In describing your meeting...

[ellmoi 0]

is it okay to put in form that you have met tru online dating? how did one go about it? anyone can give me ideas please?

thank you - aix

[chivasgeo 0]

is it okay to put in form that you have met tru online dating? how did one go about it? anyone can give me ideas please?

thank you - aix

aix,

Shouldn't have a problem, might also want to include the website where you guys met. A LOT of people met via on-line dating. Good Luck.

[aussiewench 9]

For the purpose of the I-129F, they are not interested in you meeting online. Q.18 asks first if you have met in person in the 2 year required period. If you answer 'Yes' it goes on to ask you to describe how you met.

Meeting online has nothing to do with meeting in person, which is the requirement and purpose of that question.

Also read this thread http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4666

[ellmoi 0]

kool thx!

For the purpose of the I-129F, they are not interested in you meeting online. Q.18 asks first if you have met in person in the 2 year required period. If you answer 'Yes' it goes on to ask you to describe how you met.

Meeting online has nothing to do with meeting in person, which is the requirement and purpose of that question.

Also read this thread http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4666

[PorknBeanz 0]

Currently it makes no difference.

The International Marriage Broker Act of 2005, which was slated to start on March 6, 2006 requires a lot of extra disclosures if you met online and certain other factors apply. In part it requires that if you met through a third party, that party must take extra steps. You will be questioned about the company you used and if they followed the rules of the new law.

Fortunately, the law was challenged and a federal judge put a temporary injunction on it on March 3. A hearing was held on March 20 to determine the government's case, but the government attorney did not show up in court. This law might come back if the government figures out a valid reason to have such a law.

[aussiewench 9]

Currently it makes no difference.

The International Marriage Broker Act of 2005, which was slated to start on March 6, 2006 requires a lot of extra disclosures if you met online and certain other factors apply. In part it requires that if you met through a third party, that party must take extra steps. You will be questioned about the company you used and if they followed the rules of the new law.

Fortunately, the law was challenged and a federal judge put a temporary injunction on it on March 3. A hearing was held on March 20 to determine the government's case, but the government attorney did not show up in court. This law might come back if the government figures out a valid reason to have such a law.

How does that inpact on Q.18, in what is answered on the form itself? One must of met in person and that is what it asks. Initial meeting online would be left to put in a statement as an attachment to describe the events and meeting/s as it doesnt meet the requirement of what the question itself asks. IMO if one just put that they met online with no further details it wouldnt wash in most cases.

The IMBA in its current form, does not include those that met online through the likes of yahoo, msn, forums etc.....only through marriage broker sites. It may however effect in other ways.

[PorknBeanz 0]

Aussie, I agree the law doesn't affect the answer given in Q18. It would have affected what is discussed during the consulate interview about how the couple met. The law directs the CO to ask how the couple met. If the couple met through a dating service, the CO must ascertain if the service followed the law to facilitate the initial meeting. The law is unclear about what steps might be taken against the couple if the service did not follow the law.

[Ladylethal 12]

I understood from question 18 that describing the circumstances in which you met should include the way you met, if online, personally, etc. Even if in this part of the process they just want proof that you met in person in the past 2 years, I still think they´re looking for forming the story of the couple, from the beggining to date, to establish their relationship. They even mention that if you haven´t met, you need to describe how the relationship was established.

And since at the interview you´ll be asked all this again, you might as well be honest from the beggining, so they won´t say or think you´re contradicting yourself with what you stated on the I-129F petition and the interview.

[aussiewench 9]

I understood from question 18 that describing the circumstances in which you met should include the way you met, if online, personally, etc. Even if in this part of the process they just want proof that you met in person in the past 2 years, I still think they´re looking for forming the story of the couple, from the beggining to date, to establish their relationship. They even mention that if you haven´t met, you need to describe how the relationship was established.

And since at the interview you´ll be asked all this again, you might as well be honest from the beggining, so they won´t say or think you´re contradicting yourself with what you stated on the I-129F petition and the interview.

Oh no no no The reference to the not having met is extremely difficult to be granted.....and a waiver of the not having met in the required 2 year period has to be granted in order for the petition to be accepted and ultimately approved. The not having met section of that question has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with meeting online as is being discussed. Id give you a link to the USCIS site for the pages and pages of denied petitions many of which failed to establish that should be granted the waiver lol but you dont need it hahahaha You are reading too much into that question. You have either met in person and can prove that, which is a requirement....or have not met in person and face an uphill battle to have the petition approved. Simple

[Ladylethal 12]

Well, in order to establish my relationship I am saying we met online first, and then in person, even to state the reason my fiance ended up in Brasil in the first place.

I find it more honest to do things this way, instead of saying, oh, he happened to be in Brasil and we met. Easier explaining the truth, don´t you agree?

[aussiewench 9]

Well, in order to establish my relationship I am saying we met online first, and then in person, even to state the reason my fiance ended up in Brasil in the first place.

I find it more honest to do things this way, instead of saying, oh, he happened to be in Brasil and we met. Easier explaining the truth, don´t you agree?

Im not disagreeing with you at all when it comes to including having met online. I was disagreeing with you making that connection with the 'not having met yet' part of the question.

[Ladylethal 12]

Right, right. I do read deep into what they ask, ´cus ever since I started researching this visa application for my fiance I´ve had this feeling that this is tougher than any math tests I had to take in my life.

I keep trying to find tricky questions.

[john_and_marlene 162]

Anything submitted as part of your application to USCIS cannot later be used as grounds for a denial recommendation later by the consulate. If there is anything about your relationship that you think might be scrutinized at the consulate can be disarmed by including it somewhere in your original application. I think that a lengthy account of your relationship is one way of getting these details into your case. The consulate can only send your petition back with a denial recommendation based on information that wasn't available to the USCIS at the time the application was approved. Just because it does not specifically address the question directly, working addition information into the answer could possibly limit the discretion of the consulate in negative recommendation.

IMO, I would think those going through consulates in locations like Morocco (seem to be exercising a great deal of discretion) might address "red flag" type items in this statement as well.

[Ladylethal 12]

Are you saying it´s best if they ommit the fact they met through online dating?

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Are you saying it´s best if they ommit the fact they met through online dating?

Basically, HOW they met is not as important as THAT they met in person.