tnkim

Thanks for the input.

I figure as much since the K3 packet state to schedule the interview first before scheduling the medical exam / immunization.

Now it's a waiting game to see when the next available appointment for the interview opens up.

Hello guys/gals,

This is for the K1 visa.

I need your input on the timing of getting medical exam/immunization and the interview.

So my fiance went to the post office to pay the $265 fee and now I'm able to schedule the visa interview. BUT, there's no dates available! This is for the Saigon / Ho Chi Minh City location.

Should she go ahead and schedule the medical exam now if possible, even when we don't know when there's an opening for the visa interview? When she recently called, they (the Cho Ray medical center) asked her for the interview appointment date.

Update: Approved!

So I got an RFE with the following:

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MISSING PAGE

Your Form I-129F is missing page 8 of 13. Complete all items on the page 8 of 13 of the I-129F petition, (edition 3/21/22) include your signature and date and return with your response. If any item does not apply, write "N/A".

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Page 8 is basically continuation of Part 2. Information About Your Beneficiary, International Marriage Broker (which I didn't use), and Part 3. Other Information (criminal information).

There is no line / space / anything about signature on that page. Do I just sign it (signature is an example, not my signature) at the top like in the attached document?

Thanks in advance for the help!

rfe_page8.pdf

Yes. I did for mine. You have to fill out a credit card authorization form.

More information here: https://www.uscis.gov/pay-with-a-credit-card

Sent my I-129F out on September 15, 2023.

USPS delivered on September 19, 2023.

Filing fee charged to credit card on September 20, 2023.

Waiting on NOA1

Petitioner: California

Beneficiary: Vietnam

3 hours ago, JeanneAdil said:

Is her father's name on  birth certificate?

Father's name is NOT on fiance's birth certificate.

2 hours ago, Sparkle Sparkle said:

In your fiancées culture, what is the engagement rite regarded as? Did you exchange vows ? Rings ? Or gifts? In her culture can she be regarded as your wife now?

Engagement ceremony in Vietnamese culture is just a ritual that's not legally binding. The groom and/or groom family ask the bride's family and bride for her hand for future marriage. There are gifts exchanged. But she cannot be considered as my wife, not traditionally nor by law. Engagement ceremony in the Vietnamese culture, as I understand it, is just a promise to marry.

9 minutes ago, PokuPoku said:

Sounds exactly like my fiancee and her daughter (8 years old). Her daughter effectively/legally has no father.

Good luck to the both of us that it doesn't harm us getting accepted in some way.

Good luck to us!

I think I'll just try to get the name and DOB of my fiance's deadbeat dad and provide an explanation why his name isn't on the birth certificate.

9 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Is this an aspect of your fiancee’s culture?

Yes, it is. It's part of Vietnamese culture. However, I'm having second thoughts about including pictures of it since I'm not sure how culturally sensitive / understanding the person who'll look at my file will be.

48 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Say more about this engagement event.

Pictures were of us a dressed up, but not overly, exchanging jewelry. I don't want it to be misconstrued as a wedding. There were other dressed up relatives in the picture, fiance's elder relatives and my mother. I have other pictures that were more informal that had nothing to do with any type of ceremony so those I'll use.

31 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Lots to unpack there, starting with, your fiancee’s mother is not your mother-in-law.

 

For the K-1 process to be successful, the prime directive is the couple must not say or do anything that leads to suspicion the couple has married.

Holy (removed). Thanks for the heads up. I have some pictures of the engagement but now it might be a good idea not to include them after reading some more about that.

11 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Does your fiancée know her father’s name and/or his location?

 

If so, if you enter unknown because you truly do not know, this can be interpreted as evidence you are not in a bonafide relationship with your fiancée.

 

It's a sore, emotional subject. But I definitely will ask my mother-in-law. Yeah, I can see how that can be misinterpreted as something not bonafide.

So my fiance's father abandoned the family before she was born. She was raised by her mom, brother, and extended family on mom's side. Fiance's birth certificate does not have her father's name (only mother). No one in the family really mentioned the father, and when they did, it was not in any favorable light.

I don't even know the guy's name or where he is.

So my question is: on the I-129F, page 6, the section about the beneficiary's parents, can I just put down the father's name as N/A? And explain the situation in the Supplementary explanation section?

Thank you for sharing. I have some anxiety regarding that issue and tried to search around without any concrete answers. So thank you for sharing your case.

I will proceed with the rest of the application.

Hello,

I'm filling out the I-129F application and ran into an issue.

A little bit of background information: I previously filed (and got approved) for K-1 visa about 10 years ago. After 9 years of marriage, my ex-spouse and I agreed to part ways and we had an amicable divorce.

So I met someone new and filling out the K-1 visa application for the second time. However, I totally forgot the exact date of my last filing. This information is requested on Page 4, question #46 on the I-129F application.

I know the approximate time period (give or take a month), but the exact date I have no idea. Should I put the approximate date?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.