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2 hours ago, tvnt said:

I'm actually in a similar situation, did you have any luck?

I haven't had any specific feedback here. At this point, we have decided to not have my fiancé attempt to cross this summer and just to be safe. He will visit, but not attempt to work as a J1. The information we've come across all points to the likelihood the border guard would turn him away anyways because he has an immigration visa petition pending (which shows the U.S. that he has the intention to move to the States at some point) and non immigration visas like the J1 are not typically allowed while an immigration visa like the K1 is pending. Part of me still wonders about it. If my fiancé has already been approved for the J1 and has proof of a return flight to Canada or perhaps a job contract for the fall, I wonder if that would change the situation and he would be allowed. Have you learned or heard anything for situations like this?

Hello! We applied for the I-129f in August and are in the throws of waiting. My fiancé is from Canada. At the time, we thought the Vancouver consulate was the correct option, but have since realized we should have put Montreal. Is this something we should submit a request to correct now via USCIS or will we be able to correct this at the NVC stage? Thank you in advance!

4 minutes ago, JFH said:

Please don’t. It creates extra work for us unpaid volunteers. 
 

We have a rule of each question only being posted once. This allows everyone’s question to have the same amount of space and “air time”. I have deleted the duplicate. Please do not post any more duplicates. Thank you. 

Oh I am so sorry! Thank you for your patience and for fixing my mistake, won't happen again

Hello, I'm not sure the best place to ask this so I'll ask in multiple forums. I scoured the existing forums on J1's and I-129f's/K1's but nothing quite fit our situation.

I am an American engaged to a Canadian, we filed our I-129f at the beginning of August and await the NOA-2. My fiancé had an approved and ready to use DS2019 for work as a summer camp counselor in 2020 (while we were just dating) that was not used as the camp cancelled their program due to Covid-19. The agency which handled his J1 are rolling over all visas to be usable for the 2021 summer. I am curious if anyone knows whether it is possible for him to still use this J1 (technically still a DS2019) for summer 2021, even though there is an ongoing I-129f petition for immigration. I'm assuming that the interview stage of our visa will happen sometime in the fall of 2021, and so we would likely already have our NOA-2 by next summer, but waiting for the final interview step. He spent quite a bit of money and effort into getting the DS2019/J1 and would love to be able to still experience working at camp this next summer as his visa is technically still viable, however, we really don't want to cause any problems for our I-129f or K1. 

Thank you for any help on this topic!