Some questions about the I129F petition process

[sanbot 5]

Hi All,

First of all this website has been an invaluable source of information. So thank you very much to the community!

My fiance (US Citizen) is currently living with me in Australia (I'm an Australian citizen) on a work and holiday visa. We have some questions about addresses:

1. On the I129F should she put her US address in the mailing address or her Australian address? She will be in Australia until August 2016 and we plan to send it off this month.

2. What address should be used on the other forms e.g. cover letter, supplements, letter of intent, G325a etc

3. We will be mailing the petition from Australia using Australian Express Post. Should it be sent to the Lewisville address?

Also have some miscellaneous questions:

1. We started communicating via eHarmony before meeting. I've read in most part that eHarmony is not an IMBRA could anyone who has actually met via eHarmony and has gone through the K1 process confirm this?

2. For my I129F pack I'm just using paper clips for each document/evidence and a bulldog clip to hold all of them together. For the photos (including the passport style photos) I'm just going to put them in a ziplock bag. I've followed the Cover Letter template on this website for the order in which I placed the documents. Is he way I'm doing this acceptable? I've read that other people get "fancy" and put tabs/dividers etc, is that necessary? How picky are USCIS about these things?

Thank you to anyone who can help!

[sanbot 5]

Anybody able to help out? Have I posted in the wrong section? We would like to mail it by next week and we would just like to make sure that we don't give any reason for the petition to be delayed.

[YecaCruz 374]

Hi, I'll answer what I can.

Hi All,

First of all this website has been an invaluable source of information. So thank you very much to the community!

My fiance (US Citizen) is currently living with me in Australia (I'm an Australian citizen) on a work and holiday visa. We have some questions about addresses:

1. On the I129F should she put her US address in the mailing address or her Australian address? She will be in Australia until August 2016 and we plan to send it off this month.

That's a great question. And I'm not sure on that....sorry

2. What address should be used on the other forms e.g. cover letter, supplements, letter of intent, G325a etc

I would say the US address. Can you put the mailing address of her parents or a sibling? I may be wrong as part of bringing someone over there is the requirement of establishing the ability to support the foreign fiancé. I think that the US Citizen has to have some kind of permanent address / an established domicile. Gov't wants to see that you'll have somewhere to live when you come, even if it's with mom and dad for a while...unless she has an address...then great!

3. We will be mailing the petition from Australia using Australian Express Post. Should it be sent to the Lewisville address?

Yes you would send it to the Texas lockbox address and they, in turn, will process your payment and send it away to one of the visa petition processing centers

Also have some miscellaneous questions:

1. We started communicating via eHarmony before meeting. I've read in most part that eHarmony is not an IMBRA could anyone who has actually met via eHarmony and has gone through the K1 process confirm this?

2. For my I129F pack I'm just using paper clips for each document/evidence and a bulldog clip to hold all of them together. For the photos (including the passport style photos) I'm just going to put them in a ziplock bag. I've followed the Cover Letter template on this website for the order in which I placed the documents. Is he way I'm doing this acceptable? I've read that other people get "fancy" and put tabs/dividers etc, is that necessary? How picky are USCIS about these things?

Yes that's acceptable. I did tabbies to help out the dude or dudette that was going to look at my file. Just helps with organization so he/she could flip to the section he/she wanted to look at is all but it is certainly not necessary.

Thank you to anyone who can help!

[baron555 934]

Hi All,

First of all this website has been an invaluable source of information. So thank you very much to the community!

My fiance (US Citizen) is currently living with me in Australia (I'm an Australian citizen) on a work and holiday visa. We have some questions about addresses:

1. On the I129F should she put her US address in the mailing address or her Australian address? She will be in Australia until August 2016 and we plan to send it off this month.

Really should use a US address in case USCIS needs to send something. They won't send abroad. But the US address should be monitored so the USC can be notified if something came in.

2. What address should be used on the other forms e.g. cover letter, supplements, letter of intent, G325a etc

I'd use the same.

3. We will be mailing the petition from Australia using Australian Express Post. Should it be sent to the Lewisville address?

Yep

Also have some miscellaneous questions:

1. We started communicating via eHarmony before meeting. I've read in most part that eHarmony is not an IMBRA could anyone who has actually met via eHarmony and has gone through the K1 process confirm this?

If you read the 129f instructions, USCIS defines an IMB as a site that coordinates social and information exchange. Other definitions include the wording if they charged you money to join, then they are an IMB. Listing your site as an IMB will not hurt your case. USCIS is being more stringent regarding this of recent times than in the past. There is a lot of unnecessary discussion about it (IMO) because it really is not a big deal to list them as one.

2. For my I129F pack I'm just using paper clips for each document/evidence and a bulldog clip to hold all of them together. For the photos (including the passport style photos) I'm just going to put them in a ziplock bag. I've followed the Cover Letter template on this website for the order in which I placed the documents. Is he way I'm doing this acceptable?

That's what I did.

I've read that other people get "fancy" and put tabs/dividers etc, is that necessary? How picky are USCIS about these things?

All this other fluff is just that. USCIS busts up your package and places them into their own folders, so extra stuff is just thrown away.

Thank you to anyone who can help!

[Pennycat 880]

Use a US address. USCIS won't send mail abroad. Parents, trusted friends etc (ideally, whatever address she could conceivably consider to be her "home" address or if she's lived there before). Note that this would be "mailing address". That can be different from "residence". Personally, I'd use the mailing address for the i-129f (which is what it asks for), and the residence addresses on the g-325a (which is what it asks for). You can even explain it in your cover letter (if you want to) but this won't be the first time they've seen it by a longshot.

There have been people getting RFEs for sites like eHarmony being an IMB. Not that that's a big deal (especially not with your timeframe) but save yourself the hassle and take care of it upfront. It's not a big deal either way.

All get sent to Lewisville by you, Lewisville routs to the service centers.

Doesn't really matter how you put it together, they do their own thing anyway. I used little sticky flags and paper clips because I couldn't *not*.

[sanbot 5]

Thanks for all the replies! We ended up using her parents address and kept everything the same. I've already sent the petition so I can't change the Imbra question to yes. Hopefully I won't have any rfe's for that our anything else ? the only reason why I was concerned about it was because the instructions ask for a written consent form that the beneficiary signed giving permission to release information. But I didn't sign anything like that when joining eHarmony especially since it was all done online. Or is that just referring to the acceptance of the terms and conditions?

[StrombergDery 0]

I'm just south of Sydney, almost up to my interview for K1 to move to Oregon.

If you have any more questions I'm happy to help. I've done a lot of research into this over the months.

You can pm me for my Email.

[sanbot 5]

Thanks strombergdery. I've sent you a PM.