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Like stuttering, asking to repeat questions (it was hard to hear through the glass and the interviewer was asking some questions while turning away from the microphone).

I would bring the family tree and show / give it if asked. Bring pictures, but organized and dated, with location and maybe a little caption/backstory of what the picture is showing. The Spousal Relationship Evidence Form, I think, is only needed if you receive a blue slip since the blue slip has a link to it and is required for my R2-E case. I feel screenshots would be OK, but if you can get chat logs, that would be good. They can ask questions about how often you two talk, and you can show the chat logs to show concrete evidence. If you're using Facebook Messenger, to get the chat logs: you can request that from Facebook. But the data is not organized, so you need something to organize the data. I was in a rush for time, so I paid $19.99 to have it organized. I would have the following evidence (which I did, but did not show since I panic and didn't think things through during the interview): - pictures of you two, in various settings. of you two and also family if you have any. Dated, location, captioned - boarding passes, passport stamps - receipts of purchases, hotels, etc - money remittance, gifts - screenshots of chats, audio / video logs if possible - anything else that you think will help

Some questions I remembered: - How did you and your fiancee meet? I had my brother introduced us so I said that and elaborate. Also asked my fiancee this question. - How often do we talk / chat / video each other? - Asked my fiancee what I do for a living, and what did I talk to her about my work? Asked to see pictures, and chat logs. Unfortunately, I didn't have audio/video chat logs with me at the interview, but only screenshots of Facebook Messenger conversations. Did not asked for family tree, or I-134 documentation, or anything else that I remembered. Looking back, maybe I should have force the issue and give the family tree along with the pictures. The family tree that we brought to the interview was a bit more simplified and not as thorough as the one requested on the Spousal Relationship Evidence form. The spousal relationship evidence form is basically: - how, when, where wet met - relationship timeline (chronological, I had like a bit over 2 pages of this) - listing of 3 generations of her family (grandparents, her parents and their siblings, herself and her siblings) - listing of 3 generations of my family (grandparents, my parents and their siblings, myself and my siblings)

OK, so after 4 days of working on this, I finally turned in the requested documentation. I will chronicle what I did so if anyone run into a similar situation as my fiance and I did, hopefully this thread / post will be helpful. So the thing is the website, as of this writing 6/29/2024, only allows 2 uploads, with each upload limited to 3MB. I have to get creative to squeeze in as much content as possible. For me, I converted all JPG and PNG images into WEBP images. Then I also decrease the size of the WEBP images. You can do this in any order (decrease size of JPG/PNG image first, then convert to WEBP ... or convert to WEBP first, then decrease size). As long as the chosen images are of acceptable smaller size and quality to you. I also turn all final submitted documents into PDF and further decrease the PDF size. You can find these programs to convert and decrease the size of files online. So basically, we need to submit online the following 3 items: * Spousal relationship evidence form: this one we download online as listed on the OF-194 and fill out - for the Relationship Timeline section, I tried to be detailed as possible while remaining succinct. This section turns out to be a little bit over 2 pages of writing for me. * OF-194: scan the blue slip and attach it with the Relationship Evidence * Relationship Evidence: for this, I've include the following - 23 pictures of fiance and I, including: with family, on vacation in Viet Nam, engagement party/ceremony with both sides of the family. Pictures are from 2 separate in-person meeting since April 2023. Picture pages had 8 pictures per page (except for last page), each picture with date and caption underneath. In chronological order. - 6 boarding passes with passport stamps (I saw my fiance in-person 3 times). In chronological order and captioned. - money remittance summary through Remitly in chronological order and captioned. - 6 legible receipts for purchases and hotel with date and explanation in chronological order, also captioned for each receipt - 24 screenshots of selected Facebook Messenger messages, in chronological order and captioned for each screenshot - 6 pages of audio/video call logs from Facebook Messenger, with Date, Time of Call, who called who, and Call Duration. In chronological order. So the OF-194 (1 page) and the Relationship Evidence (21 pages) documents combined for a total of 22 pages. I was able to shrink the two combined documents into 1 PDF document under 3MB. I felt that the quality of the images were very acceptable (I had my fiance and some other people took a look to see if they can see the pictures and writing).

I couldn't find the Edit button to attach the OF-194 image... so image is attached to this post.

Unfortunately, my fiance and I got the blue slip OF-194. Personally I felt that we were too nervous and stumbled over some of the answers, and that may have played a big role in our getting the blue slip. We are under under R2-E, administrative review requesting for more relationship evidence. I've attached the OF-194 to this post. So basically, we need to submit online the following 3 items: * Spousal relationship evidence form: this one we download online as listed on the OF-194 and fill out * OF-194: scan the blue slip and attach it with the other two uploads * Relationship Evidence: for this, I've include the following - 21 pictures of fiance and I, including: with family, on vacation in Viet Nam, engagement party/ceremony with both sides of the family. In chronological order, with date and explanation for each picture. Pictures are from 2 separate in-person meeting since April 2023. - boarding passes with passport stamps - receipts with date and explanation in chronological order - money remittance through Remitly - screenshots of text and video chats on Facebook Messenger, in chronological order So we're limited to only 2 uploads, with each upload limited to maximum file size of 3MB. I'm doing good to fit most of the Relationship Evidence in the 3MB file size limit so far. Any ideas on what I'm missing in this section so far? Also, I'm not sure what to attach the scanned OF-194 to. Should I attach it to the Spousal Relationship Evidence form or to the Relationship Evidence itself? So far, I've been able to compressed the filled-out Spousal relationship evidence form to under 1MB and the scanned OF-194 to also under 1MB. I was thinking of combining both of these into 1 upload, and have the Relationship Evidence as its own upload. of-194_resized.pdf

My fiance woke me up at 2AM (California time) in the morning to have me schedule the interview appointment. So 12-1PM Vietnamese time seem about right to check on Fridays.

Hello everyone, I'm in the midst of finalizing documents to bring to the K1 visa interview with my fiance. I have some questions regarding some documents. 1) Family tree: how detail should the family tree be? I have Name, Relationship to Fiance/Fiancee, Age or DOB or Year of Birth, Location. 2) Financial Support Document (I-134 form): I'm going to school and working part-time, so my 2023 income barely qualifies at ~$21,880. So I have a joint sponsor in my brother. Do I bring both I-134 (one from me, the other from my brother) to the interview? Thank you in advance.

My fiance recently got the packet through a courier on 5/10. She lives in a smaller town (small town in Tay Ninh province) and the courier texted her first. She paid a bit over 100K in dong to the courier. I did not fill out the address until she got the packet and finished filling out the DS-160. You guys got this!

Thanks for the input. I figure as much since the K3 packet state to schedule the interview first before scheduling the medical exam / immunization. Now it's a waiting game to see when the next available appointment for the interview opens up.

Hello guys/gals, This is for the K1 visa. I need your input on the timing of getting medical exam/immunization and the interview. So my fiance went to the post office to pay the $265 fee and now I'm able to schedule the visa interview. BUT, there's no dates available! This is for the Saigon / Ho Chi Minh City location. Should she go ahead and schedule the medical exam now if possible, even when we don't know when there's an opening for the visa interview? When she recently called, they (the Cho Ray medical center) asked her for the interview appointment date.

Update: Approved! I-129F Sent : 2023-09-15 I-129F NOA1 : 2023-09-18 I-129F RFE: 2024-03-19 RFE Reply received : 2024-03-26 I-129F NOA2 : 2024-03-27

So I got an RFE with the following: ---------------------------------------------------------- MISSING PAGE Your Form I-129F is missing page 8 of 13. Complete all items on the page 8 of 13 of the I-129F petition, (edition 3/21/22) include your signature and date and return with your response. If any item does not apply, write "N/A". ---------------------------------------------------------- Page 8 is basically continuation of Part 2. Information About Your Beneficiary, International Marriage Broker (which I didn't use), and Part 3. Other Information (criminal information). There is no line / space / anything about signature on that page. Do I just sign it (signature is an example, not my signature) at the top like in the attached document? Thanks in advance for the help! rfe_page8.pdf

Yes. I did for mine. You have to fill out a credit card authorization form. More information here: https://www.uscis.gov/pay-with-a-credit-card

Sent my I-129F out on September 15, 2023. USPS delivered on September 19, 2023. Filing fee charged to credit card on September 20, 2023. Waiting on NOA1 Petitioner: California Beneficiary: Vietnam

Father's name is NOT on fiance's birth certificate. Engagement ceremony in Vietnamese culture is just a ritual that's not legally binding. The groom and/or groom family ask the bride's family and bride for her hand for future marriage. There are gifts exchanged. But she cannot be considered as my wife, not traditionally nor by law. Engagement ceremony in the Vietnamese culture, as I understand it, is just a promise to marry.

Good luck to us! I think I'll just try to get the name and DOB of my fiance's deadbeat dad and provide an explanation why his name isn't on the birth certificate.

Yes, it is. It's part of Vietnamese culture. However, I'm having second thoughts about including pictures of it since I'm not sure how culturally sensitive / understanding the person who'll look at my file will be.

Pictures were of us a dressed up, but not overly, exchanging jewelry. I don't want it to be misconstrued as a wedding. There were other dressed up relatives in the picture, fiance's elder relatives and my mother. I have other pictures that were more informal that had nothing to do with any type of ceremony so those I'll use.

Holy (removed). Thanks for the heads up. I have some pictures of the engagement but now it might be a good idea not to include them after reading some more about that.

It's a sore, emotional subject. But I definitely will ask my mother-in-law. Yeah, I can see how that can be misinterpreted as something not bonafide.

So my fiance's father abandoned the family before she was born. She was raised by her mom, brother, and extended family on mom's side. Fiance's birth certificate does not have her father's name (only mother). No one in the family really mentioned the father, and when they did, it was not in any favorable light. I don't even know the guy's name or where he is. So my question is: on the I-129F, page 6, the section about the beneficiary's parents, can I just put down the father's name as N/A? And explain the situation in the Supplementary explanation section?

Thank you for sharing. I have some anxiety regarding that issue and tried to search around without any concrete answers. So thank you for sharing your case. I will proceed with the rest of the application.

Hello, I'm filling out the I-129F application and ran into an issue. A little bit of background information: I previously filed (and got approved) for K-1 visa about 10 years ago. After 9 years of marriage, my ex-spouse and I agreed to part ways and we had an amicable divorce. So I met someone new and filling out the K-1 visa application for the second time. However, I totally forgot the exact date of my last filing. This information is requested on Page 4, question #46 on the I-129F application. I know the approximate time period (give or take a month), but the exact date I have no idea. Should I put the approximate date? Any help would be greatly appreciated.