adamkun

Hello everyone!

Because of the awesome help of all you forum members I have now decided to go the DCF route in Japan!

This means that step one is to get married! I'm in the US now and one thing I can't seem to figure out is: What kind of visa do I need to get if I want to get married in Japan? If foreigners want to come to the US to marry they need a fiance visa. Japan doesn't seem to have anything like that.

Should I just go in on the visa waiver program and get married? Is there another more appropriate visa I should apply for?

Also, should I be able to get a spouse visa within the 90 days I'm allowed to stay on the VWP if I get married and apply soon after arriving?

Thanks again to everyone! This forum really is amazing.

Adam

To the people who decided to go the DCF route in JAPAN, can you give me your timeline from the date you filed until the date you got your visa?

This would really help me figure out what I can expect.

Thanks to everyone!!!

Adam

http://tokyo.usembassy.gov/e/visa/tvisa-ivspouse.html

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Wait.. So is DCF just sending your I-130 to Tokyo instead of the USCS?

Hello everyone!

Up until now I was planning on going the fiance visa route to bring my Japanese fiance to the US but it was suggested to me that I should look into DCF because it might be faster. The problem is that I know absolutely nothing about DCF in Japan. Every call to the consulate in Japan costs 15 bucks and they've been less than helpful in the past so any info you guys can give me would be awesome.

I'm currently in the US but will be moving back to Japan in about a month where my fiance is currently living.

So how do I go about doing a DCF in Japan? Is there a checklist somewhere of things I need to do? How long does it take on average? Is it really faster than either a normal fiance or spouse visa? Are there any requirements that I might not meet and need to check?

Sorry that I don't know much about this yet but I was recommended doing a DCF all of 15 minutes ago and told to ask you guys for the basic information.

Thanks for any info you can give me!

Adam the confused...

If you are considering Spouse visa then consider DCF in Japan, it is the quickest, from what I read the residency requirement is very short in Japan.

Look at the compare guides, and DCF guide.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...mp;page=compare

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...om&page=dcf

Wow, I don't know anything about DCF. Me = lame.

So do you know of any good websites about DCF in Japan? After looking briefly at the DCF info page you linked me to it says that I should contact the consulate to find info from them. However, every call to the Japanese consulate costs 15 bucks and when I've called them in the past they've been less than helpful. I, of course, don't mind paying 15 bucks to get some good info but I'm a bit dubious as to whether they'll be helpful.

Thanks again!

Thanks for all the help everyone!

Another question:

I read that when I submit everything it should be fastened together with ACCO type clips and that it should be TOP bound.

Does that mean that I should hole-punch my documents?! I don't feel very good about punching holes in any official documentation.

How did everyone here submit their forms?

Thanks always!!

I have another thread right now where everyone is giving me great advice about fiance visas so I feel bad asking this but would you recommend that I take the fiance, or spouse visa route in my case?

How long does it usually take to get a Spouse visa (K-3 I think)?

I am living in the US but I will be moving back to Japan in another month or so. My fiance is in Japan now.

The biggest factor seems to be that the USCS will take something like 6 months or more to get back to us after we submit our I-129F for a fiance visa. I am assuming that because, if I look at the "date received" on the I-129F forms that they are processing now it is from about six months ago. From this it seems that I can assume that they will take about six months, then send us a few more forms that we'll have to fill out, then we can schedule our interview at the consulate in Japan, and hopefully we'll get our visa somewhere around 8 months after I submit the I-129F. Does this sound correct?

If we go the spouse visa route, there are more forms and my fiance would have to have a medical check-up, but after we got married and submitted our forms how long do you think it would take on average before we got our visa? (Assuming, of course, that things go relatively smoothly)

A big plus to going the Spouse visa route is that we would be able to marry earlier. However, we are willing to wait if it means that we can be together in the US sooner. We can't start a lot of our plans until she is able to enter the US on a visa so we are more worried about time than anything else.

That said, as is probably obvious, I am still pretty lost about the whole spouse visa procedure and up until now had pretty much assumed that we were going to go the fiance visa route.

Any input from anyone here would be awesome and is always appreciated!!

Thanks!!

Adam

adamkun

Don't over do the submission of many photos (which are secondary evidence), at the expense of any primary evidence.

What would be good examples of primary evidence be?

other evidence could be copies of plane tickets, boarding passes. passport stamps. hotel receipts, money exchange receipts, engagement ring receipt ( if there is one, not necessary) etc...

We lived 20 minutes away by car until now (I just moved back to the US) so there are no plane tickets to show that I've visited her. We did go on a couple of trips together, but how would boarding passes or plane tickets prove anything more than the stamps in our passports?

We, unfortunately, don't have any receipts from hotels.

I do have money exchange receipts from when I sent money to my US account from Japan, but how does this help prove that I've met my fiance? Isn't that what we're trying to prove at the I-129F stage?

No engagement ring yet. Working on that!!!

Any other ideas??

Thanks again everyone for all the information!

Adam

adamkun

Don't over do the submission of many photos (which are secondary evidence), at the expense of any primary evidence.

What would be good examples of primary evidence be?

Thanks so far for the replies!!

Did you write the names of all the people in each picture or just the names of you and your fiance?

Also, how many pictures did you submit with your I-129F?

Thanks again!!

It's me again to pester all of you awesome people with superior experience.

How should I submit my many pictures of my fiance and I together (not the passport style ones, the ones to show that we've met) with the I-129f?

I seem to remember reading that I should never put something together in such a way that they can't easily take it apart. This keeps me from gluing the pictures on paper (in case they want them separate), but I also don't want to submit them loose.

So... What I've done is to buy photo corners that people use to make scrapbooks. I can then mount two pictures per sheet of paper and they can be easily removed if necessary. I also have information about the picture (date/place taken, names of all people in photo) on the back of each photo and on the paper to the right of each photo (so they don't have to pop out each one to look at the info on the back).

Would this be okay? Did I miss something somewhere saying a different way that pictures should be prepared?

Also, I'm trying to write the names of everyone in each picture but is it necessary?

Thanks a million to everyone!!

My fiance was planning on coming to the US from Japan last August using a student visa but was rejected under section 214-B. This is the section that says the she couldn't prove that she wasn't intending to immigrate.

We are now trying for a fiance visa but it is looking like it's gonna take something like 8 months for the whole procedure and we don't want to be apart for that long (I'm back in the US now, she's still in Japan).

Our plan was that she could come over in the middle and visit me for up to 90 days on the visa waiver program. We were thinking she could fly into Canada and we could try to cross together. Usually, if you've been rejected a visa then you are no longer eligible to use the VWP, however, people who were rejected under section 214-B are still eligible.

This leads me to my two questions:

1. I was told that if you have been barred entrance to the US twice, then you are banned automatically from entering for the next five years. If she gets rejected at the border, does this count as two strikes? The first time was at a consulate in Osaka, Japan. Would her getting turned away just once at the border be risky if she has never been turned away at the border before? (This is important!! Her getting banned from the US for five years would be HORRIBLE!)

2. Would getting turned away at the border after already being turned down for a student visa hurt our chances of getting a fiance visa?

I want to see my fiance but I don't want to do anything that could jeopardize our long-term chances. I would especially love to hear from anyone who was rejected under 214-B and their experiences but anyone who wants to chime in would also be appreciated.

Thanks so much in advance!

Wow. Thanks to both of you for the quick replies!

I'm still not sure whether to put "none" or leave it blank but I think I'll take your advice and attach an extra sheet of paper indicating that she has no middle name. That seems the safest.

Thanks again! You guys are awesome.

Hi everyone!

This is my first post to this forum and I have two (hopefully) simple questions:

1. My fiancee is Japanese and doesn't have a middle name. What should I put in the field for her middle name? Should I leave it blank, put "none", or "N/A"? I tried searching the forums and came across a person who put "N/A" and the person who handled her petition actually thought her middle name was "N"! Needless to say, this got me worried...

2. Should my fiancee sign her name using English letters or using Japanese characters?

Thanks a lot in advance to anyone who replies! I've never posted here but looking through other people's posts, it seems like this forum is full of awesome and helpful people.

Adam