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Are we all supposed to send it to this location? - https://www.uscis.gov/i-751-direct-filing-addresses Or is it a different location based on our state of residence?

1 hour ago, Scandi said:

 

 

Either way, you don't seem to realize that immigration wise it doesn't matter if he dated one person online only or if he had sex with a hundred women - neither would be considered immigration fraud. So him cheating or not cheating on you is of zero importance in this instance, it only affects your relationship, not his immigration journey. 

 

 

If the above is true, it's such a horrible system that the US government has set up, which essentially, sets up unwitting Americans to be scammed by unscrupulous foreigners, & as a bonus, the rest of the American populace have to bear these unscrupulous people for the rest of their lives. Personally, I think if there is evidence of cheating (before or after the immigrant's arrival in the US) or if the marriage ends in divorce in a couple of years then the immigration process should end right there, & the immigrant should be asked to go back to their country of origin, & if they don't want to do that then there is a good chance that the immigrant didn't necessarily come over to the US for love/marriage (which is a precondition for fiancee & marriage visas) but for economic or some other reasons, which means they violated the federal immigration laws. I came over on a fiancee visa a couple of years ago, & while things are going really well for us, let's say they weren't, & we ended up getting divorced, I would be totally heart-broken & I would just want to go back to my own country because my SOLE reason to be here was/is to be with my wife, & if we were no longer together then, I wouldn't want to be here, & I would rather be with my family & friends in my country, where I have spent my whole life.

I hope, at some point, there will be some common sense changes made to the way the fiancee & marriage visas are handled, so that it gets a lot easier for genuine couples to get together a lot faster while the scammers are shown the door the very moment they show their true colors. Right now, it seems, that scammers only have to put on a good face for a couple of years, & that earns them a lifetime in the US.

So, the guy at SSA office said that DHS has somehow made my middle name to be a part of my first name, & therefore, he can't verify my name with the system & issue me a SSN. How am I supposed to fix this problem? Am I supposed to visit USCIS Application Center or USCIS Local Office or CBP office or whatever else? Is there a way to fix this issue over the phone or e-mail or something without having to physically visit since all of the above offices are several hours away from here, & obviously, I don't have a driving-license & my fiancee has a job to attend to, so we want to avoid visiting multiple places to no avail. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi, so my American fiancee is going to receive a sum of money from her parents as a wedding-gift. She took some time off for school this year, so her income for this year could be a little below the AoS income-requirement, & we might need to use assets, she already has her own savings which should cover 3x the income-shortfall but still, we'd like to show as much money in her account as possible just to be on the safe side, so when would be the best time for her parents to gift her the money? The legal marriage will take place next month in June & going by the stats on Visajourney, it looks like it would take 8-9 months for the AoS interview, so by that time, the money will not have been in her account for 12 months as recommended by many people on these forums, which is why I'm asking this question because we don't want USCIS to think that it's a loan or something, which it isn't. So, what can we do from our side, for USCIS to recognize that money as truly belonging to her & applicable towards any income-shortfall?

6 hours ago, Srinath06 said:

Ready for Pickup! (Track passport)

Now, but haven't got any text message or email confirmation yet.

 

Selected Hyderabad location for pickup.

Can my fiance go to the location in hyd and pickup? Or do we have to wait for any txt/email

 

Someone said it is open daily for only 1hr? 

 

Congratulations! I did get a text saying that it can be picked up between 10 a.m. & 4 p.m. on week-days.

6 hours ago, ujones said:

@K@S, did they ask you for recent tax return or previous 3 yrs ? 

My fiancee had sent me only 2 years' tax return (2018 & 2017) since she had been doing a full-time professional course in 2016. The Indian-staff only asked for "financial documents", & I provided everything that I had, & they didn't ask for anything else. Nonetheless, if one has 3 years' tax returns, then it might be useful to carry them, that's what Rapidvisa had told us to do, so we were slightly concerned but the guidelines seem to suggest that only the RECENT YEAR's tax return should be good enough.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/family-immigration/nonimmigrant-visa-for-a-fiance-k-1.html#9

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Do the Same Income Requirements Apply to Form I-134 as Apply to Form I-864?

 

No. The 125 percent of the federal poverty guideline minimum income requirement, the most recent year's tax return, and other requirements only apply when Form I-864 is needed. Applicants presenting Form I-134 will need to show that their U.S. sponsor's income is 100 percent of the federal poverty guideline.

13 hours ago, Srinath06 said:

my fiance's interview in coming up for this thursday,

- sent her my I-134, tax returns 2017 and 2016, as ive not filed 2018 yet.
- IRS transcripts for 2017 and 2016
- Pay stubs from Feb 8th, 2019 to Nov 25th, 2018

- I work for HealthCare company, so it uses Work Day Number for income/job verifications.. so sent a screenshot print from theworknumber.com and a print from the page in black n white showing the url at the bottom with https

 

also, sent a wedding plan registration at Hindu Temple , which i Booked possible dates for marriage document.

is this good enough? anything missing? 

@ujones @Greenbaum @K@S @Knome

I was carrying I-134, tax returns, W2's, paystubs, letter signed by bank-manager showing bank-balance, letter of employment from the employer but only I-134, W2's & tax-returns were taken by the Indian-staff & everything else was given back to me, so presumably, that's what the Indian-staff were instructed to do by the CO's. Concrete wedding-plans might go in your favor but then, every CO might have their own way of interpreting things. Good luck to you guys!

13 hours ago, ujones said:

Just read a case about Pakistani fiancé got rejected as the co thought they were too married d/t a picture of them together in hill resort where they stayed for a day. @K1journey_16, @K@S, did they ask you any similar questions from any pictures ? 

Spending time alone at a hill-resort while being unmarried is likely highly uncommon within any conservative culture (& this would probably apply to India as well but maybe not to the same degree as Pakistan), so one would have to have a good explanation for that, otherwise it's bound to look fishy to the CO; & maybe that couple's story didn't offer a good explanation regarding such a seeming anomaly, & that's why their visa was rejected. As for me, no, I didn't even need to show pictures, so there were no questions about pictures. I was never even asked as to whether my fiancee & I are married, not even once; on the other hand, it seems like @K1journey_16 was repeatedly asked about whether she was married with her fiance. I'm going to guess that this was probably due to the information that we ended up projecting towards our respective COs, since @K1journey_16 looked like how one might expect a conservative person to look like whereas in my case, I had told the CO that my fiancee & I are both atheists who don't follow cultural/religious norms (during the ring-ceremony question, early on in my interview), & maybe that influenced CO's perceptions about each one, resulting in a somewhat different approach that both of our respective CO's had decided to take. So, it's good to keep in mind that whatever information we are providing to the CO, whether in writing/documentation or the way we dress or the way we speak or the content of our speech, & so on, might be used by the CO to construct their own perception of who we are, & questions might be asked along those lines to see if we can offer them a consistent & coherent "picture" of our relationship through our answers, body-language, etc.; & of course, anything that seemingly doesn't "fit", might cause the CO to be on their guard.

6 hours ago, K1journey_16 said:

That's great, I'm going tomorrow morning to pick up my passport

Regarding USCIS Immigrant Fee, this is a part of the reply given by ustraveldocs-support to my queries. This is the direct link provided by them - http://www.ustraveldocs.com/in/in-iv-visaapplyinfo.asp#uscisivfee and https://www.uscis.gov/file-online/uscis-immigrant-fee#Who Pays the Fee

So, as it turns out, the information on ustraveldocs.com was wrong, & I was able to pick up the passport/visa today itself. 😃

17 hours ago, K1journey_16 said:

@K@S any update from the embassy?

The approval slip states that we have to pay a fee, I have checked on UStraveldocs website that it does not apply to K visas, do you have any information?

Checked in the morning today, & it said "Your passport is being processed" or something but by around 7 p.m. it said that the passport was ready for pickup, though it looks like it can only be picked up within 1 hour every week. So annoying! 😒 - http://www.ustraveldocs.com/in/in-loc-passportcollection.asp 

Right, that's what I've heard too. Here, it says that the USCIS Immigrant Fee is towards producing the Green Card, which of course, we won't be eligible for until AoS is completed, so it doesn't look like it applies to K1 - https://www.uscis.gov/forms/uscis-immigrant-fee

5 minutes ago, K1journey_16 said:

I brought DS160, it was not the stamped one, they took the unstamped one, they did ask the guy and the girl in front of me for NVC call letter

Right, fair enough. Hmm, that's really weird that they'd ask for it from some people but not others. 😑

5 hours ago, K1journey_16 said:

@ujones when you go for interview, indian officers do documentation check they arrange the papers in this order, appointment letter, NVC call letter which comes in packet 4, medical envelope,, PCCriginal birth certificate and copy, they asked the applicants to show NVC call letter

They didn't ask for or take NVC letter from me or others standing with me. You didn't bring DS-160 confirmation-page, right? So, maybe that's why they asked for NVC letter from you instead? Otherwise, I don't know why I or others around me weren't asked for it.

22 minutes ago, K1visaHopeful said:

No you're not. You're asking how USCIS is going to determine what is yours and what is your spouses in your joint bank account. 

And what I'm saying is the assets have to be in a US bank account for a year to be considered the USC's assets. 

If it was less than a year i would assume then the asset would be considered as belonging to the foreign Applicant only.

Fair enough. Can she claim EVERYTHING that is in our joint bank-account, if my money has been there for more than a year?

3 minutes ago, ujones said:

@K@S, just read your review. Thankyou for such a detailed review. Gives a clear idea of what to expect. But I hve a question what did u mean by had to take out stapler ? The stapler pins used on the documents ? Do they allow regular pins to hold the papers then? 

No, stapled pins are fine, I'm talking about the instrument that we use to staple those pins -

11 minutes ago, K1visaHopeful said:

Who it belongs to depends on how long it was in the US bank. They require a year. If you were smart it would have been transferred long before the immigrant arrived so you could claim it as your own asset.

Thanks for the reply. I'm asking how immigrant's (my) assets could be claimed by the USC on I-864 in case my US fiancee can't meet income-requirements on her own.

So, no one knows how joint-assets can be claimed on I-864 for Adjustment of Status?

Hi guys, after all of the talk about proof of relationship, I got approved WITHOUT THE CO ASKING FOR ANY PROOF OF RELATIONSHIP! 😄 Full review here - https://www.visajourney.com/reviews/view-dos-cis-reviews.php?entry=25545 Thanks for all of your help, it wouldn't otherwise have been possible! 

22 minutes ago, ujones said:

@K@S, is it indian officers at biometrics? 

Yes.

I had my biometrics today, it was uneventful (which is good), but I had a little bit of trouble hearing/comprehending the officer's voice coming through that speaker or whatever since it sounded...... too machine-like to my ears, so I needed a couple of seconds to process what was being said or have him repeat it. I wonder if I should let the CO know about this at the start of my Interview. Having said that, I'd appeared for a tourist-visa interview in 2017, & I didn't have any issues hearing/comprehending the CO clearly (though maybe the placement of the speaker was/is different at the Consulate than at the biometrics-location).

@ujones @K1journey_16 Conversely, I've also read here & elsewhere on the Internet that trying to cram in evidence of relationship (front-load) at the USCIS stage makes us look desperate, so supposedly, it's only recommended for couples with obvious red-flags, like age-differences, different religion, language-barrier & what not. Don't know what to believe! It's a maze! I guess we can only try to put our best foot forward & hope for the best.

Regarding documents, there's one Mumbai Consulate review talking about how they had to leave in the middle of the interview to make a copy of I-134 because the CO wanted the original as well as the copy 😱 - https://www.visajourney.com/reviews/view-dos-cis-reviews.php?entry=25172 So, are we supposed to carry copies of everything, just in case?

9 hours ago, Greenbaum said:

Do your best to show that your relationship continues and you have every intention of seeing this through to marriage. So any evidence that you can provide only strengthens your case. Pictures, chat logs, phone logs, wedding plans but keep them simple and more centered that they will occur in the USA after you arrive because anything slightly misleading that a wedding might be performed in India will only get you denied, so use common sense.

Any guidelines on how many pages of chats should be there, so that they're not too much or too little? We have been conversing more or less daily since 2015 on okcupid, facebook & skype, so if I printed out everything, then it will surely run into tens of thousands of pages, so I've picked out one screenshot from every month, plus, any special events, like birthdays, Valentine's day, anniversaries, etc., & from all 3 media of communication. I have close to 100 pages of prints.

@ujones  @K1journey_16 Thanks for your suggestions. Rapidvisa had told us to only send photos with the original petition & bring chats to at the Interview, though of course, I'm taking both just for the heck of it, & then it's up to the CO to see them or not. We don't really have any CONCRETE wedding plans given the nature of uncertainty of visas, though we have discussed a couple of POTENTIAL possibilities, which I would mention. After getting the visa, our first goal would be to get legally married as soon as I enter the US, & then, we would make concrete plans about a wedding, with guests & everything else, 6 months or so after that.

1 hour ago, K1journey_16 said:

@K@S we do! How's the preparation? I am trying to put all the paperwork together, almost done, I'm just going through the questions online

I have all of the other stuff lined up in the folder, though I'm still wondering how photos should be presented. Whether to write the names, places, etc. on the back of each photo, or stick each one of them on plain A4 papers & write below the photos, or put them in an album but then, we don't have a lot of them (which I hope won't be an issue), since though we took a lot of photos in general during her trip here, there are only a few with two of us TOGETHER. 😒 I've done a lot of questions online previously, well in advance of the interview, so I feel like I'm fairly well-prepared, though I'm definitely going through the questions-list you've provided since one never knows what they'll ask. How many pages of chats from facebook, skype, etc. are we supposed to carry? I mean I don't want it to be too much or too little. I'll have my VAC appointment on 5th before the interview on 7th. Good luck with your preparations! 

Hi guys, based on some of the posts I've read around these forums, I understand that having a joint bank-account is one of the important proofs that can validate the genuineness of the marriage, & therefore, K1 couples should get a joint bank-account immediately after getting legally married. This being the case, when we're filing for Adjustment of Status, how much of the assets in the joint-account can be claimed by the US citizen-spouse on I-864 for the purpose of income-requirement? For instance, if a couple has 50k in their joint bank-account (some of which was brought over by the immigrant-spouse when they came to the US), can the US citizen claim the entire 50k as belonging to the US citizen, on their I-864, for the purpose of meeting the income-requirements for Adjustment of Status?

11 hours ago, ujones said:

@K@S, I already recd the receipt # & paid the fee & scheduled interview. But along with the documents for interview they ask this visa fee receipt. That’s what I was wondering. My interview letter has payment details at the bottom & I hope that serves the purpose 

2 hours ago, K1journey_16 said:

@K@S @ujones I didn't find a separate receipt but there's one MRV receipt along with UID and barcode and the amount stating that the fee have been paid, it's there on the appointment letter confirmation where you have the VAC appointment details and interview appointment details, take that print, I'm going to use that for fee receipt

Right, that interview-confirmation-letter should likely suffice to indicate that you have paid the fees, though if you're still unsure, then you could try to confirm it with ustraveldocs support, they seemed pretty helpful to me when I called or e-mailed them.

@K1journey_16 It looks like both of us have our interview on 7th February.