tammytoes

^ thank you so much!!

I cannot tell you how relieved I am. For about half an hour there my entire married life flashed before my eyes... but you managed to bring me back down to earth.

Thank you!

Even though it looks like my fiance and I will be okay, my heart still bleeds for those people who have had the rug pulled out from under them. How completely devastating.

For you, nothing has changed. Keep a close eye on the website of the USCIS Field Office in Frankfurt, and the Immigrant Visa section of the Embassy's website to make sure no further changes blindside you.

Thank you SO much for the reassuring words! *phew phew phew*

So, is the reason we are not effected because we are filing through USCIS? I guess I just don't understand what makes our case different?

please please please help!

I'm totally losing my mind. If you know *anything* about this and can shed *any* light on this for me, please respond.

I am extremely confused by the news that the government is doing away with the i-130.. I don't fully understand what this MEANS. So I am looking to those who are little more in-the-know to help me out here:

Here goes--- My fiance is in the US military and he is stationed in Germany. In a few weeks, I am going to Germany to be with him. We will prompty be going up to Denmark and will be getting married (because it's simplier in Denmark).

Anyway, after we marry, I will become his dependent and will then be granted German Residency along with him. We were then planning on applying for DCF through the US Consulate in Frankfurt... and I would return to the States with him when his orders in Germany are up.

However, now I am totally confused. Is this even still possible for us? He just got home from a 14 month deployment in Iraq... and I am TERRIFIED that we waited all this time, and now we can't get married like we had planned.

Please help to clear this up and tell me where were stand! I'm *so* confused. What are our options now?

I am so *so* confused by all of this!!! I don't get it!

Does this mean that DCF cannot be done at all any more? **boggled mind**

What fantastic news! This must just be sucha weight off!

Congratulations to you two!

I am sure I will be in touch once my fiance and I finally get married in Denmark and officially start our DCF Frankfurt journey!

I think I misunderstood your question. I thought you were applying for a Canadian passport.

If you're filing your I-129 application, I believe it says taken "within 30 days" of filing, so...

No no, it IS for a Canadian passport.

How is is dated? Somebody write a date on the back?

P.S. If the photo that you have on your profile is in fact your passport photo, I do not think it meets the specification anyways....

It was stamped by the people/business who took the photo.

"Photo Experts

T.D Square

Calgary, Alberta

Photo Taken

Oct 23 2006

I hereby certify this to be a true likeness of:

______________________

______________________"

Technically I suppose, but reality is a different situation since the photos are undated.

.. I just double checked, thinking that I was crazy...

But, alas, mine are dated.

October 23, 2006.

Question about passport photos--

I had my (canadian) passport photos taken about a month ago.. However, I havent gotten around to completing my application until now. Are the photos too old? Do I need to have new, more recent, ones done in order to submit them with my application? Do they ever "expire"?

Hey Everyone,

Okay, quick recap of my situation: I'm Canadian, and I'm going to Marry my US Military-Man in Denmark in March 2007.

However, my Canadian passport is due to expire in April 2007. So I obviously need to get a new passport prior to my trip out to Europe. I've never replaced a passport before it expired, so please excuse my (possibly) stupid question:

Can you do that? Can I be reissued another passport when another isn't quite expired it? I'd like to get that done soon, within the next few weeks. Do I have to wait until there is only a certain amount of time left on my passport, or can anyone, at anytime, trade in an old passport for a new one? I realize that I'll still need to go through the whole photo, application, guarantor process..

I'm sorry if this question is slightly off topic, but I wasn't able to find the answer anywhere else online. You guys know everything about passports!

Am I having deja vu?

Did you go through the same thing?

No sweetie, I think I've seen your Q posted here before.

At any rate, it doesn't matter your nationality etc. DCF is all about the US citizen being allowed to file the I-130 where s/he is overseas.

Get married where you like (I suggest that since it's not home country to either of you that you get several official copies of your marriage certificate for the future). Have your marriage certificate translated to English (use a professional service or university since neither of you is Danish). Guard it carefully.

Get your residency permit for Germany, as a part of his orders (whatever it is that Germany or the US military requires).

When you're ready to move (6 months out or so if you have that much lead time), have him file the I-130 and you follow up with your visa application.

Read the threads here on DCF in Frankfurt. There's nothing particularly out of the ordinary regarding what you want to do. There's no need for you or your USC to call the Consulate.

Ah yes. I posted first about a year ago... at that time, we were going to go the K1 Visa route, but I had just heard about DCF and it seemed like a decent option. Now though, we're definitely going with DCF. So much easier!

Thanks so much for your tips and advice!

Am I having deja vu?

Did you go through the same thing?

Then my guess is yes, you will be permitted to file the I-130 at the consulate in Frankfurt when you are ready to move back to the US. File the I-130 about 6 months before you are ready to leave. I think it's worth a call to the consulate to see if you want to file once ytou are married.. or if they want you to wait.

Also talk to the JAG on the base, they should be able to help you as well.

THANK YOU so much for your help!

I was pretty sure it was possible, but I guess I just needed someone to confirm that there was some logic behind my thinking.

DCF is an internet board term.. the consulates have no idea what it means. Read the DCF guide to find out how to ask your question to get the information that you need.

Call Frankfurt again and ask if they will allow you to file an I-130 directly at the consulate if you are a US Soldier and your fiancee is not a resident of Germany. From what I have heard, the answer is no if the alien fiancee does not have residency in Germany.

Hoiwever, there are treaty terms between the US and Germany that deal with residency of spouses of members of the US Military. You may be able to reside in Germany with a US Military Dependent ID Card. If this is the case, then you may be able to file the I-130 at the Consulate when you and your fiancee will be transferred back to the US.

Yeah. Once we are married, I will be given a US Military Dependant ID Card... I will live with my husband, and will thus be a resident of Germany along with him (as per that treaty).

I wont be a resident at the time that we are MARRIED, but I will be a resident at the time of the application of the I-130.

Here's the situation-

My fiance is a US soldier, and he is stationed/based out of Germany (he's been there for 4 years now). I am a Canadian. Both of us have clear criminal records, are very much in love, and are very healthy... never before been married, and no children. We'd like to get married in January 07.

We would like to get married in Denmark, and then file for DCF in Germany. (We'd get married in Germany, but Germans make the process VERY complicated-- it's 10000x simplier in Denmark)... Eventually, when his tour of Germany is over, we will be returning back to the USA.

I called the US Consulate in Frankfurt and the people I spoke with had NO idea what 'Direct Consular Filing' was! They were of absolutely zero help to me.... and so I present the question to you guys-- is this doable?

Can an American Citizen who has 'residency status' in Europe, get married to a Canadian, and then go through the DCF process? I can't see why it wouldn't, but I want to make doubly sure. I know of a few US Soldiers who married Russian and East European women in Denmark with no problems... so you'd think it'd be okay when the bride was a Canadian...

If you're not sure of the answer to my question, but you DO know of any handy websites or phone numbers, I'd be very interested in that as well. Thanks so much!