somnibaulist

The last six weeks have been a little crazy for us. We were originally scheduled for a March 30 interview in Manila but minor issues with the medical prevented us from going ahead with the interview. We've been rescheduled for June but, I'll be starting a new job the first week in May. This was actually on the horizon back in March but I figured it moot -- I wouldn't be qutting my current job or starting the new one until well after our original interview.

So. What do I need to do? At the very least I know I'll need to redo the I-134 and send an updated copy to my fiancee (of course this is after I cratered my savings paying for a trip to Manila...). But I'm also going to need to update my G-325A. How do I do this? Just send a new copy for her to present at the interview? Or is there an official channel?

Needless to say I'm also going to sending in all sorts of evidence from my March trip (passport stamps, hotel receipts, boarding passes, etc.) and a nice letter saying, "Darnit, we tried! Look at how dedicated we are! I travelled 19,000 miles even though you cancelled our stupid interview!"

Thanks!

If the printing on your tickets/boarding passes is faded, clearly label the relevant information below each item. e.g., "5 May 2006 Cathay Pacific 921, Hong Kong to Cebu". It's best to remove any ambiguity. As for presentation, it should be fine to arrange them on a single page and make a color photocopy.

Sending in all the other superfluous data just bogs down the process. What exactly does sending in hotel receipts or engagement ring receipts prove?

Depends on how proactive you are about getting your names together in clever ways. I've got pages and pages of hotel bills with both my name and my fiancee's name listed as guests. I have intra-Philippines ticket stubs showing us sitting in adjacent seats on the same flight. Pages of call logs from three different countries to her mobile. It piles up quickly.

Quick question: Is there any special procedure or form that needs followed to amend an application after it's been filed? Or will a letter, detailing the changes, be sufficient? These aren't substantive changes, just changes demanded by the slow march of life. Going back for a visit in November, taking a different job in a few weeks, and my fiancee and her family are moving.

How much of a reduction? Is it printed on A4 (~~ 8.25" x 11.6875") or is it just reduced?

I'm a student in Arizona, but my parents live in Washington state. Could I file my petition through their address even though I plan on living here (in AZ) after my fiance and I get married? That way I could apply through NSC and take advantage of the shorter wait time. Did anyone on this site do anything like that???

Where's your legal residency?

I'm in much the same position as you: I get no paper bills aside from the oddball bill from my dentist. What might help with the substantial electronic documentation is adding a statement to your cover letter indicating your situation. Here's the statement I used on our cover letter:

All submitted documents, except {petitioner}'s notarized birth certificate, are either copies of electronic originals or scanned paper originals placed in page layout program. Some documents have either been redacted or cropped to exclude sensitive or non-relevant information.

And include a notation next to documents which are electronic originals, redacted, etc. Having electronic originals actually made the assembly process much quicker: I have a folder-full of sorted, scanned assets, saved PDFs, etc. which I just dropped into InDesign. Even the multipage G325-As and the I129-F are placed in this document. Makes it a lot easier to organize. (Now if Adobe would resurrect FrameMaker as a Mac OS X native app...)

As for the lack of boarding passes, this is why you teach yourself to become a packrat Seriously though, passport stamps are a legal record of your entry/exit of a country. They alone should be enough to document your travels, but if you want you can definitely support them with a printout from Orbitz, corresponding line-item from your credit card bill, hotel bills for the same period, etc. If you have a frequent flyer account with the airline you flew, they will still probably have a copy of the PNR tied to your FF#.