lovepath

Leandro, please follow the guides on this website carefully. Do exactly as the guides tell you. Although you do not NEED "evidence of a continued relationship" for the 129F petition approval, it is RECOMMENDED that you do send the evidence of relationship with your initial petition. USCIS might not even look at that evidence, and will not use it for approval of the petition (all they care about is that you have proof that you 2 met in person in the past 2 years), BUT they WILL SEND IT TO THE EMBASSY (this is a good thing).

You see, approval of the 129F petition is simple...pretty automatic actually...as long as you fill the forms correctlly and give them evidence that you 2 met in person in the past 2 years. THE HARD PART is THE EMBASSY...this is where you REALLY need to proove that you have a STRONG CONTINUOUS relationship with your loved one. So it is a good idea to have some of your relationship eveidence at the embassy before your interview.

For the 129F petition:

All you need is to prove that you met each other once in the past 2 years. For this you will need PRIMARY evidence of this which is copies (keep the originals with you) of your passport entry/exit stamps and departure/return airline Bording Pass. SECONDARY evidence would include, any pictures, iteneraries and reciepts you had there in Brazil. These secondary evidence is no substitute for the primary evidence. You have to send the prinmary evidence.

For the Visa application itself (Embassy stage):

You need to prove that you have a continued strong relationship. For this you will need anything that shows you two are continually communicating. That evidence should be samples that span the length of your entire relationship. These sample can include for example:

-Pics together or together with family (much stronger)

-Emails, letters, post-cards

-Telephone logs

-Chat, yahoo, msn, skye logs...(all waht you have mentioned above)

Yes you can send screen shots.

As to your question "should I send it along with the I-129f or only need it in the interview?"

As stated above, you do not need to send evidence of continued relationship for approval of the 129F petition...BUT...I strongly reccommend that you do send it with the petition. This way the CO at the embassy will have evidence of your continued relationship before your interview there, which usually will make the interview at the embassy quicker and easier.

Good Luck!

Good evening Visa Journey members. My name is Rebecca. My fiance Taha lives in Morocco and this week we have begun our journey. I cannot explain how helpful this site has been just in preparing our packet to send out. I dont think ive read so much since being in school but it was well worth it and while we havnt even begun to hit the tip of the iceburg yet with this process i am so thankful to anybody and everybody who has wrote something that has made this just a tad more understandable. I felt so overwhelmed at first when reading it all that i considered hiring an immigration attorney to help me with it and thats not to say that somebody shouldn't, but the more i read and started to understand the better i felt about trying to tackle it on our own. I am sure that this site will become a great source of reliable information and help to us in the upcoming months. Thanks again

-Rebecca & Taha

Hello Rebecca and Taha! Welcome guys. Good Luck to you guys...as a dude who thankfully just finished this loooooooooooooong process...will be more than happy to help with any questions you guys might have.

Plenty of people get married in Vegas. I don't think they'll see it as odd. Just don't book your Vegas trip until you have visa in hand.

Squeaky, you have not heard? I thought you are the "mother" of the MENA forum!

They say M&M candy "melt in your months and not in your hand"...but when we got it "in hand" we were the ones that literaly melted.

Squeaky, thank you(truely)for providing the MENA forum with valuble information. Best wishes to you.

Thanks guys/gals!!! However, I do not know if I can resist dressing like Elvis....that is just asking toooo much!

Thanks again!

So we are planning to get married in Las Vegas...which is almost 2000 miles away from our home State.

Is this a good idea? Is there a "stigma" attached to marrying in Las Vegas?

We live in NY. Will we encounter issues when applying for AOS because we did not marry in our home state and married in Vegas?

We could marry here in our home state, but we figured that marrying in Vegas whould me more fun!

Thanks

No expedite for pregnancy or having a baby sorry. If they did this, EVERYONE would get pregnant and rush over to the US.

But it would be so CUTE...There will BABIES all over the place!!!!

Indian / punjabi Basmati rice is the best!!! Too bad I cannot eat rice since I am dieting.

Yummmmmmmmmmmmmy!

Pictures together and together with family members are what you need. Solo pics, or solo pics with family, are not very helpful. Pics together with family carry lots of weight. The most important thing is that the pics should span as much as your relationship period as possible (their date is kinda important) since they are a proof of a "continuing relationship".

At the embassy stage it is all about proving that there is a good/strong "continuing relationship", so the dates of the evidence you present (pics, emails, letters...)is waht is important.

Having said that, applying for the 129F petition (USCIS) is different than appying for the visa it self (embassy stage). A petition approval is not a visa approval. Whan applying for the 129f petition, all you really need for approval is just to proove that you have met once in the past 2 years. But when applying for the visa it self at the embassy satge, you need much more evidence to proove a "continued relationship" to get approval of the visa. But it does not hurt, in fact it is good, to "front load" your petition at the early stage.

Good Luck

I myself was once an Immigrant, before becoming a US Citizen. When I was in the "old country" my view of "America" was what you see in Hollywood movies...New York, New York...Los Angelos...Las Vegas...Miami...with all the romance and adventure. In reality though, "America" is not just New York City or LA. Most of America consists of small simple little towns and villages, most of which do not have an International population or "foreingers". Due to my work, I am currently living in a very small rural town, a village actually, very far away from the "romance" of NYC or LA. I am not sure how my fiancee, who will soon come to live with me in this little village, will feel coming from a big city herself.

Do you live in a small rural town with no International population? How did your loved one adjust to this?

Also if I didn't want to go through with this process, how do you start the process to get married to our fiance in their country? I don't even know where to look from there.

Thank You

Well, are you guys planning to live in Mexico or in the USA after you get married? You see, if you are planning to live in the USA, then "not going through this process" does not apply because it is relatively speaking the same process with almost the same amout of time! One is a K-1 visa, the other is a CR1 visa. They take almost the same time, and equally demanding. Although I think the K-1 process is simpler...but that is not always the case. Now if you are planning to live in Mexico, that is a different story.

Good Luck.

My friend, all of us here who started this process months ago where in the same boat...comfused and overwhelmed. But, if you follow the guides carefully, and do what they tell you to do, in the order they tell you to do it, it will work. For example, if it tells you put your picture in a clear plastic envelope and lable it, do that. For the Affidavit of Marriage...simply follow the example. Very simple really. It works! I was in the same boat 9 months ago...and we are now done!

Best of Luck in this long journey!

Well not literally. But men and women do have differences, in general. I think women are much more complex, emotionally than men. i think men are pretty "straight forward". But again, I am not a woman, so I really do not know.

Yes. I was confused because the OP said "without marriage consummation". There is a difference between marriage consumation and a married couple living together. They are two seperate things. The couple do not have to be living together for their marriage to be consummated. The marriage can still be consummated and the married couple might not be living together yet. Marriage consummation simply means that the marriage is "official" (not simply legal) in the eyes of society. Marriage consummation does not mean that the couple are living together.....Right?

Good Luck and best wishes.

We simply put that we were together for honeymoon during that two weeks time at the same address... but we did clarify it was honeymoon only...

Salam,

Correct me if I am wrong, but if a married couple were together for honeymoon then the marriage is, by definition, is offically consummated. Marriage consumation being...the night of first intercourse after marriage...or as is called in arabic "el dokhla".

A marriage can be legally official if two people just file the paperwork and get the marriage certificate...but for all other purposes, and in the eyes of society and most religions, a couple are not "really married" or their marriage "Consummated" if they have not had intercourse after their legal marriage.

Good Luck.

Are you in the USA or are you in Mexico...your post is very confusing because it is not clear if you are the US citizen or are you in Mexico.

It is VERY EASY to cancel the process. BUT are to 100000000% Million percent sure this is for sure what you want? We all go through bad times in relationships, that is normal but if arguments become CONSTANT withn a CONTINUING pattern, then it is a problem. Is this the case. Have you had time to talk...I mean TALK..heart to heart. You see, stoping the fiance visa process is very easy...but starting it agian is VERY difficult and time consuming, so you really need to be sure if the relationship will not work before you do anything impulsive.

Good luck.

I feel your frustration. Did they aknowledge the receipt of your RFE? 8 weeks is a long time after responding to a RFE, but again this is the VSC (which is usually very slow), and it is summer time (usually very busy time of the year). But as long as they aknowledged that they have received you RFE responce, then your are on the right track, and hopefully will get the NOA-2 very soon. I would aslo call and make a service request if you have not done that already.

Best wishes.

Dear MENA family,

I was wondering if any of you lovely gals (or guys ) know what is accepted as proof of marriage in Morooco, if you are married in the U.S.? Would just a simple Marriage Certificate do? or would they need an Apostille? Do they need any other proof?

You see, I am originally a MENA dude, and knowing how strict and up-tight the people in Morocco are when it come to a couple staying in a hotel room together, I do not want them to give me a hard time everytime my soon-to-be wife and I go to stay in a hotel room together. I know they usually do not give a hard time to American/European couple, but if both of the couple are from a MENA origin, then they usually ask for a proof of marriage. When I was there the last time, I stayed at a 5 star hotel. When I was checking in at the reception there, I waited for 40 minute because the guy in front of me in line(a Moroccan) was arguing with the hotel personel trying to proove to them that he is married to the lady he was trying to stay with. Also, the next next day I saw the hotel manager arguing with a Moroccan bride and groom (fully dressed in wedding attire) giving them a hard time with the document that they presented as proof of their (new) marriage. The poor bride was so embarrased. And we are talking about an expensive 5 star European hotel here! I do not want this to happen to us.

Beside hotel personel, would the Moroccan government simply accept a U.S. marriage certificate as proof of our (future) marriage?

Thank you in advance.

Salam,

When you get NOA-2, call the NVC right away and request to change your embassy (ask them first where are they re-directing Syria's petitions at that time). The embassy in Beruit makes the most scence since it is only a few hours away from Damascus. You would still need to get all the required goverment documents (birth certificate, police report,....) from Syria though.

Batmanna ilak/ilek kul el kheer!

Why are you filling form DS 160???????!!!!!!!!!!!! For K-1, you usually fill DS 156....unless the embassy in the philipines does things differently from other embassys around the world.

Good Luck

Just take the pictures with you, and they can attach it to the DS 156 there at the embassy. No need to do it yourself. You have to sign 2 ORIGINAL DS 156 though before your interiew.

Good Luck

Has no significance at all. Means nothing really.

Good Luck

Being a nurse has nothing to do with anything. Being a "STUDENT" (who is not working or have a good income) is a red flag for a tourist visa, not being a nurse. For a tourist visa one needs to show that they have strong/good reason to return to their country (being a student in anything is not a good reasomn). For a K-1 visa, one needs to show that they have strong ties to their fiance/e.

Good Luck

The visa is valid for 6 months from the date of issue...meaning you have slightly less than 6 months to enter the US. Then you have 90 days after entering the US to get married.

I am not 100% sure about this, but I think with deployment, one may qualify for an "expidited" process...possibly so that hopefully you can get your interview before deployment.

Hi!

We did the typical packages from Dish and DirecTV, but were just too expensive over time for the content. So, my husband from TV2Morro. It is internet streamed from your computer. They send you the modem, and as long as you have a good internet connection you get plenty of channels for about $25-$35 per month depending on the package. I would recommend this route.

Good luck!

Yvette

Thanks Yvette!

Wow..this is too fast.

First, what he is proposing to do is illegal

Second, he wants to marry her before ever meeting her in person?

Third, he is a GC holder, not a citizen.

Fourth, for a dude from Yemen, this is atypical. Where is his family, mother and father. Are they OK with all of this? It is very unusual for the family not be get involved BEFORE marriage.

Good Luck