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maybe no card/ no work is a general rule; however, in april 2009, my husband, then fiance, went through an employment agency that accepted the stamp in his passport that he received at POE for employment authorization. maybe this was a flaw on their part, but we had 2 incomes within weeks of his arrival. his EAD came right around the time his stamp expired, so there was no gap in employment.

Just because the employment agency "accepted" the stamp doesn't mean it was legal!

Technically it was not - fiance(e)s need more than just the stamp in the passport and a SSN to be legally authorized to work.

Think that point's been made enough times already in this thread, but just to be sure...

Oh, wow, thank goodness!!

My fiancee just mailed to me her G-325 biographical statement and her fiancee letter of intent. She signed both in Thai, although she completed both in English. Is this acceptable? Also, on question 16 on the I-129F, she provided for me the required information in Thai, and I was able to cut and paste it into the document. Her signatures on the G-325 and fiancee letter, and my answer to question 16 on the I-129F, are the only non-roman lettering in the entire package. Do we need to have these documents certified by a translator? Please respond. Thanks in advance for this wonderful opportunity to receive free feedback and advice.

My husband (back when he was the fiance living abroad) signed his name in Thai on all the K-1 documents and it was never an issue.

I agree with you as well, but most people get at least a half hour for a lunch break and that's time to grab some McDonalds dollar menu burgers and stop at the nearest post office on the way. I know what you are saying and I completely agree with it, but if you have a RFE then something is up an they are already in a position where the USCIS has put some kind of a red flag on them. Would you risk anything additional you could do to prove legitimacy? I wouldn't... my opinion that's all.

Getting documents notarized isn't going to make the red flags go away andbesides, not all RFEs indicate that there are red flags; USCIS loses documents all the time...sigh.

Any doctor can give you the vaccination; however, the civil surgeon is the only one who can note this on the vaccination section of the 693 (693A, vaccination supplement is obsolete).

WOW, how scary! I hope your grandmother knew it was a hoax and didn't worry that your husband really was in trouble.

If I'm understanding you right, you brought the same evidence that you had already submitted? If so, were they able to give you an idea why they didn't get it the first time, or didn't like it for whatever reason?

Yup, you understood me right - the very same thing we'd sent in originally (tax transcripts). The officer we met with at the Infopass appointment was as surprised as we were to have received the RFE. Glad we came on VJ and learned that being asked for something that'd already been submitted was not that uncommon!

Not True I use to work for Sprint, Tmobile, and Cingular. They check your credit but then after that they do not report to the credit companies so it does not build your credit. If you don't pay your bills they send it to collections and if it's outstanding they will report it to the credit companys and you get a blemish on your credit history.

Really? Oh no, that's what we were told at the AT&T store when we were signing up for new plans. Darn it! Sorry for posting the wrong information...

You can also build credit by signing a contract with a cell phone service provider.

When we were filing for AOS we received a RFE for tax info that we had already submitted. We were worried that perhaps there was something we missed the first time around, so we made an Infopass appointment and brought the evidence that we were prepared to submit (the same info that was submitted the first time) and ran it past a USCIS agent just to be sure that we were doing things correctly. If you are worried about it and can get to your local office without too much trouble, you may want to consider doing the same thing for your own peace of mind.

We made one of our Affidavits from the apartment manager. See if you can get a statement from your community manager, saying that you both live there together. I believe we only sent in the first and last pages of our lease, with our signatures.

Better to send in statements representing the time you have been together, so 2-3 statements per year (joint bank, credit cards, electricity, etc). For example, bank statements from Jan, July and Oct; copies of lease checks or receipts from March and Sept, electricty from Feb, May and Dec, etc., for the two years since AOS that you have been married. See also if you have postmarked mail in both your names and copy and send that too - like XMas cards from friends and family, offers of credit cards, etc. Copies of your Driving Licenses with the same address is also good proof.

ELW has a great idea. We were without a lease that clearly identified both of us, so we asked our landlord to draw up an affidavit attesting to the length of time we had been living in our place, etc. We also highlighted our bank statements indicating the rent payments and submitted utility bills, letters, etc. that arrived - some in my name and some in my husband's. If you have a life insurance policy or 403b/401K with your spouse listed as a beneficiary, it may list your address as well (ours did).

*nevermind*

This is a thread from 2006...hopefully the OP's figured it out by now!

I have been living in Cebu Philippines for 6 months. We will probably get married later this year.

I had a bad experience with a fiance visa in the past, so I chose to come here and live for an extended time.

There is a very high risk to you if you carry on only an email and chat relationship and only go to visit your fiance

for a short time. The only way to really get to know someone is in person over time.

Many men ignore this advice because they have found a girl much prettier and younger than anything they can get in the states.

You are at a high risk for financial and emotional loss if you dont do some careful thinking.

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Seattle2Cebu, you DO realize that female USCs post here too, right? How about not insulting us whilst you make your point...

Then, how does your name get legally changed at marriage?? Some people do not take their spouses name, some hyphenate using their old & new last names and most take their spouses last name. How does the State or whoever know what last name you have chosen?

One way is to go to Social Security and tell them what you want it to be, should you wish to change it; then, start changing all your other IDs.

We'd moved once by the time we filed for ROC and we never received the reminder letter. It does not matter anways as that's all it is, a reminder; once you file for ROC they will send everything to the address you give them on your I-751.

How and when does the issue of an alien fiance working on a tourist visa in USA get dealt with during the K1 process?

We noted all requisite 5 year work history on g-325A.

Thank you.

Did your fiance overstay his visa? If so this could compound the issue.

Incorrect....AOS always have an interview....ROC (If you have filed jointly) there is a very minute chance that there will be an interview ...ROC(Filing for a waiver) most definately there will be an interview...

Not true - lots of people have their AOS approved without having to have an interview. We sure did!

How did you manage to have two kids that weren't your husband's?

Totally irrelevant and no one's business but the OP's...sheesh.

Why not put your name on the lease and then add his name after he has been working for six months? If you can get him a credit card in the meantime, he would also have built up six months worth of credit (better than nothing).

My husband (then fiance) moved to the States halfway through my lease. I knew that this would be evidence that we would need at the next round with USCIS so I asked my landlord to create an addendum to my lease so that he could be added to it. We never had any problems or questions from USCIS either.

Also, I never did verify this, but we were told that just adding someone to an existing credit card account will not enable them to build credit; they need to apply for their own card.

You filed for a K-3 visa but you aren't married?

I have checked out the Austrian Embassy info. There is nothing on there that gives me the impression it will effect anything.

The same thing happened to us and I ended up sending in an AR-11 and emailed the embassy with the new address when we were pretty sure that they'd received my fiance's paperwork from the States. We also asked some people we knew at the old address to keep an eye out for any mail from the US embassy in case the address change didn't go through, but luckily it did.

Did you file for K1 or K3? Just asking because you mentioned your fiancee but your status indicates that you filed for a K-3.

You need to send her the W2s for every 1040 that you send to her. If I were you, I would send all of them to prove that my income was sufficient.

Puzzled as to why you wouldn't list every job you've recently held on the G-325a...

Does your marriage certificate show your last name as your husband's? That is the common and easy way to do the legal name change. If so, then you are now legally Firstname Husbandslastname.

If not, I believe that you should check with the county court to learn the process.

Actually, it doesn't matter how your name appears on the marriage certificate, the certificate itself is the document that allows you to change your name, so it isn't necessary to check with the courts.

For example, I did not change my name at the time we filed our marriage license so my maiden name appears on our certificate. About a year later, however, I wanted to change it and just took the certificate to the Social Security office and got a new card - then my name was legally changed.

You'll probably have better luck posting in the regional sub-forum...