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We received a RFE and they're asking for more evidence of us meeting along with a few missing pages.  They want a signature and date but where should this be done? I saw that some people include a sort of cover letter where they respond to the RFE and outline the contents of the submitted evidence and end the letter with a signature. Would this be sufficient or should the signature be somewhere else?

20 minutes ago, Oko Vicki said:

It seems to me like what you sent was treated as Evidence of Relationship rather than Evidence of Meeting. 

 

Below is evidence of meeting I suggest you submit: 

1. A picture(s) of you two at a restaurant(s) or store(s)+ receipt(s) of purchase from there. Don't forget to write name of store/restaurant, location and date at the back of pictures. 

 

2. Resubmit the entry and exit stamps on your partner's passport coupled with the boarding passes from the US and Sweeden. 

 

3. Receipt of hotel lodging showing dates your partner was in your country, it doesn't matter if it's in either or both of y'alls name. 

 

4. If your partner used their card over there, let them log in to their bank app, open the transaction(s) and take screenshot(s) that shows the narration of the purchases. You don't need bank statements for that. 

 

5. If you have pictures taken with friends or family, pictures you took at just random or specific places, include them and write the narration at the back of each picture. Don't forget to include date, too. 

 

That should do it. Also, I suggest you fill out another I129F form, include all pages whether or not you filled out all the pages. VERY IMPORTANT: Don't forget to sign by hand. 

 

Good luck. 

Thanks for this reply! We already included all of these (minus nr 4 since we don't typically use our own cards when visiting each other). But perhaps we need to include a few more receipts and more photos of us with family members/friends. That's really all I can think of

3 hours ago, IWander said:

Evidence of a relationship is not a requirement for petition approval.  It would appear that you provided evidence of something not required to be accomplished.  This may have been enough noise to cause the adjudicator to miss the other stuff you provided.

 

You need to find evidence of you being in country.  Other than boarding passes and entry stamps do you have anything that you can tie back to your name such as credit card usage, hotel receipts, ATM withdrawals?  You have to put your thinking hat on.

That makes a lot of sense actually.

Unfortunately I don't use my debit card when I visit since my bank charges me for every purchase, so instead I just transfer some money to my partner before the trip and then she uses her card for everything. I did book two tickets for us to visit a garden, I have the tickets and a bank statement + pictures of us in this garden. Could that be something to include? It's not necessarily proof though

18 minutes ago, IWander said:

Booking details, text messages, pictures and a letter of intent do NOT show you met face to face within the previous two years

True, those were used more as evidence of a relationship rather than a visit. Do you know what else we could use to prove that we have met multiple times within the previous two years, besides boarding pass & entry stamps?

1 hour ago, Crazy Cat said:

What was date of the last visit?  What was the date the I-129f was sent?  Dated Boarding passes, passport stamps, dated bookings receipts showing both names should be adequate.  It sounds like the form wasn't filled in correctly.  

The I-129f was sent in December 2022 and the last visit prior to that was in August 2022. You're probably right in that the form wasn’t filled in correctly. Do you think we need to send the entire application again or just the missing pages?

We submitted the I-129F in December 2022 and just received an RFE. It says the submitted evidence do not establish each other's physical presence. It does say "as evidence to support the two year personal meeting requirement, you submitted booking details, text messages, boarding pass, pictures and intent to marry letters", yet it also says there is no evidence that we have met in the past 2 years....we did submit entry stamps from the passport but since they didn't mention them, I'm thinking they might have gotten lost or maybe we forgot to attach them.

It also says "Your form I-129F is missing page 5, 6, 7 and 8. Complete all items on the form as per USCIS requirements and attached copy of the petition and include your signature and date. If any item does not apply, write "N/A" even though we did submit those pages.

1. What more could we submit as proof of meeting? We did describe our meetings but perhaps we need to be even more detailed?
2. Do we resubmit the whole application or do we just resubmit these missing pages and the requested evidence?

Grateful for any kind of advice 🙏🏻

For example a street name in my country (Sweden) can be "Granvägen" but the i-129f document doesn't accept the letter "ä". Should I just write the street name as Granvagen (with an "a" instead), or should I try to work around the issue so I'm able to write it out correctly?

Another question, I'm unsure of the row that has the options "Apt.", "Ste.", "Flr", if I lived in an apartment, do I pick Apt or Flr?

Any help is appreciated!

27 minutes ago, MarJhi said:

Uh....did your fiance not file taxes in that 5 years? Seems like she could just pull up her tax records (W2's) and get that job information off of there. If she didn't file taxes, then that's a whole other set of problems. 

Yes she did, we submitted a request for social earnings information instead (3 months ago) and we're still waiting to hear back, so I was mainly just asking in case a detailed record wasn't needed so we could start filing for the k1 now. But I guess we'll just keep waiting, since it seems like the processing time for getting the tax records could be up to 75 days?

14 minutes ago, Mike E said:

TheWorkNumber can likely provide her employment history. It knows mine all the way back to the mid 1990s. 
 

Also most banks keep 7 years of records. She can look at her bank deposits.  

Thanks for the suggestion, will definitely look into that!

My fiancee (who is a US citizen) and I are filing the I-129F form but we're stuck on the part where she is supposed to fill out her employment history for the last 5 years. She has had 1 job for the past year but prior to this job, she had a bunch of short term jobs where she stayed for a few weeks-months. The problem is, she doesn’t remember every place she has worked at nor does she remember the exact dates.

How important is this? Does the employment history have to be 100% correct or is it okay if she misses to list a couple of short term jobs? It was all warehouse jobs or fast food jobs btw.