qwerty1974

You are fine. They were listed on the petition. It's not time to apply for visas yet. You are dealing with two separate US government agencies. USCIS approves you to move on to the visa part because you have met in person and are both free to marry.

Then the Dept of State (DOS) takes over because they are over visas and embassies. The hand-off is at the National Visa Center (NVC). You get assigned a new DOS/Embassy case number. London will notify you when they have received your case and it's time to apply for the visas. All they send you is that link...no packets or forms. You can get ahead of the game while you wait by knowing what's coming up. Read all the information and start looking over the forms. Order police certificates, get immunization records and/or needed boosters, have the right kind of birth certificates (with parent names), and get permission from the father to take the children out of the UK. By the time London sends you that link to inform you what to do, you'll already have it done. The visa medical can be scheduled as soon as you have the new case number from NVC and your police certificate(s). That will be after USCIS approves the petition and hands it off to NVC.

Permission from the father can be a simple statement saying he grants his permission signed in front of a solicitor. Include everybody's full names, including his, so it sounds complete. If you have sole custody, then court documents showing that will do without his permission.

Nick, you don't know what a relief it is to read this! My fiance called USCIS yesterday and they also said children of K1 parents get derivative status so no application need be made at the same time.

As for the certs, I m onto it and have them all already. Just need to go to my solicitor and have a hard copy letter sent saying the father signed a release letter and the other one couldn't even be bothered to reply within the time frame :/ Or at all! Hopefully a solicitors draft to this effect wil be enough. Can't thank you enough for this ost

http://london.usembassy.gov/iv_15.html Your London instructions start here but there are many links to explore. Notice Step One tells you the forms to be completed by each family member. Just you fill out the DS-156K as principle immigrant. All must have documents,passports, immunizations, medical exam, etc.

Under the age of 14 does not have to attend the interview with you.

Thank you so much for that link. So it would seem we haven't let anything slip by then. For a moment I thought we'd allowed a massive oversight as we named them on the I-129F but made no separate payments or applications. So as far as you are aware no separate applications should have been made as yet for the children?

Each person must have a visa. You have to file & pay for them just as was done for you. It does appear to people that they do not but they must go thru the same process as the parent.

Permission for the other parent is required. Check with your embassy to find out exactly what they require. The one I am familier with gives out a sample letter if asked.

Firstly, thank you for responding.

I can't imagine why we weren't informed of this. I know that we'd need to get them in due course but not to apply at the same time. Do you think this will delay the K1 being issued, or at least delay the chance to actually join my fiance?

We have all the relevant documentation, just not separate visa applications. Its very confusing as many sites say that children can travel with the parent under a K1 so long as a K2 is filed as soon as the K1 is approved and we were never informed differently??!

Hi,

On our initial I 129F petition for a K1 fiance we listed my children who will be accompanying me. Does anyone know when we need to apply for the

K2 or will the embassy sort that at the same time as the concluding visa interview? We're pretty certain it's all accounted for by mention of them in the petition, but a couple of websites mention filing and providing birth certificates, permission from the other parent and so on, which we haven't been asked to provide as yet. Any information to put my mind at rest would be gratefully received. The children are under 16years. Thanks

We applied at the end of May and had our NOA1 registered and date stamped the 1st June. The waiting is a little annoying, especially when you have children wondering where they will be at school next term (here of there, very unsettling), but I'm sure once the NOA2 arrives it'll soon be a whole lot of 'busy' and I'll have been glad of this time of waiting....perhaps that is a little too hopeful?! Chin up as the other posters say, and I imagine not complaining to the U.S government is possibly the best advice I've read on this particular forum. You're not alone, we're all waiting too. They'll get to each of us soon enough. Does anyone here know if we needed to apply for K2 Visa's for the children at the time of filing the initial petition? The children are listed ON the petition so we're assuming thats enough. Now I'm trawling through websites to double check! Good luck June filers