joseph22

Thank you Aussiwench.

Your post has been most helpful as usual.

We have taken special care, as you said to focus, on evidence of having been together in person for the I129.

All the documented proof of being together overseas, VERY recent photos etc, all very neatly categorized and labeled to any required specs.

We will include what we think is reasonable and nonredundant paperwork for the proof of relationship part (emails, MSN, hand letters, etc), but make sure she has a bulk of stuff to walk into the interview with above and beyond the petition!!!

Great! This is all very helpful!

We have saved all emails and MSN chats since about August 2005.

We actually met almost a year prior, but never thought to save things like this until we seriously started talking about the K1. Do you think it makes any difference that they dont catalogue our ENTIRE relationship?

Mind you, in the course of 6 months, there are more MSN and emails than I can count!

Has anyone ever bothered to include something like MSN or IM conversations as part of their proof of relationship?

My fiance and I of course have all the good stuff such as photos together, my travel receipts/docs, emails.... but we only speak on the phone through calling card, and have loads of MSN conversations also. I have been saving them for months now for our petition, but wondering if they are relevant. They dont really have anything like a routing or date stamp like emails do, just a back and forth dialogue...

I'll put some in to fatten things up if it seems relevant...so far we have:

-photos together from a recent trip

-all of my travel docs from that trip (passport stamp, hotel, etc)

-2 emails from me, 2 emails from her

-photocopies of a few handwritten cards she sent to me

does this sound descent?

THANKS!!!!!

You couldnt have made it any clearer!

Thanks so much.

I keep getting more and more comfortable with everyone's great advice and experience!

...way better than any lawyer I've dealt with!

THANKS!

Mand, doesn't "Application withdrawn" mean that they treat it as if you never tried to enter?

I have heard this before too.

Even more than one lawyer I have spoken to were not consisitent in really explaining what this meant. One said there probably would be no record retained of her being stopped at POE because it was voluntary and that it would have no bearing on any type of visa applied for at a later date. The other made it sound as if ultimately the person issuing the visa has final say, but I think they meant more in regards to tourist visas, which couldnt possibly carry as many legal obligations as a K1 during issuance.

I guess the bottom line is that after the incident, the visa in the passport was stamped "application withdrawn" meaning it was revoked, so we have to answer yes to that and the "denied entry" section. With so much border traffic and individual cases, I suppose it is safe to assume this is common and since nothing in our case seems problematic, we should go ahead assuming it could not affect an otherwise perfectly standing petition/application.....

Ahh...what a headache!

Thanks so much. This is very helpful and gives us a great deal of peace of mind.

She will be applying at the London embassy...we are hoping this journey will be as short and successful!!

It seems tracking the progress of the application is pretty easy from the sounds of everyone's post, but as we havent sent ours out yet, I'm wondering how it works.

If we include an email on the I129, do they email you when things happen (NOA1, touches, NOA2 etc)...

...Or is there some sort of application number you recieve and login, like a tracking software on the site?

We are curious as not sure either of us will necessarily be near our snail mail much. Hoping we can access and log our progress via computer.

Thanks!!

So it is safe to put "UNKNOWN" in the area for Alien Number as opposed to "NONE" ?

thanks!!!!

Hi everyone-

So, we are 'pretty' sure my fiance has an alien number, but have no idea where to find it. She has since replaced the passport that she had used to enter the US with one that she has never come in on. Our assumption is that if she had and alien number (for the G325) it would have beeen in that passport, but that thing is nowhere to be found.

If we absolutely cant find it, do we just put NONE on the form? does it mattter? will they dig it up for her or just assign a new one? I hate to leave something off if technically we should know it....

thanks

Hi. I have been following the boards throughout our application process and appreciate all of the great exchanges so far. It has been very helpful!!!

I have a question though that has been worrying us and we not quite sure what to think, so any thoughts would be kindly appreciated.

2 Years ago, my fiance was denied at the POE while on a tourist visa. Her passport was stamped "Application withdrawn" and she recieved a voluntary departure. No other information was ever given and we could nevr, through any research, find out what this was about, as she had not overstayed or violated any law we could think of.

Anyway, on two of the primary forms that she will recieve after the NOA2 (we are not there yet mind you), the DS-156 and DS-230, there are questions that seem to be relevant, but we are not sure. On the DS 156, Question 35 asked if we ever had a US visa canelled or revoked...i guess the answer is "yes". Then in box 38, the second item lists "refused admission to US" among other strong items...I guess this too is "yes" though we still dont even know why she was denied entry. What is this going to do to our petitiion? The seem like such redflag items and we are nervous.

On DS-230 question 32 is similar "...refused admission to US...explain"

Does anyone have any experience with former visas, tourist for example, that at some point had a problem, and how that may or may not have come into play for the K-1. We are desparately hoping for some good news. We would never lie or check no if the answer was "yes" but we hope this is not going to hurt us!!!!

Thanks!!!!!