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4 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

form is for the beneficary to fill out

 

the Mexican can refer to this list plus Covid vaccine  now if not listed

 

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/vaccinations.htmlhttps://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/vaccinations.html

Yeah I’m aware who the firm is designed for but I’m helping my beneficiary. 🙄

26 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Is your beneficiary fully vaccinated? 

Well that's where I'm confused.  How do you know what vaccinations you need to comply with US law.  My beneficiary is vaccinated like any other normal mexican with the normal vaccinations since birth, but whether that complies with US law... I don't know.  lol

For the question on the DS-260 application: Do you have documentation to establish that you have received vaccinations in accordance with U.S. law? 

What do people put here?  My beneficiary is coming from Mexico.  How are you supposed to know if you have them in accordance with US law?

Thanks!!!!!

I'm the petitioner for a spousal visa (beneficiary is Mexican and living in Mexico) and am looking at the DS-260 to help my beneficiary fill it out.  There is a question along the lines of "have you ever been denied a visa to the US"...  Before my spouse was my spouse- ie when we were dating, we tried to get him a tourist visa, but it was denied with a form letter that basically listed a vague set of reasons like "applicant did not demonstrate a sufficient tie to home country"...  I assume in this question on the DS260 that they mean any type of visa (including a tourist visa) so I assume the question should be answered "yes" but how are we supposed to explain the why I assume it's going to ask?

Has anyone had to answer in this situation before?

Thanks

So just a hypothetical question here:

What if you had to technically get married (civil) to your fiancé while waiting for immigration to process your fiancé petition?  You could easily get married again once your fiancé arrived in the US. Would they know or find out?  Marriage databases in the US let alone another country aren’t shared centrally.
 

On 6/8/2021 at 10:00 PM, Chancy said:

 

Please provide official source stating that the rules have changed and that consummation of marriage is no longer required for an online marriage to be valid for US immigration purposes.  Otherwise, your statement above is inaccurate and dangerously misleading.

 

There is no official consummation of marriage requirement in the sense of proving you e had sex with you spouse. Even the application instructions say do not send pics etc of a sexual nature.  All they need is proof that you have met in person and there’s even religious exceptions for that.  
 

where do you see a requirement to prove consummation? 

If you think it’s temporary breakup I’d try to reschedule the interview out a few weeks or a month.  You won’t be able to start the process back up if you stop it.  
 

Sorry this happened to you. 

This service does actually work and is legal.  Some of the rules have changed because of covid.  You don't have to consummate after the marriage.  As long as you have been together before and have proof (photos, travel tickets, hotel receipts, etc) a service like this is fine.  

However, that being said.  This one is a rip-off...  Here's a review of the service and how you can get around paying their ridiculous prices:
 

Very slow service and ridiculously overpriced:

They are fast to charge you and pretty good to get you up to the ceremony.  Then things change.  Extremely slow to process the apostille.  

They also rip people off with their prices.  They charge US citizens about $500USD to do the officiant services and $800USD+ if you are not US citizens.  This is the first step in ripping people off.  It doesn't matter at all- I repeat at all- to the state of Utah if you are a US citizen or not.  The process is exactly the same to get the marriage license, for them to submit the ceremony document, and for the county of Utah to issue the marriage license.  Webwed doesn't even need to go to the courthouse.  It's all done on-line.

Second rip-off.  If you need the certificate apostilled, Utah county will let you order this on their web-site and will handle all of it- ie producing the certified marriage certificate and taking it across the street to the State regulatory agency that does the apostille.  Then they will even mail it to you fedex international express.  All of this they will do overnight for ~$160USD while webwed takes 5 business days to even get the apostille and then another day just to take it to fedex- all for around $650USD.  

Why you ask?  Because webwed is so greedy that they pick the 3-5 business day option with the state to process it which only cost them around $40USD.

So do yourself a favor.  If you want to use them, only use their officiant service to perform the ceremony.  The rest you can easily do on-line yourself.  Steps:
1. Go to: https://marriage.utahcounty.gov/ and fill out the marriage license.  Pay your $10USD fee.
You will almost immediately get the approved marriage license back from the county via email.

2. Use webwed officiant services (about $350USD) to perform the ceremony.  The officiant will submit the document after the ceremony to the county of Utah and again within minutes you will have your marriage certificate with a certified copy on its way to the address you provide.  You can provide any address really.  You don't really need this first copy because you have the digitally certified copy in email from the county.

3. Go to http://www.utahcounty.gov/Dept/ClerkAud/MarriageLic/MarriageNameSearchForm.html after you receive your marriage certificate via email from the county.  Search by your first and last name.  It will return your marriage license record.  

4. On the marriage license detail page from the search results, there is a button that says "Order an Apostille".  Click this button and follow the directions, select the options you want (can include a certified copy as well for extra if you want), put in your address (USA or international), and pick the processing time you want from 3-5 business days to "next day".  Pay with credit card and place your order.  All for the much lower price of about $140-160USD depending on the options you pick...

10 hours ago, J&D1008 said:

Yes I checked today and they are up to receive date November 17. Hopefully they start December by March and January by April. 
 

Did you find the feb 2021 filer discussion? 

Hi:

How do you check?  No I'm not sure where to look for the filer discussions.

THanks!

Lord.  Nothing like our inept government to take months to scan paper...  

18 hours ago, powerpuff said:

Both 

So this means that the processing time is now extended by several months just for them to scan the documents and send it to USCIS- in other words I won't get to the first 'checkpoint" on the timeline for months due to this?

On 2/5/2021 at 11:25 AM, Lucky Cat said:

Notifications seem to be slow right now.....I would give it a couple months......yes, I said a couple months.

Are you saying that it takes the lock-box center several months to scan the petition and send it to the USCIS processing facility, or just that it takes months for them to email you?  

Hi:

So I can see from Fedex that my I-129F app was received this past Wednesday, but I have not received an email as requested on the form G-1145 that I included with the app.  Anyone know how long it generally takes from the lockbox facility signing for the "package" to getting an email?

Thanks!

On 2/2/2021 at 2:59 PM, jiker said:

Here's another question. If I'm retired, where do I write that in?

Not entirely sure but if I had to guess I'd put that on the first employment section and then put your previous job on the second employment section.

15 hours ago, chxakx said:

You can also use Adobe Fill & Sign. Just sharing in case you want to try that. 

Thanks.  I'm using adobe DC and tried the fill and sign, but still am not able to fill-in all spaces.  I think I'll do the free trial especially so I can fix the Date to = PRESENT issue...

3 minutes ago, metuchen said:

For clarity sake I put N/A for all empty fields. For fields that you can't put N/A with the computer, I wrote it on the print-out with a pen. The only place I didn't put N/A was small boxes that request some sort of number or ID that didn't apply to me. 

I thought that would be the best idea too.  ...and I just discovered in the text fields you can't put the "/".  I guess I'll type "N A" and put the slash in with a pin... lord... lol

Sorry if this is covered somewhere, but I didn't see it.

The instructions for I-129F say "if a question does not apply to you, type or print "N/A" unless otherwise directed.  If your answer to a question requiring a numeric response is zero or none, type of print "None".

However.... the pdf fillable form does not always allow you to type in every field.  For example, if you check the No box for a question and there are follow-up questions (if you had selected "yes") the follow-up questions will often become uneditable.  So, should you leave them empty when printing the app or print the app and then go put "N/A" with a black pin in the fields that don't allow editing due to previous selections?

Another form screw-up is on your "Beneficiary's Physical Address 1" the instructions say "Provide your beneficiary's current address first if it is different from the mailing address in item numbers 11a - 11i."  If the address is the same then you would put the last previous address, but the "Date to" field is set to "PRESENT" (in the case that the physical address is different from the mailing address) and will not let you change it.  So you can't put a previous address in this section.  You have to start with "Beneficiary's Physical Address 2".  You can't use white out (ie print it out, white it out and write the "date to" because the instructions say that will screw up the scanning procedure. 

Soooooo..... what should one do?   I could get a free trial of Adobe Acrobat Pro and fix the pdf by editing it but is there an alternative?

Thanks!

19 hours ago, Chauncey said:

Why not get married and do CR1?

Well it has crossed my mind, but wouldn't that take a substantial amount of time longer to process with the end goal being to move back to the US?  I'm currently working remotely for my job for the foreseeable future (due to pandemic), but at some point I need to primarily be in the US for both my job and to take care of my parents.

Thanks everyone.  I hope this is the case with Juarez that they are reasonable.  Not sure why the US had to choose one of the most dangerous cities in Mexico to be the only place they'll process a K-1 visa... but oh well.  I'm tempted to just put everything in an addendum- credit card statements, the whole kitchen sink  😉  We're even now living together in Xalapa, Ver with both out names on the apt lease so I don't see how anyone could claim we haven't met... haha

Thanks again!

1 hour ago, TBoneTX said:

Before you decide to proceed:  which consulate (country) will you be dealing with?  It may matter.

Fiance is Mexican (Mexico) and only consulate that processes is Juarez.

Thanks

Thanks everyone!  

I just wasn't sure if to overwhelm them with evidence so there's no arguments down the road or not...  😉

Hi:

I apologize if this is posted somewhere else (couldn't find it by searching...) but I'm gathering evidence for meeting in-person over last 2 years for my fiance and I.   I have some partial and some complete evidence for meeting 25 times in the past ~1.5 years including: some airline airline receipts, some boarding passes, car rentals, airbnb rentals, credit card statements, and of course photos (some with actual date stamps...).

My question is:  Is this overkill?  should I show things like my credit card statements with notations in the margins to help them read it?

This is my first time.  🙂

Thanks!