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If you have an end date, then the consulate may assume the K1 beneficiary has no intention to AOS and plan to return to home country after marriage. For my K1 beneficiary, we put No End Date.

Has the I-129F been sent to the consulate yet from the NVC? You send the I-134 to the K1 beneficiary to take to the consulate interview. Wait till the consulate has the case and the K1 beneficiary has scheduled the medical and interview before putting down the From date estimate. For the To date, select No End Date. Then send the I-134 with the latest financial support information to the K1 beneficiary. You can look back at our Profile->Our Story to see our sequence of events/actions. Edit: I see that medical is in 2025-01 and interview is in 2025-02, so you should send the K1 beneficiary now. And put down the anticipated From date.

The K1 interview can be requested for any third country consulate as long as the K1 beneficiary can show legal status there. Plus, the consulate interviews may ask if they resided in any country(s) illegally. Given what you wrote, it may be best to get the Portugal residency first, before the K1 interview. Or if the Portugal residence does not come first, request the K1 interview in the home country Peru, and have a detailed explanation of the Portugal residence and work situation. To make a change in the consulate interview, best to do it before the NVC stage.

If you look at our Timeline or Our Story, it took us 6 months to get the EAD after expedite request. AOS was approved after 9 months. Approval times can vary greatly. VJ members data for EAD at https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/eadstats.php VJ members data for AOS at https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/aosstats.php

Yes. As @SalishSea said you can request the K1 interview be at a 3rd country provided the beneficiary has legal status there. According to the latest VJ data https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/stats.php The average number of days from the consulate receiving the case from NVC to the interview are: 34 days: Pakistan 78 days: United Arab Emirates So Pakistan seems faster to the interview than UAE. The consulate would want police records or single status document of both the home country and the third country. For the beneficiary who wants to continue working in the 3rd country while waiting for K1 approval, these are the trade-offs

800 pages is over 4 inches thick? Our's was around 400 pages or about 2 inches thick.

Yes, I believe the K1 is good for 6 months after the medical?

Let's see from your TImeline. 2024-11 is your NOA1. The latest VJ Timeline K1 data are at https://www.visajourney.com/times/k1-fiance-visa-historical/ 2025-04 to 2025-05: Texas Service Center NOA1 to NOA2 is on average 140-166 days (5-6 months) 2025-06 to 2025-07: NOA2 to NVC is about 68 days (2 months) 2025-08 to 2025-09: At NVC (32 days) to consulate (3 days) For Italy, the days receiving from NVC to interview is about 78-92 days (2-3 months) https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/stats.php 2025-10 to 2025-12: You can choose to schedule the medical or interview for later dates in a window of 4 to 6 weeks (about 1 to 1.5 months). The K1 visa itself is good for 5 months after it is issued. 2025-03 to 2025-05: K1 expiration, unless I'm missing some calculations? So I would not request a NOA2 extension but instead, after the consulate receives your case, schedule the medical or the consulate interview for later dates in the window of 4- to 6-weeks as that may give you more control of the timing and schedule.

Did you have US work income as a tourist ESTA?

Yes, the OP has a TPS (Temporary Protected Status) with the USCIS, not a green card. OP is applying for a family-based green card again. Passport renewal is for the Ethiopian embassy to waive the green card requirement in lieu of the TPS.

Ethiopian passport renewal questions are for the Ethiopian embassy, not USCIS. Try calling or emailing https://ethiopianembassy.org/about-embassy/

I'm not familiar with the MENA (Middle East North Africa) beneficiary requirements being any different to USCIS? For Part 2, Item 54, it sounds like you two have met in person within the past 2 years. So list the dates when you two met and list the copies of the evidence for those dates like boarding passes, flight receipts, photos, etc. and include in the I-129F. Put in Part 8, Additional Information if you need more space. For the interview, take all the original evidence in case the consulate asks for them. The interview comes down to is the beneficiary familiar enough with the US citizen to marry and can the US petitioner support the beneficiary? Does the beneficiary know your work or how much you make (from I-134)? Know your family members? Does the US citizen know the beneficiary’s family members? Specific details of first meeting like when or where or what, etc.? Specific details of the relationship like special dates you two celebrate, or religious conflicts, chat logs? etc. Trust me, the wait and the interview is too stressful to fabricate a relationship. The consulate staff is trained to spot fake relationships. They may ask questions they already know the answers to see how the beneficiary answers? Best to keep everything truthful and simple to prove bona fide relationship. Pro tip: while waiting for the USCIS approval and for the interview, spend the time getting to know each other deeply. Be conscious of the details of how your relationship is developing, etc.

There is no order or reason why some cases get processed faster than others. Unless NVC has a phone number you can call, it sounds like you are doing the most allowed with the NVC public inquiry form. You can wait and submit another inquiry next week? But I wouldn't try to do too many successive inquiries at once.

As others have said, you can submit a copy of the DS-3025 with your AOS to get the process rolling. USCIS may or may not ask for an I-693 RFE later. If you do receive the RFE, you take a copy of the DS-3025 to a US Civil Surgeon for the I-693 medical and the doctor will determine the course of action.

FWIW, my foreign spouse received her updated Georgia Driver License in the mail after about a week using her ROC 48-month extension letter. Can AMA (ask me anything) regarding Georgia DDS with foreign spouses (EAD, AOS, ROC)?

Please fill out your Timeline. If you already submitted the I-129F, then it is too late to make changes. Did you receive a NOA1 yet? If USCIS asks you to correct the error, then they will send an RFE, so it doesn't hurt to correct the error and have it ready to send/submit. You can also continue to accumulate more evidence to submit at the interview.

I did not use dividers or labels to separate documents. I imagined the USCIS person having to remove every divider or label before putting it into the stack scanner, and I decided that may be a little annoying or prone to human error like ripping a page, etc. I've used big binder clips before with the AOS concurrent packets. But the big binder clip isn't wide enough to clamp a 2-inch stack so I used the long rubber bands to wrap it longitudinally and latitudinally with no problem. Part 11 is for whatever extra you feel needs explaining--can be anything to help your case. Since everyone has different living arrangements and how they handle finances, we explained in Part 11 our situation which is a little unique. We've even used Part 11 to explain our photo evidence is chronologically backwards with the most recent first going back to our marriage date photos included in the AOS.

Your statement looks good and you can compare to mine from 2022: For the K1 visa, I intend to make specific contributions to financially support <BENEFICIARY NAME> while she legally resides in the US, which includes, but is not limited to room and board, living expenses, health care, and more. As @Boiler said, I-134 is not legally binding, but I-864 is legally binding. You theoretically have the time between I-134 to I-184 to get better employment or build more financials to support your beneficiary. If you do improve your financials, then you do not need a joint sponsor for the I-864.

You can use Part 8. Additional Information (and include extra copies of Part 8, if needed) to explain briefly some milestones of your bona fide relationship, and mention that you are including photo evidence, tickets, etc. in the I-129F. But focus more evidence on the last 2 years of meeting in person like pictures with family members, etc. We had evidence of 5-year relationship before petitioning for the K1, and made very clear when in the last 2 years we were together in person.

@dreamer32 @toor09 FWIW, VJ members who filled out the Timeline show the average days at NVC is 53 days. It's very possible you may be on the higher end of the average. https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/stats.php Also for the Ankara consulate, the average days between the consulate receiving information from NVC to the actual interview is 112 days. For Islamabad, the average is 34 days.

As @OldUser link shows, USCIS Tips for Filing Forms by Mail recommends not using binders, folders, heavy-duty staples, etc., or anything that can not easily be disassembled. We wrapped our 2-inch stack with 2 long rubber bands since we read others using them in their package. We put the rubber-banded stack inside the FedEx medium plastic envelope cover sealed to protect it from moisture. And we shipped everything inside the FedEx medium box. After USCIS receives the package, they want to disassemble it quickly and put the documents in a stack scanner. So think about how your package can be easily disassembled and less prone to human errors? @Yu1988 It doesn't hurt to mention "no lease or mortgage contracts because our house had already been paid off before we get married" in Part 11. Additional Information, listing, Page Number: 3, Part Number: 5, Item Number: 6. The cover letter may or may not be looked at much, but anything in the I-751 will be looked at to make it very clear why you have homeowner insurance in both names, but no lease or mortgage.

You can compare your list to our's at https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/827917-what-do-you-think-about-this-cover-letter-i-751/ Our's was about 2 inches thick sent in the medium FedEx box with plastic wrapped and rubber banded inside. Got to Elgin, IL, overnight.

Make sure you document your visits as extra evidence (pics, tickets, etc.) in case the consulate interviewer asks for it. We included the extra evidence at the end of the I-134.

@nastra30 @Lemonslice Maybe USCIS staffing won't affect as much since USCIS is self-funded?

That's not an advantage for paper application being more expensive. I'm asking if paper application has any advantage over online application?