Question on New I-129F

[mendeleev 69]

My fiance has been in the USA before -- I brought her here last year on a K1. We're getting ready for the next one (although it might morph into a K3).

Anyway, Question 9, part B of the new I-129F asks for her A#. It seems to me that you get two A numbers as you go through this process, right? You get one number when the I-129F is approved and then you get another when the K1 visa is approved. (Do I remember correctly? I don't have jpegs of her passport pages yet ...)

If I am wrong, then I have her A#. But if I am right, which A# are they looking for?

[Yodrak 7]

novotul,

Ideally one should get only 1 A#, but many people get 2 or more.

The A# is assigned by the USCIS to coordinate the different cases that they might have for a person, such as a petition, then an adjustment application, and often applications for employment authorization and advance parole as well. It's not unusual for different A#s to be assigned to some of these different cases, understandable since USCIS does not always indicate the A# assigned at petition time (and even when they do the anecdotal evidence here at VJ is that many people don't pick up on it or don't understand what to enter for the A# on subsequent applications).

I don't know why a consulate (DoS) would assign an A# when they approve the visa. They know the A# that the USCIS has assigned to the person - they have the file.

Yodrak

My fiance has been in the USA before -- I brought her here last year on a K1. We're getting ready for the next one (although it might morph into a K3).

Anyway, Question 9, part B of the new I-129F asks for her A#. It seems to me that you get two A numbers as you go through this process, right? You get one number when the I-129F is approved and then you get another when the K1 visa is approved. (Do I remember correctly? I don't have jpegs of her passport pages yet ...)

If I am wrong, then I have her A#. But if I am right, which A# are they looking for?