“ASAP” about I-129F Alien fiancé criminal history

[summer_07 0]

Hi I’m working on my paperwork for I-129F and I’m Beneficiary(not native English speaker)

 

here’s my question : 

Civil litigation record is include to criminal history?
 should I answer yes to the question [4.a Have you ever been arrested, cited, charged, indicted, convicted, fined, or imprisoned for breaking or violating any law or ordinance in any country, excluding traffic violence ( unless a traffic violation was alcohol- or drug-related or involved a fine of $500 or more?)]

and continue to 4.b

these question from part3(page9 of form I-129F)
then I need to add documents of my civil litigation record?

 *I have one civil litigation record (dismissed case)

and this case was not about any criminals like police stuff.

 it was about delaying my payment to  finance company. 

In my research on internet 

it says civil litigation record is not necessary for visa application.

but I want to make sure if I need to add my court case or not. also I want to make our application goes clearly and smoothly .

 

first picture is instruction of question 4.a and 4.b 

 

[OldUser 8,489]

14 minutes ago, summer_07 said:

 In my research on internet 

it says civil litigation record is not necessary for visa application.

 

 

first picture is instruction of question 4.a and 4.b 

 

What you're looking at and posted screenshot of is a AI generated summary. It can be largely inaccurate and cannot be trusted just on its own. I would recommend to always ignore this automatically generated text and do a proper research.

Edited March 7 by OldUser

[summer_07 0]

16 minutes ago, OldUser said:

What you're looking at and posted screenshot of is a AI generated summary. It can be largely inaccurate and cannot be trusted just on its own. I would recommend to always ignore this automatically generated text and do a proper research.

Thank you for your advice and yes I understand that AI answers is not official information. 
just one thing on my research, I found a Japanese lawyer’s page saying about criminal history.

basically, civil litigation record is not included to criminal history for visa application.

but it was only his page saying about court record (civil case) *I couldn’t find out other people talking about civil litigation cases .
so I use AI one for example

I’m waiting answers from U.S Embassy /Consulate in Japan (sent an email today)

and I couldn’t wait until I get the answer it will takes few business days 

 

just wanted to know if anyone knows about similar case as mine as soon as possible like rn 

 

also I will ask to USCIS too :))

[OldUser 8,489]

1 hour ago, summer_07 said:

 also I will ask to USCIS too :))

USCIS agents are not required and not trained to give legal advice. Whatever information they give needs to be verified multiple times, similar to AI.

 

You need to consult a credible immigration lawyer and take some advice on VJ if other were in same situation. 

Edited March 7 by OldUser

[Edward and Jaycel 1,073]

If you are the beneficiary, you do not fill out the I-129F… your petitioner does. All of the criminal history questions are for the petitioner not the beneficiary. You as the beneficiary would disclose any criminal or court proceedings on the DS-160 form prior to your interview for the visa at the consulate 

[MainFrame 3]

Also, there's an instructions pdf ( https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-129finstr.pdf )

If you do plan on using AI, make sure you have a solid prompt and give it trusted sources to use. Also, make sure to mitigate AI Hallucinations and review its work. 

[summer_07 0]

On 3/8/2025 at 5:21 AM, Edward and Jaycel said:

If you are the beneficiary, you do not fill out the I-129F… your petitioner does. All of the criminal history questions are for the petitioner not the beneficiary. You as the beneficiary would disclose any criminal or court proceedings on the DS-160 form prior to your interview for the visa at the consulate 

Thank you for your answer 

It helps me to understand about petitioner’s part n beneficiary’s.

 

we working on each other’s part of I-129f 
we in a long distance and my petitioner can’t understand my mother language so I’m just trying to get done on my beneficiary’s information part 

and signature staff (he will correct and send the file when we all done)

then I was confused and mixed things up in my head about petitioners part as my part.  It was just saying “other information” after the beneficiary’s part so I thought that was asking about both of us.

 

I would remind that I-129f is about petitioners mainly 

and after the application is need to file all of my documents and records for DS-160 and interview:)

 

 

 

 

[summer_07 0]

On 3/8/2025 at 5:01 AM, OldUser said:

USCIS agents are not required and not trained to give legal advice. Whatever information they give needs to be verified multiple times, similar to AI.

 

You need to consult a credible immigration lawyer and take some advice on VJ if other were in 

Edited March 12 by summer_07

[summer_07 0]

On 3/8/2025 at 5:01 AM, OldUser said:

USCIS agents are not required and not trained to give legal advice. Whatever information they give needs to be verified multiple times, similar to AI.

 

You need to consult a credible immigration lawyer and take some advice on VJ if other were in same situation. 

 

Oh I didn’t know that.

that sounds kind a doesn't make sense to me that USCIS can’t answer or give some legal advices to questions for the files they handling and checking.

but that’s life lol

appreciate for that information:)

[summer_07 0]

On 3/10/2025 at 2:40 AM, MainFrame said:

Also, there's an instructions pdf ( https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-129finstr.pdf )

If you do plan on using AI, make sure you have a solid prompt and give it trusted sources to use. Also, make sure to mitigate AI Hallucinations and review its work. 

Thank you for your advice

I’m not thinking to use AI

I’ve been checking that instructions from USCIS tho 

just some times kind a hard to understand correctly to me( I’m not native English speaker) so been searching other ppl’s blogs, translations and advices.