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I'm amazed at all the sin-less people here that are so eager to throw stones. I guess when all your religious leaders are judgemental and self-rightous you can't help being so yourselves. "Love is a decision". What a crock. Love is a FEELING that you either have or you don't have, and either way you have no control over it. I suppose you just 'decided' to love your child. IF you're not ready to have your heart broken you should just remain single. I don't want a wife that stays married to me because she made a "commitment" way back when. I want a wife that can't help but love me each day, and if she stops then I set her free because that's how much I love her. THAT'S LOVE.

What does AILA stand for? It's not in the list of definitions and abbreviations.

AILA – American Immigration Lawyers Association-

Thanks for quick reply! They should definitely add that one to the acronym list...

What does AILA stand for? It's not in the list of definitions and abbreviations.

Good Lord, the hotel prices u folks are quoting are outrageous! LOL, good thing I made friends with a gal in the service industry before my trip! I stayed at the Astor Holiday Inn Makati- a great hotel with full buffet breakfast for $50/night. Regular price is twice that, but still a deal compared with what's been quoted here... not all of us are loaded, ya know!

OOPS I mean Astor BEST WESTERN Makati... sorry about that I always confuse those two hotel chains

The airport taxi also provides a good reciept u can use as further proof of trip!

Good Lord, the hotel prices u folks are quoting are outrageous! LOL, good thing I made friends with a gal in the service industry before my trip! I stayed at the Astor Holiday Inn Makati- a great hotel with full buffet breakfast for $50/night. Regular price is twice that, but still a deal compared with what's been quoted here... not all of us are loaded, ya know!

When my fiancee calls me from the Philz, she uses a pre-paid SIM card. When I call her, I use the Yahoo Messenger w/voice telephony. Does anyone know if there are records of these kinds of calls anywhere?

If you are actually calling your fiancee's phone then you are using the Yahoo! Voice Phone In/Out service and you can download all call history from http://www.voice.yahoo.com .. log into your account and click on the history tab I believe ..

by the way, you are doing it exactly opposite of the way I do it .. she calls my cell phone from her computer and I call her computer from my cell phone using yahoo! phone in/out service .. free for me to call her as long as I don't go over minutes, 1 cent per minute for her to call me .. to call her cell phone I use mobilecaller.com phone card because it is cheap,easy, and clear

if you are just using voicechat (pc to pc) then there is no record of calls .. Mylene and I took several screen shots of us chatting with each other and our kids using this service (the date and time is displayed on the webcam/message window showing the current connection), we also made screen shots of message archives, etc.

prepaid sim cards have no history as far as I know, but you can show them from your phone in or cell phone records as incoming calls.

good luck,

CB

When u say u r calling her pc with your cell phone via yahoo phone, do u mean u r using the web browser on your cell phone to then access yahoo messenger and then make the phone call...? I'm not quite following u there... Currently I do call her cell phone using the yahoo messenger in/out, and I am making a record of that... I'm just wondering if it holds water since it's record is generated from my pc and can easily be phony (pardon the pun).

Very early in the process (still compiling I-129F package) I have some concerns about visa approval that I'm hoping will be unfounded!

1. Fast courtship- we met in March and I proposed in June on my first visit to Manila

2. Almost no phone records and no regular mail- we communicated almost exclusively online

3. Multiple marriages- I've been married twice

Will this stuff weigh heavily against us?

Well, you are going to have about seven months to get phone records and regular mail. You have enough for the original petition in that you have met within the last two years and are engaged. I visited once more while our petition was in process and took LOTS of pictures.

It doesn't look good for another trip in the next 7 months, but I am sending in a bunch of pics (including me with the whole family) along with a ring receipt.

Very early in the process (still compiling I-129F package) I have some concerns about visa approval that I'm hoping will be unfounded!

1. Fast courtship- we met in March and I proposed in June on my first visit to Manila

2. Almost no phone records and no regular mail- we communicated almost exclusively online

3. Multiple marriages- I've been married twice

Will this stuff weigh heavily against us?

Uhmm, if there's no way of getting the phone record in the Philz, why am I asking her to save the cards?

When my fiancee calls me from the Philz, she uses a pre-paid SIM card. When I call her, I use the Yahoo Messenger w/voice telephony. Does anyone know if there are records of these kinds of calls anywhere?

this is not a poll

OOPS SORRY! Posted wrong...

When my fiancee calls me from the Philz, she uses a pre-paid SIM card. When I call her, I use the Yahoo Messenger w/voice telephony. Does anyone know if there are records of these kinds of calls anywhere?

We met online in March, in person in June... and I proposed!

im sure if you send the entire package there are no ?s however they do request the divorce decree, not sure why they need the parenting plan w/visitation agreements..lol..however im sure spoken from ppl that have gotten an RFE send it all and theres no ?s...guess i just take the request literally, so I was only planning myself in sending my divorce decree not the uniform suport order, parenting plan...etc.....perhaps i will send it all as well...

The quantity of paper isn't the issue. My certified decrees were each one page. They just want the correct document. A copy of the whole thing that is not certified is of no use. A certified copy of the full decree and settlement would be extremely expensive to have Notarially translated in China.

So, get the correct document, regardless of whether it is "the whole thing".

Just as a rule of thumb, most people don't have "certified divorce decree" copies on hand after a divorce. Generally they request them separately, some time after the divorce is recorded. If you haven't done that, there is good reason to believe you do not yet have the correct document.

In Michigan, the divorce settlement IS the decree, and the parties are provided with a "true copy" (signed by clerk)... is this the same as being certified?

Yes, there are commonly two ways to provide a certified divorce decree. The copy of full settlement is good to have in case there are questions about the terms later. The other way is to obtain a "certified copy" of the "decree" only. On the US side, the one or two page document is generally preferred. When children are immigrating with a parent, the immigrant also must document the custody arrangment or permission from the other parent.

For a K1, the full decree and settlement papers are no real problem except a lot of extra paper. For those marrying abroad, getting that umpteen page document translated to the satisfaction of the foreign government can get pretty darn expensive.

I'm sorry, but I'm still a little confused here... The "I-129F checklist" on this site only mentions "photocopies" of documents be sent in. If I pay, say, $30 for a certified copy, then send it in with my I-129F, will I be asked to again produce another certified copy further on in the process? When I go to the courthouse, should I ask for 3 or 4 certified copies and pay the $50-60, because I will need them later?

im sure if you send the entire package there are no ?s however they do request the divorce decree, not sure why they need the parenting plan w/visitation agreements..lol..however im sure spoken from ppl that have gotten an RFE send it all and theres no ?s...guess i just take the request literally, so I was only planning myself in sending my divorce decree not the uniform suport order, parenting plan...etc.....perhaps i will send it all as well...

The quantity of paper isn't the issue. My certified decrees were each one page. They just want the correct document. A copy of the whole thing that is not certified is of no use. A certified copy of the full decree and settlement would be extremely expensive to have Notarially translated in China.

So, get the correct document, regardless of whether it is "the whole thing".

Just as a rule of thumb, most people don't have "certified divorce decree" copies on hand after a divorce. Generally they request them separately, some time after the divorce is recorded. If you haven't done that, there is good reason to believe you do not yet have the correct document.

In Michigan, the divorce settlement IS the decree, and the parties are provided with a "true copy" (signed by clerk)... is this the same as being certified?

Do they really want to see the whole divorce decree with the I 129F, or will the front and back pages (the relevent part) do? I've got two divorce decrees- is it really necessary to bulk up the package with property settlement info?

If you've been married multiple times, is it necessary to provide copies of all divorces or will just the last one do?

Okay, thanks everyone! As you can see I'm very new at this... I'll go look up the I-130 now hehe...

So the fact that the Nebraska Center is not reporting 129F processing times means...?

Okay, I get this now, but I still don't understand why you wouldn't include birth certificate number when it seems to be asking for it... but hey, u folks seem to know what your doing...

I can't make heads or tails of question 10 on the I-129F regarding birth/naturalization certificate. I'm a natural born citizen, but the example on this site instructs not to provide birth certificate number?? Also, what's with the "parents" box?? What are they asking for there? Again, the example on this site leaves all this blank... is that OK?