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You guys are awesome, thank you so much for the info, it makes me feel so much better!!!

I'm going home to the US March 5-15 so I can get an affidavit of support (co-sponsor) from one of my relatives (my mom didn't make enough). 6 weeks after the approval date puts us at April 3! This actually went by a lot faster than I expected.

Thank you again!!!

Hi everyone,

I filed an I-129F for my fiancee on October 29th, and I never received the NOA1 at my address here in Merida. I didn't realize it at the time but the embassy that I put on the form was the Merida consulate, not knowing that the Merida consulate doesn't do fiancee interviews (a SEVERE lack of research on my part). Will they know to send it to the Ciudad Juarez embassy? I just got an email today that they approved the I-129F petition and they sent the approval notice (yay!). Will it still be ok if I don't receive the NOA2 in the mail but contact Juarez to make sure they get the approval?

One more thing, I didn't make enough money last year to be my fiancee's sponsor, does Ciudad Juarez accept co-sponsors for the affidavit of support?

Thank you!

Hi again everyone! You all were so helpful about the "missing" NOA1, I thought I throw another question your way.

My fiancee and I have been together for going on 2 years and we have a baby together that's going to be a year old at the end of this month. He was born here in Mexico, and we went together to the consulate to register him (last July) and he has his birth abroad report with both of our names on it.

I know that this can't possibly go against us when applying for the K-1, but I'm not sure about the amount of primary evidence we have apart from that, if it's enough.

What I do have:

The birth abroad report (if that's not enough, our baby's American passport. our baby has my fiancee's last name)

Boarding passes from only one of my trips to Mexico

2 rental contracts (one from Cancun and one from Merida)

Passport stamps from entrances to Mexico

1 vacation itinerary from a week long trip here in Mexico with both names on it (and our baby's name)

I also have a Christmas card that my aunt sent me via snail mail addressed to our apartment here in Mexico.

Apart from the rental contracts we don't have any accounts or utilities in both names. We never corresponded via email or regular mail and our cell phones are pay-as-you-go.

As for secondary evidence, we have millions of photos together, so that shouldn't be a problem at all.

I guess I'd rather have TOO MUCH primary evidence rather than not enough. My question is: do you think this is enough?

Awesome! Thanks, Laura + Tom! Ok, this is what it says:

On October 29, 2008, we received this I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E), and mailed you a notice describing how we will process your case. Please follow any instructions on this notice. We will notify you by mail when we make a decision or if we need something from you. If you move while this case is pending, call customer service. We process cases in the order we receive them. You can use our processing dates to estimate when yours will be done. This case is at our VERMONT SERVICE CENTER location. Follow the link below to check processing dates. You can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we process your case. Just follow the link below to register.

Should I call them anyway and let them know that I never received the NOA1 or does it really matter?

Ok, my mom sent me the check image and it DOES have a number after EAC stamped on the back, but the problem is that the very last digit is not readable (I don't know if it says 2 or 3 or 7). Zooming doesn't help! Do you think that if I call the INS and give them the other numbers they'll be able to figure out what the last digit is?

Hmmm... I'll have to try to figure out a way to call and find out what's going on. The return receipt that my mom got was from the post office saying that it had been received. I just don't know if my mom still has the check that was cashed or if maybe the bank has an image of the check.

Ok, I just double-checked with my mom and she said that the check was cashed in November. She was the one who made the check out. She is going to call tomorrow to ask about the case because currently for me to call the U.S. it works out at about a dollar a minute (cringe).

I'm just trying not to panic...

Yes, jasman, the check was cashed, I believe in November.

Hi All,

I'm new to the forums and I'm kind of having a heart attack right now and I'm not sure whether I should or not.

My fiancee and I live together with our son here in Mexico, and the mail system is notoriously unreliable, so hopefully that's the cause, but I'm not sure. My mother was visiting in October and after I filled out all of the papers for my fiancee she took everything back to the U.S. to mail it. The address that I have on the forms is the address that I share here in Mexico with my fiancee. The problem is, I never received the NOA1, but after my mom sent the papers to the Vermont SC she received the return receipt dated October 28th, 2008. We have received absolutely nothing here. I also haven't received any emails or anything, which I thought I would if anything new happened with the application.

My uncle processed the exact same visa for my Aunt, who is from the Philippines, and she said that it took 3 months for her to receive the NOA1. The problem is, I don't even know where to begin with this, because without any sort of reference number, will they be able to look up the file so I can check to see where we are? Would it be a wise idea to change my mailing address on the app to my mom's address in the U.S. so that I can be more certain that any correspondence actually arrives?

I'm worried.