Karen and Patrick

Hello again....

If I send in my I-129F tomorrow to VSC what would you expect my best case and worst case would be until the interview date? JK

The petition is for Mainland China, i.e. Guangzhou.

I am the one with the J1 visa 2 year rule. It is up in 10 months exactly. I've seen some people that are done in 8 months some in only 5.

2. Will the consulate issue a K1 visa for someone still subject to the 2 year rule (say 1-2 months left) with the thinking that a person will have 6 months to enter the US after the visa is issued and can thus serve the remaining "sentence?"

3. If you wanted to have the interview around July 2007 for China, when would you send the I-129F?

4. What would happen if I got through the entire process in 5 months and still had 5 months left on the 2 year "sentence?" Anyone know?

5. Who will take will Congress in November. JK

Thank you...

-Patrick from MA

p.s. As you can see, I am trying to "time" the filing of our petition so as to get the interview around July 2007.

-Patrick

Hello again,

RE I-129F and Part C Questions 2 and 3. If I have never committed any of the the crimes do I just leave it blank? It would seem that a government official might think I skipped/forgot to fill in?

What did you do?

-Patrick Morrissey

Massachusetts/ Zhu Hai, China

Hello,

If anyone can help please...

Can I apply for my fiancee for a K1 visa, i.e. get the ball rolling, during the time she is still "serving" her 2 year home residency requirement from her J1 visa. If I think the 2 years will be up aound the time her interview would happen (in China) can I plan this way? Or must I wait until until the entire 2 years are up before beginning the K1 process.

Please help me.

-Patrick from Massachusetts

Hello to all,

For the I129F petition question 15 page 2 for my fiancee...Should the address be where she actually lives/sleeps, i.e. her residence, or could it be her mailing address, i.e. her parents' house, where she doesn't live, but has MUCH MORE SECURE mail delivery. She lives in China.

Secondly,

The examples on VJ tend to indicate that question 10 "give a number of certificate, date and place it was issued" is only for naturalization. I could read this to mean give the number, date and place of issue of an American's birth certificate. Am I right or wrong?

-Patrick Morrissey

Boston, MA

Hello,

I am preparing to submit a I-191 package to begin the K1 visa process. My fiancee is subject to the 2 year home residency rule until late July 2007/early August. That is 10 months away.

Have you had personal experience with K1 or K2 or any other fiance(e) visa and also had the added issue of the two year home residency requirement?

If so, please advise on timing of the K1 application and how the two year rule factored into the entire K1 or K3 process.

Can you, say, go to the consular interview and still be under the two year rule...for example, in a perfect world, my fiancee gets her interview in less than 10 months in Guangzhou, China.

I would greatly appreciate being able to email directly or on this blog with someone in my same or similar situation.

Thank you all.

-Patrick Morrissey

Massachusetts, USA

Hello friends,

I am submitting my second post on this site. I am going to submit my birth certificate in conjunction with the I129A package and I am wondering what I should do, if anything, about the "front and back" photo copy of my birth certificate if my birth certificate, which is the long form, is BLANK on the BACK.

I don't want the government official to think that I neglected to copy the back side of the Birth Certificate and then get a RFE.

Any thoughts? At the moment on the back side of the birth certificate I have a note that says the side is blank and I signed and dated it.

Should I submit an official copy and just stop fretting about it?

Thanks,

-Patrick Morrissey

Hello Visa Journey Friends,

I am preparing to submit the G-325A Bibliographic Information sheet, in quadruplicate, in support of our K1 package.

My fiancée is Chinese and I am American.

I've seen this topic discussed on Candle of Light, but there is still doubt after reading the post.

In the "Signature of Applicant" box should my fiancée sign her name with Chinese characters? Or with the Roman letters that associate with her name? for example, her name is LU JUAN. LU is her sir name and Juan is her given name.

Should she sign: “Lu Juan” or “Juan Lu” or sign with Chinese characters?

Then there is the native alphabet block. Should that be sir name first and then given name (like the Chinese and Japanese do?) or should it be the foreign style with given name and then sir name? Or maybe last name, (comma) first name.

I would especially appreciate insight from a filer whose better half is from China who has experience with this issue.

Also, her social security/work card she had while in the US lists her name as “ Juan Lu” just like it would list my name, Patrick Morrissey, with the given name first followed by the sir name.

Help?

-Patrick Morrissey

Massachusetts, USA