Is balikbayan stamp valid for DCF?

[Ehmz 0]

My husband been living in philippines since june 2012 and keep extending his visa for 15 months and we got family trip ..me ,my husband and our son..to singapore for 3 days and we got back and he got balikbayan stamp.. Can we do DCF ??? But we dont have any joint account ,or any lease of contract. What to do? Can we do DCF? Pls help? Thank you in advance

[Confusedtinybird 41]

It is a DCF country see this link http://www.uscis.gov/about-us/find-uscis-office/international-immigration-offices

Unless the Philippines has different requirements you need a resident visa and not a tourist visa which seems like what your husband has.

Also if you don't have any joint accounts or a lease I dont know if your application would be accepted.

[Ehmz 0]

Yeah i check the list of country got DCF AND PHILIPPINES is one of the country accepting DCF.. We got other proof that he been living here for more than 6 months... Thank you for respond

[Ehmz 0]

But if we got lease of contract to te apartment we rent you think they will accept it?? And mail from his mother and it address of him here in the philippines and remitances that address to the adress of our aprtment..

[jayjayj 571]

The Phillipines is not a Direct Consular Filing (DCF) country for immigrant visas. You will need to follow the instructions on your applicable immigration forms and mail the petitions to the U.S.

Please provide details of what immigration forms you intend to submit, then VJ can be much more helpful. A Balikbayan stamp has no bearing and is completely unrelated to an U.S. immigration process.

My bad. I should have had more coffee before posting.

Mods - can someone please delete my posts in this thread so nobody gets confused.

[Ehmz 0]

Its ok:) idont know hot to

Delete first time here

[bendinlar 16]

yep, you can dcf, and you dont have to be on a residency visa. extensions or a balikbyan stamp will work.

just filed today, and im just here with a tourist visa and extensions. was a painless process by the way, except that we had to go out and get cash because the cc machine was down.

[Ehmz 0]

Thanks tou for the respond really appreciate it:)

[Ehmz 0]

What ate the proof of residency

You bring?

[KendrickPaula 2]

do we need to set up appointment before going to us embassy for filing the dcf?? uhhmmm what website?? i heard infopass something. is it right? or same way as setting appointment when having notary etc at us embassy manila... ???

[bendinlar 16]

i took cable bills, water bills, acr i-card, copies of my passport stamps, bank verification letter. i think thats what she took from the stack i gave her.

infopass, can be found on the uscis website, easy to set up an apointment, not 100% necessary, but you wont be waiting in line, in and out.

best if you can use cash, usd, in our experiance. the rate they were using was like 46/1, so we saved over 700 php.

[Ehmz 0]

Is lease of contract ,visa extension reciept,rent reciept, remitances that he getting here ,community tax certificate,sm advantage card,and a fedex mail name to him and address here will be enough for a proof???

Anyway the stamp in his passport will be shown

And his acr icard said tourist? Is it fine ????

Thank u for respond:)

Edited April 21, 2014 by Ehmz

[bendinlar 16]

Sounds good to me. You should be all good to go with that.

[Ehmz 0]

Thank u bendinlar:)

[Ehmz 0]

One more question ... Is the lease of contract need to be notarize????