HELP - Intention to Marry Within 90 Days of Entry

[Emily Tommy 0]

Hi There, 

We are at the final stage of getting our stuff together to post hopefully by Friday! Just stuck on what to give with this part of the process? Any suggestions or help would be amazing!

 

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A. Intention to Marry Within 90 Days of Entry. Submit evidence that you and your fiancé(e) intend to marry within 90 days of your fiancé(e)’s entry as a K-1 nonimmigrant. Evidence of your intention to marry may include statements of intent to marry signed by both you and your fiancé(e) or any other evidence that establishes, by a preponderance of the evidence, your mutual intention;

Thank you in advance <3 

[Roel 7,191]

" statements of intent to marry signed by both you and your fiancé(e) "  should give you a clue.

 

Just write a letter saying that yes, you and your fiance are both free to marry and that you will get married within 90 days of arrival in the USA. Sign. Done.

[Adline 6]

1 hour ago, Emily Tommy said:

Hi There, 

We are at the final stage of getting our stuff together to post hopefully by Friday! Just stuck on what to give with this part of the process? Any suggestions or help would be amazing!

 

Thank you in advance <3 

Make sure you write a letter. I wrote one for me, one for my fiancé, a love story describing how we met and why we want to marry in the US because we want to live together after being married couple. Make sure he gets the letter notarized from his country, and you notarized your letter as well. For the love story letter, you both can sign it and get it notarized in the US

[Little_Vixen 1,869]

The guide has an example you can use.

http://www.visajourney.com/content/k1guide

 

 

13 minutes ago, Adline said:

Make sure you write a letter. I wrote one for me, one for my fiancé, a love story describing how we met and why we want to marry in the US because we want to live together after being married couple. Make sure he gets the letter notarized from his country, and you notarized your letter as well. For the love story letter, you both can sign it and get it notarized in the US

Is the notarization dependent on the embassy? Cause I never heard that before

Edited February 15, 2018 by Little_Vixen

[Brasil2USA 174]

All you need to do is write a statement saying that both of you are free to marry, and that you intent to marry your beneficiary within 90 after his/her arrival into the US. There are example here on VJ and on the internet that you can look at. You don't need a long, drawn-out letter, just one that include all the elements. You can either write two letters, one for your fiance(e)(saying they can and intent to marry you within 90 days once they get here) and one for you (saying the same thing). Have your fiance(e) sign and date the letter. You do it as well. 

 

Also, like I did, you could write one letter saying that each of you are going to marry each other...etc, etc.. then both of you sign and date it. It should be no longer than 1/2 page. 

 

Edit: It does not need to be notarized.

Edited February 15, 2018 by Brasil2USA
Added the part about not needing to be notarized.

[Adline 6]

22 minutes ago, Brasil2USA said:

All you need to do is write a statement saying that both of you are free to marry, and that you intent to marry your beneficiary within 90 after his/her arrival into the US. There are example here on VJ and on the internet that you can look at. You don't need a long, drawn-out letter, just one that include all the elements. You can either write two letters, one for your fiance(e)(saying they can and intent to marry you within 90 days once they get here) and one for you (saying the same thing). Have your fiance(e) sign and date the letter. You do it as well. 

 

Also, like I did, you could write one letter saying that each of you are going to marry each other...etc, etc.. then both of you sign and date it. It should be no longer than 1/2 page. 

 

Edit: It does not need to be notarized.

Well since this is a sworn statement presenting to an officer, it is more respectful to notarized it. That not a letter you are writing to a friend. Just saying. By the way I notarized my letters and any statements that I sent to the immigration. 

[Brasil2USA 174]

Just now, Adline said:

Well since this is a sworn statement presenting to an officer, it is more respectful to notarized it. That not a letter you are writing to a friend. Just saying. By the way I notarized my letters and any statements that I sent to the immigration. 

It has nothing to do with "respect" at all. It's a letter you write to them, stating your ability and intention to marry. If OP follows the guidelines on the VJ sample letter, they will be fine. I didn't notarize mine and they accepted it just fine. There's no reason to. 

[Scandi 3,970]

Yeah just make it easy for yourself, you don't notarize the letter of intent to marry. That's not a requirement and won't have any effect on your case whatsoever.

[Perfect two 💑 1,147]

2 hours ago, Emily Tommy said:

Hi There, 

We are at the final stage of getting our stuff together to post hopefully by Friday! Just stuck on what to give with this part of the process? Any suggestions or help would be amazing!

 

Thank you in advance <3 

 

You and your fiance need to write a letter intent to marry. Aside from that, provide other evidence to support that too (wedding plan). My fiance and I didn't book anything related to the wedding yet. However, as an evidence, we print out the venue where we planning to do the wedding (just a picture of that place and write the location), date of we plan to have the wedding, where we will buy the dress and any conversation related to the wedding. 

[Perfect two 💑 1,147]

29 minutes ago, Adline said:

Well since this is a sworn statement presenting to an officer, it is more respectful to notarized it. That not a letter you are writing to a friend. Just saying. By the way I notarized my letters and any statements that I sent to the immigration. 

Nope, no need to notarized letter of intent to marry.

[AshMarty 359]

My husband and I never had to notarize our letters of intent when we did the K1 in 2016/2017 and we went through the Sydney consulate in Australia because he is Australian (Sydney is where all Australians have to go I believe for the interview).  

 

 

We just wrote a simple letter that we plan to marry within 90 days of his entry.  

 

We had also only started the wedding planning process so had very little as proof of planning. I think we brought an invitation to his interview but they never asked for it. They only took my updated financial documents at his interview in Sydney.

 

We weren't even "officially engaged" until 3 months after we sent our packet because he hadn't seen me to propose with a ring yet ( but I did have the ring picked out  ). I think we included a conversation about the kind of ring I was looking for but that was about 1 of 3 conversations we included in our packet. 

 

Keep it simple: Solid proof you guys have met in two years (we used a lot of credit card statements that showed us in pictures together in the location we made purchases together) a couple of simple things discussing marriage, if you feel the need. 

Edited February 15, 2018 by AshMarty

[geowrian 22,335]

5 hours ago, Adline said:

Make sure you write a letter. I wrote one for me, one for my fiancé, a love story describing how we met and why we want to marry in the US because we want to live together after being married couple. Make sure he gets the letter notarized from his country, and you notarized your letter as well. For the love story letter, you both can sign it and get it notarized in the US

Not "wrong" to include the extra details after marriage or how you met and why you want to mary, but just overkill and unnecessary. They don't need or care about all that. All the petitioner needs to do is satisfy the I-129F requirements.

Front-loading relationship evidence is fine. Providing a brief history of how you met in order to satisfy the meeting-within-2-years requirement, or not meeting via an IMB requirement, is fine assuming they require clarification beyond what's included with the I-129F.

Notarization is not required (nor does it help) for USCIS. The embassy later may want another letter, which they may or may not want notarized....that is embassy-specific (I don't know of any that do want it notarized, but I don't know all embassies). But that's a separate letter later.

 

3 hours ago, Adline said:

Well since this is a sworn statement presenting to an officer, it is more respectful to notarized it. That not a letter you are writing to a friend. Just saying. By the way I notarized my letters and any statements that I sent to the immigration. 

As stated, respect has nothing to do with it. They want a signed letter of intent, nothing more. They're not going to frown upon it, feel bad, or feel disrespected by not having it notarized.

Tossing in a few plans for a wedding isn't necessary, but won't hurt either.

[Paul & Mallory 1,398]

Letter of Intent to Marry is an important one, as many have already said. There are some great templates on here; I ended up Googling a template that I used, as we hadn't found these forums yet at the time that we filed our petition. It was a letter confirming both mine and my fiancé's intent to marry within the 90 days, and we both signed it. FYI - no disrespect to those who find notarizing such statements or letter to be important, but please understand it is not required. Our letter of intent was not notarized, along with a majority of our documents (I think the only things notarized were anything from his side as the beneficiary that had to be translated to English and therefore notarized). Our non-notarized letter of intent to marry passed petition approval and has gotten us to the interview stage with no problem.

 

Other things you could include would be just general evidence of the two of you being engaged. For example, I included screenshots of conversations with family and friends sharing the news, even of a Facebook post where lots of people shared their congratulations. Also shared photos from work where they had decorated my desk and thrown a little something for me for the engagement. Things like that. If you got ring(s), I've heard of people including copies of those receipts also.

[Jaquelly 1,647]

We did not have our letters notarized. Our packet was approved. Don't stress about it.

[Michelle13 39]

Our letters of intent were short, simple, & to the point.  We didn't notarize them, Just a few sentences saying that we were able and willing to marry each other within the 90 days.