Questions about filling out some of the items on the I-129F application

[stephenhart 0]

Hello, everyone. I've been filling out the I129F form and I have a few questions about some of the items I was hoping you guys could help me with.

 

1) Do the personal statements and intent to marry letter have to have original signatures or can I have my fiancee scan them and email her signed copy to me?

2) I have read in the FAQs that for cases in which the beneficiary is from a latin country that I can just use one of her father's last name on the forms. However, there is a part where it asks to spell out her name in her native language/characters. Do I include both last names in this section? or Do I just, as described in the FAQs, explain in the cover letter that I will just be using her father's last name on the form?

3) Does anything have to be notarized?

4) I noticed that in the example form, some things are in all caps and others are not. Is there something specific such as names that should be in all caps?

5) My fiancees address has words that cannot really be translated to English and it is a pretty long address to type; therefore, it cannot fit. Should I just write it as is and translate what can actually be translated?

6) There are also no provinces in Honduras, which is where she resides, but there are departments. Should I put the department name instead?

7) In the section where it asks for my citizenship information, I'm assuming that it is only referring to U.S. citizenship. I am also a naturalized Honduran citizen. Does that info need to be included in this section?

8) My fiancee has dual citizenship from Costa Rica and Honduras and I from U.S. and Honduras. Do I have to submit proof of that in the application?

9) I don't have any contact with my father so I have no idea where he is residing. I just put unkown where it says place of residence. Is that okay?

10) My fiancee has had various jobs over the last 5 years in Honduras. They were just jobs here and there in places they hired her as favors but none of them had any type of actual contract. I don't know if they're even worth writing down. She's been a college student that's why she hasn't really had a serious job. She was also in Spain for a year living illegally and she had a job over there for close to a year but nothing was every really documented. She was never penalized or charged a fine when she left Spain to go back to Honduras. No one ever told her anything in immigration at all and doesn't even have the same passport. That was back in 2012 until 2013. Since she she never had issues with immigration and didn't even have to pay a fine, I don't know if I should mention this on the application at all. 

 

Thank you guys

[geowrian 22,339]

1. The beneficiary can print, sign, scan, and send it to you to print. The petitioner's signature should be a wet signature still.
2. Defer. The name used on the form should be her current legal name, but I don't want to misspeak as to how this applies for every nationality / naming convention.
3. For the I-129F, no. The I-129F is signed under threat of perjury. The embassy may require notarized documents for the interview, but this varies from embassy to embassy...follow the embassy's instructions when you get to that stage.
4. It doesn't really matter so long as it's readable. ALL CAPS is generally easier to read on forms IMO, but I'm confident others have done otherwise without issue.
5. Defer.
6. Defer.
7. I'm assuming you are referring to Part 1, #40-42c. Yes, this is referring only to US citizenship.
8. No.
9. Correct.
10. All past jobs must be listed, even if they were not authorized. There's no penalty for US immigration for her having worked illegally elsewhere, but there is for misrepresentation (assuming it is found to be willful and material). Either way, the legal path is to list everything.

[bakphx1 791]

On 10/2/2017 at 11:05 AM, avensteph said:

Hello, everyone. I've been filling out the I129F form and I have a few questions about some of the items I was hoping you guys could help me with.

 

1) Do the personal statements and intent to marry letter have to have original signatures or can I have my fiancee scan them and email her signed copy to me?

2) I have read in the FAQs that for cases in which the beneficiary is from a latin country that I can just use one of her father's last name on the forms. However, there is a part where it asks to spell out her name in her native language/characters. Do I include both last names in this section? or Do I just, as described in the FAQs, explain in the cover letter that I will just be using her father's last name on the form?

3) Does anything have to be notarized?

4) I noticed that in the example form, some things are in all caps and others are not. Is there something specific such as names that should be in all caps?

5) My fiancees address has words that cannot really be translated to English and it is a pretty long address to type; therefore, it cannot fit. Should I just write it as is and translate what can actually be translated?

6) There are also no provinces in Honduras, which is where she resides, but there are departments. Should I put the department name instead?

7) In the section where it asks for my citizenship information, I'm assuming that it is only referring to U.S. citizenship. I am also a naturalized Honduran citizen. Does that info need to be included in this section?

8) My fiancee has dual citizenship from Costa Rica and Honduras and I from U.S. and Honduras. Do I have to submit proof of that in the application?

9) I don't have any contact with my father so I have no idea where he is residing. I just put unkown where it says place of residence. Is that okay?

10) My fiancee has had various jobs over the last 5 years in Honduras. They were just jobs here and there in places they hired her as favors but none of them had any type of actual contract. I don't know if they're even worth writing down. She's been a college student that's why she hasn't really had a serious job. She was also in Spain for a year living illegally and she had a job over there for close to a year but nothing was every really documented. She was never penalized or charged a fine when she left Spain to go back to Honduras. No one ever told her anything in immigration at all and doesn't even have the same passport. That was back in 2012 until 2013. Since she she never had issues with immigration and didn't even have to pay a fine, I don't know if I should mention this on the application at all. 

 

Thank you guys

Use the same street names as they appear.  Don't translate them. 

 

Use the departmento. 

 

Normally, if you are a US citizen, the others aren't asked for.  I would leave that as you are only working with your US citizenship for visa purposes.  

 

I'll defer on some not already answered.  But be aware you need police clearances from everywhere she's lived since 16 years old. 

[bakphx1 791]

On my husband's G325A, I used his father's first last name only as family name.  I wrote all four names under "other names used".  It later asks for mother's maiden name.  But I understood family name to be the father's last name. 

[bakphx1 791]

On my husband's G325A, I used his father's first last name only as family name.  I wrote all four names under "other names used".  It later asks for mother's maiden name.  But I understood family name to be the father's last name. 

 

Edit:  I got curious.  I only used his father's last name on forms, likewise their correspondence to him, but the visa has both. 

[stephenhart 0]

Thanks for the help. I have another question, our chats and messages are in Spanish and I understand everything must be submitted in English. Do I have to have those thigs translated so I can submit them as proof of the relationship?

[bakphx1 791]

On 10/4/2017 at 3:23 AM, avensteph said:

Thanks for the help. I have another question, our chats and messages are in Spanish and I understand everything must be submitted in English. Do I have to have those thigs translated so I can submit them as proof of the relationship?

Sorry for the late reply.  I didn't see this question....if you reply without quoting, the person doesn't get a notice of a new question.  

 

The chats don't need to be translated (hoping you didn't do that already!).  They are only interested in seeing the frequency of communication as opposed to the content.   In printing Messenger, that required paying attention to printing out the person's name and date, as it in the middle of a conversation it didn't have that.  WhatsApp had a much better format for this purpose.

[LLNCE NIKOLOVA 34]

3 hours ago, bakphx1@aol.com said:

Sorry for the late reply.  I didn't see this question....if you reply without quoting, the person doesn't get a notice of a new question.  

 

The chats don't need to be translated (hoping you didn't do that already!).  They are only interested in seeing the frequency of communication as opposed to the content.   In printing Messenger, that required paying attention to printing out the person's name and date, as it in the middle of a conversation it didn't have that.  WhatsApp had a much better format for this purpose.

I have a questions in regards to this. We are working on our application now - I am in Bulgaria and my boyfriend / fiancé to be soon  is in The States. So... I read somewhere that for now we do not need all chat conversations and will be good to use them for the interview?! Is this correct? We are now just preparing pictures we have together, thickets from all round Europe ... 
Also do you think hm being here for my interview (eventually) will increase our chances? 

 

THANK YOU! 

[bakphx1 791]

11 hours ago, LLNCE NIKOLOVA said:

I have a questions in regards to this. We are working on our application now - I am in Bulgaria and my boyfriend / fiancé to be soon  is in The States. So... I read somewhere that for now we do not need all chat conversations and will be good to use them for the interview?! Is this correct? We are now just preparing pictures we have together, thickets from all round Europe ... 
Also do you think hm being here for my interview (eventually) will increase our chances? 

 

THANK YOU! 

You don't need all chats.  Just a sample.  For many people that could add up to many, many pages.  I printed one or two pages from one day a month to show that there was regular contact.  That along with tickets, as you are doing.   I sent those in with my I130 application, but no one requested them at the interview, though the email told me to bring chats/emails.   In the interview, they only looked at pictures, but I have read in others that they did look at chats and other info.  There's no answer here that applies to everyone, but bring everything you can, just in case.  

 

I went for my husband's interview, I think it was good for moral support, a chance to see him,  and it was helpful to get through the interview (I could recall some things a little faster than he could, though the interview was pretty short), but in the end, I can't say if the outcome changed because I was there.  I think he would have been approved anyway, but it's several hours of sitting there nervous, and it helped that he wasn't alone.  If you can go, I would go, but not if it's a burden cost or timewise. 

 

 

 

 

[Sav&Har 142]

One question that arose reading this thread, and sorry for jihacking your post OP, but it might concern something related to you as well. While is totally fine to send an scanned copy. In my case I found a way to mail the letter of intent to my fiance in the US, the original letter. Is there any issue if there is a discrepancy in the dates of the letter?. For instance, mine (beneficiary) will be dated, printed, signed and mailed to the US a few weeks before my fiance send the K1 packet to USCIS, so her letter will be dated closer to the filing date. Or should it we both date and sign it the same day?