I filed the I129F here in the U.S. and waited I then got discouraged while waiting for the approval to come back and my children and I really wanted to see their mother so we left and went to Belize and I did a direct consular filing, it took time to take all of the test and complete all of the paperwork proof of support and taxes and things like that. In all it took a month so I am all for DCF filing good luck to all trying