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OP, my fiance and I are currently both living in South Korea, are a gay couple and have just sent off our K1 packet. We got the NOA1 and now the long wait starts. We would have to prove his intent to reestablish domicile at the consular interview stage. As people said a bit further up in this thread, it is possible for you to do the DCF or go the K1 route, and not be separated regardless which route you choose it just depends on when you want to move back to the states? My fiance and I are moving back in August 2018. Thus we have left ourselves a healthy amount of time to get everything done and get our ducks in a row so that we do not have to spend time apart. All of this might seem confusing, but just keep reading and researching and it will all start to become a little less confusing. Also, the more information you provide about your specific circumstances the more specific answers you will get.
Good luck.
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We got our email notification today. That's the date I've temporarily put down on my timeline here until we get the paper copy of the NOA1 and I see a different date on there. It will probably take a little while to get to us since we live together in South Korea and we thus filed from here.
Happy waiting everybody.
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Hi all!
So, so, SOOOO relieved to be posting this here: we sent our documents off with DHL this morning. We live overseas so it should be delivered by the end of the work day on Monday. I loved what someone said earlier in the thread... I can't wait for my NOA1 so we can go on with our lives. Hehehehe. So true. Putting that package together was all-consuming for weeks and now it's finally over. Phew.
Good luck to all of you!
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Hi all,
I am unable to get a clear answer by doing a search for my question.
My fiance is the USC and we both live in South Korea where we teach English. We are about to file our i-129f, but we are now unsure as to when we need to provide proof that my fiancé had the intent to reestablish US domicile.
Do do we need it now or for the embassy interview part of the K1 process?
Thanks all.
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On 9/9/2017 at 4:47 AM, Spazmotic said:
Hi there,
We used ITC International Translation Co LTD. You can find them at:
서울시 중구 세종대로 74-1 -- (02) 779-2222
They made a very minor error with ancestral birthplace but fixed the issue very simply for us. They will provide you with a cover letter and stamp and seal showing their fluency for you. This cover letter describes the translation, gives their license number, translator name and English signature, as well as a Korean stamp.
The prices are a little steep, running at 10,000원 per page, and possibly paying more per page if there are a large amount of characters. For example, the family registrar page cost 20,000원, and you will additionally pay 10,000원 for the cover sheet with the signature. Be prepared for these fees to easily rack up into the hundreds if you need many things translated (Family Registrar, changes, pre-호주, divorce, etc..)
Regarding self translation, I have heard a lot of mixed reports here of some people getting away with this fine, and some people getting RFE for the material. I think it will depend on the importance of the material and the CO.. but I would personally tread carefully. Good luck!
Thank you so much for this. 10 000 or even 20 000 per page seems more reasonable. I got quoted more than a hundred dollars for two pages last week.
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On 9/9/2017 at 1:10 PM, Shellane845 said:
Hey!
We have very similar situations!! We are going to file next week too! Since when I mail it I will be living in Korea still I am going to use my Korean address for the living address but my mom's address for our mailing address. Because I will be leaving Korea in a few weeks. I want to make sure to get the mail without any hiccups.
What did you all put in your proof part of the application? I am doing pictures, some messanger conversations starting from the day we met and my Korean residency card to show we lived very close to each other.
Thank you!!!
Shellane
Hi there,
Gotcha on the address. We will both be living here till August 2018, so we are using my school as the mailing address. We are a little nervous about that one, but all USPS mail that we have had sent from his family in the states have been received.
About the proof, this is what we are putting together:
- Pictures - for us it is a lot of mundane stuff like being out to dinner with friends, birthday parties, travelling together once outside of Korea, baseball games and such
- Kakao messages - Lordie we have a lot! We will probably screenshot messages that fit in with some of the pics, then also just some loving conversation between the two of us and lastly just random everyday stuff we talk about. We now live together so those messages are a lot less after two years of living apart and finally moving in together. Also, we will probably make sure that we have messages from each month since we started dating. We will screenshot all of this.
- Facebook - we are not the type of couple who put everything on Facebook, but we do have one or two pics of us together and two posts from when we posted about our one year and two year anniversaries respectively.
- Cards - we have made cards and written notes to each other so we will scan all of those
- Lease - like I mentioned we now live together and both of our names are on the lease so we will send a translated certified copy of our lease.
I know living in the same country we don't have that a lot of written proof as long distance bi-national couples might have, but we do have more photographic proof so play those up.
If you guys called each other on the phone, get your phone company to send you a print out of your call history and highlight all your calls to show that you have spent time developing this relationship.
Since your fiance is Korean his family is here and if you spent time with them include pictures of that or proof of anything they might have given you.
I hope that helps.
We are filing this week, but have so much more to do. We want to go slow though so we don't make mistakes and get an RFE.
Good luck to you guys!
Joe
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Shellane845,
we are kinda in the same boat. My fiancé is the USC, but I'm South African and we both live here till next August.
We are are putting our packet together and will probably file late next week. If you need any help, let me know.
Since you are the USC and living abroad, can I ask you if you are using a Korean address for your mailing address?
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Hi all,
I a looking for some recommendations for a translator in Seoul. My fiance and I live together and as part of our relationship evidence, we are submitting our lease because both of our names are on it.
The lease is in Korean so we need to have it translated before we include it in our I-129F packet. I read on the forums that there a bunch of translation places 'behind' the US Embassy in Seoul. I want to know if anybody can recommend one and possibly tell me how they charge for these? By the page?
Any help would be appreciated.
Also, if I posted in the wrong place I am sorry. I tried to post directly in the Korea portal, but I didn't know how to do it.
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Hopefully it doesn't come to that. My boyfriend and I both live in Seoul and we are almost ready to file our I-129F packet. We have a long way to go still. We have both lived here for almost ten years and know the threats too well and as such we are not too worried, but the thought of something happening and us being separated is terrifying. Let's hope for the best.
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Hi everybody,
We have a problem with the new I-129F form (issued on 04/10/17) with regards to addresses.
We have two problems:
1) Our address are too long to fit into the Street Number and Name section of all the address sections. What needs to go into, for example, box 8b is: Tosung ro 12 gil 91, Gangdong Gu. Box 8b however is too small to accommodate all of that. We are aware that you can enter supplemental information in Part 8. Should we write the address out in full (Street # and Name, City, Postal Code and Country) in Part 8 or should be only write the information for the particular item number?
2) We have many residential as well as employment addresses between the two of us over the last five years because of being contract teachers and both of us living overseas. My fiancee has seven residential addresses and I have three. Part 8 wont be long enough so we will make multiple copies of part 8. Part 8 has sections where you label the page number, part number and item number that your additional information refers to. On the actual I-129F there is only space for two residential addresses each for both the petitioner and the beneficiary. If we have seven residential addresses we can fit two on the actual form and the rest will go on the part 8 pages. How do we label the page, part, and item numbers in part 8 if we are creating additional physical and employment addresses?
I hope all of this is clear. We hope somebody can help.
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Thanks to you both. It's just that we are trying to be as prepared and watched some videos on YouTube and I saw someone include the beneficiary birth certificate. It immediately didn't square with everything I've read and seen so I thought I would ask.
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Hi all, We are compiling our documents to file the I-129F form. I'm a little confused as to if the beneficaiary also has to include a include their birth certificate. The I-129F instruction guide mention nothing about this. It only ask for the birth certificate of the USC (the petitioner). My understanding that the beneficiary's birth certificate is only neccessary at the embassy interview stage. Am I correct?
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On 5/25/2017 at 11:30 PM, schung115 said:
I just want to see if my husband and I are the only ones waiting.. It is good to see other people getting approved, but on the other hand, makes me sad why our case is still pending.. It has been 15 months!
That's terrible? I'm assuming you got your NOA1?
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On 5/15/2017 at 3:10 PM, Danni_xo said:
Like @A'n'L said, you don't need to be officially engaged. You both just have to have the intent to get married. Having said that, of course don't just apply for the sake of moving to the US. You have to be sure your relationship is ready for the next step. My fiance and I wanted to move almost 2 years ago, but we waited until we were 100% sure that we'd like to spend the rest of our lives together.
Great to know. We intend to get married. If not for this move I would have proposed around this time anyways. We've been ready for a few months now, in fact, we are moving in together in August of this year and live together for one year before moving to the US.
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Thanks for the responses! Danni_xo we are equally excited!
We could file right away, but we are not engaged yet. Now, I know technically in the eyes of USCIS if we had the conversation about our intention to get married, then we are engaged. After having the conversation, we both realized that we are a little tradition and would like to formally get engaged. From other threads, it seems like we could file right away, do the formal engagement and at the time of the interview just be honest about when I formally asked him to spend the rest of his life with me.
Does anybody have experience doing it this way? What questions were you asked during the interview? Has this been an issue for anybody?
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Hi all,
We are a same sex couple currently living in Seoul, South Korea. I am the beneficiary and is South African. We are not engaged yet, but plan to be in a few months. After doing some reading on here, here is our plan:
We are looking to file our I-129F towards the end of October so that we have ten months from filing to us leaving South Korea at the same time at the end of August 2018.
Right now we have plenty of time to get engaged, talk to family about co-sponsoring us, get documents for both the I-129F and the financial information (tax returns, my vaccinations records, ect) that has to be collected after NOA2 has been issued.
I am just wondering if there is anybody here currently (or in the next couple of months) filing their I-129F from South Korea.
Anybody that has done this in the past and would like to share their timelines or tips (especially with regards to the UCS proving domicile in the USA).
We are excited to start this part of our journey together. Thanks for everybody who posts. These forums have put us at easy with the process.
Regards,
J&B
K-1 Gay Couple
in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports
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@JoJoJoJo said he did it without specifying an exact address so you will probably be fine. I would start making plans to get set up in the States as best you can now already. I think the more plans you make the better your chances at the interview stage.