Orc

Husband received his Approval letter today from VSC Good luck everyone!

Hello,

Can anyone please advise how to go about registering our marriage at the French Consulate in D.C.? What documents are needed? I guess the marriage certificate needs to be translated? What was your experience like? We did not do the "la publication des bans" before our marriage since we did not know about it, will that still be ok? Appreciate your help!

Hi!! - anyone fluent in vietnamese (southern dialect) who can help me translate these two sentences:

"Dear Family and Friends,

We are happy to announce that we have gotten married on

March 21st. Please visit the link below and send us a message, we

will be glad to hear from you."

Thanks for your help !

orc

Congratulations Orc!

Thanks for the information from the Embassy. I'm getting nervous and excited about my fiance's interview. He just sent packet 3 back - how long did it take your fiance to get Packet 4 after he sent back his form?

We sent packet #3 12/26/06 and heard nothing from the embassy. A month later 1/29/07, I called the embassy number a fellow VJ member gave me 011 33 1 43 12 22 22 - ext 4842 (no fee!) and the lady mentioned our interview date and that the letter was mailed the week before. We received the letter the next day and it was postmarked on the day I called. Don't know what would have happened if I hadn't called. Anyway, if you feel that it's been more than the normal waiting time, call and don't let them make you call the fee-based number. You may get a run-around like I did but eventually you'll be connected to someone who'll know - they are nice but the process can be frustrating.

Just wanted to give anyone waiting for the Paris interview a heads up if you are curious since we had ours 2/7/07. It was pretty much what the other French VJer's mentioned on the embassy info site.

Fiance went to Dr Meyers, she's next to the embassy so my fiance went and to pick up his medical paperwork there before heading to the interview. (His medical appointment was three days prior but he had to take one vaccination so she told him to return after it was administered in order to give him the completed paperwork. Also, please remember to get a copy of the DS-3025 vaccination form from the doctor - it'll be important for the AOS application later on).

At the embassy, the lady who takes your paperwork took our I-134 instead of the I-864 after looking at both. She was joking around with him a bit in sort of a dry humor way. There were two other K-1's there and the french orchestra trying to get a visa for their tour, so it's very noisy inside. It is the immigration booth you go to and not nonimmigration - they consider the K-1 as an immigrate visa even though it is technically a nonimmigrate visa. He waited about an hour and a half before talking to the officier. First he made him give the oath verbally - "You swear that you intend to marry .... within 90 days." He asked him about - any issues between our age difference (4 years), how we met, my religion, type of marriage ceremony we would be having - religious vs civil, how my family felt, where the town I lived was located. Then said we had everything and it was ok, took his passport and chronopost. My fiance noticed that since he spoke in english he was asked more questions than the previous guy who spoke in french with the officier (two questions only) - officier spoke in broken french and the other guy didn't understand english well.

Other than that it was okay. Good luck and thank you to everyone - every bit of information you provided helped a lot!

Unless you don't meet the 125% poverty requirement on your income it's not required. If you read the I-134 form instructions it states: " Evidence should consist of copies of any or all[/u]...... failure to provide evidence of sufficient income and/or financial resources...." If your income is below the 125% poverty line than you need to supplement it with assets from bank sources as a form of support.

Hope that helps.