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Do the documents sent in to support the I-134 have to be dated within a certain time frame and does that also apply to the police certifates as well. Just wondering since I am having my fiancee collect all this info in anticaipation of the interview date and don't want anything to be outdated if interview is scheduled to far out.

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Since you already have your NOA2, you can start gathering everything now. I don't know how long the I-134 is valid for, but from what I see here, most people start putting everything together once they receive NOA2. I know it's not less than 3 months...

Thanks that's what I thought but I just wanted some confirmation. By the way do you or anyone else knwo if I need to send NVC a DS-3032 form to specify mailing address or will my fiancee automatically receive her paperwork from the embassy at her home address

Thanks once again

The consulate site in Brasil has a link to schedule an interview. Can anyone tell me if I am better off using that link or waiting for the consulate to issue the interview?

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Do the documents sent in to support the I-134 have to be dated within a certain time frame and does that also apply to the police certifates as well. Just wondering since I am having my fiancee collect all this info in anticaipation of the interview date and don't want anything to be outdated if interview is scheduled to far out.

Thanks

What about the I-134 affidavit?

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My fiancee will be interviewing in Rio de Janeiro and is in the process of waiting for packet 3 from the consulate. Can anyone fill me in on what she will need to send back to expedite her interview date. I know she will need forms DS-230A, DS-156, DS-156K, DS-157, I-134, her Birth Certificate transalated in English and Police certificate as well as the original I29F packet. Which of these will she need to send back to setup the interwiview and which will she need to take to the interview.

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yes it needs to be translated for the interview as well, the document as well as translation will be placed in the large sealed brown envelope carried back to the USA and given to the officer at the POE and they send it on to USCIS where persons will still need to be able to read the document, most people working at USCIS only understand English.

Thanks I just found an immigration website which verifies what you are stating, it does need to be translated.

Thanks to all who replied

This might seem like a silly question, but I need to ask anyway. When my fiance goes to her interview she is going to be required to bring a copy of her birht certificate. Will it need to be transalated into English even though she is going to the consulkate in her own Country?

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From what I understand, all official documents they require need to be translated into English. The translation can be done by anyone who is proficient in both the native language which the document is written and also in the English language. I am sure you will hear more from others on this subject

I know that all official documents they require for the I-129F to be approved required translation I just was not certain whether that would be the case for the interview as well.

This might seem like a silly question, but I need to ask anyway. When my fiance goes to her interview she is going to be required to bring a copy of her birht certificate. Will it need to be transalated into English even though she is going to the consulkate in her own Country?

Thanks

Thanks to all. I was just worried cause it had not even been touched. I was not aware that others were being approved without their status changing from pending. If it takes a month that will be fine with me but I sure hope it's less. The whole process and the fact that you are left in limbo at times is very frustrating and disheartening. The support from the folks on this site certailnly helps. Thanks once again.

Received NOA2 approval via email yesterday, had not touches prior to it. Very relieved!!!

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Snail Mail Confirmed NOA2 today!

Congrats!!!. I am just curious to find out if you got any touches or an update on the USCIS website prior to your snail mail confirmation. Congrats once again and lots of luck going forward.

Thanks to all. I was just worried cause it had not even been touched. I was not aware that others were being approved without their status changing from pending. If it takes a month that will be fine with me but I sure hope it's less. The whole process and the fact that you are left in limbo at times is very frustrating and disheartening. The support from the folks on this site certailnly helps. Thanks once again.

I was just wondering. I sent a reply to an RFE and it was received by CSC on 2/14/2007 but since then has not has a single touch. I have noticed that others have received NOA2 within days of sending their RFE reply. Should I be worried and is it advisable for me to schedule and interview which I have not yet done.

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Can anyone who is well versed in English and the alternate language translate the documents and as long as they are Notarized it's all good, or does it have to be done by someone who is an officlal document translator, if there is such a thing? The documents I am referring to are receipts and such being sent as proof of having met my fiance.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

Adding the additional stuff you already said sounds good, if you dont mind the extra wait I would go ahead and wait and get more evidence from next trip. Not sure as you said if they want only proof preceeding the application, but the extra can never hurt.

I agree with you that the extra cannot hurt. However I am leaning toward just sending copies of my airline tickets and captions indicating I am going back in 9 days and not waiting to burn the almost 4 weeks it will take for the trip. It seems pretty clear that they want evidence prior to the 129F being sent, so I don't think waiting makes sense at this point. Thanks for the suggestion though, it is appreciated.

Remember photos are secondary evidence and do not carry the same weight as primary evidence. Your passport stmp is the most importnt new information you can send it.

Did you highlight the dates on the evidence you did send it? Make notations on it o the ajudicator can make sense of everything they are looking at? Sometmes it looks like it makes sense to us, but from a stranger's point of view, it does not tell a complete story.

What did you write in your Question 18 about how you met? Did you offer evidence from that , if it was a meeting in person?

I really think that the passport stamp will be enough to add strong primary evidence.

Good luck getting a quick resolution once you have sent ths in!

No I did not highlight the dates or make notations. Both were probably huge mistakes on my part. I will make sure I do both this time around. I did offer evidence of meeting in person but I gues you are correct in stating that it made sense to me but might not have been clear to the person handling my case. Thanks for the feedback and good wishes.

Why would they care if a pic has a time stamp. They are probably one of the easiest things to fake on a pic. It seems that they wouldn't care since they are not reliable at all. There are even crime documentaries on Discovery Channel that show how some criminals try to create an alibi by manipulating the time stamp. Are the people at the service centers that out of the technological times?

I agree 100% with what you just stated, the whole tiem stamp thing seems absurd but I do have the EXIF files for all the pictures with the date and will print them with them time stamp.

Sorry for th RFE, send the evidence they ask for, dont worry about the birth certificate. He/she should obtain one if she doesnt already have it and send you a photocopy, in case they ask for it but it shouldnt be a prob cos its usually not needed until the consulate stage.

Thanks that is what I intend to do. I am just a bit frustrated because the request is so vague, I've already sent a lot of the things on the request. I am thinking it was just the fact that i did not have the receipts transalated.

Do you not have passport stamps for your visit?

I do have passport stamps for my VISA, that's about the only thing I did not send in. The request for evidence is very vague, does not realy specify any one thing.I am going to resend everything I sent the first time around plus photcopies of the passport. This includes and itinerary for my trip from yahoo travel. 2 boarding pass stubs from my return trip with my name and dates on them. A corresponding baggage calim ticket with date including year. Credit card statements and receipts from my hotel stay.( This time I am having the Portuguese ones translated.) Copies of both my fiance and my hotel registry sheets (transalated) and the fotographs of us together with handwritten dates location and names on back. I also have a hotel receipt with the name, date and location of hotel, made out to my fiance under her name. This all seems like pretty solid eveidence to me. Am I missing something?

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I just got my RFE letter today and I have some questions on it. any advice would be helpful. The RFE is requesting more evidence of meeting beneficiary in person preceding the filing of the petition. I do not have copies of my airline tickets, but I did send an Itinerary and boarding passes from my return trip as well as a baggsge calim sticker with the corresponding flight number and date including year. I sent 8 photos of my fiance and I, which i wrote the date and location in back of. I aslo sent a copy of the hotel registry receipt showing that we stayed in the same room at the hotel on the same dates. These are in Portuguese and English, I am going to resend them as well as fully transalated copies. I did not send copies of my passport and stamped pages but I intend to do so with the RFE. I am not sure if the photos need to be resent due to the fact that it seems they want the dates to be film dated. I am not quite sure what they mean by this but I am guessing it has to have a digital date stamped on them. Las of all I am going back to Brasil in 2 weeks and I am wondering if I should wait and send proof of that trip as well, even though the request is asking for proof preceding the filing of the petition. Oh one last thing my request did not ask for the benificiary's birth certificate, which I did not send. I noticed on some other threads some people were asked for this. I never reas anywhere that it was required and I am wondering whether to obtain it for fear of being sent another RFE requesting it. Thnaks for amy input.

Hi,

I'm not an expert at this but I have gone through the process you're going through now. If your pictures don't have the date imprinted you can download a free program that will do it for you, http://snipclik.com/. The program will use the time stamp in the pictures as the date. If you have the pictures in digital format you're set (if not then I'm not sure how you can do it.) Finally print the pictures at Walgreens or Costco or wherever they take digital prints. I believe any pictures up to 2 years old will be ok.

Thanks, I'll give the program a try and hopefully it does the trick and that will at least take care of the pics.

Hello!

I just got my RFE letter today and I have some questions on it. any advice would be helpful. The RFE is requesting more evidence of meeting beneficiary in person preceding the filing of the petition. I do not have copies of my airline tickets, but I did send an Itinerary and boarding passes from my return trip as well as a baggsge calim sticker with the corresponding flight number and date including year. I sent 8 photos of my fiance and I, which i wrote the date and location in back of. I aslo sent a copy of the hotel registry receipt showing that we stayed in the same room at the hotel on the same dates. These are in Portuguese and English, I am going to resend them as well as fully transalated copies. I did not send copies of my passport and stamped pages but I intend to do so with the RFE. I am not sure if the photos need to be resent due to the fact that it seems they want the dates to be film dated. I am not quite sure what they mean by this but I am guessing it has to have a digital date stamped on them. Las of all I am going back to Brasil in 2 weeks and I am wondering if I should wait and send proof of that trip as well, even though the request is asking for proof preceding the filing of the petition. Oh one last thing my request did not ask for the benificiary's birth certificate, which I did not send. I noticed on some other threads some people were asked for this. I never reas anywhere that it was required and I am wondering whether to obtain it for fear of being sent another RFE requesting it. Thnaks for amy input.

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What does the letter say?

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I just got my RFE letter today and I have some questions on it. any advice would be helpful. The RFE is requesting more evidence of meeting beneficiary in person preceding the filing of the petition. I do not have copies of my airline tickets, but I did send an Itinerary and boarding passes from my return trip as well as a baggsge calim sticker with the corresponding flight number and date including year. I sent 8 photos of my fiance and I, which i wrote the date and location in back of. I aslo sent a copy of the hotel registry receipt showing that we stayed in the same room at the hotel on the same dates. These are in Portuguese and English, I am going to resend them as well as fully transalated copies. I did not send copies of my passport and stamped pages but I intend to do so with the RFE. I am not sure if the photos need to be resent due to the fact that it seems they want the dates to be film dated. I am not quite sure what they mean by this but I am guessing it has to have a digital date stamped on them. Las of all I am going back to Brasil in 2 weeks and I am wondering if I should wait and send proof of that trip as well, even though the request is asking for proof preceding the filing of the petition. Oh one last thing my request did not ask for the benificiary's birth certificate, which I did not send. I noticed on some other threads some people were asked for this. I never reas anywhere that it was required and I am wondering whether to obtain it for fear of being sent another RFE requesting it. Thnaks for amy input.

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What does the letter say?

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What does the letter say?

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what are they asking for?

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Hello!

I just got my RFE letter today and I have some questions on it. any advice would be helpful. The RFE is requesting more evidence of meeting beneficiary in person preceding the filing of the petition. I do not have copies of my airline tickets, but I did send an Itinerary and boarding passes from my return trip as well as a baggsge calim sticker with the corresponding flight number and date including year. I sent 8 photos of my fiance and I, which i wrote the date and location in back of. I aslo sent a copy of the hotel registry receipt showing that we stayed in the same room at the hotel on the same dates. These are in Portuguese and English, I am going to resend them as well as fully transalated copies. I did not send copies of my passport and stamped pages but I intend to do so with the RFE. I am not sure if the photos need to be resent due to the fact that it seems they want the dates to be film dated. I am not quite sure what they mean by this but I am guessing it has to have a digital date stamped on them. Las of all I am going back to Brasil in 2 weeks and I am wondering if I should wait and send proof of that trip as well, even though the request is asking for proof preceding the filing of the petition. Oh one last thing my request did not ask for the benificiary's birth certificate, which I did not send. I noticed on some other threads some people were asked for this. I never reas anywhere that it was required and I am wondering whether to obtain it for fear of being sent another RFE requesting it. Thnaks for amy input.

Hello!

I just got my RFE letter today and I have some questions on it.