Getting ready for Interview / Trip to VN June

[AustinJohn 2]

Hello VJers,

I'm getting ready for my second trip to VN to see my fiancee. This time I'm taking my 9-year old daughter with me so that she can meet her future step mom.

While I'm there, I plan on preparing my fiancee as much as I can for her interview (K1 visa). We don't have interview date yet. We got NOA-2 May 2nd. We're also having a marriage ceremony on June 9th. I'm staying in VN for 3 weeks.

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So, in preparation for the interview, right now, she has the following 3 items:

+ engagement ceremony pictures

+ receipt for engagement ring and earrings

+ letters that I've sent to her over the past 5 months ( ~15 letters and cards )

When I go to VN in June, I plan on taking the following items to her:

+ copy of original I-129 petition (including engagement pictures and video of engagement ceremony 12/06)

+ I-134 affidavit of support form, notarized and with evidence ( tax transcripts, bank and employer letters )

+ screenshots and logs of our weekly Yahoo IM meeting from January to May ( we don't do emails )

+ phone records (to/from) for December 06 - May 07

+ originals of Western Union receipts

+ all immigration information and proof of citizenship of her cousin who lives in U.S. and introduced us to each other

+ receipt for wedding dress which my mother (her future mother-in-law) picked out and payed for and then shipped to me

While I'm there or after I get back, I'll add:

+ pictures and video of our wedding ceremony June 9th

+ copy of my plane boarding passes for June trip

+ copies of stamped visas for me and my daughter

+ dated pictures with my daughter, fiancee, and me

+ 5 minute video of my fiancee and me speaking our Viet/Anh lingo or maybe just me speaking my limited/borderline functional Vietnamese

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I'm trying to give my fiancee everything that I can possibly dream that they might ask of her.

Any VJer's have any advice on further evidence that I can provide for her? I'm really trying to maximize preparation. I plan on going over all of this with her when I am with her for the three weeks in June.

Thanks,

John

Edited May 21, 2007 by AustinJohn

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While you're at it how about a guest list? Or have everyone sign a guest book? Include the vendors and try getting their business card. It would be much easier now than to wait untill after the ceromonial wedding is over. Take a couple of pictures of how many people are attending it. If you can, save the memory card off your digital camera ( I did from our engagement). My guest list for our engagement was over 300+ people. I'm sure it'll make a good impression on the CO. This is most likely more than needed but it's better to have the CO ask about the engagement/wedding ceromonial than other questions. Good luck and have a great time!

[AustinJohn 2]

While you're at it how about a guest list? Or have everyone sign a guest book? Include the vendors and try getting their business card. It would be much easier now than to wait untill after the ceromonial wedding is over. Take a couple of pictures of how many people are attending it. If you can, save the memory card off your digital camera ( I did from our engagement). My guest list for our engagement was over 300+ people. I'm sure it'll make a good impression on the CO. This is most likely more than needed but it's better to have the CO ask about the engagement/wedding ceromonial than other questions. Good luck and have a great time!

Thanks for the input. A guest sign-in book is a good idea. I'm not sure how that will go over but I'll check into it.

I'm actually not positive my daughter is going. She needs a passport and passport agencies are completely overwhelmed. A rep told me today that they are not even responding to internal dept of state emails. By the way, her application has been in for 12 weeks.

John