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Hey everybody 👋🏽 We ended up sending the letters of intent AS SOON as you told us to, and we think they got them as we got our NOA2, and not RFE! 🤩 Thank you all! 🙏🏼 

22 hours ago, Captain Ewok said:

Can you post back here if you get it tomorrow?

Here to say I finally got it! Thank you so much. 

On 6/17/2023 at 6:38 AM, Captain Ewok said:

I think I spotted the issue.  Should hopefully go out this weekend :).

22 hours ago, Captain Ewok said:

Can you post back here if you get it tomorrow?

11 minutes ago, Captain Ewok said:

Can you post back here if you get it tomorrow?

Yes, I will! 

12 hours ago, Captain Ewok said:

I think I spotted the issue.  Should hopefully go out this weekend :).

Thank you so much! Every Sunday, me and my fiancé used to look forward to those estimates, so looking forward to it getting fixed

Hi, hope you’re all doing well! Do you know why I stopped getting Weekly Approval Estimates? I don’t understand what’s going on, as the setting is even “enabled”. 

4 hours ago, SalishSea said:

I am one who sent additional documents (a final foreign divorce decree absolute, which we did not have at the time of filing) directly to the Laguna Niguel address, several months after filing the petition.   It did make its way to our file, and was included.  No RFE.   YMMV.

OMG, thank you so much. It’s such a relief to read this. I really appreciate it. We already did everything, and are going to send it tomorrow first hour. 

Just now, TBoneTX said:

No one has brought this up yet, but it's important that your arrangements be as flexible as possible.  We've seen innumerable threads here with variations of, "Our wedding is next month and we don't have a date for our visa interview yet!" and "We booked our venue 14 months out but our petition hasn't even been approved yet!"

 

Delays do occur at any given stage of the process:  petition approval (including RFEs), availability of visa interviews, 221g or worse at the consular phase, travel challenges, and personal issues.

Yes, thank you so much. We appreciate it. We have explained the vendors our situation, and are actually  getting those who are more flexible with the dates. 

1 minute ago, Mike E said:

There was advice an ISO who did an AMA last year on reddit who advised otherwise. Hence I will always advise sending unsolicited evidence despite what USCIS says.

 

Do as you wish. I am out.

Great, I didn’t know this. I’m sorry. We already did exactly as you told us, and are sending the letters tomorrow. Hopefully, it’ll work! 

1 hour ago, Mike E said:

I never heard of this happening.

 

Send it usps priority mail, flat rate envelope. Could be the best $10 you ever spent.

 

 

I just read this in the USCIS site.

Just now, Mike E said:

I never heard of this happening.

 

Send it usps priority mail, flat rate envelope. Could be the best $10 you ever spent.

 

 

Thanks again, I’ll tell my fiancé who is the US citizen to do it right away. 

10 minutes ago, SalishSea said:

I think you’re misunderstanding the importance of establishing intent to marry via statements of both parties. 
 

One of the downfalls of using a lawyer is that it’s easy to defer to them instead of owning your own process.  

 

Going forward, you will want to make sure you know the requirements for each step of the process.   It is long and expensive, and no one cares more about your visa than you do.   In fact, lawyers get paid more for making mistakes….

I’ll definitely. Me and my fiancé already talked about it, and we said we’re going to do the rest of the process, if hopefully we get approved,  by ourselves with the help of this site, which I can see it’s incredibly helpful. 
 

And, I do agree with you. Lawyers do love making mistakes only to get paid more, but we thought this guy was going to be different. 
 

Thanks again! 

13 minutes ago, Mike E said:

 

 

@_carolinabautista

 

 

Send a cover letter with the intent to marry statements stating:

 

* case number

* reason for letter

* name of petitioner

* name of beneficiary

 

The address you send this to is the USCIS address listed on the I-129F receipt.

 

Sample letter of intent:

 

https://www.visajourney.com/examples/Fiance_Letter_of_Intent.doc

Thank you so much, we really appreciate it! We’ll be moving forward with it. Do you know if they send a notice of receipt? Just to kind of have an idea with what to expect. Also, should we also send with it our wedding venue receipt, or something like that? We didn’t send it with the i-129 F as we hadn’t done it yet, but we already booked a venue. 

1 minute ago, Mike E said:

Why probably? The U.S. citizen  needs to send these letters, today.  Neither of you need permission to write these letters.

Great, should we address the whole i-129 F application, or only both letters? 

33 minutes ago, powerpuff said:

RFEs can be received at any time in the process. If they haven’t sent it yet means your file wasn’t looked at/didn’t get in the hands of the immigration officer. Unfortunately, these petitions lay around for 15-16 months (or however long the estimate is) just for someone to adjudicate them in a matter of 20 minutes. 

Thank you so much! I appreciate it.

Just now, Crazy Cat said:

You will receive either a denial, a rejection, or an RFE.  I can't say which one will be issued...but it will not go forward missing letters of intent. 

I’ll see if we can probably send them the letters, and proof of the venue receipt for our future wedding, showing enough evidence we do intend to marry! Thanks again. 

1 minute ago, Crazy Cat said:

There are very few required items to file an I-129F.  Letters of intent are one of those requirements.  Fire the attorney today, and prepare to see an RFE or a denial. 

We thought it was going to be better to hire him hopefully looking for the best of our case, even though many said it wasn’t even necessary as it was such a “simple” case, as we’re both the same age, almost same backgrounds, have been together since 5 years. Do you think that even with all the evidence, like the engagement pictures we sent, him asking for my hand to my dad, our engagement pictures, could we still face a denial because of the letter? 

4 minutes ago, powerpuff said:

Another story of attorneys being incompetent even in the most simple of cases. The letters of intent is not just important, it’s a requirement.

 

You have two options:

 

1. Try to send both letters of intent to the service center processing the petition. This is not guaranteed to work but worth a shot. If it doesn’t work, you’ll just wait for an RFE.

 

2. Wait to receive an RFE. 

 

 

Definitely agree with you. Thank you so much, I appreciate it. I’ll see if it’s possible to send them now, before getting an RFE. Do you know when do people usually get the RFE? 

Hey,

I hope you can guys help us. We sent our application in August 30th, 2022nd, and got the NOA1 in September 1st, 2022nd.Since then, I’ve been reading a lot of these forums, and see how IMPORTANT the letter of intent to marry is. 
 

However, we only gathered the documents our lawyer told us to get, and the letter wasn’t within them. We even asked him afterwards, and his answer was: ”For my first 15 years of practice, such a statement was not required”

We’ve been together for 5 years, and have been visiting back and forth, so we provided many pictures, flight tickets, call/video calls and all possible evidence of a bona fide relationship. 

What do you think we could to fix that based on your experience? Has any of this ever happened to you?