Honeysuckle

Since age 16 you need a police certificate from all countries you lived for six months or more.

Less than six months and vacations don't count.

Dear Leatherneck,

Thank you for your post. Please, could you help me out?

I was born in the Philippines and lived there until I was 16. Then I moved to Austria in the 80s - I have an Austrian passport.

I guess I need a police certificate from the Philippines given the fact that I lived there for 16 years.

My question is, where do I get a police certificate from the Philippines? I've been away from our country for so long and I can't remember anymore where to get it from.

A Filipino friend of mine told me that I can get a police certificate from the NBI, National Bureau of Investigation. Is this correct? Seriously? It sounds scary - like as if I'm a criminal. :-)

In Austria, one can obtain a police certificate from any local police station. I don't have to go to the Austrian Federal Criminal Intelligence Office. :-)

Thank you for your advice.

Best regards,

S. & B.

I am a Dual Citizen (British/Filipino) married to a USC, we plan to *eventually* file for DCF and slowly working our way into getting our ducks in line for our application.

For the purpose our application, we will be using my British citizenship.

I come from a nomadic background (Dad was in the Aviation industry). My family moved from Sindapore to establish ourselves in the Philippines after we had lived there for several years and a few months after my 16th birthday.

I had a brief stint in the UK (about 8 months or so, it was more travelling than living and is the only time that I have been in the country of my nationality) when I was 18, and more recently I lived in Australia for just over 2 years before returning to the Philippines where I now live with my husband.

Does this mean I need to get police certificates for England, Singapore, Australia and the Philippines? Would there be no need for a police clearance from Singapore as I had left 3 to 4 months after my 16th birthday? Likewise, as I have never resided in England would that also be unnecessary?

From what I have seen online, the length of time one has resided in a country varies (Between 6 to 12 months), so I would just like to double check!

Thanks!

Thank you MrsBrokenshoelace for your post. This is an important information that I'll need in the future.

Best,

S. & B.

Mine took over 7 mths, for approval last year.

And 11 mths, from sending in the petition, to receiving the visa in-hand.

All the waiting is forgotten once you're here. GL

Dear everyone and Congratulations Kiwinyc! :-)

Kiwinyc, please excuse my audacity to interfere in your conversation. My fiancé (Firebug) and I are confused about the process so I ask kindly

ask you to explain this:

As you indicated, it took you 7 months before you received the approval. And then you waited another 11 months before you got the visa?

Or was it 11 months waiting altogether?

We sent our I-129 on April 22, 2014 and received the NOA1 on April 28, 2014.

Thank you Kiwinyc in advance for your reply. And to all of us who are painstakingly waiting to get approved, let's hang in there. As the saying goes, "there's light at the end of the tunnel". :=)

With best regards,

S. & B.

It'll be fine. And also, I don't think they stamp your passport when you leave. I have been in the US 6 years on a work visa and they only stamped when I enetered. I just was over there on a tourist visa and returned 6 weeks ago and they didn't stamp it. GOOD LUCK!!!

Thank you. All the best to you!

You are welcome. Yes, he sent his birth certificate to prove his US citizenship, so just sending the pages of the passport with the stamps to prove meeting in person is fine. You do not need all the pages unless you are using it on its own to prove citizenship.

Many thanks again. I appreciate it.

Best,

S. & B.

Copy of the passport is not even needed for the foreign fiance(e). The USC petitioner can use either a copy of their US birth certificate, naturalization or ALL(yes even blanks) pages of their US passport to prove US citizenship.

Also, just so you and others reading this that might be confused, the I-129F petition is mailed to a Dallas lockbox address, not the Texas Service Center. It is an intake facility and the petitions are sent from there to either the TSC or the CSC.

Sorry for the delayed response, Jay-Kay. I appreciate your for taking the time to reply.

Besides the passport, my fiancé also submitted his birth certificate to prove his citizenship.

So, I'm guessing it should be fine.

Thanks also for the clarification on the TSC.

Kind regards,

S. & B.

as far as I know, all passport pages shown are only if you don't have a birth certificate to show, not as proof of visitation. I could be wrong…if I am, I'm screwed, cuz I only photocopied my id card and the passport stamps as proof of my travel to see my fiancé.

Thank you Jewels7377 for the reply.

I hope that sending just the copy of our passport stamps wouldn't be a problem.

I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Thanks again and all the best to you and your fiancé.

Best,

S. & B.

Greetings to all Visa Journey Members,

I’ll try to make this short and sweet. My fiancé sent our I-129 application package to the Texas Service Centre. The package arrived and was received by Mr. or Mrs. So & So on April 23, 2014. Today, Tuesday April 29th, we received the NOA1.

Here’s the reason why I can't sleep:

We did not send ALL pages of our passports—we just sent a copy of the front page where it says name, date of birth, place, when it was issued and the expiration date etc. My passport was renewed in November 2013. I didn’t travel anywhere until I went to the US (with VWP) to visit my fiancé in December 2013. Therefore, there is only one stamp in my passport; the rest of the pages are blank.

Question # 1

According to the instructions for I-129 form, it says submit copy of “ALL” passport pages. Do we have to include the BLANK pages as well?

Question # 2

When I returned to Vienna on January 1, 2014. The immigration did not stamp my passport. So, it looks as if I never left the US when in fact, I did. In the past, I used to get stamp both; “entry and departure” stamps. This time, the immigration only checked my passport and my boarding pass. Did the immigration perhaps forget to stamp my passport or did I miss something?

Many thanks in advance for your reply.

Best regards,

S & B

Hello everyone,

This part of the G-325A form also confused me. So, I was glad when I saw this thread. Thank you for creating the topic on "deceased" parents.

If I put the word "deceased" under city and country of residence, does this mean I have to put in my parents' date, city and country of birth as well or can I just leave these blank?

Thank you for your advice.

Best,

S. &. B.

Thank you Mr. or Ms. SparklePony. I appreciate your reply.

All the best,

S. & B.

Dear all,

I am new to this forum and would like to seek your advice.

My fiancé is an American and I am from Europe. We would like to submit the I-129 form along with the G-325A and supporting documents – very soon. This may sound witless. However, we are not sure as to how we should send our documents.

My question is, do we need to put all the forms and documents in one envelope or shall we separate them by putting a clip or stapling all my documents together? Likewise, shall we do the same for my fiancé’s documents as well and then put everything in an envelope? I just think that it would be easier for the officer to look at the papers when they’re organized.

Has anyone done this? We just want to make sure that we are doing the right thing.

Thank you for your advice.

S. & B.