Need your help! Almost ready to file I-130, have questions.

[DrakeSG 2]

Situation: Overseas filer (Singapore) (can't file direct DCF, no office), wife is Vietnamese. Married for two+ years. We are both residents of Singapore (employment/dependent passes). Will be filing to Chicago lock box.

Q:

1) On payment, the USCIS site says that payment must be from U.S. financial institution. What forms of payment can overseas filers use?

2) Do I need to have domicile in the U.S. for filing I-130, or is this for the NVC phase?

3) I've previously filed a K3 in 2002, but I don't have the documentation or any information other than my divorced wife's name. She didn't take the interview and didn't enter the U.S. What kinds of information do I *need* to provide in order not to get an RFE? Any other filers have previous K3/I-130s when they've filed the I-130?

4) I've seen references here in the forums about 'forgetting to submit passport and/or birth certificate of *beneficiary*', but the guide says this is no longer needed. Anybody that has submitted an I-130 received an RFE because they didn't submit beneficiary's passport and/or birth certificate?

5) For assembling all of the documents, did you use separate tab sheets for separating the logical set of documents, or just stick a tab onto the first page of each copied document?

Thanks much for your help, very glad I found this site. Hope to send this package off soon. Will update my timeline.

-Drake

[DrakeSG 2]

Can anybody offer any help with these questions? Would like to get our I-130 out!

Guess the title doesn't excite like horror stories with USCIS and bar girl questions.

Thanks.

[Ryan H 3,941]

Q:

1) On payment, the USCIS site says that payment must be from U.S. financial institution. What forms of payment can overseas filers use?

2) Do I need to have domicile in the U.S. for filing I-130, or is this for the NVC phase?

3) I've previously filed a K3 in 2002, but I don't have the documentation or any information other than my divorced wife's name. She didn't take the interview and didn't enter the U.S. What kinds of information do I *need* to provide in order not to get an RFE? Any other filers have previous K3/I-130s when they've filed the I-130?

4) I've seen references here in the forums about 'forgetting to submit passport and/or birth certificate of *beneficiary*', but the guide says this is no longer needed. Anybody that has submitted an I-130 received an RFE because they didn't submit beneficiary's passport and/or birth certificate?

5) For assembling all of the documents, did you use separate tab sheets for separating the logical set of documents, or just stick a tab onto the first page of each copied document?

Answers:

1. If there is a US based bank that has a branch in Singapore, see if they will provide you with a cashier's check in US currency. Otherwise, a friend or a relative in the US will have to write the check (you will supply them with the funds to do so).

2. Domicile is dealt with at the NVC and Embassy phase

3. A Divorce certificate. Also, the I-130 asks if you have filed on behalf of others and what the result was, answer accordingly.

4. Beneficiary's birth certificate and passport is not required when submitting an I-130. I did not submit either when I filed for my wife and had no issues.

5. I didn't use any tabs. Instead, I put a coversheet in front of various evidence piles explaining what the pile was and clipped it together.

[Nick1980 11]

Answers:

1. If there is a US based bank that has a branch in Singapore, see if they will provide you with a cashier's check in US currency. Otherwise, a friend or a relative in the US will have to write the check (you will supply them with the funds to do so).

2. Domicile is dealt with at the NVC and Embassy phase

3. A Divorce certificate. Also, the I-130 asks if you have filed on behalf of others and what the result was, answer accordingly.

4. Beneficiary's birth certificate and passport is not required when submitting an I-130. I did not submit either when I filed for my wife and had no issues.

5. I didn't use any tabs. Instead, I put a coversheet in front of various evidence piles explaining what the pile was and clipped it together.

Couldn't have said it better if I tried

[DrakeSG 2]

Answers:

1. If there is a US based bank that has a branch in Singapore, see if they will provide you with a cashier's check in US currency. Otherwise, a friend or a relative in the US will have to write the check (you will supply them with the funds to do so).

2. Domicile is dealt with at the NVC and Embassy phase

3. A Divorce certificate. Also, the I-130 asks if you have filed on behalf of others and what the result was, answer accordingly.

4. Beneficiary's birth certificate and passport is not required when submitting an I-130. I did not submit either when I filed for my wife and had no issues.

5. I didn't use any tabs. Instead, I put a coversheet in front of various evidence piles explaining what the pile was and clipped it together.

Thanks - this is very valuable.

Going to be filing soon - I will create a timeline.