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10 hours ago, canadavisa22 said:

Did you apply directly from Korea?

 

I'm in Canada so we don't have DCF which means we have to upload documents to the National Visa Center (NVC) first who then complete your case and move you onto the interview stage at the consulate (where the visa would then be approved). 

I've read in this thread that the NVC sometimes rejects the police certificate unless you have the "correct" one. So to even move onto the interview stage we have to get past the NVC stage which requires them to accept the police certificate as is. 

 Yes, i did dcf in korea.  I didn’t hear any problems with the police cert ( with those people i met in the embassy at least during my interview). I was also worried that they might actually reject my police

cert, but they did not since it was clearly indicated on the packet what you should submit.. 

Just now, canadavisa22 said:

That was the plan, just wanted to see if anyone had successfully gotten through. I also have an email from the consulate in Toronto saying that they don't issue this to foreigners. Is it possible to attach like cover letters/screenshots further explaining the police certificate issue?

 I was ready in any case there would be some questions, I printed the instruction regarding the police certificate on the packet they sent me, stating what is for foreigners and for koreans.. but then there was no question, Which means i submitted what i gave them, then got my visa after 2 days..

8 minutes ago, canadavisa22 said:

Has anyone in the last 3 months been able to figure this out for those who have left Korea and not returned?

Just follow what the packet says about police certificate and you won’t have any problem. Submitted my police cert WITHOUT the criminal check reply and there was no problem...

We got our form 1040. Sponsor is a civilian contractor  in a US military base in korea, we are not required to file tax but we always do to be on track..

Current annual  income is $xx,000 which is above poverty level of 20..

i am a little confused on part 6 items 25.a,25.b,25.c

it is asking for a total income as reported  on federal income tax return for the recent 3 years. If i will follow our form 1040. The total income on line 22 will only be $138...

does this sound right? Your help is highly appreciated. This is the last form we are completing..

1 hour ago, Mr Genuis said:

Yeah. You need a police ertificate with lasped. The one with check reply. The other one will ve rejected.

However it does state that the ones with check reply Is ONLY FOR KOREANS...

On 1/29/2019 at 11:19 AM, Mr Genuis said:

Hello Everyone, I am currently facing a challange here providing this document. I have every other documents ready for my interview except the correct police certicate. If you are in South Korea you will understand better. The korea police Agencies issue a police certificat without laps check. The consulate/embassy requested for a laps check. I have gone to 4 different agencies they all gave me same police certificate which is the wrong one. When i explained to them... each agency told me is illegal to get what am asking for to use for the visa purpose. And said what they give me is what the embassy should ask for. I am troubled. Any one recently mad a police certicate/clearance in south korea? 

Did the packet state that you need a police cert with a LAPSE CHECK? On the packet they sent me they have a sample photo of what i needed. One for a korean national and the other one for foreigners.. 

Anyone doing DCF at seoul who submitted last april 2019? Any updates on your Status? We filed last april 26,2019 and have not heard or received anything yet. I wonder if it’s the mailing address which messed up since my husband insisted using his APO address instead of our Korean address

1 hour ago, Mr Genuis said:

Its depend on the visa you applied for. 

I got no packet too. When we applied for dcf i130 in seoul, we just submitted it last april 26,2019, paid the fee and that’s it... hoping to hear from

them next week..

8 minutes ago, Mr Genuis said:

 

Yes sir! Thank you for your kind advise. I plan to go to insadong police station before the day of my interview. I live down in daegu that’s why i spend 2 days in seoul when i had my initial appointment. Thank you very much and your kind advise is highly appreciated..

5 minutes ago, konio said:

 

Yes, I got that and sent a copy of both types to the NVC which were accepted. 

My attorney told me that NVC will accept the one which I got first, as foreigners are supposed to get only that one in Korea to submit somewhere.

 

Yeah that’s what i thought so. I went to 2 police stations and they gave me the same, 

On 2/13/2019 at 3:56 PM, konio said:

I have visited that agent but after listening the purpose of it, they refused to issue.

They informed, such certificate is for personal record only and illigal to submit anywhere.

 

Although other nearby agency issued me that but I am not going to submit it to NVC.

I have regular one which is issued for visa purpose and I will use that.

 

Hope they may be able to understand and accept that.

 

Thank you for your kind help and information.

 

Wishing you best of luck.

 

 

 

Were you able to get the RIGHT police certificate? Dis the embassy accept the ONE that you have gotten first?

On 5/13/2019 at 10:55 PM, imbrad91 said:

Been checking on the website everyday for the past week and there are no appointment days available. I'll have to try calling, is it normally this backed up? or is this a sign that they are slowly not accepting anymore petitions.

I had the same experience but fortunate to get a schedule. It was sleepless nights waiting for schedules... good luck! No they won’t reply if u email them, you have to set an appointment online..

Set an appointment, check it online... every minute every hour..

On 3/14/2019 at 11:46 PM, WeareReady2go000 said:

Hello Ghie! 

 

     Just wanna let you know that from start to end of my visa journey I have still used my Maiden name and I got no problem . 

    Sure let me mention below all the papers WE EXACTLY PROVIDED when we filed the I-130 in Manila Embassy 

 ( Yours don’t have to be completely the same as ours as you may have different situations) 

•Filled out form I-130 from Petitioner

•Filled out form I-130A from Beneficiary 

• Two 2x2 Photos beneficiary (write full name behind the photo )

• Two 2x2 Photos Petitioner ( write full name behind the photo )

 

*Proof of US Citizenship from Petitioner 

Such as ; it depends on your case

•US birth Certificate 

•US passport Copy ( bio page and all pages with stamps

 

*Proof of petitioner living in the Philippines

•Tourist Visa Extensions 

•All ACR card ( old and new) 

•House Contract of lease

•Philippines driving license 

•Car registration 

• SM Advantage Card

•Philippines Debit cards from union bank

•Bank accounts

•Deposit slips

•Sky cable account bills on his name

 

*Beneficiary Papers

•Copy of Passport bio page 

•Copy of PSA Birth certificate

•Copy of PSA Marriage Certificate

•Copy of PSA Advisory on Marriage (one from beneficiary and one from petitioner ) If you wanna get this from PSA just fill out the CENOMAR green form and if you are married instead of CENOMAR this Advisory on Marriage will show up on the record with the information about your marriage

 

*Proof of  Bona fide Marriage 

•Photos glued in a white bond paper with descriptions and dates 

•Photos of Us together , Our wedding photos with family , and other photos of us from traveling together 

•Our local exchanging of daily text messages if I go to the city and he’s at home. I just screen shot and export it in Word and print it. 

•House rental Receipt with both of our names

•Water Bill & Electric Bill (with our names as tenants)

• House Contract of lease with our names as tenants together with dates and signatures 

• affidavit of sworn by 2 people we chose the persons who are closed to us and same persons who attend our wedding ( Both sworn papers  is notarized by an attorney )

•Last Will & testaments (this is done 5 months earlier ) naming me in the paper 

•Death certificate of his wife

•2go tickets our names on the same travel date

•Flight tickets together ( while flying domestically)

 

Good luck! 

Neneth 

 

 

Hi’ did you provide all of these on the day you submitted your i139 and i130A??

On 4/11/2019 at 1:49 AM, Leeahh said:

well we actually had requested under medical and financial.. medical due to his PTSD and financial for more personal matters and it was approved.

 

I wasn't sure veterans could be approved for that but we took that chance and it was approved.

What hotline number did you call??

10 minutes ago, Mr Genuis said:

Am ssure its already what you have since i got it online: 02-397-4593

Thank you sir! I appreciate it

Just now, Mr Genuis said:

Aight  but you can always call them. If you cant fine an appointment. They have a number. Try to call them they will make one for you.

Thank you! Do you have a number?? Just making sure i have the right one..

On 2/6/2019 at 10:41 PM, Bamonikash said:

Hello,

 

I'm a Canadian planning to marry my American fiancé who is in the United States air force. We will be getting married here in Seoul very soon. My fiancé will be pcsing back to the United States late March and I plan to join him there. It seems a DCF for a I-130 will be our quickest option once we are married. 

 

I was just wondering if anyone has any experience marrying an active duty military member and applying for a visa from Seoul. I read that they can be expedited in case of pcsing or deployment. 

 

Thanks in advance.

Hi!have you already submitted an i-130? I am finding it challenging to schedule an appointment cause everything seems unavailable

On 2/12/2019 at 11:04 AM, lain09 said:

My wife finally got her passport with the CR-1 visa on Feb 8th. It took slightly longer than it should've been but I'm glad we finally have it. 

I figured I'd share what I learned through out the process and experience submitting an I-130 and subsequent I-864 forms through the Direct Consular Filing at the Seoul USCIS office. I don't want to dig through to get exact date but will provide an estimate.

 

Early Sept '18 - Find out about the long process for I-130 spousal visa.

  -Look up I-130 submission appointment slots on the USCIS Seoul website, they only do one day per week and open slots one month in advance one day at a time.

 

Now after making an appointment for when I come back from my trip, we gathered the documents and because I filed taxes online with Korean address the IRS website must have exact match or you can't get the tax reports for the 3 years e-mailed. Luckily I was visiting US for our transition and making an appointment with the IRS website took a week. Info is hard to find to get you to find your answer online but to get print outs you can make an appointment. Police reports, hospital visits, etc.

 

Last week of Oct '18 - We made the first of the day appointment to avoid the rush and you wait on the upper floor to be called. The younger Korean lady was  rude and slightly condescending. I had everything labelled in order with a cover sheet but she went down the list collecting the documents, the labels helped make it go faster. We didn't have the strong evidence for bonafide marriage with no property or finances merged except our shared living and marriage family documents. We included photocopies of our tickets, letters, photos of our relationship and they took all of it.  

Slightly problem that she kept grilling us on was that my US name spelled out is slightly different from my no longer used Korean name printed on my ARC card. The correct English name was written in parenthesis but the old Korean name was on the ID so she needed a document to prove it was certainly me. We call around and find that F4 holders may have their old Korean name printed even though it's not really used anymore and can update it if you choose to delete it. We had no time to go through another form procedure so we wrote that in writing explaining and mailed it in to the office. It got accepted and got a notice for the incoming packet3 after one month I believe.

 

We scheduled our interview appointment for Dec. 21 which worked out perfect as I was leaving for US. Well it got delayed without notice for first week of Jan, we suspect because of the government shutdown. My wife went alone first in the morning and she got the same rude lady again. But it was my fault that I left out the last signature of the I-864 since I wanted to wait on the day of to get the date when we submit it but since it was delayed, I forgot about it. This caused her circling everywhere signatures are missing including the preparer and translator which we did not use. She made my wife wait until every couple has gone through then gave her the 221(g) for the missing signature. 3 Hours just waiting. Wife had to go on a family trip to Japan and couldn't mail her passport in so we waited and submitted last Monday or Friday and passport came back within the week. 

 

It took about 1.5 months for the I-130, 1.5 months for the I-864 interview, 3 week delay from rescheduling and missing signature, few days to get passport with visa. Oct 30 2018 - Feb 8 2019.

Hello! Did you find it hard to schedule an appointment submitting an i-130? Cause k cannot see any available appointments right now.. any tips when should i check?

1 minute ago, Mr Genuis said:

Try this link:   https://my.uscis.gov/en/appointment/v2

It’s the same link . Thank you.. i gues si have to check from time to time.. i hope to get an appointment soonest...

Just now, Mr Genuis said:

Oh ok. No i didnt fine Any challenge. There are always available spots.

Oh i see. Cause this is always what shows up

https://my.uscis.gov/en/appointment/intl/KS/SEK/130/dates

1 minute ago, Mr Genuis said:

Which embassy are you filling at?

Seoul , south korea sir.. 

Hi! I have a question, did you find it very challenging to set an online appointment in submitting the i-130? Cause i cannot find any available appointments, it shows nothing and to check the next day... thank you