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Hi everybody,

Does anybody know whether it's possibile to get the first time passport as a large book as well as passport card when applying through passport agency?

I may have a business trip that may come shortly after interview / oath and would need to get the passport ASAP.

Thank you

Hi everyone,

My K1 visa case has been sitting at the NVC since December 27, 2024, and there s been no movement. I received my case number through public inquiry on February 3, 2025, but since then, the status on CEAC is still at NVC, and I haven t received the official K1 FTP letter yet.

I ve seen other people with later case dates for Ankara, Turkey already receiving their official letters while mine is still at NVC.

Has anyone else had a similar experience? I reached out to the NVC again via public inquiry last week but haven t received any updates. Any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks so much in advance for any support!

PS: I received my NOA2 on November 8, 2024.

Hello,

I am a USC and my fianc e is an Indonesian citizen. She has a B1/B2.

We are not married yet. We had been considering K1 but an attorney I chatted with stated that instead of applying for a K1 since my fianc e has a B1/B2 already, my fianc e could enter on her B1/B2, hit 60 days (this is what the attorney said, my research after shows 90 days as the threshold), and then apply for AOS and file an I-130.

I wanted an opinion on when our marriage should take place. Per the attorney it could be whenever, but my options are as below:

1.) Marriage in Australia

2.) Marriage via zoom in Utah when my fianc e and I are physically together (the attorney recommended against online marriage in this method, I have seen it suggested on this forum many times which makes me think she is wrong)

3.) My fianc e will come here for a short visit in April, marriage at this time

4.) My fianc e would plan to enter on her B1/B2, and then marry after 90 days and apply for AOS. This would be late year.

Appreciate any opinions and advice.

Hi, I am US Citizen living in Pakistan for past 5 year to take care of my property here which worth about more than $2 million. I do not have kind of income as properties do not yield that much positive cash flow that is required by USCIS but the property itself worth a lot if I sell it.
I want to know weather I can sponsor my mother and my wife based of my property market value? Or should I move back to US and generate an income or find a co sponsor to do so?

Hi, my fianc e [27F from the US] and I [28F from the UK] have been together in a long distance relationship since the beginning of 2018. Due to her being in university until 2020, and then the pandemic where she was living at home, it wasn't appropriate to begin a K1 visa until more recently.

I proposed to her in the summer of 2024 and we are currently working on our initial I-129F petition/K1 visa packet. I have seen many people include evidence of every time they have met each other in person, photos and plane tickets etc. However, we have met in-person a total of 14 times over 7 years, and 5 times in the last 2 years.

I'm very confused over how much evidence of meeting we need to include. I considered only including evidence of the last 2 years, but is this enough to tell the story of/prove our bona fide relationship? A lot of big events happened before the last two years like expensive trips together, meeting each other's families etc.

I'd really appreciate advice on how to narrow this down or help with what we should absolutely keep -- whether we should give a list of every meeting perhaps even if we don't include evidence for all of them, or is that pointless? Right now we've got photos from every meeting, receipts from a few big events, and our plane tickets from the two last times we visited each other, but it's feeling like absolute overkill with far too many pages. I'm just worried about taking out something we need.

We are also both women and in a lesbian relationship so we feel a bit more anxious about 'proving' our relationship is real and not just gals being pals.

If anyone has been in a similar situation with a long-term relationship finally applying for a K1 visa, I'd really appreciate the insight. Thank you!