I'm sending out our packet registered mail on Monday after work. Have some serious business at Kinko's today to get boarding passes and color photos copied!

Luckily kitkat gave us a heads up that the new I129F form is now ready.

Anyone else???

I'll be sending mine out this week if my passport would just get here already!!!!!!!!
I filled out the old form so I hope I can get it there by the 18th

Since you've still got the paperwork in hand, why don't you just fill out the new one? There's a box at the top of the new form saying that if the old is received, it'll be returned to you with the check uncashed.

Luckily the I-129F doesn't require the beneficiary's signature so I've managed to screw it up several times and have to print another with nothing lost but my patience!

why didn't you save it to your computer and use adobe to type it out?

because my fiance wrote his address in arabic on the second page and there's no way i could write it out myself if i printed out the new one.

the old form is acceptable until feb 18th.

because my fiance wrote his address in arabic on the second page and there's no way i could write it out myself if i printed out the new one.

Gotcha! Makes sense.

Hopefully the prior form will be accepted! My line of thinking (erring on the side of caution and anal-retentiveness) is that they had planned on accepting the prior version until 2/18, not knowing when they'd have the newest version available. It's not clear whether this is true (or maybe they'll just let it slip by) because the newest version of the form says:

Prior versions of this form will be rejected, and the fee returned, with instructions to resubmit the entire filing using the current version of this form.

As to why I just didn't save it on Adobe...who knows! It was only the first page I kept screwing up so it was easy enough to print out that first page again.

Good luck!

Yeay! February Filers!
I'm sending ours out Feb. 12th!! Let's hope we see quick results like some of the Nov. Dec. and Jan. Filers!


Best of luck to everyone
Angel

TEAM FEBRUARY!!!!

I'm shooting to have mine out on February 14th - Valentine's Day AND Shivaratri, a big holiday at the temple where K and I met...

I'm just waiting for the yak caravan to arrive from Kat with K's photo, G325A and letter of intent...Go Yaks Go!!!

FEBRUARY FILER!!!

I think I might beat everyone, I have a USPS receipt saying I mailed it Feb. 1st at 8:32am CST.

Good luck, have a sense of humor, and lets all hope us Feb filers get early approvals and NO REFS!

We are submitting our petition this Wednesday. It is good that we keep each other informed of our progress.

I would like to ask about the Marriage intent, can I sign my and pdf to my fiance to the US or does it need to signed with the original letter?

I express mailed my packet on 2/2 so they should have it by noon on Monday...

Let us hope for quick replies.... I was soooo happy when I finally mailed my packet...

My big surprise was on the morning I was going to mail the packet. I had not noticed that it said on page 2 of the I-129 to write the address of your significant other in the native alphabet for their country if they do not use Roman letters....

Guess what... I can not write in THAI!

So... after panicking a few minutes and kicking myself for not having Suphee write her address for me a few days earlier when I was still in Thailand, I remembered the local Thai restaurant... they of course congratulated me and said 'Of course one of us would be glad to write the address in Thai for you..."

: : : : :

GNB: I'm almost positive that the statement of intent to marry needs to have your original signature on it.

Kendall: what a sweet, inventive solutions! Good one!

Crap - I didn't notice that - thanks for the heads up! I'll have to ask my Nepali bhai who works at the pizza place around the corner.

ya thats why i need to send in the old form...my fiance already wrote his address in arabic. i guess if all else fails, and my passport doesn't get here in time for the 18th, (please god no) then i can go to a local moroccan restaurant and ask them to write it. i would just rather have it signed by my fiance and KNOW its correct.

Kendall,
That was good thinking.

Good luck to all of you February Filers!

Good luck! I just filed last Friday and used the old I-129F as it's good until Feb. 18, 2007.

Still, I have checked the USPS site 4 times already Get there! Get there!

Thank goodness my fiance can write Canadian. Of course it took him a while to master.

Hee hee-

CONGRATULATIONS FEBRUARY FILERS!!! Best of luck to all of you and wishing you all speedy process!


Mae

God bless to the February filers.

Thanks -

At the time I was really freaking out and kicking myself for missing it... I thought I had read the form 3 or 4 times and had everything... but apparently, I was focusing on the first page of the I-129 and of course the wonderful 325A ....

Best of luck to you!!!

We sent ours on Feb. 1. Man that felt good.

Who else is sending their I-129F to Nebraska this month?

Hahahaha. Thats some quick thinking. I think we should recommend that for people who ask about things needing translation. Just take it to your local ____________ ethnic restaurant and have your docs translated while you eat!

Question for y'all:

How did you organize your papers? I punched two holes in the top and planned on attaching them with one of those metal fasteners, but it turns out the holes are too far apart. Any alternate suggestions?

And I was going to affix sticky tabs to the bottom with the different types of info so they could be flipped to easily...but then I was thinking that they might not like having a sticky tab on things like the I129F form. Any ideas?

Or does this sound okay?

After wrestling with the fasteners and realizing that the holes were too far apart, I started writing the check. Hadn't noticed that I had given myself a papercut and proceeded to bleed all over the check. Unbelievable.

I am sending mine within this week via USPS. hopefully it will get there before the 18 /

Cross my fingers

Anyone gonna be filing with the Texas Service Center in February? I hope to send our's by the end of the week.

Yeah, my finace will be filing ours with the Texas service centre on the 14th or 15th of Feb...thats if my evidence of going to see him gets there on time.

Well my fiance` has just sent his paperwork to me so hopefully i'll have it by next week. We may be filing at about the same time Gnarly. Best of luck and keep me informed if you don't mind.

Best of luck to you too, blspicer! Of course, I will certainly keep you informed...will be nice to have someone to compare with.

Staples has a squeeze clamp report notebook. It has a spring loaded metal camlock that latches and holds about 5/8" of paper.
Hope that helps!

Aloha all,

Just sealed our I-129 packet and post office bound tomorrow morning. I work for the County government here and had the luxury of having the immigration department two floors down. My friend who reviewed it said it was the best he had seen - so I hope that is a good omen.

Can anyone give me a rough idea on what to expect time-wise to bring my ku`uipo from the Philippines?? I see lotsa conflicting and confusing numbers out there.

Good luck to all us Febbers,

Bill and Joan

Howzit braddah!!

Nice to see other Hawai'i folks on the board - I'm a misplaced kama'aina in currently bitterly cold(10 degrees F when I walked out the door this morning) NYC, damn it's on days like this when I miss the islands...

Kinda ironic an island girl like me finds a love from a landlocked country no? We tease each other about whose homeland really has the world's tallest mountain...

IMUA!!!!!

-Dolma

Ahhhh, finally....

Feels good to have it out the door and on its way to Vermont

I am pretty excited right now

Hope its a speedy process !

i'm so disappointed right now... i've been waiting, and waiting for my renewed passport to arrive so i can send in the i-129f. i even paid for it to be expedited (which was supposed to be within two weeks!!)
so i called the passport office today to check on the status. its not even registered in their computer yet, which means it hasn't even been looked at and could take two MORE weeks!

it looks like now i'm not going to make the 18th deadline for the old forms. dammit. time to find someone to write my fiance's address in arabic on the new form. thats the least of my worries though... i just wanted to get my application out already!!!!!! wahhhhhhhh :9

Well that just sucks! Did you call your local federal building/office about it. Try another site maybe (national or local).

Also -is there a Mediteranian restaurant near you? Or a University? Maybe a mosque...
Someone could write that for you quick I bet, especially if you have the old form filled out for them to copy already.

Good luck!

So sorry to hear that...

Although this will set you back a bit, I'm sure that you could find someone willing to write out his info in Arabic for you.

I've sent out my papers and will do my best to not read answers to these threads...if someone brings up something I did wrong or differently, I'll just get all anguished and won't be able to do anything.

It's out of my hands noq!

The Yak Caravan arrived with my fiance's paper's but I guess when he signs his name he only signs his first name so I don't know if that would be OK with CIS or not??? He sent me a copy of the first two pages of his passport and that is how he signed it there so if it is consistent on all documents which he signs will they accept it?

Also, he sent me a passport photo but it is the small size which is standard in India(and apparently Nepal) - I'm going to have to send him one of my photos and see if he can get one of his in the same size. Except for the size it looks OK.
*sigh* more delays, wanna get this show on the ROAD....

Hey I sent you a PM with the info that these exact same things happened with my fiance! I have no answers but as for me, I wanted to be more safe than sorry so got him to resent all the paperwork with correct signatures and correct photo size.

Hello everybody!
We sent our application yesterday, February 6th, to Texas center. And now we have a question... on USPS's site it says that they attempted delivery, today at 11:44 AM (so during office hours I would say), and a notice was left. They will try a second delivery... But now I wonder, how can they get a delivery receipt from a PO box?!
We are both confused and until we get an answer from a USPS office (cause it seems that is as hard as getting an answer from USCIS ), I was wondering if anyone had this stupid problem.

I just got back to you, sorry it's been busy...

just mailed our petition...ups next day to texas service center...wanted to send it to vermont, but...what a relief!!! good luck to everyone, and don't hesitate to ask any questions...i'll do my best...

Ok...so the passport photos i got of myself in England are smaller than the ones that are needed. But I also have one which is slightly bigger than the one they did for my fiance in USA...so bigger than whats required. I guess neither of them will be be accepted?

This happened to me too, don't worry. I sent mine Thurs Feb 1st and it arrived Friday Feb 2nd. But they said too a notice was left. I don't know how they can't deliver to a PO box, but anyway this past monday I checked and it said it had been delivered. Even my mom who has worked for the USPS for 25 yrs didn't know why. But be patient. It will be delivered. If its been a week or something then call though.

Ours arrived by fed Ex on Monday the 5th ... heres hoping for a quick turn around, Ill post some pictures of the sheer SIZE of the package later

I am sure I am the only idgit that downloaded the files and took months to get everything done--I redid my I-129f form today as the other one was outdated--and upon further looking--so was the G325A! I am sure it wasn't that long ago that I downloaded them and I have seen that others have said previous editions were acceptable (for G325a that is). But I redid that one too! Not sure if it is something to look at for the rest of the Feb-Filers but ...maybe.



OH YEAH! I almost forgot

Yeay Feb-Filers!!!!!

I just wanted to say good luck and speedy approvals to everyone!

Oh and... Yak caravan?

I'm looking to file by next week, so I'll be a February filer as well! We've been scrambling to get things togeter since we'd been planning on a DCF after a July wedding, but I've got the info from him and original signed forms that I need and just have to finish things up on my end.

Anyone have advice?

Good luck to you who have already sent them in!

Welcome to the club.


Don't finalize your wedding plans until your visa is approved. It could take longer than you expect. That's my observation from reading posts here and seeing what at least one member went through when she'd paid a lot of nonrefundable money for her wedding and the I-129F process got delayed.

Also, study the guides and read posts here so that you'll know what to include in the application. But you're probably already doing that.

My joke - my fiance is from Nepal and sometimes stuff comes so slowly it seems like it comes by yak caravan-usual transport in the mountains...

Thanks alot, we felt more relieved after your answer... and YES! today it says delivered!
Good luck to all of the February filers... it seems like now I have something to put in my signature

Oh ok! lol That's funny! I think of the yak like creatures from the movie Star Gate!

hello my fabulous february friends!!! ok, here we go...sent out our petition yesterday u.s.p.s. next day air...they tried to deliver today and apperntly no one there at the texas service center...they said they left notice...that they'll try again, and if they can't deliver, they'll hold for 5 days and then send back to me...which i obviously do not want...why can they not deliver?!?!?!?