format for sending inK1?

[oceanshark 2]

we are still a few months from sending in K1 until after my second visit in january. Much of it is done. However, i am trying to look ahead a bit as to the format to send it? originally, i thouhgt i would have both copies done at a Staples. have it bound together. very professional and tight. then i was thinking, heaven for bid, they needed to make copies of something? how would they get it out if it was all bound togehter as one?

now i am thinking mor of a big notebook, with everything hole punched?what did you guys and gals do? thanks so much.....Junior Member with cool avatar!!:-)....todd

[Inky 1,110]

When you send it. They take it apart and redo the whole thing the way they want it in a totally different folder with special hole punch and clips

do not pay all kinds of cash to get it bound up and everything. Waste of money and time. Just use a big paper clip and a cover letter listing the contents in order.

[garfield529 47]

Yeah, don't bind it. You can use a big binder clip to hold everything together, but the file will just be taken apart and put into their folder at the service center. It is helpful if you clearly label your sections and include the cover letter to aid the adjudicator.

[baron555 934]

we are still a few months from sending in K1 until after my second visit in january. Much of it is done. However, i am trying to look ahead a bit as to the format to send it? originally, i thouhgt i would have both copies done at a Staples. have it bound together. very professional and tight. then i was thinking, heaven for bid, they needed to make copies of something? how would they get it out if it was all bound togehter as one?

now i am thinking mor of a big notebook, with everything hole punched?what did you guys and gals do? thanks so much.....Junior Member with cool avatar!!:-)....todd

I used a combo of paper clipe and binder clips. They want to take it all apart and put sections into their own folders; make that easy for them.

[CoffeeMuse 5]

Agree'd. My sister is a federal government bureaucrat (different org) and she knows how they like things done - "give them everything they ask for, organize it neatly and well, put cover sheets on each section to make it easy to find and identify the items etc. Pretend you are submitting a report but hold it together with a binder clip only. You want to make their job easy to read and to pull apart and examine without taking a chain saw to it.

Edited November 10, 2010 by CoffeeMuse

[Sisyphus 1]

I found this topic very useful. It explains in detail how to assemble the I129f package.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/228720-i-129f-package/

[CJ&Jum 0]

I used this guide, organized everything, puunched three holes in every page, put those gold fasteners in each hole (like those gold things you used to put in your childhood papers). This way, the package was connected together, but easily taken apart as needed. We had no RFE, not stops along the way, and never one question about anything submitted. The index, I feel, is important to include. Take it from the perspective that you are the one reviewing the file for the first time. Make it easy for them, and hopefully they will make it easy for you.

I found this topic very useful. It explains in detail how to assemble the I129f package.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/228720-i-129f-package/