JulieandDanny

Well here's some interesting info.

We called the CBP Houston office yesterday and finally got an officer on the phone.

He said this kind of thing is happening all the time as a side effect of the switch over to the electronic I-94... i.e. the return ticket being entered as a departure anyway rather than cancelled (often despite cancellation)

He said if we came there (an hour's drive) it could be easily fixed.

We got there and waited about 15 minutes to be seen within the walk-in times they have.

They quickly dismissed us. It was the same guy.

He said that they didn't need to change it because we didn't need to include the second page 'travel history'... He said that a lot of that would show up wrong and that 'they' wouldn't even look at that as it was a 'civilian system' and 'none of their business'

i.e. not the official system.

I sure hope he didn't just shoo us out of there for something that WILL eventually become an issue...

He was highly irritable though and was being VERY officious/dismissive with everyone... we got out of there quick as we could but left wondering about the accuracy of his statements and whether we might have to return/ seek other recourse should the issue come up soon...

Regardless we mailed in our AOS with the Electronic I-94 page 1 only in all three instances (for AP and Ead)

FINGERS CROSSED.

Thought the community might be interested to know about the waves the electronic switch seems to be making...

Hey there,

I have the same issue (quite common apparently). I bought a R/T ticket and I have incorrect depart date on my I94 (I cancelled the flight with United). I called United and apparently, they can't do anything about it... They suggested to send a mail to CBP.

And I've already submitted AOS (I received EAD AP).

I am also highly interested in knowing how to correct I94 travel history!

Did you send in just the one page of electronic I-94?

So do not include the travel history page then? Just the first page that is accessed electronically for I-94 with the above information, with the visa and entry stamp attached. Correct?

Hello,

We are trying not to stress out about this and figuring out the best course of action.

I'll mention the facts and what we've gleaned we need to do and then any advice or experience of success concerning the same issue would be greatly appreciated.

My husband and I were married February 9, 2015 in Houston, Texas.

My husband entered the US on January 11, 2015 in Houston, Texas.

His electronic I-94 has a link to Travel History which is incorrect.

It states that he left the US on February 27, 2015. That is a date from the much cheaper return ticket which we purchased from US Airways.

My husband called and cancelled that reservation via phone as I advised him this was wise because of helpful advice of people having problems with airline manifests which I had researched on VisaJourney. However he was not offered and did not think to get a confirmation number when they accomodated him and cancelled the flight.

Well the manifest must not have been corrected because his travel history states that he left on that date- 2/27.

We don't have much evidence to the contrary besides his U.S. cell phone bill showing calls on the date and word of mouth from our family/ my coworkers... No time-stamped pictures or anything else. At least the erroneous date is after our actual marriage date but we're anxious it may still become a hassle or problem.

We are trying to contact the CBP Deferred Action office closest to us per VisaJourney advice. It is in Humble and their walk-in hours are not until tomorrow 1-3 pm an hour away from where we live.

Their voice-mail system is producing error messages that will not let us leave a message to make an appointment otherwise, and no human will answer to tell us what kind of evidence we might need to bring to them to get his record corrected.

We have also been on the 'customer service' (we use that term loosely here...) phone line for US Airways for the last 3 hours and cannot get through to any representative from their company due to the system identifying high rates of calls and the system then hanging up on us.

We have everything ready to submit AOS, AD, and EAP and are hoping to still do so today or tomorrow and hope that the record does not come back to bite us in the backend.

SO:

1) Do we only include page 1 of the I-94 and not the second page when you click through to travel history. Don't want to raise a red flag or include unnecessary information as that page is not expressly asked for.

Should we go ahead and file what we have and cross fingers and/or look into correcting the record with CBP in the meantime for interview stage?

2)How likely is it that this travel history will come into play and at what stage?

2) Any advice you can give on what we might need to do to better deal with the CBP Deferred Action office in correcting this would be invaluable as we cannot get them on the phone for the last three hours.

3) Any advice or experience you have on pursuing such matters with airlines successfully or with US Airways would also be of use

As always your guidance and advice is SO humbly appreciated VJ! Good luck on all of your journeys.

Julie and Danny

Is it still a year even though it says 6 months in some places and 12 in others. We got ours early. Cheers for quick clarification.

NOA2 Five and a half months so counting our blessings! Yay March Filers we're seeing it happen. Sincere best wishes to those still waiting. Stay strong and believe in your love. xxx Julie

Yes i noticed that too... i wish there was a way those people could update where their cases are being counted more accurately and that they would only impact the CSC numbers on Igor's list once they are transferred like that... i'm sure it's screwing up all our timeline stats and messing with our heads at TSC!!

Who 'lives' in your household is not necessarily who is counted as your household. Your household means you and any dependants... so roomates or even other family members would not count as part of your household unless you claim them or they claim you for tax purposes... whether you physically live with them or not.

All the info about when to present I-134 (at interview) and what they want to see is in the VJ London embassy guide

I think most people for london submit the readiness form when they have a) a date BOOKED for the medical and b) everything else ready to show at interview... i don't see why you couldn't wait to submit your readiness form until after your scheduled medical if you really were not 'ready' with your paperwork... they will not schedule your interview until they have 1) your ds-160, 2)your medical paperwork sent from knightsbridge, and 3)your readiness form... i don't think it matters as much what order you sent them in, but rather that they have received and processed all three- then they issue you a date... they used to let you schedule the medical and interview close together or same day but now they won't give you an interview until they receive the medical form...

Wow, congratulations! Did anyone else include information regarding finances or employment with their I-129? We didn't

That is only necessary if you are trying to 'front-load' your application for certain consulates. Not necessary for UK with I-129F to send any financial info at all with that packet... and for quite a lot of other consulates too. Search 'front-loading' if you want to know what that is...

FYI I also got the 'alien registration number changed' notice showing up on my case status when I checked USCIS - it's dated just two days after NOA1 date of 3/12... It seems to me and from what i've read from recent stuff that this is now one of the first things they do rather than it being a clue to necessarily being adjudicated soon... at least from what I can tell...

We are at TSC. I am trying to BE patience. haha.

Check processing and just got the TEXT notification!!!! Raise the roooooof!

Congratulations!!

Something to file away in your memory-- parts of social security can be taxable depending on his other income. The more other income you make from other pensions or investment income, the more of the social security that is taxed. However usually not all will be.

So the point is...his tax return may not reflect his full social security income...the portion that isn't taxable. So to prove that extra bit of SS, get a photocopy of his 2013 Social Security letter saying what he is earning. It is sent out in December of each year to inform what the next year's payments will be. Usually there is a little cost of living "raise" each year and the December letter informs you of the new amount. That will serve the same purpose that an employer letter would. So when you read over and over in these forums, "send an employer letter"...well that is his. it isn't an actual letter in an envelope. It's one of those folded things where you tear off the side strips to open it. He can also probably get something from his retirement department stating his yearly pension as his other "employment letter". Use the gross amounts (before taxes or medicare amounts are taken out) to come up with his yearly income for the support form.

Hello again Nich-Nick- sorry to resurrect this old line of enquiry but you seem very knowledgeable about this and I was hoping you (or anyone else who feels they can respond!) wouldn't mind giving just a little more advice...

My retired grandfather is asking me for a little more info about what he will need to show for the I-134 AND the eventual I-864.. he just wants to understand better what documentation I will need from him and I can't quite figure out what to tell him.

He has the social security amount before taxes letters already lined up (stand in for employment letter as you explained so well Nich-Nick) and a small amount of yearly income on w-2s from his old employer which he can show... those amounts added up will leave a shortfall of around 2,000 in income to meet our 125% goal for joint sponsorship.

The rest of his considerable savings are in Roth IRA investments, mostly mutual funds, for which he receives quarterly statements showing how much he withdraws to live on, and also their total value. As there are no penalties for withdrawal and these are not taxable he could show their TOTAL VALUE as an asset to make up the income shortfall, correct? This would greatly exceed the shortfall x5 requirement for I-864a... Or could it be that we'd do better to document the amount he is withdrawing as 'income' to live off of- shown on the statements and as a distribution on his taxes? I have confused myself grossly and can't figure out what would be preferable way of showing that he more than meets the requirements...I assume that we would need to show his possession of the investment amounts with documentation of 6 months to a year (at least for I-864)...

Sorry for being a little clueless about Investments and the forms, but I'm just trying to find the simplest way to explain this to a very kind man who is trying to help me as much as he can and that I am confusing the more I try to explain and read the forms! Thanks to you and to anyone else who could shed light on something straightforward that I could tell him and prepare for.

Julie

Sent our 1-129F on 3/5/14 and USPS says received it on 3/8/14... Fingers crossed that check clears, email or text update, or NOA1 appears soon :D

Good luck to all of you.

Just a quick question to those of you who just got their NOA1- did you get a text or email message first or not? And did they cash your check before you received it or not?

I keep checking my online bank balance 3 times a day. Will have to get better at waiting!

Thanks guys

I'm sure just the photo of the two of you together with the dated receipts would be enough.

Remember, you're not having to prove your relationship yet, just that you have met in person.

By the way, what exactly is an 'official letter of support for presentation to UK Border Agency'?

No real point to my question, just my eyes pick up weird little things like that.

How exactly would it be 'official'?

oh i just meant that it is written very formally as a 'letter of support' by my fiance as a 'sponsor' for my visitor visa entry...

written to a certain template format i got from a uk visa website that gave advice on proving ties to the u.s.

and that it had original signatures from the parties i listed-- maybe this makes it an affidavit rather or maybe not.

it is the sort of the thing you present when asked about your ties to the u.s. when visiting u.k... usually more needed by people who aren't from visa waiver countries like me.

apologies if my terminology was unclear...

basically i had lived on several temporary residence visas prior to visiting again and wanted some back up docs like this and my proof of job in u.s. in case they thought i had immigrant intent when visiting my fiance then boyfriend... they never asked to see it-- it was just a safety blanket

and by not including ongoing relationship 'at this point' i mean at all... just seems like why include if it isn't actually asked for in instructions for petition

Good morning VJ!

If any of you would mind looking over this list of the primary and secondary evidence I have to present as proof of meeting in the last two years I would be grateful.

I am trying to make sure it is sufficient, and stop myself from adding in more stuff-- like the kitchen sink!

I have:

Statement of how we first met and crucial dates in relationship- 1 page signed, referencing Q.34a

Summer trip 2013:

-passport stamp for Fiance entering USA

-Boarding passes for Fiance's departure back to UK after visiting USA, for his entry flight I have netflights e ticket with itinerary and luggage tag

-ESTA obtained by Fiance prior to travel stating my address for address while in US

-photo of fiance and I hugging in houston airport arrivals hall

-Dated tickets for Texans game with picture of us clearly at reliant stadium with texans below

-Dated tickets for Moody Gardens with picture of us in 'rainforest pyramid'

-Picture of fiance with my grandfather and photo of me and fiance in mexican restaurant

Most recent trip: (things on same date or with same card # grouped together same page)

-Boarding passes for USC visiting UK (there and back again)

-Passport stamps for USC visiting UK (there and back again)

-Bank Statement showing foreign currency withdrawn in UK

-ATM receipt showing same foreign currency withdrawn in UK

-An official letter of support for presentation to UK Border authority for this visit- noting purpose of my visit and that i would be staying at my fiance's grandmother's house in UK for its duration and had a certain amount of foreign currency on me written and signed by my Fiance and his grandmother

(had this with me if any questions about my ties to U.S., accommodation in UK, or available funds... included here to establish we stayed together and where on my visit, clearly establishes his address/presence in the UK during my visit)

-Hotel Booking Receipt (For 2 adults for 2 nights to celebrate engagement- in Fiance's name only)

-Scan of Fiance's debit card to match with the receipts that lack his name

-four receipts for dinner/lunch for two on fiance's card

-one receipt paid by me in cash on same day as cash atm withdrawal, one receipt/ticket stubs for theatre date paid for before trip on my mastercard and picked up at box office in UK during my trip- date of pick up matches date on one of fiance's receipts

-scan of my mastercard to match with number on receipt above

-engagement congrats card sent by mother to fiance's uk address while we were both still there

-screenshot of engagement announcement/photo on facebook with clear date and responses from family members (one page only)

-fiance's final ring receipt (no name/card number on receipt but says 'diamond ring' and zero balance left to pay at least...) and photo of me and fiance out in liverpool wearing ring

Not including ongoing relationship stuff at this point- only meeting in person associated evidence for two most recent meetings.

There is more receipts and more visits/time spent abroad I could include but feel it would be overkill.

Unless anyone thinks this would be insufficient...

I know we only have to prove meeting once but thought it was good idea to include two trips since it shows me entering his country with passport stamps/boarding passes and then him entering mine with passport stamps/boarding passes...

Again if anyone has time to look over this list and respond I would be grateful.

I still have one or two more days to wait for the last signed thing I need from my fiance to arrive in snail mail...

I have everything else needed done and ready to go and it's very hard not to keep looking over it and over it and questioning too much, redoing, re-editing etc.

When i try to show what I've done to family members they aren't really familiar with the process so their feedback isn't very specific or all that helpful.

YOUR feedback means a lot as you have gone through this same purgatory!

Only one meeting needs to be disclosed.

You don't get extra credit for extra meetings.

Some have received RFEs for poor evidence for multiple meetings

I had thought this, but feel more comfortable disclosing a small handful-

as we have been together awhile and this selection shows a decent variety of types of evidence

without going overboard.

Each meeting shown has very clear PRIMARY evidence associated with it

(passport stamps and/or boarding passes)

so don't see how it could be seen as 'poor evidence'...

And i'm sure I am not the only person to include more than one meeting in the interest of feeling confident in the evidence!

Not trying to get 'extra credit' just trying to do my best and feel that evidence is totally sound...

As I'm sure you felt with your petition.

Thanks for your input.

I would be interested to hear or see about the RFEs you mentioned-- they did not come up in my searches of the site or in perusal of the pinned RFE list.

Thanks for the detailed reply Nich-Nick!

So glad that my sense of logic as you say finally seems of use.

What you describe ('team uscis' separating and mixing up all) had already crossed my mind as a possibility...

So my 'plan' includes not only listing things on an index for that section and having page numbers/cover letter etc, paper clipped sections etc...

but ALSO having a heading on each and every page which clearly states what the collected scanned stuff on that page is 'evidencing'

i.e. something like this example at the top of every evidence page:

'EVIDENCE OF MEETING IN LAST TWO YEARS

1/6/2014-1/23/2014 ‘Visit A’- JULIE HILL (Petitioner) visits DANIEL HAYES (Beneficiary) LIVERPOOL, UK'

similar to your red pen idea (i like it)... an in your face label on each page that means even if everything is all mixed up and moved around... well then there is no mistaking what the purpose of that particular page of evidence is and it could pretty much stand alone as to its reason for inclusion.

Doing my best not to editorialise too much with the labels, only typing relevant data bits found in each piece of evidence next to it for extra legibility rather than highlighting, some circling in pencil.

We met in person while I was living in UK and almost all of our good evidence is in person visit stuff so i'm losing no sleep over including a lot of online evidence.

For initially filing the I-129F they request evidence of having met within the previous two years. You're on the right track, but to what do you associate it? I suggest you use the space provided on question 34a of the I-129F to write: "See attachments 1-6, a-d, or whatever name you wish to give them. Use the first attachment to create a short timeline like:

11-12-2010 -- Met online and became friends. (see attachment 2 to view copies of communication)

11-13-2010 - 4-5-2011 -- Continued communication and planned trip for face to face visit. (see attachment 3)

4-12-2011 -- Met face to face in timbuktu. (see attachment 4 for copies of boarding passes, receipts, and various photos)

Suggest you also create a master cover letter that also explains the various attachments. Make sure you keep everything in order as you list it in the cover letter.

Such was my master plan-- thanks exexp

I am formatting the pages I am sending in as evidence of our meeting...

They include boarding passes, hotel and atm receipts, photos etc. for our several meetings/periods of living together.

I am trying to edit as much as possible to avoid bombarding them with way too many pages of evidence.

I have organised four trips/periods living together and labeled all pages associated with them 'a' 'b' 'c' 'd'... And then put the evidence for each of all kinds together for that trip (with the primary evidence like boarding passes first!)

99% of these images/documents are jpgs or tiffs and good quality... and to save space and make connections between the images I have resized many of them so they can fit on a page together.

I.e. -a trip with three boarding passes I made all three images slightly smaller so they fit on one page- stil legible.

I was very proud of myself in thinking it cut down on paper and allowed me to type notes explaining each image if necessary.

Now I am thinking- will having resized receipts, tickets, boarding passes slightly smaller and cutting and pasting be 'too creative' i.e. would they rather everything be actual size to avoid suspicion of them being fraudulent?

I would have to be a pretty talented fraudster to have this much primary evidence but... ???

Perhaps it would be better to redo- less clever, everything actual size (and kill more trees, be less clear...)

Julie (overthinking perhaps but please help!)

The photos on the DOS guidelines have several photos marked acceptable with people wearing jewelry and glasses.

In the photos I have I'm wearing jewelry.

There are several posts on here stressing no jewelry no glasses etc. whatsoever... even quoting it as 'coming from DOS' or uscis... Was this an old rule that has since been updated??

Thanks Jay-Kay.

I thought the second thing you mentioned might be the safest option...

(the d as in dog note is written very small and i'm hoping they wouldn't find it too odd or hard to see... my grandfather could read it without me telling him what it said so that was a good sign...)

Just thought it might look quite weird to have the attachment with his work history signed and not the main form itself.

The attachment is being sent in the overdue post already in transit that i should receive soon with intent letter and photos.

Well it's another post about cross outs on a simple form. Basically I can't sleep and would like some re-assurance...

My fiance signed several (3) forms G325A for me when we were together in January.

I spent a good while practicing on blank forms before i started printing (neatly) on the forms he signed with the information he gave me.

And then i made a little mistake on a form. and another on another. and another. I MESSED UP ON ALL THREE.

Oh dear.

There is one that is the most legible. I've only overmarked one letter in an address (a d that looked like an o now looks like maybe neither as i re-wrote too hard on top so below i wrote 'the letter above is 'd' as in dog')

And in a see attachment note in the employment list item i started to write 'petitio' for petitioner-- that is crossed out twice (not obliterated, just two lines through very neatly) and wrote 'beneficiary'.

I just wanted to make sure it was legible and correct and this one is near as possible without starting over...

and we are SO CLOSE to being ready to mail in the I-129F packet...

I'd ask him to re-send another signed one in the post but we've already been waiting over a week for an 'express' (HA) delivery from the UK with signed fiance letters photos...

I'm hoping they arrive in the next day or two and I can get this thing done... and NOT have to wait for another form to snail mail its way to me again...

Kicking myself...

Sorry to abuse your support...

Julie