DS-160 with k-1 visa

[Raven22 0]

Do I need to fill out a DS-160 after I send my petition for I-129F...I'm so confused. please help! xx

[Leeds333 1]

Hello!

No your first need to field and send your petition, then once its approved and sent to the US embassy in London you will receive a letter that will explain to you what you have to do next, and this is when you will need to field the DS 160.

(I just have my fiancee visa thats whats happen to me)

Edited January 30, 2015 by Leeds333

[Girl from Celebes 588]

Do I need to fill out a DS-160 after I send my petition for I-129F...I'm so confused. please help! xx

DS-160 form is only needed AFTER I-129F is approved. Now you will have to do is learn the next steps, ask people who have been through this from your beneficiary country. It will help you a lot. Good luck.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Do I need to fill out a DS-160 after I send my petition for I-129F...I'm so confused. please help! xx

Let me give you the summary version of the process since you asked in the other thread and seem interested in the bird's eye view. Times are so variable there is no point in estimating. Odd slowdowns and hitches can happen along the way, but Visa Journey can help you figure it out. You have to complete each step before you can go to the next one, but that doesn't mean you can't prepare while you wait to get to the next step.

1. Fiancé petition filed by the American (petitioner) with USCIS. Gets assigned to a Service Center. You get a USCIS case number. Gets approved. Petitioner gets snail mail copy of approval. This stage just means you and fiancé have met the requirements for the Brit (beneficiary) to apply for a visa.

2. Service Center sends whole file to National Visa Center (NVC). This is a handoff to the Dept of State (new government agency). They assign a new case number because you are no longer with USCIS. Your case number will be LNDxxxxxxxxx because it's going to London (LND). NVC will notify petitioner once the file leaves there. Slow to notify usually.

3. NVC sends whole file to London. Each consulate is different so don't read what other countries do. Yours will be different.

4. London. This whole stage is about the beneficiary who gets a letter when London is ready for him/her to apply for the visa. The visa application is DS-160 which is an online application. Gather documents. Get medical exam in London. (You pick date). Wait for London to assign your interview date and time. (You don't pick date). Attend interview. Wait for passport with visa to be delivered by courier.

5. Travel to US before the visa expires. It expires 6 months from your medical date (not interview). You are given 90 day entry in which you are to marry. Your visa is over at entry no matter when it expires because it is a one use visa.

6. Get married and beneficiary files for Permanent Residency (greencard) so you can remain in the US. That is called Adjustment of Status (AOS). Apply for a work permit (EAD) and travel permit (AP). Free if filed with AOS.

7. You may have an AOS interview or you may get approved for a greencard without an interview. Greencard will expire in two years from issue date.

8. Before your greencard expires, you apply for removal of conditions (ROC). Form I-751. They won't accept the application more than 90 days before your greencard expires. You send LOTS of evidence to show you are still married, have joint accounts, and live together at the same residence. Evidence has to cover two years of dates so save things from your marriage date forward. Interviews are extremely rare. Approval gets you a 10 year greencard.

9. If beneficiary remains married to petitioner, then 3 years from first greencard issue date, he is eligible to apply for US citizenship. They won't accept the application more than 90 days before your eligibility date. N-400 application and documentation showing still married to the petitioner. Interview. Citizenship test. Attend naturalization ceremony where you get a certificate saying you are US citizen. Go get a US passport. Good news is you get to keep British passport and remain British as well.

(If beneficiary does not remain married to petitioner, wait five years from first greencard issue date to be eligible for citizenship). If you don't want to be a US citizen, then renew the 10 year green before it expires

Edited January 30, 2015 by Nich-Nick

[Pheebs1201 269]

I would recommend reading both the K1 guides and the guide in the United Kingdom regional forum which is specific to the London embassy.

The DS-160 is completed prior to the interview, upon the embassy's receipt of your approved petition from USCIS via NVC.

Welcome and good luck.

[Zedayn 485]

Do I need to fill out a DS-160 after I send my petition for I-129F...I'm so confused. please help! xx

You need to wait for approval of the I-129F.

[Raven22 0]

Thanks for the help(: I appreciate every answer! Nich-Nick, thank you for the list! That is what I have been needing!(:

Edited January 30, 2015 by Raven22