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White passport is AP/re-entry permit. If she is going there for a month, there is absolutely no reason for her to get. She will be fine with her green card, taking marriage certificate would not hurt.

Thank you for clearing up, much appreciated

Hello all,

Please forgive me if this question has been asked a million times, but I wanted to ask again and make absolutely sure.

My wife came to California last year from Japan on a fiance visa, and she got her green card a few months ago. Her mother was recently admitted to the hospital in Japan because of her cancer and is not doing too well. My wife wants to travel back to Japan and stay for about a month or so to be with her mom and help with the family.

She has a Japanese passport (expiring in 2018) with her maiden (last)name on it, and her green card with her married (last)name. A friend told me that she needs a white passport to travel, and that there may be issues with her maiden (last)name on the passport and her married (last) name on the green card.

I have never heard of a white passport and i am thinking if she just takes the marriage certificate with her then there shouldn't be any problems with the name differences.

Please I would appreciate any helpful information on this matter. Thank you for much!

Hello all,

Our petition was approved on August 19, 2013 and the NVC still hasn't received our package from the California Center. I called both NVC and USCS and they told me it takes 2-3 months. USCIS told me that if NVC doesn't receive it by October 19 that I should call back and they will send a request to NVC.

I have noticed that for other people on this board it doesn't take so long. Or does it? Is this normal?

Thank you.

Hello all,

I will be mailing my package today, and just had a question regarding the processing time. Here is the processing times for California Service Centers:

https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/processingTimesDisplay.do

For i-129f, the last case processed was July 18 2012. So what does this date exactly mean? The page provides a very brief explanation but I am still confused. Does this mean I am to expect a very loooong delay in processing my i-129f?

Thanks

I-128???

seems complete....or I think your missing birth certificate. also, make sure to double check or even triple check every page/documents if you miss a signature, date or answer something. Vjers prepare to put none or N/A if the question doesn't apply to u. goodluck!!!

Oops, sorry I meant i-129 :-)

Is the birth certificate also required? On the step by step guide:

http://www.visajourney.com/content/k1guide

On number 11, it states birth certificate, or passport or US citizen/naturalization certificate. I am already including US citizen certificate and passport.

1. Cover letter (signed and dated)
2. G-1145
3. Personal check for the amount of $340
4. I-129F
5. I-129F Supplement: Part B, Question 18, explanation of meeting in person (signed and dated)
6. I-129F Supplement: Part B, Question 19, explanation of meeting in person (signed and dated)
7. G-325A of me the petitioner
8. Passport style photo of me in a labelled plastic bag, paper clipped to a blank peice of paper
9. G-325A of my fiance the Beneficiary
10. Passport style photo of her in a labelled plastic bag, paper clipped to a blank peice of paper
11. US Naturalization certificate - front and back of me the petitioner
12. Letters certifying intent to marry from both me and my fiance (signed and dated)
13. Proof of having met in person in the past two years
    1. I don't have my boarding pass anymore, so I included a complete copy of my passport with a sticky note that highlights the stamp when I visited my fiance in Japan
    2. Boarding pass of my fiance who visited me in the US
    3. Travel itineraries for both me and my fiance
    4. 18 photos of me and my fiance in the US and Japan. All photos labelled on the back with date and location
14. Proof of ongoing relationship
    1. One page of call history for facetime
    2. 4 pages of call history for Skype
    3. 8 pages of call and chat history for Oovoo
    4. 10 pages of video messages that we uploaded to youtube. Over the past year, we recorded video messages for each other and uploaded them to our own private youtube channel. So I printed out screen captures of our videos listed on our channel.
    5. 1 page of Google Talk history
    6. 4 Emails

The package will be mailed to:

USCIS

P.O. Box 660151
Dallas, TX 75266

with return receipt requested / delivery confirmation.

Thank you :-)

Sorry one more question. The photos that we have were taken with our phones, so how can the photos be time stamped? I have written the dates and location on the back. Is that not good enough?

Unfortunately, I don't have the boarding pass for when I visited my fiance in her country, but she has hers when she visited me. I have included her boarding pass, so should I will include a copy of my entire passport and highlight the stamp? Should my fiance include her passport as well or is the boarding pass enough?

Also, can my fiance take photos (with her iphone) of her passport pages and email them to me so I can print out? Or does she need to photo copy them and mail them to me?

Thanks

Thanks for the replies everyone. Yes I think I will just stick to the directions on this website :-)

Hello everyone,

I recently talked to a friend of mine who did the K-1 visa like ten or so years ago. She basically told me to do everything that's already on this website. The only difference was that she said in her cover letter, she wrote that she was planning to get married on a certain date and had made all the arrangements for the church, church hall, etc. She said that this helped greatly in speeding up the process and was able to get married on the exact date that she stated.

So will it help if I did the same thing in my cover letter? Or is this something that worked ten years ago and no longer today?

Thank you

If you've ever legally changed your name that would fall under "7. Other Names Used". If you've never legally changed your name, then you should not have to do so. Many people call Christopher by his last name, and it is common to see that in chats. Nicknames/petnames/shortened/alternate forms are not required there, unless you legally changed your name to it.

Unfortunately, unless you legally had your middle name changed to "Danger", you'll have to skip that question

Thank you very much for your response. No I've never legally changed my name, it's always been the same. Many people just called me by my baptism name and that's what appears in my emails and chats.

Thank you again :-)

Hello everyone,

I am a US citizen and wanting to marry a Japanese citizen from Japan. We just started the process of filling out the forms for K-1 and getting all the things together (pictures, emails, etc). I have a question regarding my name. I have a legal name (of course), but I also have a Christian baptism name that many people call me by (including my fiance). My baptism name is on my emails, Skype, Facetime, etc.

So for example, let's same my legal name is Joe Doe and my baptism name is John Doe. Will it get confusing for the immigration people reviewing our forms when they see Joe Doe in the applications, passport, etc and then see John Doe in my emails, Skype calls, etc.?

I hope I am making sense. Thank you very much! :-)