fee).  K1's have become monumentally more expensive with all of the follow up requirements (AOS, ROC). Food for thought.  


Thanks for your reply. Is it correct to say that filing for k1 including the AOS is around $3000? That’s what we were prepared for, but we might reconsider if it’s significantly more.

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16 minutes ago, nleung5 said:


Thanks for your reply. Is it correct to say that filing for k1 including the AOS is around $3000? That’s what we were prepared for, but we might reconsider if it’s significantly more.

I-129F is $675
MRV is ~$265 (varies due to exchange rate variation)
Medical varies $30-$400
I-485 (AOS) $1440
I-765 (EAD) (optional but recommended) $260
I-751 (ROC) (rarely optional) $750
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So yeah about $3000 not counting things like airfare. 

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The biggest cost is  usually loss of wages 

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48 minutes ago, SneakyPete said:

I-129F is $675
MRV is ~$265 (varies due to exchange rate variation)
Medical varies $30-$400
I-485 (AOS) $1440
I-765 (EAD) (optional but recommended) $260
I-751 (ROC) (rarely optional) $750
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So yeah about $3000 not counting things like airfare. 

I-131 (AP) (optional as long as you don't want to leave the US before AOS is approved) $630

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