MalloryCat

Have you had an interview yet? If not it could be as simple as they didn't get the entire petition from the NVC. So it was marked as refused until they got whatever it is they were missing. If you did already have your interview, was something missing at the time? Like they didn't have your medical forms yet or were missing a document from you? They will mark it as refused until they get those things You could always submit an inquiry to your embassy to check the status with them.

Most of the time embassies will automatically extend a petition if an interview hasn't been scheduled. They typically extend it 4 months at a time for up to a total of one year. You could always submit an inquiry to your embassy to verify that they will extend your petition validity date

i would assume the "primary authority" would be any government body as all of them follow this because it makes sense unfortunately no government body is going to over look the extra day and a half the beneficiary overstayed, if thats what youre looking for confirmation on

because the government doesnt base time lines off of the whole year. more than likely for the exact reason youre saying, cause its not an even number when you divide the year exactly in half. can you imagine how confusing that would be for everyone? with different time zones and clocks rarely ever being exactly the same. but somehow people would have to know what time exactly half a day would be that they have to be out of the country. their plane gets delayed and they overstay by 5 minutes. you always go by the 6 month/180 days.

you should start your own thread if you have questions but you should get an email confirmation not long after scheduling the interview. did you email proof of a submitted DS-160 to the embassy?

theres no definite way of knowing. it is almost entirely up to the officer doing the visa interview if they believe the relationship is bonafide no one can say for sure that it will cause an issue, but chances are the relationship may be more scrutinized by the interviewing officer.

Ooooh I'm sorry, I thought you redacted the case numbers and stuff lol But yea then that is a little odd, Sounds like their automated system made a mistake I would say wait a day and see if they correct their mistake. And if you don't get anything new reach out again

this number is different from your receipt number you got from USCIS right? then yes, your case number has been created. you use this case number for the rest of the process. you can track your case through the CEAC site. https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx?App=NIV (it is tracked as an immigrant visa, just so you are aware) there is more waiting now though, as NVC has to send your case to the embassy you specified in your petition. they send cases every 2 weeks, and sometimes it is up to the embassy to request the petitions. they are supposed to send a letter to the beneficiary (foreign fiance) when your petition gets sent to the embassy, this letter can take a while to show up in my experience (my fiance didn't get this letter until over a month after we already knew it was at the embassy)

they want you to put the foreign fiances address in their native alphabet. only documents should be translated

it can take 7-10 business days. but I've also heard people have gotten it after 2 weeks. it depends on the embassy

that is more than enough time. it is recommended that the medical be at least 10 days before the interview. the doctors office will send the exam packet directly to the embassy.

both your petitioner and the joint sponsor will fill out for I-134. https://www.uscis.gov/i-134 you can find the instructions there for what evidence to include with the I-134. you will need evidence from both the petitioner and the joint sponsor

it will still take over 6 months more than likely from submitting the petition to petition approval, and then a few more months to visa interview you should be fine to submit now, in my opinion

neither my letter of intent or my fiance's letter of intent was submitted as "wet ink" the signatures were hand written, but the letters of intent we submitted were copies

you put the embassy in Nigeria where your fiance lives. This is the embassy your petition will inevitably be sent to and where your fiance's interview will take place

when did you submit it? you may be able to go in and make corrections if it has been less than 30 days since you submitted it.

If you haven't received the NOA2 in the mail from USCIS, you (the USC) should still receive that in i think it's like 7-10 business days. If you don't get the NOA2 at all from USCIS after a month, you would need to contact them. Cause you do need that NOA2, but USCIS is good about sending those out as they are needed for other parts of the immigration process. any information now in terms of communication from NVC would go to the foreign fiance. But receiving a letter from NVC with the case number is notoriously slow. It can take some time for your case to get to the NVC/processed by them. (my fiance didn't get a letter from the NVC with the case number until over a month after it had already been at the embassy in Germany, we contacted them a month after we received our approval) USCIS recommends waiting 4weeks/30 from approval to contact the NVC to get your case number. So that would be my suggestion. Unfortunately you are now at a stage of more waiting lol If it is evidence of the relationship that should be ok... since I don't believe they keep that. But I would recommend taking out the metal rings. just to be on the safe side, in case they decide they want to make copies of it or something. But from what I've read the German embassy in Frankfurt don't typically ask for evidence of the relationship, just the I-134. theres another user, @Rosaly who is also from the Netherlands and is going through the Frankfurt embassy. they might be able to provide better insight, as they have scheduled their interview and received their packet 3 and such.

A submitted DS-160 is valid for 1 year

glad to hear it! a submitted DS-160 is good for one year. so that can be submitted at any time, most people (my fiance included) wait to submit it until they are able to schedule the actual visa interview. Once the DS-160 is submitted you are given a confirmation page. This confirmation page is brought to the K-1 visa interview. The DS-160 should only take about 90 minutes to complete. I know the website is pretty awful to use (it likes to reload and go slow) but I don't see why you couldn't get it completed in less than a day. when you first get to the site and before you start the actual application, it gives you an application ID. you want to make sure you write it down or save it somewhere. that way if you need to stop in the middle of doing the DS-160, you can save it and pick back up where you left off later. or if the site reloads on you and kicks you out of the application, so you don't have to start all over.

I'm doing some research on AOS while waiting for my fiance's K-1 interview. And with the new increased fees, I'm just a little confused: 1. We will be filing I-485 and I-765 at the same time, I assume that I need to write two separate checks for these forms? Just to make it easier for USCIS? 2. When looking at the USCIS FAQ about the new fees, I noticed that the biometrics fee didn't seem to make a difference anymore? The darker grey boxes are the new 2024 fees. And the first set of boxes are the previous fees. if you notice the line for "with biometric services" is the same as the line without biometrics for the 2024 fees. Does this mean the biometrics fee has just been rolled into the I-485 fee? when I inevitably need to write these checks, do I need to specify on the check that its for the I-485 and the biometrics? or will we have to pay for the biometrics at the time of the biometrics appointment instead of directly through USCIS? 3. when I put together the packet (hole punched in a standard folder?) do I separate the checks and keep them with each form? or do I include them together at the very beginning before all of the forms? or even before the cover page? I've read the information here but it seems to still be out of date, as it references that the I-765 fee is still included with the I-485 if filed jointly, which it obviously isn't now. 4. for the cover page, is the applicants name the non-USCs name? or would it be the USC name? or is it both? 5. in reference to question 3, if we fill out the G-1145 (e-notification form) do we put that in front of everything? including the checks? we still have a few months to go before doing this, since his interview isn't until july, and if all goes well, he will likely be here by september, but I like to be over prepared and understand exactly what it is I am doing. Thank you for any insight or help!

It's better to have it and not need it, then need it and not have it. Your fiance can just provide the tax transcripts and have the other things on hand if needed. But she doesn't need to offer anything else if they don't ask for it

my fiance and I didn't meet through discord (although we do use it) we did meet through an online game that is a hosted server that has a ToS. Although the terms that server had were much shorter it basically said that same thing in the very first paragraph of the discord terms. The part where is says "when we say "Discord", "we", "us"..." I personally would provide screenshots starting from the first sentence under the last number in the table of contents ("Welcome! Discord is the best place to talk...") up until the end of the "what you can expect from us" section. In my opinion i think that would be enough to show what Discord is and that it is not a marriage broker

it varies between embassies. Some officers ask for it, some dont. some just want to see the form but don't bother with the evidence. some want to see as much evidence as possible. pretty much is up to office discretion from what i understand. but the embassy is the one that has final decision in approving or denying visas. that's why they are the ones that review the I-134. also the I-134 isn't the most important form for them. that may be why they don't always check it. the I-864 is the more important one and more scrutinized. that one is done during AOS after the beneficiary is in the states and you've gotten married

the NVC pretty much does all the processing for embassies. "NVC serves a clerical function in processing immigrant visa applications. NVC's job is to prepare immigrant visa applications for consular officers to review and adjudicate" They dont approve or deny petitions, just get them sent off. the DS-160 goes straight to the embassy, it doesnt pass through the NVC at all.

yes you need to fill out an I-134 for the daughter. you need an I-134 for each immigrant you plan on sponsoring. the I-134 is not submitted online, it is brought to the visa interview by the foreign fiance. NVC doesn't review the I-134, the officer at the embassy/consulate will review it as part of the evidence brought to the interview it depends on the country, so she may need to check how long the police certificate is valid for before requesting it. but it can be gotten whenever, as long as it is still valid when the interview comes around. i couldn't find anything concrete, but its either 3 months or 6 months in Cambodia. she can probably get more definite information from wherever she requests it from.