DCF 2012

[GirlWithAGerman 0]

Hello. I thought I'd start a support group for those of us that recently filed DCF this year.

I think it's a difficult process waiting, and wondering if you're doing everything right. It might be nice to have an outlet and people you can talk to that understand how you feel.

Anyone interested?

[ljandjl 1]

I'm interested!

We sent our I-130 application packet DCF to Frankfurt April 3rd.......and it took DHL 10 days to deliver it

So much for "next day" German mail. Argh. Waiting for the NOA1 at this point and slowly working on collecting all the other documents we'll need for the next stage.

Progress on your end??

[lovekoto 3]

Hi I am march filer. How things are going on?

[pnyvibe78 0]

Hey guys...i'm new here too! I'm inquire alot of information about DCF. I\m so glad I found a forum that gives alot of details about the DCF. My boyfriend and I want to be together..we live in the Philippines. Im the US Citizen (DUAL) and his non-US citizen...so by the looks of it..we have to get married first here in Manila right? Then after start filing?

Please advice...I would like to learn about this so I dont want have any errors in the long run and have to re-do all the process again.

Thanks!!

[ljandjl 1]

We got our NOA1 in about a week, but it's been nearly 2 months and still no NOA2. Getting kind of impatient

[GirlWithAGerman 0]

We got our NOA1 in about a week, but it's been nearly 2 months and still no NOA2. Getting kind of impatient

I was so impatient, too! We got ours a couple days after the 90 day mark. I would expect that ljandlj.

Hey guys...i'm new here too! I'm inquire alot of information about DCF. I\m so glad I found a forum that gives alot of details about the DCF. My boyfriend and I want to be together..we live in the Philippines. Im the US Citizen (DUAL) and his non-US citizen...so by the looks of it..we have to get married first here in Manila right? Then after start filing?

Please advice...I would like to learn about this so I dont want have any errors in the long run and have to re-do all the process again.

Thanks!!

I don't know how it is in Philippines, but yes. You have to be married. And here, you have to live here for at least 6 months to start. Good luck!

[Holly2234 66]

Im a May filer We sent it off 4 weeks ago and got NOA1 after a week. So its only been 23 days but i like to think of that as a third of the way to NOA2

pnyvibe78 - Not sure about the Philippines either but as GirlWithAGerman said, you will need to marry there. The USC also has to live in the UK for 6 months before you can do a DCF. So that would be need to be something you look into.

[Keso12 0]

Hi,

We are end of May filers. My husband is USC, I'm Swedish citizen, living in Phuket, Thailand and filing DCF in Bangkok. Got our NOA2 in one day, notified by e-mail. No official letter yet.. now we are waiting for the US embassy in Bangkok and package 3.

Good luck to you all!

[Scott and Emy 1]

I am an American citizen about to marry a Mexican national. We have been living together in Mexico for 2 months. We will have our wedding on the 16th of June. I will be filing for my FM2 on Monday. Once I receive it(was told it takes 30 days to get), we plan on starting the DCF process. Is there any members that has recently completed the process here in Mexico? We would like to talk to them to get all the details of their experience. I have a home in America with a 17 year old son living there, so we would like to get the visa ASAP.

[NickT 0]

I'm interested!

We sent our I-130 application packet DCF to Frankfurt April 3rd.......and it took DHL 10 days to deliver it

So much for "next day" German mail. Argh. Waiting for the NOA1 at this point and slowly working on collecting all the other documents we'll need for the next stage.

Progress on your end??

Frankfurt screwed me over I filed in the embassy on April 11th and still haven't received NOA1...I did everything correctly according to the person I gavethe package too they just straight up screwed me over...I swear if they lost my package Im going to flip ####.

[GlobeHopperMama 95]

We'll be starting the process of DCF in Seoul next week. We'll see how long it takes...

I am an American citizen about to marry a Mexican national. We have been living together in Mexico for 2 months. We will have our wedding on the 16th of June. I will be filing for my FM2 on Monday. Once I receive it(was told it takes 30 days to get), we plan on starting the DCF process. Is there any members that has recently completed the process here in Mexico? We would like to talk to them to get all the details of their experience. I have a home in America with a 17 year old son living there, so we would like to get the visa ASAP.

Hey Scott! We're not in Mexico anymore but I know several people through immigrate2us.net who DCFed there recently. It's cool that Mexico lets people DCF as soon as they have their FM2, multiple people on immigrate2us have succeeded at that, while in most parts of the world it seems we have to reside for 6 months with the visa before they let us DCF. Anyway, we've gathered a lot of Mexico-specific DCF info there. You can check out this thread for the info we've assembled. Good luck!

[mfa 1]

I live in Peru and will begin this in mid-July.

I will be bringing my I-130 to the actual embassy. So all of the tips I read about "tracking" packages is not for me, correct?

Also, I have no checking account. In fact, I dont even know anyone who does here. I'll just walk up to some window and pay in cash, correct?

Does anyone know if it MUST be American currency?

Visa or debit card acceptable in most locations?

[ljandjl 1]

MFA - in Germany we have to pay in US currency, not in euros. Can't say if it's the same in Peru. But if you have a credit card you can pay that way (it's what we did, cheaper & easier than exchanging currency!)

[GlobeHopperMama 95]

I live in Peru and will begin this in mid-July.

I will be bringing my I-130 to the actual embassy. So all of the tips I read about "tracking" packages is not for me, correct?

Also, I have no checking account. In fact, I dont even know anyone who does here. I'll just walk up to some window and pay in cash, correct?

Does anyone know if it MUST be American currency?

Visa or debit card acceptable in most locations?

These are all things you might have to check directly with the Embassy about. They all vary at each Embassy and Consulate. I scanned Lima's website and it did not have a lot of useful info so hopefully you can find some other Lima DCFers who have done this.

Although it doesn't exactly answer those questions, you might find this post useful:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/328820-dcf-lima-peru/page__view__findpost__p__4894575

Edited June 27, 2012 by Carlos and Amy

[GlobeHopperMama 95]

Sorry, I didn't finish looking through it, but it looks like the rest of that thread answers your questions, so go ahead and scroll down, great info there.