Petition packet-Folder or just clips?

[FrozenGlitter 1]

I'm finally mailing this on Friday or Saturday, after a forever wait! Just wondering if the whole I 129f packet needs to be in a folder before going in the envelope, or if it, once clipped together, can just go directly in the envelope?

I'm sending it priority mail with return reciept...is this a good method, or should I do anything else?

Hopefully I'll be in the home stretch of this now, who would have thought that the BEGINNING of the visa process would be the home stretch?

[clairegie 265]

Doesn't matter what you put it in as long as the packet stays together & protected until it reaches the USCIS mail room. When they get it, the petition gets removed from your folder and placed into USCIC's own file folders anyway.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

I have used priority mail for 4 submissions successfully. Only the first had return receipt. My little green card (return receipt) must have gone on holiday somewhere because it didn't come back to me for a couple of months. Waste of money really. I think I got NOA2 before the receipt postcard.. The delivery confirmation is enough to let you know it arrived.

For all of mine I put the applications in an old file folder. I mean really old, label torn off, marked on. The only purpose was to squash the loose papers together so the would feed down into the light cardboard (kinda flat) Priority Mail envelope easily. Nothing was bound and the folder was trash they could discard.

Edited September 12, 2013 by Nich-Nick