US Immigration from Canada

We are in the process of filling out the form and just wanted some clarification.

For part 2 item 38a.- 38h. does this need to be filled out if I (the beneficiary) am not currently in the United States? I was there a few days ago but have since returned to Canada.

I see that the form says:

"If your beneficiary is currently in the United States, complete Item Numbers 38a. - 38h."

However, when I look at the instructions provided on how to fill it out it says:

"Item Numbers 37. - 38.h. Form I-94 Arrival-Departure Record. Select the box to indicate whether your beneficiary has ever been in the United States. Provide the date of your beneficiary s most recent entry in the United States, his or her I-94 Arrival-Departure Record Number, if available, and his or her immigration status at the time of arrival (for example, student, tourist, temporary worker, without inspection). Provide the expiration date and identification numbers on the I-94 or I-95 Arrival-Departure Records, travel documents, and or passports."

Just finding it a little bit unclear if I still have to fill that section out.

Please advise.

Thank you!

I am a Canadian citizen engaged to a US citizen. I am currently in the US as a visitor (no visa as Canadians don't need a visa to enter typically). Can my fiance and I start the application while I am here and will I be able to stay the 180 days Canadians are usually allowed while the process starts? I see on the application it asks about a I-94 record number. Do I need something like that if I want to start the process while visiting. I have been searching online for answers and everything is really unclear. If anyone has first hand experience or knows for certain please let me know. Thanks in advance!

So I'm definitely not like most lol - I filed for the K1 Visa in August of this year.
For background, I am the petitioner - Male, I filed for my beneficiary in Canada - female.

Now for the odd-ball situation I'm in. My parents never married, they are still together (I believe they filed Domestic Partnership). I have my mother's last name and not my father's.
I have been wanting to do a last name change to match that of my father's plus my wife-to-be wishes to have this last name also.

Now, for the question you may not have the answer too.
I, the male - should I initiate the court proceedings now to get a legal last name change or should I wait until after the K1 is approved, get married and do a name change and my wife would also have to do the same - essentially a not so "bang for a buck" idea haha.
Really what I'm trying to figure out, is if I can do a last name change now and send the documents to USCIS as an "update" to my name.

• I am in California so I cannot put my father's last name on a marriage certificate because... California doesn't allow it cause I'm not "associated" even though my birth certificate says otherwise but hey! whatever, its the gov't lol. I wish I knew this sooner cause I would've updated it prior to filing...

Is there possibly a way to reach out and find this information out from USCIS? I have tried googling but unfortunately I'm the minority here ... since I'm a guy...

tl;dr - male petitioner wants to change last name but already filed K1, can I do court proceedings to change legal last name or should I wait?

I don't want the K1 Visa to be null and void for something that I see as submitting as a simple update/supplement.

I reside in Alberta and I think we made a mistake on our I-129F but wanted to ask you guys here what your thoughts are.

We put Montreal as our consulate because I thought I read that Vancouver no longer processes K1 visas. Looking at it again, I see it says they no longer process K3 visas.

Did I make a mistake, should we have put Vancouver?

If yes, is there a way to change it?

Truthfully I'm just looking at cutting down processing time where I can (but let's be real, I can't haha). I would prefer Vancouver because of the flight and I'd have a place to stay with family, but at this point I'm not going to sweat it too much.

Thank you for your time.

Hello,

I am the beneficiary from Canada and my partner (petitioner) is in the US. We are June 2022 filers and received our NOA1 on June 3rd, 2022. Our payment was already cashed.

My question is - we filled out question 38 on the i-129f regarding the i-94 even though I had LEFT the United States when my partner filed our petition. We did this because we followed the instructions packet very closely, in which it stated to provide the date of the most recent i-94. We must have missed the actual sentence on the form that said to fill it out if the beneficiary was currently in the US.

I have been looking at many, many different posts and have come across how others have had the same issue and were also confused by this. My question is, has anyone been accepted by providing the i94 despite the beneficiary not being in the US? Will this cause a major problem?