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After your visa is accepted in the consulate, they will send your passport via dhl. Along with your passport there will be a sealed packet of documents, you will have to deliver this to the officer who admits you to the US on the point of entry. The fee is for the processing of this packet by the uscis in the US. Remember to not open the packet, hand it in sealed.

You will be asked to pay for a fee the day of the interview, in the consulate in ciudad juarez, it was around 300 dolars, take a credit card to pay. So you dont handle money in cash.

They should accept them. I am Bolivian and did DCF in mexico, and they accepted a note from my pediatrician that he sent me from his files in Bolivia with my vaccines.I may have helped that he studied medicine in UNAM and this was noted in his stamp but if that counts then your Cartilla should also count. To make sure, have a dr sign it. Call Clinica Medica Internacional in juarez and ask which vaccines you need specifically because they were different that what I had found online.

I´ll answer your questions one by one. I just finished the process with muy wife (the USC) in mexico, we did it in only 3 months!! I will help you guys as much as I can.

1- They ask for proof of residency in Brazil, would my wife's passport (the USC) with her permanent citizen visa + her Brazilian ID be good enough? We really do not have anything else as she never got a brazilian driver's license etc.

Assuming her permanent citizen visa is for Brazil then its perfect, as it proves legal residence in Brazil, also her ID would be a plus, but a residency permit for her would be the best. That would be the textbook answer, however the us embassy in mexico accepted her mexican bank statements for 3 months, since her residency card had expired and it was really hard to get another one, also a letter explaining the situation of why she didnt have the residency card.

2- The passport pictures. Which size is it? Some places say "passport size", others 5x5cm or 5x7cm, others in inches, so we don't know which size is the correct one.

I dont remember if we needed pictures with the i130, i think you do but i dont remember what size. For the interview we were asked for 2 5x5 cm for the beneficiary (me). 5x5 cm is almost the same as 2x2 inch.

3- Proof of relationship prior to the marriage. Is this necessary? We have been married and living together in Brazil for 6 years, we have a ton of info from the marriage day onward but not much from before.

This could be contracts for leases you have together before getting married,we went with this. Also signed letters of people that knew you while dating, preferably notarized. Also plane reservations for trips you made and pictures of you before the marriage

4- Proof of US Domicile. When during the DCF process is this necessary, during the inicial filling or later on the interview? My wife still has a US address where her bills get sent to, a valid driver's license (and logs of her keeping it up to date), active US bank accounts with transactions being done monthly, credit card statements and receipts. Will that be enough?

For us they just asked for an address, although her US licence has her licence on it.

5- We will need a Co-sponsor, the co-sponsor lives in the US, is it ok for him to scan the filled out I-864 form and the supporting documents and send it to me, or does he has to actually mail everything to us? Like will they care that the form isn't 100% original?

Call the embassy with this particular question because it might be different in brazil (Try to get the answer by email, so you have written proof). We presented this form on the day of the interview at the end of the process in ciudad juarez in mexico, we took an originally signed form by our co-sponsor.

6- In between the filing and the interview dates, my wife will most likely have to go to the US for a few days to get a few things started, but she will come back to Brazil immediately after. Will that hurt the DCF in anyway, if they see that she left and entered the country recently?

After our I-130 was approved, we both went to the US for vacation for two months , I have a tourist visa so I couldnt work and you wont be able to either, but you can both go to the US as long as you mantain Brazil as your main residence, as we did in Mexico. She is a US citizen and has the right to go to the US. As for your, if you have a tourist visa you can go as a visitor to the US.

Keep in mind that it is ilegal to use a tourist visa to travel to the united states with the intent of overstaying or working, but as long as the true intent of your trip is being a tourist and visiting your wife there it is not ilegal as long as you dont break this condition and intend on returning to brazil. It would be useful to buy a return ticket to brazil in advance so you can convince the inmigration authorities in the point of entry that this is your intent. Remember never lie to agents, honesty is the best policy.

We kept on calling now we have a case number, just keep calling the consulate and giving your name and passport number until they give you a case number

Me and my wife filed the i130 for dcf and already received the NOA2 from uscis in the Mexico city embassy. The letter said they were forwarding the case to the Ciudad juarez consulate. We have heard and read that delivery by mail is really bad and that some people got everything by email using the case number. How do you get this case number?

Thank you everyone!

I just read something that made me nervous somewhere... it said that you cannot file for DCF if both people are from out of country.. does anyone know if that is true? Neither of us are Mexican but we both have permanent residency here, and live here full time.

Yes you can, in Mexico at least. My wife and I just got our I130 approved, shes an american citizen studying in Mexico and Im Bolivian also studying in Mexico.