raisan29

Wow, they work fast after getting the additional info from an RFE. Checked status online today and tada....approved:)

On January 25, 2008, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E). Please follow any instructions on the notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service.

Wow, thanks for ur quick reply....that really helps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But what about the copies, I mean I have the cover letter, but do I still have to write s.th. on the copies itself?! Like "Birth Certificate of......."?!

Thank again!!!!!!!!!

Glad to help. I still don't know what "s.th." means. I didn't write anything on my birth certificate copy because you're only required to submit a copy of the petitioner's birth certificate (not the beneficiary) and it's immediately obvious whose birth cert it is, because it'll have your name on it.

Again, don't stress the little things. Just get it assembled in a format that any reasonable adult would know how to deal with and you'll be fine.

I'm guessing "s.th." is some kind of shorthand for "something".

Just for the record I used staples and it didn't get rejected for it. But I agree with the others...anything you can do to help them is better:)

Just felt like shouting for joy in a place where people understand the feeling.

My baby is all set to fly in from the Philippines in just 10 days!!!

I will be driving two hours to the airport to pick her up. We're getting married on January 28th, our two year anniversary of meeting each other!

I'm very excited and worried at the same time--I hope she will make it here OK.

Just thought I'd shout for joy! WOOHOOOO!!!!

After so much agonizing wait, filing and thousands and thousands of dollars in plane tickets and embassy fees, my baby is finally coming to me for good!

The wait has been so long and agonizing, to say the least. It's so surreal to think it is almost over!

Everything I've dedicated the past two years of my life toward is about to culminate!

HEE HEE!

I know, I'm overexcited, LOL!

CONGRATS:)

Alright! She got her old passport back. Time to cross my fingers that it's enough and they don't make a big deal about it having a different first name. She called the Korean Embassy there in Manila and they have no idea about doing any stamp transfers.

Does anyone know if it's possible to change the address of the beneficiary if they move? I know I, the US citizen, can change my address and I've read about the AR-11 form for non-US citizens, but that looks like it's for non-citizens already here in the States.

Alright I recieved my first RFE for more evidence of having met in the past year. I can send a copy of my military orders as evidence as the RFE states, but my problem is that I will have no evidence of my fiancee having been in Korea, she worked there for two years and is from the Philippines. After she returned to the Philippines she had to get a new passport and no longer has the old one that had the stamps in it.

Basically, I've come to the realization that I will have to make a trip to PI to visit her, but I'm curious how that works. Will I have to re-submit a visa application and start this whole process over again? Of course I'm going to have her look in every nook and cranny of her house for a shred of evidence she was in Korea during the same time frame, but barring that I'm thinking it's going to get denied:(

She has to have some kind of proof she was working there or why she was there. The Philippines has to have some kind of record of her going there

Your fiance can request to have her stamps transferred to her new passports. She have to go get a letter from her Embassy to take it to the Korean Immigration so they can do that.

Thanks everyone. We're attempting to retrieve her old passport/work visa, she left them at her mom and dad's place in Mindanao and they(whole family) are all in Quezon City now. So we'll check into getting stamp transfers, xerox copies etc once her uncle mails them to her. *prays they don't get lost in the mail*

have you send photos ..for you and ur fiancee in the place you have met and they still asked for more??if may i ask, what evidence have you sent so far?

I sent photos, emails, letters, copies of envelopes mailed back and forth, and phone bills (both landline and cell). What I failed to do was recognize the difference between "proof of having met" and "Proof of ongoing relationship". When I was following the step-by-step procedures here at VJ it grouped both of them together in the box so I didn't realize the BIG difference. Being military I didn't travel using a passport, so no stamps for me, just my orders which I can send with this RFE. Military orders should be added as an example IMO though, I didn't know I could use them.

--Raisan29

Most countries return the old passport with a corner cut off to the passport holder with the new one. Are you sure she does not have the old passport?

If you make a trip to PI to visit her, you will be starting over and filing a new I-129F petition, evidence of meeting needs to be from before the I-129F filing NOT after.

Thanks YuAndDan, I had thought so. The reason for the new passport was because the old one had an incorrect first name. That would probably have raised red flags too, but I did include that name on the application as "Other names used".

--Raisan29

Alright I recieved my first RFE for more evidence of having met in the past year. I can send a copy of my military orders as evidence as the RFE states, but my problem is that I will have no evidence of my fiancee having been in Korea, she worked there for two years and is from the Philippines. After she returned to the Philippines she had to get a new passport and no longer has the old one that had the stamps in it.

Basically, I've come to the realization that I will have to make a trip to PI to visit her, but I'm curious how that works. Will I have to re-submit a visa application and start this whole process over again? Of course I'm going to have her look in every nook and cranny of her house for a shred of evidence she was in Korea during the same time frame, but barring that I'm thinking it's going to get denied:(

--Raisan29