USCIS FEE BEFORE DEPARTURE FOR USA

[ilsbird83 0]

My fiance has successfully gotten her visa and already gotten her visa packet and she will be traveling to the US very shortly. However, on the day of her interview she was given a white slip after her successful interview that was given to everyone there on that day which I will briefly quote below.

Dear Immigrant Visa Applicant,

You must submit the $165 payment online after receiving your visa package from the Department of State and before you depart for the United States. If you cannot pay, your petitioner can pay on our behalf via a credit/debit card number or bank account.

Visit https://elis.uscis.dhs.gov to learn more about the USCIS immigrant fee and to make your payment. For paying the fee you will need A number ( Alien Registration Number) you may find it on your US Visa or Data Summary Sheet attached with your visa packet.

Now first thing is Im confused that even though this is eventually a immigrant visa but its a K1 visa (fiance) so does this payment fee even apply to us. And secondly, my fiance when she got the packet from the local office there which are affiliated with the US embassy, the visa packet never had any data summary sheet or there is no sign of Alien number which we got throughout this process. I will call the local USCIS office here in the US to clarify but if someone can clarify that does this even apply to us since its a fiance visa and do we have to pay a fee and if yes where can i get the Alien number because through out this process, we never had any ALIEN number. Thank you.

[p-ana 933]

The fee doesn't apply for k1 visa holders.

[A'n'L 735]

No, the fee does not apply to you.

The alien(A) number will be both printed on the visa (in her passport) and also on the NOA2 letter.

[hamzaisha 7]

I was given the same document as well and it confused me as a K1. However it does not apply to K1 holders.