Vanesitaa

K-1 visa would be a wiser option in my opinion. Marrying in Tourist visa and adjusting status is not considered visa fraud unless the immigrant had an intent to marry in the US with Tourist visa.

We got approved Wednesday Nov 5th. It wasn't easy they separated us. They took my husband for about 45 minutes and then me for like 30 minutes. But we show them our loves is real. I'll post my review later and any questions feel free to ask.

Hello everyone! I just want to say thank you to all visa journey members especially those who helped me through this hard, difficult, and stressing process. My case was completed this afternoon, without RFE yeyyyy!!! And Thanks to all of you, especially to my vj crew.?

Yes we are signed on to our account. I just read some cases where the petitioner wasnt notified of an RFE. Even didnt receive a hard copy.

Was he allowed in at 17 when caught or thrown back after printing
and then he succeeded later? You will need to speak to an atty, then
file I 130 petition for him, U may also need a co-sponsor since U R both
young, the atty will be able to give U correct info after hearing and seeing
papers. best to go with a waiver atty

I know that I was stressing out big time before our interview and searching everywhere for information about it, so I wanted to put our experience out there for the next couple that comes along. This is NOT the normal interview before getting your visa. We had this interview because my husband was in removal proceedings when we got married. It is sometimes called a Stokes interview.
We went with our lawyer and a professional translator (it turned out that the officer was bilingual but we weren't assured of that). All four of us went into the office and the officer interviewed us about all the information on our I-130 together. She asked what language we spoke around the house. At this point, we submitted some evidence: proof that he was my beneficiary in my Roth IRA, 403b, and life insurance; joint bank account statement; proof that he is my emergency contact at work; 2013 joint taxes (and we explained that he isn't on my other bank account because he doesn't have an ITIN yet); our matching credit cards that we pulled out of purse/wallet.
Then they separated us and asked the following questions. It ended up being more like a conversation, so some of these are approximate.
How did we meet? How long had we dated? How did he propose? Where was the wedding and at what time? Who were the bridesmaids/groomsmen? Do we have any pets? What size bed do we have? How big is our house? Did anyone live with us at the house? Who is my doctor? (We were talking about our fertility treatments and I couldn't remember) When was the last time we saw my parents? What did we do to celebrate our anniversary? What gifts did we give each other? What did we eat when for our anniversary dinner? Did we cook or was it a restaurant? My siblings’ and parents’ names and his as well. Also, the name of my niece and his nephew. The officer came and got me. She asked if we had any more evidence to submit. I had given her a binder full of pictures, printouts of Facebook and screenprints of texts. I asked if she wanted any of those. She took some of the wedding pics and some with all the family together. She really liked one that was from my cousin's wedding with all of my cousins, with their spouses and kids, from my mom's side of the family. There were about 50 people in it. She asked my husband about it too. I offered mail sent to both of us, but she didn't keep any. I had a TON of stuff. I think it was better to be over-prepared than under.
The official was really personable. She said our wedding turned out really well. Then she announced that we were approved and that our lawyer would get the notification in the mail within two weeks.
My husband said we have a king-size bed when it is a queen. That was our only discrepancy.
Overall, it was a LOT less stressful than I thought it was going to be. If you have a real marriage, and have taken a lot of pics and kept evidence of your past together and intertwined lives, you should be fine.
On to the next step for me...

amazing??? Really? They have my case since Nov 05 2013 and they haven't approved it. 7 months already. I think they are working maybe a little bit harder but not amazing.

Texas is doing amazing!! It has caught up with everyone else...you should be hearing from them next month.

November 5th and we still waiting on our NOA2....They are taking too long:(

The 129F will not speed up your process. USCIS had announced about 2 months ago that a I129F filed after a I-130 will get married up with it and be adjudicated together.
You are gaining nothing and actually slowly down your process because now they have to review two petitions. The K3 path isn't what it use to be because even though I-130 are taking 7 to 12 months it still beats the 3 to 5 years it use to and this why they made the K3. Now ut really is a very seldom issued Visa.

hi
the K3 process is practically obsolete, so just continue with the i130 consular processing route

Yup. You're fine with the i130 alone.

Hi there, hopefully you can help me. I´m trying to get married in the Dominican Republic but im not sure what to do. I read that I need to do translate my citizenship certificate and a single status letter but I must do that through the Dominican consulate but I called them and they said that they don´t do it anymore. So now i dont know what to do. Can anyone help me please.....

were you born in DR, because they have the double citizenship you wouldn't need to translate anything? as for the other thing stating you are single and able to marry, you could just go to anything place that translate paperwork, it could be an accounting agency just anyplace that fill out immigration papers they translate for a small fee.