MalloryCat

You just need the return transcript Typically for the last 2-3 years

We included all of the dates for our visits. We also closed I think about 10 pictures across all visits. And just labeled when and where each picture was taken. It's not gonna hurt to include more evidence that you've met in person. In my opinion more visits just shows the commitment you have to each other. USCIS wants to see if it's a bona fide relationship, multiple trips is part of what proves that

USCIS recommends waiting at least 30 days before contacting the NVC for the case number if you hadn't received it yet. I would say give it another week (7 - 10 days) before contacting the NVC again to get your case number. from my experience getting an actual letter from the NVC with the case number is hit or miss on whether or not it shows up quickly (for example, my fiance did get a letter from the NVC with the case number and saying it was being sent to the embassy, but this was over a month after it had already been at the embassy). Getting the case number doesn't necessarily mean it has left the NVC, just means that they have processed it. Once you have the case number though, you can track it through the CEAC site. And there it will tell you if it is in transit to the embassy or not. this part can still take a few weeks. so you more than likely still have a few months to go, but that varies a lot by embassy. the US embassy page on this site for Tirana should help some https://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=Albania&cty=Tirana

The next steps depend entirely on the embassy your petition is being sent to. I suggest reading information about your embassy here https://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=Costa Rica&cty=San Jose You will have to wait until the foreign fiance receives packet 3 from the embassy. I'm not sure if the Costa Rica embassy schedules interview appointments for you, but most embassies you schedule your own interview appointment But you more than likely need to wait for the foreign fiance to receive packet 3. At this point any inquires would need to go to the Costa Rica embassy and not the NVC, as the NVC no longer has your petition.

It does not mean you should be moving by that date. The validity date is just how long your petition is approved for. But most of the time the embassy the petition is going to can extend that date if you can't schedule the interview within that time frame. The time solely depends on the embassy now. It can take a few weeks for the NVC to transfer your petition to the embassy. And most embassies now you schedule your own interview, they don't do it for you. But that also depends on the embassy. Receiving the letter from the NVC in a timely matter isn't always guaranteed. If you haven't received the letter from the NVC within a month of USCIS transferring it to them, you should submit an inquiry to them to get your case number. Once you get that case number from the NVC, you can track your case on the CEAC site. And once the embassy receives your petition from the NVC they will send you a letter (typically called packet 3) on the next steps for how to schedule your medical, get the required documents, and scheduling your interview. Your time frame for when you have to move to the US starts once you have your medical. From the time of your medical you need to move to the US within 6 months. So when it comes to scheduling that, make sure it is pretty close to your interview date (for example, my finances medical is 2 weeks before his interview) But you absolutely can still take your trip while waiting for all of this. Cause unfortunately you still have a bit of waiting to do lol If you do take your trip, I would just have someone check your mail for you while you're gone. In case you get anything from the NVC or embassy in the time you're not there

https://egov.uscis.gov/ You can put your receipt number in here (should be located on your NOA1) To check the status with USCIS

Only the petitioner receives the NOA2 from USCIS in the mail You can make a copy of it and email it to the beneficiary for them to print and have.

ahh ok no you shouldn't need to inform USPS of your residency. it is just simply if you give someone your name and address it will show up. technically someone could send something to an address without a name on it at all, and it will still show up to that address.

do you mean to have the mail you would be receiving in the UK sent to your new address in the US? If that is the case you would need to inquire with the UK postal system to set a forwarding address to your new address in the US. That is how it works here if you are just moving addresses (contacting the US postal system to set up a forwarding address), so i am not sure if that would be the same processes as the UK

you shouldn't have too difficult of a time honestly, especially if you don't have a complicated case. that does make sense. but not sure if you're aware or not but you do have to be in the US within 6 months of your medical exam. So hopefully you can schedule your interview not too long after you have your medical exam. youre welcome. good luck!

Yes, even when status updates to "ready" you have to wait for the packet. From my understanding most embassies will always send packet 3 through the mail. Like with the packet 3 my fiance received, it including a copy of our approved I-129f, which would have been a lot to send over email. But some people do receive packet 3 through email. (i.e someone on this forum also going through the Frankfurt embassy got theirs in their email because their packet 3 never made it to them in the mail). Like the USTravelDocs site said, if you haven't received the instruction letter within 2 months of the NVC forwarding your case to the embassy in Helsinki, then you can submit an inquiry to them (the embassy) and they will more than likely email you the packet 3 instructions/letter. unfortunately the transferring between the NVC and the embassy is just more waiting lol. But it's a good time to start gathering those documents

most embassies use ustraveldocs for all of their visa processes https://www.ustraveldocs.com/fi/fi-iv-typek.asp here is the site for Finland. this is a direct link for the K-1 visa. under where it says "Scheduling the interview date" "Once the U.S. Embassy Helsinki receives the approved petition from NVC, the Immigrant Visa Section will send a letter with the instructions on preparing for the visa interview to the applicant. Note: Do not schedule your interview date until you receive these instructions. If you do not receive the instructions from the US Embassy within two months after the notification from NVC about the transferring of your case to Helsinki, you have to send an inquiry about the status of your case directly to the Consular Section of the US Embassy Helsinki . Please be advised that you might have submit a new petition if you do not schedule an interview within four months of petition approval."

1. Pay stubs just need to be whatever is the most recent at the time. I believe I sent 3 months worth of pay stubs (when I sent them to my fiance was back in march/april, his interview isn't until july) 2. It depends on the embassy. Some embassy's want you to wait until you receive packet 3 from them before scheduling your interview (i.e. with Frankfurt we had to wait until we received packet 3) 3. This information will be included in packet 3. Which will come from the embassy. But as you said the CEAC site still shows as it is in transit. Once the embassy receives it and the status changes to "Ready" that is when they will more than likely mail you packet 3. But more than likely you will need police certificates (original + 1 copy) from all places lived since 16, birth certificate (original + 1 copy), any divorce papers from previous marriages (if any/original + 1 copy), evidence of relationship (ive heard some officers dont really ask for this, but better to have it and not need it), 2 US standard passport photos, passport, printed out DS-160 confirmation page, I-134 (including supporting evidence for USC financials) and sealed medical examination (most of the time this just gets sent directly to the embassy from the doctor, but depends on the doctor.) 4. Not sure if it will be the same as for us, but we received a copy of our original I-129f in the packet 3 we received from the embassy. But you shouldn't need the NOA1 as that was just a notification that USCIS received the petition in the first place. the NOA2 is the actual approval notification. But you shouldn't really need that either as the embassy already knows that your I-129f was approved because they have it. 5. No you shouldn't need to bring that letter. as that was just a notice that the NVC received the petition from USCIS and will be forwarding it to your selected embassy. That letter is just for your records so you know where your petition was in the process. 6. The evidence (or standard to show income) that the I-134 prefers is, 3 years worth of tax return transcripts (which the USC can get for free from the IRS website https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript)), W-2s from current employer, pay stubs, signed letter from employer (letter should include start date, job title, salary (or hourly wage if paid that way), employment status (temporary or permanent, full time or part time)), and/or a signed letter from the USC's bank for all existing accounts (checking and savings) (letter should include date account opened, total amount deposited for the last year, and current balance) *personally I think the letter from the bank isn't as good of evidence since the amount in a bank account is always changing and theres no guarantee that it will always have that amount. Most people do fine with the letter from the employer and the tax return transcripts. But the tax returns transcripts are by far the most important evidence. hopefully that helps and makes sense!

Oh... Sorry I missed that. That is very odd. It sounds like they want you to complete the DS-160 without the packet 3 letter. Which you technically can do. Once the DS-160 is submitted it stays valid for a year. Was the only thing stopping you from doing the DS-160 the fact that you haven't gotten packet 3 yet? There shouldn't be anything in packet 3 that you need in order to do the DS-160 anyway The fact that embassies do this process all differently is very confusing lol

Where did you read that you have to register an address to get packet 3? That's usually something the embassy sends automatically or at the very least the foreign fiance has to contact the embassy to get the packet 3 instructions I've never heard of anyone having to register their address on USTravelDocs to get the packet 3 instructions.

I was just told by my fiance (who likes to read what I post here 😂) that he did in fact do this. Which I was not aware. I know that embassies process K-1 visas through the Immigrant unit, but did you try registering your address by selecting the "Nonimmigrant" category instead? it might be there cause technically K-1 is a nonimmigrant visa. It's been awhile since he did it, and you can't go back through the process once the interview has been scheduled so he can't actually go look. But I would try going through the nonimmigrant category to register your address and see if the K-1 category is there.

I'll respond to you here. You may have to contact the embassy you are going though, but in regards to the Frankfurt embassy that our case is going through, we did not have to register an address for the visa delivery. For us it is something that is done on the day of the interview. The registering the address on USTravelDocs is for the actual delivery of the passport with the visa in it after the interview is completed. The embassy should just send you packet 3 once they receive your case from the NVC. But this varies between embassies I'm pretty sure

have you received your case number from NVC? If not you should submit an inquiry to them and get that case number or find out the status of your case If your case hasn't been sent to the embassy yet that you are aware of, you would need to contact the NVC to get any updates.

it can 100% be filled out on the computer, printed, and mailed in. but the actual signature of the person filing the petition has to be hand written. it can't be typed with like a cursive font to pass off as handwritten is what that statement from USCIS is saying

we had good luck with trackmyvisa now. When we first looked at it (back in march) it told us there was a 50% chance we'd hear something within 2 weeks. and if i remember correctly we got our approval within a few days after looking (very weird coincidence that we happened to look right at that time, but he had just left from visiting and we were anxious for hear back at that point lol)

we reached out to the NVC after a month to get our case number. Our case arrived at the embassy about a week later. My Fiance get a letter from the NVC saying our case was sent to the embassy over a month and a half after it was already at the embassy. so I wouldn't rely on receiving a letter from the NVC in a timely matter. You're much better off submitting an inquiry to them, they are usually pretty responsive.

the NOA1 just confirms that they have received the petition. it probably wont get scanned into the system until they begin the review process. which will probably take a few months to get to yours based on the current processing time

while on the US side the K-1 visa is a non-immigrant visa, embassies process K-1 visas (including the interview) as immigrant visas (meaning the immigrant visa side of the embassy is the part that processes it). it is weird and doesnt make a lot of sense. that is probably why they canceled the interview, because it was with the non-immigrant visa department and not the immigrant visa department like it should have been.

looks like they have a google form (not one to fill out, but to get you the right information on who to contact) that you can go through https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1_BFhuTI_OkX3XsyHASgla9yQzYKb7bMOkNdGBFE_u5psJw/viewform but it looks like this is the email they use: support-thailand@ustraveldocs.com or this local phone number: 02-105-4110 you could try either way to contact them. most embassies from what ive read prefer email though

it is up to the consular discretion to extend the petition. some embassies do this automatically. some want you to contact them to request to have it extended. you would need to contact the embassy that has your petition to confirm with them that they will/can extend it. the 4 month expiration is a little strange, but they are usually pretty good about extending it without issue. I haven't heard of anyone having the issue where they wont.