Princess In Love

hi all

today inshallah, we are sending our I-130 petition, i wonder if we should write something in the envelope to show that we are sending an original submission of I-130 petition or just write down the adress of chicago lockbox, please help

thankyou all for your help

hi all

i'm confused about the pictures with family that i will submit with i-130 package, should i write who is in the picture or it is not necessary

please help, i need to send the documents tomorrow morning to my husband, i need to organise everything tonight

Hi Ossa

glad to help

I think you need to translate any foreign document you give, unless it has an international naming convention, like passports.

so yes you should most probably translate your birth certificate (unless it includes legends in English)

I had mine translated.

thanks again for your help

but from the guides here, they don't ask for the beneficiary birth certificate either for I-130 or I-129F, , what i know is that they will ask for it later at the nvc step, please correct me before i send documents tomorrow

The beneficiary's birth certificate is not needed with the petition filing. It will be needed later and should be translated in a way acceptable to the specific consulate.

thanks for your help, i don't want to translate my birth certificate until it is required as it has an expiration date of 3 months

The expiration date is meaningless. The Consulates treat birth certificates as having no expiration, since the data they confirm is not subject to change. The same goes for a police report you'll need later (translated as well). No matter the expiration date, if any, the Consulate will usually accept one issued within 12 months of issue and definitely within six months.

thanks for the advice, i didn't know that information, anyway, it's too late for me to do the translation as i will send my documents to my husband tomorrow morning

Hi Ossa

glad to help

I think you need to translate any foreign document you give, unless it has an international naming convention, like passports.

so yes you should most probably translate your birth certificate (unless it includes legends in English)

I had mine translated.

thanks again for your help

but from the guides here, they don't ask for the beneficiary birth certificate either for I-130 or I-129F, , what i know is that they will ask for it later at the nvc step, please correct me before i send documents tomorrow

The beneficiary's birth certificate is not needed with the petition filing. It will be needed later and should be translated in a way acceptable to the specific consulate.

thanks for your help, i don't want to translate my birth certificate until it is required as it has an expiration date of 3 months

best thing i can suggest is have HIM worry with all this, have him come on here to read and follow the directions, i can never understand when the benef. is the one always doing the work, its HIS petition for you. There are certain parts you will be responsible for and signatures but let him do the controlling of the flow. I would do the cr1 thru vermont and hope it gets moved to calif

thanks for your advices, yes he worries about all this as much as i do but have no time to come here, he let me handle it and send him links to read so he can understand as well, he knows i'm good as such things and he saw that in our marriage process, i organised everything so it went so smooth and fast.....

we might change our mind and go only cr-1 way, i'm trying to convince him not to send the I-129F because i've read some where here that sending both petitions can make things go slower and at the end they are approved the same day so no need to waste time with I-129F package as in vermont center the time difference between the two petitions is only one month; better concentrate on nvc step to finish the process quickly...

Hi Ossa

glad to help

I think you need to translate any foreign document you give, unless it has an international naming convention, like passports.

so yes you should most probably translate your birth certificate (unless it includes legends in English)

I had mine translated.

thanks again for your help

but from the guides here, they don't ask for the beneficiary birth certificate either for I-130 or I-129F, , what i know is that they will ask for it later at the nvc step, please correct me before i send documents tomorrow

Hi Ossa

congrats for your wedding

for G325A of I129F you can prepare them already and send to your husband

as the others told you

in the purpose you can distinguish them putting I130 spouse vs K3 spouse

be careful with the numbering of pages 1 to 4, I got it wrong myself once

did you get it all the moroccan doc already translated?

Also you can send other doc to your husband already if he is able to handle without mixing up

it includes picture, a birth certificate for you with translation, your wedding certificate with translation

you can already prepare an indexing and put post its on it

for sending from France I used chronopost a lot but it is expensive

La Poste also has cheaper enveloppes for the world where documents get to the US in a week or less

I don't know about Morroco

thanks for advices, i have translated only the marriage certificate, do i need to send him also my birth certificate with its translation....???

i have also my police record, should i translate it and send it to him as well....????

i've been told that chronopost is cheaper than dhl and they take almost the same time so i'm intending to use it to send him the documents; for the moroccan poste it will take more than 10 days so not a good choice

if you have any other suggestions please help me

hi all

i've just been married, i'm moroccan and my husband is us citizen

now we are assembling our I-130 package, we are intending to go the k-3 way

my husband returned back to usa, so i have to send him the documents

my question is, can we file all the documents I-130 G-325A and I-129F G-325A at the same time with the same date and get them signed or wait until we get the noa1 and then file the i-129f package with a different date than the i-130 package, i want to save time cause sending documents to him may take time

thanks for you all

Congrats on your marriage

If you have questions, it's always best to read the guides at the top of the page. They're very logical and straightforward.

You have to file you I-130 and when you receive your NOA1, then you file the I129F. So no, don't file them at the same time because as the guide says, you have to include the NOA1 in the I129F.

It would make more sense for you to do 8 copies of the G325A, 2 photos and 2 sets of affadavits (if you are supplying any of the proof of a bona fide marriage) since you'll need them for both anyway, and send them to him in one go. Obviously FedEx type courier service is usually faster but more expensive. I don't think having the dates on the different sets of documents accompanying the 2 petitions matters.

thanks for the reply, i've read the guides and i know exactly what steps i should do but just confused about putting the same date in all the forms even if they are not sent at the same time, i understand that i-130 package should be sent first and then when the noa1 recieved we send i-129f package with a copy of this notice

please help

Forms are dated when signed. Just tell the truth, always. Never lie on a form or to an immigration official. If you keep this in mind throughout the process, the answers to such questions will become obvious.

Do not do 8 copies of the same G325a form because each set of four has a different stated purpose in one section. It's two sets of four.

thankyou for your advice, i'll sign and date all the papers before sending them, my g-325a for both I-130 and I-129F will have the same date, i think it's not really a big deal

first of all where is your husband filing from??? east coast or west coast? that will make a difference on your service center and the times. IF you're filing from the west coast and insha'allah you will notice it won't really matter what you file they typically go faster then the vermont service center. these days that is.

But this is what can happen you file both (i suggest leaving the dates blank and allow your husband to fill them in as he sends them) the I130 and the I129 and track them when they get approved you can follow the track once they are approved which way you want to go. I suggest you file first the I130 get your NAO1 then sending the I 129 with the copies as that typically goes faster for the K3 to start moving cause you already got the nao1 and paid for it. But that is up for debate i am sure.

when we got both approved and by the time we waited for the interview i followed both tracks until i got out interview date and to be honest it was only a month difference between his k3 interview date and his cr1 date. And to be honest the cr1 is typically a better visa because it allows you to have a SSN upon entry and to go get your drivers license when you're ready and the cost is typically $600 less for then the AOS.

K3 you will have to wait for EAD and AOS here but that is a month earlier I suggest you study both and you and your husband decide.

Good luck!

Thanks for Pming me let me know if you have other questions.

~Rajaa

thanks rajaa for you help, my husband is living in boston so i think our petition will go to vermont center which is really slow, i pray God that it will be forwarded to california center so it can go faster

we prefer to send both petitions and then choose later what way to go like you've done

i suggested to my husband to ask for his tax transcripts and all documents he will need to file the affidavit of support, do you think it's too early to gather those documents????

hi all

i've just been married, i'm moroccan and my husband is us citizen

now we are assembling our I-130 package, we are intending to go the k-3 way

my husband returned back to usa, so i have to send him the documents

my question is, can we file all the documents I-130 G-325A and I-129F G-325A at the same time with the same date and get them signed or wait until we get the noa1 and then file the i-129f package with a different date than the i-130 package, i want to save time cause sending documents to him may take time

thanks for you all

Congrats on your marriage

If you have questions, it's always best to read the guides at the top of the page. They're very logical and straightforward.

You have to file you I-130 and when you receive your NOA1, then you file the I129F. So no, don't file them at the same time because as the guide says, you have to include the NOA1 in the I129F.

It would make more sense for you to do 8 copies of the G325A, 2 photos and 2 sets of affadavits (if you are supplying any of the proof of a bona fide marriage) since you'll need them for both anyway, and send them to him in one go. Obviously FedEx type courier service is usually faster but more expensive. I don't think having the dates on the different sets of documents accompanying the 2 petitions matters.

thanks for the reply, i've read the guides and i know exactly what steps i should do but just confused about putting the same date in all the forms even if they are not sent at the same time, i understand that i-130 package should be sent first and then when the noa1 recieved we send i-129f package with a copy of this notice

please help

ossa,

Just little advise from my side, I am not saying you should do this but consider twice before filing for k-3. The recent trend has shown us alot that filing I-130 alone gets priority over k-3 so think about it before you send I-129f to go with k-3 route.

Best of luck with your Journey.

well that's what i told my husband but he wants us to be together as soon as possible even if it is one month earlier

hi all

i've just been married, i'm moroccan and my husband is us citizen

now we are assembling our I-130 package, we are intending to go the k-3 way

my husband returned back to usa, so i have to send him the documents

my question is, can we file all the documents I-130 G-325A and I-129F G-325A at the same time with the same date and get them signed or wait until we get the noa1 and then file the i-129f package with a different date than the i-130 package, i want to save time cause sending documents to him may take time

thanks for you all

Congrats on your marriage

If you have questions, it's always best to read the guides at the top of the page. They're very logical and straightforward.

You have to file you I-130 and when you receive your NOA1, then you file the I129F. So no, don't file them at the same time because as the guide says, you have to include the NOA1 in the I129F.

It would make more sense for you to do 8 copies of the G325A, 2 photos and 2 sets of affadavits (if you are supplying any of the proof of a bona fide marriage) since you'll need them for both anyway, and send them to him in one go. Obviously FedEx type courier service is usually faster but more expensive. I don't think having the dates on the different sets of documents accompanying the 2 petitions matters.

thanks for the reply, i've read the guides and i know exactly what steps i should do but just confused about putting the same date in all the forms even if they are not sent at the same time, i understand that i-130 package should be sent first and then when the noa1 recieved we send i-129f package with a copy of this notice

please help

hi all

i've just been married, i'm moroccan and my husband is us citizen

now we are assembling our I-130 package, we are intending to go the k-3 way

my husband returned back to usa, so i have to send him the documents

my question is, can we file all the documents I-130 G-325A and I-129F G-325A at the same time with the same date and get them signed or wait until we get the noa1 and then file the i-129f package with a different date than the i-130 package, i want to save time cause sending documents to him may take time

thanks for you all

hey girls are you waiting to hear some good news from US Consulate of Casablanca??

yes...yes...yesssssssss!!

I M APPROVED alhamdulillahhhhhhhhhhh i am jumping of joy i still can't believe it was that easy alhamdulillah

mabrouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk allah ykamel 3lik blkhir

i'm really happy for you

can you give us more details, what kind of questions they asked you???? what proofs of relationship did you give them???

Maboooook!!!! I have never heard of that happening so fast congrats!!!! whooooooooot

thanks rajaa, money and good connections can make things go fast....wish it was the same for the visa process

wow that is good, now you can instruct others how from what you have learned, i think you did the impossible

well we had very good connections!!!! both at the court and at the police so things went very fast

i'm back, i got married last friday, i made the process in 4 days i started on monday and finished on thursday morning, we got the judge's approval at noon, i was really nervous but alhamdoulilah everything was ok and we had our party yesterday and this morning he travelled back to usa , i have to get the marriage certificate and translate it before we can start the k-3 process, hope it will be a speedy journey...

congratulations rajaa, that's good news to hear.....

congratulations rajaa , really goooooooood newwwwwwws

waiting is over girl

congratulations

You are most welcome... but honestly I have to suggest a couple of things. You will not get everything done in 5 days (isa i hope you do but not likely) so my suggestion is this... have an engagement party and start the papers. The first part can be done in advance and he can come back in three months to finish it will be even better for immergration to see multiple trips. And your short week won't feel as stress full.

Just something to keep in mind as a back up plan.

this is his second trip to morocco, the first one was in last august to meet my family and got engaged, now he is coming back for the marriage contract and for a small party to take pictures, he can not come back again soon because of his job besides as you know administrations here won't accept papers if they are dated more than 3 months and we have all our papers ready, he even traveled to his native country in last october to get his birth certificate because here they didn't accept the one he already had because it was dated in 2007....

anyway, my connections say that 5 days can be sufficient if our papers are complete, so i prepared everything and translated all documents from usa and inchallah as soon as my fiancé comes to morocco we will go to the consulate to bring the other documents we need

wish us good luck and i will certainely post a feedback of what happened

thanks rajaa for this thread , it is really helpful, i'll start all this process in 14 days from now, and we have only 5 days to finish all the process and get married ; my fiancé will come only for 1 week, so we will start monday and hopefully we will get the autorisation to get married on friday and saturday we plan to have a little party to take pictures to show later for the interview, we really need a miracle and a lot of good connections to make it go fast ...........i'll be really disappointed if we couldn't make it in 5 days

CONGRATULATIONS

We didn't use the curiour we did it ourselves .... and yeah it's not happening in a week just to let youknow. But the first paper is good for 3 months so you can get started and have him come back. Also, before i left i made detailed notes of all everyone would need to get married in morocco and had a meeting with the consulate in casablanca about all i did, where and what other's will need. I hope they listend cause when i went there they only had half. I didn't see a resume on the list you stated so maybe not... i did say tax papers, and paycheck stubs... hummmmmmm

as far as the immergration papers you can download them all from here when he is there don't date anything but sign it all.......when it's time just come on and we'll help

thanks rajaa, i know one week is too short but we will try to use our connections as well as money to make things go fast

this is his second visit to Morocco, he was here in last august for our engagement, it will not be easy for him to take a leave and come back again soon

we will definitely need your help in this process, make doua for us, i'm so scared

us citizen goes in at rabat and casa moroccan citizen has to wait outside, there is one other place (the second one) in rabat i dont know who does because a friend of our sneak the paper past the line to his dad that work inside and brought it back to us signed and stamp there is much back and forth within your city of marriage and i see no way you can do in even a week after in city even i dont know if from police or where as he did most of the running in his city but the paper goes back to rabat for something and has to be returned back to city by courier because we even made a trip at night for (his friend) the courier person to take out of mail and give to us......few days will not make it afraid and this was with eveything being translated ahead of time. I did letter from my work to show income etc

hope one week will be sufficient for us, we need to go to rabat only one time to certify the eligibility to marry, anyway i'll let you know about what will happen