GusandCrys

You can get married and file for AOS, but it becomes a lot trickier to prove that you did not have intent to get married prior to the foreign national arriving in the U.S if you were already in a relationship. I'd say this is very tricky to prove in an interview that you had no intention of being married before you came to US.

If any foreign fiancee could come to the US and file for AOS and simply say they only decided to get married after the foreign national arrived, wouldn't everyone go this route instead of bothering to go back to their country and spend months away from their fiancée as the k-1 is processed, or if you did get married the cr-1.

Yup I got that too, but also it said there was maintenance on the website all day yesterday.

Hi there

Did you meet your fiancée when you arrived in the USA or did you know him before you arrived? If you knew him before you arrived and came in on a b1/b2 visa, it is fraud to get married on that visa with an intent to adjust status, and you could be deported (and banned from USA forever) and your fiancée could go to jail. Being as you overstayed your visa, it could raise some red flags in a visa if you wish to do this the correct way. It is fine to get married on B2 visa but if you came with intent to get married, you must leave and file for CR-1. It is also OK if you by chance met in the US just RANDOMLY and by CHANCE (with no pre made plans) and decided to get married and adjust status, but that must be very hard to prove (or fake) and I might not take any chances with that, because they will ask you to answer under oath in interviews, and if you already knew your fiancée with intent to immigrate, it would be lying if you said you didn't. Safest route is getting married and returning to your home country and filing the CR-1. You can also go back to your home country now, without getting married, and file for K-1 Fiancee visa. that generally takes less time than the CR-1 then you can come to the USA and legally get married and stay with your fiancée. Being that you overstayed your visa, that could mean trouble at an interview stage, but that doesn't necessary mean you will be denied.

M&G, We have submitted our ds160 and it was accepted. He will bring the 2 required pictures, it seems Brazil is one of the few countries that do not allow you to upload a picture. Different process for every country I guess! Wish us luck, our interview is on the 23rd!

We had this same problem. We did ----N/A---- on most forms, because we didn't want to leave blank to think we didn't fill in that answer, and None could be a real middle name in some parts of the world.

There was NO places to upload his picture. He completed the DS-160 and printed the confirmation page. He will bring the 2 required pictures to the Interview on his date.

No we didn't get any instructions on going there to get the picture taken. We found out in the DS-160 some countries make you upload a picture and some countries (including Brazil) do not.

there was no place to upload the picture. It simply just said 'picture will be taken at ASC' Is this something new because it seems we were researching and a lot of people had the same problem.

My fiancé is ready to send his ds160 electronically. He says there is not a spot to upload a picture, just a blank square where the picture would be, saying 'picture will be taken at ASC' Not sure what this means? I thought he needed to upload a picture for this application. We are doing K1.

We were approved in 18 days, Yeah shock to us too!

Then what is the form he signs IN FRONT of the consul at the time of the interview?

Ugh! I meant DS230 in the second question.(and on the TOPIC!)

Also, does my fiancée sign any part of the ds230 before the interview? or sign part 1 before interview then the rest of it at interview?

Hello Everyone,

Reading the i134 instructions literally and thoroughly it says to include duplicate income and evidence, as appropriate.....We will put 0 in for assets or savings since nothing amounts to acceptable assets. I was wondering if anybody used a bank letter to support proof of current income rather than assets. I do not have a significant amount of money in the bank that would add up to any amount of acceptable assets, but I wanted to get a bank letter that states how much I've deposited from paychecks in my account for the past year. Would that be useful at the interview if the bank letter doesn't show where the deposits came from?

ALSO

ON the DS130 it asks for trips to the US...do we put POE or the town I live in my fiancée came to visit and spend most of the time at?

Thank You everyone for your replies. Our interview is coming soon so we are just getting the most info we can! Good Luck

Crys and Gus

Hello VJers!

We believe we will be getting our interview date scheduled any time now! Our case was last updated on CEAC as of the 22nd as ready. We know its at the consulate and we've emailed them again asking if our date was set yet.

We are actually wondering about the Rio consulate and wondering about the medical exam prior to the interview date.

We want to spend the least amount of days in Rio to save on costs, and are wondering if we can do the medical exam the day before interview.

It says on the embassy website:

"Note: The sealed Medical Report must be sent directly by the penal physician to the Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro. For this service you must bring a "Correios" prepaid envelope (envelope pré-franqueado) to your medical appointment. The prepaid envelope may be found at any Correios office."

but it also says in another page on the embassy website, it says with the list of papers to bring to the interview....

"Sealed envelope of Medical Examination Report;"

Does my Fiancee need to bring the medical exam to the interview with him, or will they send it to the embassy. And if they send it to the embassy, can we have our interview the day after the medical exam??

Thank You everyone for your replies! Everything helps! Good luck to everyone

Crys and Gus

Hi again everyone!

We got ahold of both DoS and NVC. The DoS had our receipt number on file and he said to wait 6-8 weeks (what an original response, huh?) then I called the NVC and the representative said she didn't even locate our receipt number. I am wondering if the DoS and NVC have the same information and get the information at the same time??? and then the NVC lady asked me when our notice date was, and told me to wait 8 weeks before checking the status of the case. I am worried because it seems she didn't even look up our receipt number. Did anyone else have this experience where the NVC didn't know your receipt number? I guess this is everyone's spot of worry in the process now, more waiting! thanks for your help and replies!

Gus and Crys.

Thanks Everyone. Does anyone know the actual number to NVC? Is it normal to beep like its busy? it seems they'd put you on hold or something? Just wondering. Thanks for your replies.

Hi everyone.

We got our NOA2 on October 8th and we are now trying to contact the NVC or the DoS to get our case number, or see if one has been assigned yet. When i call the DoS it just gives me information about visas, not able to connect to a person. On the website it said tomorrow (the 16th) the phone lines will change and there will be a new number to call. The number to the DoS also gave me a number to the NVC which was (603) 334-0700, and that number just beeps right away like a busy signal. We NEED to get ahold of them as soon as possible so we can keep up on our case. I tried a few different numbers, but none seem to get me to a person to help. ANY help and responses would be greatly appreciated! Thank You Everyone!

Gus and Crys

Hello Everyone!

We sent our package on September 14th, we received NOA1 September 19th and got a notice that our alien registration number was changed on September 28th. We just found out we received NOA2 October 8th! We saw some questions about what the change of alien registration number means, and now we're sure it means NOA2 is just around the corner. A few questions we have now!

We are hoping for an interview date in March since we need some tax papers for me and to collect money for the payments. Is it possible to switch interview date easily to the next month if we are assigned an interview too early? (this is all a bit earlier than we expected but we are SO BLESSED)

What is a round-about time frame we might be expecting to hear from the consulate that everything is ok to set up interview?

Thank You for all your help through this, we couldn't have done this without this website and all the great posts from everyone!

Gus and Crys

hello.

My fiance and I last met in person August-October 2012, but we are wondering if we should also include evidence we've met in 2011. Our first meeting was in March-April 2011. I realize that trip would be overdue as we are sending our application in august 2013; so it will be over due by roughly 3 months. We are wondering if we should still include the 2011 evidence as a context to our relationship. We also have it stated in our question 18 that we met in 2011 first then in 2012, is this ok? Will they just look at the 2011 right away and turn our application down or is it ok to include that in question 18. And do you think we can include one photo of us in 2011 and 8 of us in 2012.

thanks for your help!

-Gus and Crys

2012 is your past income. Provide your current annual income gross total(your weekly salary times 52) and use letter from employer and most recent pay stub(s) to prove that amount. This applies for the K-1 I-134 and the AOS I-864.

Thank you!

I went a month unemployed and a few months working for minimum wage in 2012. We are at the 100% line but 2k under 125% for 2012. I am now working 2 jobs and well over the 125% since the past 6 months but that does not show on my 2012 tax return. Will pay stubs or any type of letter prove I am making above the poverty line by the time we AOS if it is before the time 2013 tax comes around? Thank You!

I made 20k in 2011 which would have been considered 125% of poverty line, but only 17k in 2012, what amount and year will they take into account?

Any other tips or help about the poverty lines would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You!

we were thinking, we should put the name as in on my pay stubs, AKA the corporate name for each company? is this correct?

Hello again, please help us

on the G325a My fiancee lives in Brazil and on the question where it asks to put the applicants last address outside the United States for more than 1 year, should we put HIS address where he has lived all his life since it is in fact outside of the United States? His address also doesn't fit, so we need to do an attachment sheet, and he presently lives there, but we cant put 'present' into the 'to and from' boxes. Will they think he moved if we put '01/2013' in the 'to: Month and Year'?

ALSO! I have had quite a few jobs in the past 5 years, in one job I have worked at was the same company, but different locations, First location was for 3 1/2 years and the second was for 6 months. Should I put the different addresses in the employment history?

Thank You!!!

Hi everyone.

We are new to this site and this process and we have been confused about My Brazilian Fiancees' name. It seems he has 2 GIVEN NAMES and 2 FAMILY NAMES(surnames). as in

given name: NAME1 NAME2

Surname: LAST1 LAST2

on the forms we have put his first name as NAME1 NAME2 and his family name or last name as LAST1 LAST2, we have left middle name blank on the forms but are worried if we leave it blank they may think we didn't look closely enough and forgot to fill it out. The way we are looking at it, he doesnt have a middle name, because he goes buy NAME2, and his LAST1 is his mothers last name, NAME2 being his fathers last name. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much!