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TLDR: Embassy wants more info on overstay from ten years ago and we have very little documentation. Asking for advice please. Hello all. My fiancee will be attending her K1 Visa interview in two weeks in Tokyo, Japan. Today she received an email from the US Embassy. In it they asked the following: Thank you for sending us your requested documents by mail; however, we need to ask for some additional documents for your interview. Please see below and submit the documents along with other required documents in the instructions. Original birth certificate for your child Any original official documents regarding your overstay/detention in Japan A photocopy of the original documents above, along with the translation if the documents are not in English If you cannot collect the documents before your interview, please explain it on your interview day. Sincerely, Immigrant Visa Unit U.S. Embassy, Tokyo The background behind this can be read in detail in previous thread I made on Visa Journey here. We immediately called the visa services support phone number found on the usvisascheduling website. They reached out to the embassy for clarification and we received the following response: Thank you for your inquiry. Please submit any official documents regarding your overstay in Japan if any. If you do not have one, please contact immigration office if they have any. Thank you for your cooperation. Sincerely, Consular Communication Unit U.S. Embassy Tokyo/ky To be blunt, my fiancee, received / was able to keep, very little documentation directly tied to the overstay and detention. She does have her Japanese police certificate(sealed), the certificate of eligibility showing her being allowed back into Japan after the one year self deportation and her old passport showing her original deportation in 2014 and that she shouldered the expenses of self deportation. That is all. We contacted her immigration lawyer who advised that it is very unlikely that Japanese immigration will release any of that documentation as they are used for investigation purposes. Nevertheless we will be calling the local immigration office in the municipality where she was detained ten years ago in the morning to make a request. We are in a bit of a panic and could use some advice please. Are we overlooking anything? Is there anything else we can do? Thank you all in advance for your thoughts and advice.

Hello everyone. I could use some advise and a sounding board for a few concerns I have for my fiancé and I K1 visa application. Short backstory and feel free to ask me to expand on anything that more detail helps: Backstory We met online on international cupid back in 2017. We were online friends for about a year until we realized we were only talking to each other and we were seeming and acting like couple. We continued to talk and began making plans to meet after I finished my college degree. Then Covid-19 hit. I am from the US and she, while Filipina, lives in Japan. We stayed together through the Covid mess. Once Japan opened its borders, I visited her four times since May 2023. Troubles My fiancé got in trouble in 2014ish when she visited her now ex husband on a tourist visa to Japan. The ex wound up in the hospital (heart attack resulting in surgery) and she overstayed her visa to be with him and wound up being picked up by Japanese immigration. She was never deported and wound up marrying her ex husband and was allowed to stay in country on a special visa for three years. However when it came time to renew her visa in 2018 (she had already separated from her husband by the time we met online) she was told she would need to self deport her self for a year and then she could reapply. She did that and has been an upstanding resident in Japan ever since. She got her divorced done a year ago (aug 2023) and we got engaged Jan 2024 right before we filed the 129F. On the K1 visa application she answered yes to "Have you EVER been arrested, detained, or cited by the police or any other law enforcement officer?" question. The concern is what kind of bearing will that have on the decision process? She does have her previous passport which shows the voluntary deportation and her current passport does show lawful readmittance to Japan. She is so worried that will cause problems. If anyone has thoughts or advice, I would be very thankful for it. She has a K1 visa interview scheduled for early Oct at the US Embassy in Tokyo and I have made plans to be there with her if allowed to wait in the embassy while she attends the appointment. Thank you so much in advance!!!