My I-129F Checklist Prior to Mailing Petition

[Rick&Maeve 8]

My Checklist

1. Payment in the amount of $340 Cashiers Check to US Department of Homeland Security

2. I-129F Signed and Dated

3. I-129F Supplement: Part B, Question 34a, explanation of meeting in person (300 words)

4. G-325A signed & dated w/ 2 passport style photos for Petitioner

5. G-325A signed & dated w/ 2 passport style photos for Beneficiary

6. US Passport of Beneficiary

7. Complete Copy of Exemplified Divorce File

8. Letters Certifying Intent to Marry signed & dated from Petitioner (male)

?. Letters Certifying Intent to Marry signed & dated from "Fiance" (I hope this is the right title?)

9. Proof of having met in person in the past two years

a. Copies of Airline Boarding Passes

b. Copies of Passport Stamps

c. Bank Statements indicating ATM withdrawals during visit

d. Hotel Receipts

e. Copies of Flight Itineraries

f. Tour Itinerary & receipt for purchase of trip

g. 24 Color Photos w/Time Stamps & Names & locations on back

10. Proof of ongoing relationship

a. AT&T cell phone bill highlighting calls to Beneficiary

b. 28 Screen Shots of Skype,Yahoo Messenger & Google Talk conversations throughout the course of our relationship

c. Tango Screen Shot of video call & most current call record

d. 1 Screen shot of emails sent between petitioner and beneficiary throughout the course of the relationship

e. 1 Chat conversation from Google Chat discussing our feelings towards each other

f. 6 Print outs of emails sent between petitioner and beneficiary

I'm assembling everything using self adhesive Acco fasteners attached to durable plastic dividers designating each section and placing all the items inside a 1" sealable envelope, pictures and money order all placed in sealable ziplock bags. Items purchased at FedEx Kinkos.

I'm mailing it today via Fed-Ex to:

USCIS

Attn: I-129F
2501 South State Highway 121 Business
Suite 400

Lewisville, TX 75067

I'm assuming I did everything according to the VJ guidelines. Thanks VJ for helping an intimidating process not so intimidating! If I'm missing anything please let me know.

[Marife and Tony 2]

Almost the same as ours and we got NOA2 in 30 days. I only put one passport photo for each of the G-325a. I only scanned the picture page and the pages with stamps from my passport. I didn't put nearly as many screenshots of chats. I gave one or two examples of each, including my phone bill. I'm not sure if it was needed, but I did send a copy of my birth certificate. Good luck to both of you.

[Girl from Celebes 588]

My Checklist

1. Payment in the amount of $340 Cashiers Check to US Department of Homeland Security

2. I-129F Signed and Dated

3. I-129F Supplement: Part B, Question 34a, explanation of meeting in person (300 words)

4. G-325A signed & dated w/ 2 passport style photos for Petitioner

5. G-325A signed & dated w/ 2 passport style photos for Beneficiary

6. US Passport of Beneficiary

7. Complete Copy of Exemplified Divorce File

8. Letters Certifying Intent to Marry signed & dated from Petitioner (male)

?. Letters Certifying Intent to Marry signed & dated from "Fiance" (I hope this is the right title?)

9. Proof of having met in person in the past two years

a. Copies of Airline Boarding Passes

b. Copies of Passport Stamps

c. Bank Statements indicating ATM withdrawals during visit

d. Hotel Receipts

e. Copies of Flight Itineraries

f. Tour Itinerary & receipt for purchase of trip

g. 24 Color Photos w/Time Stamps & Names & locations on back

10. Proof of ongoing relationship

a. AT&T cell phone bill highlighting calls to Beneficiary

b. 28 Screen Shots of Skype,Yahoo Messenger & Google Talk conversations throughout the course of our relationship

c. Tango Screen Shot of video call & most current call record

d. 1 Screen shot of emails sent between petitioner and beneficiary throughout the course of the relationship

e. 1 Chat conversation from Google Chat discussing our feelings towards each other

f. 6 Print outs of emails sent between petitioner and beneficiary

I'm assembling everything using self adhesive Acco fasteners attached to durable plastic dividers designating each section and placing all the items inside a 1" sealable envelope, pictures and money order all placed in sealable ziplock bags. Items purchased at FedEx Kinkos.

I'm mailing it today via Fed-Ex to:

USCIS

Attn: I-129F

2501 South State Highway 121 Business

Suite 400

Lewisville, TX 75067

I'm assuming I did everything according to the VJ guidelines. Thanks VJ for helping an intimidating process not so intimidating! If I'm missing anything please let me know.

Wow, you have a lot supporting documents ensemble into I-129F more than what my fiance and I had prepared. Good luck. You're good to go, guys!

[TBoneTX 48,104]

OP, have you reviewed "Embassy Info" and "Reviews: Embassy" (links atop any VJ page) for Accra? Have you scoured the information in the Africa: Sub-Saharan regional forum for insights into Accra? All three should guide you on how to front-load your petition for dealing with Accra later.

[clairegie 265]

The only thing I would add is it would be beneficial to send a G-1145 too so your fiance gets notified as soon as USCIS receives your petition. It's not required, but I think you would want to know that your petition got there safely

Edited October 21, 2013 by iammrsregi

[gedaa86 5]

US Passport?? hope that's not the actual passport, photocopy is what they need. Also make a cover letter explaining what's in the package.

Good luck

[Rick&Maeve 8]

TBONETX I have read many of your posts regarding frontloading & took a lot of my direction from them. I have the G1145 attached with my $340 cashier check from my bank. Everything I'm mailing is copies of originals. At Kinkos now about to send it off! Thanks again VJ, and now on to the fun part, the wait