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Yes, got hardcopy of NOA2 already.. delivered through mail 03July but my Fiance didn't check the mail and just saw it today. Approved after 21 days, and exactly one month when we sent it out. No moves/touches/updates on USCIS website. So for all those who have been obsessively checking that website or waiting for an email notification, you may want to check your actual mailing box instead.

Happy 4th of July to all of you!

I'm so glad to be reading all these fast approvals.. Congrats!! We sent ours on 28May VSC too, so hopefully we will be next to get the NOA2

Hi I haven't read all the replies but I think you really need an input from another Filipina.

First, with the birth certificate.. I'm replying here in connection with what happened to my brother. He had his middle name spelled incorrectly on his BC. It only took 3mos to have it corrected. Your fiance just needs to prepare her parent's BC, go to the city hall (city where she was born) and request to have it corrected. They have a so-called "hearing" but it's not like with a judge.. my brother says she just needs talk to a person behind a desk to have it changed.

In my opinion, processing to have it change now will be good as you need NSO certified BC to have a Philippine Passport with the correct name of course. Philippines Passport will take another month to be processed.

Now while she's doing all those, you can already file the K1 packet already. Usual timeframes before it gets forwarded here in USEmba Manila takes 3-6 mos. Enough time for her and at least your "timeline" is already running.

This is how ours looked

So first folders has all the documents: cover letter, check, i-129f, g-325a, the passport pics, the USC passport

second/third: proof of meeting each other

fourth/fifth: proof of ongoing rel

Good luck!!

Good luck!! VJ community is indeed very helpful and very supportive

Thank You everyone.

And by 'everyone' did you mean ME? Coz I spammed your question

Well that's what I love about VJ, we experience things with other members and you are very much welcome.

Okay I just re-read your post -- you used Certified Mail.

When you use Certified Mail, you receive a receipt stamped with the date of mailing. A unique article number allows you to verify delivery online.

So yeah, no tracking online too. But it might be the Holiday in between the mailing period that affected the usual timeframes. Let's just pray both our packages are received soon.

If we have the same thing then you should wait for this to be sent back to your via snailmail.

Hello everyone.

I'm having trouble tracking my I-129F packet (certified mail) on USPS website. I sent it last fri 05/28/10. And until now I can't track it and when I call USPS costumer service,they said that the number I have is not on their file. I don't have any idea what's happening. Should I worry? I don't know how USPS process on delivering mail. WHat's the other way to make sure that my packet received? Or just wait for NOA1 for now? pls advice. Thank You.

Hi I was stressing out on that, too. We have the same timeframe so it's good to know I'm not alone. BUT I just like to tell you what my fiance told me. You shouldn't stress out on this because apparently we might have had paid for a delivery confirmation which NOT a tracking one, that's why it never appears online. He said once somebody signs for the delivery then a confirmation will be sent out via mail and NOT the USPS website. He forgot to tell me this on the first place so when I knew I stopped checking USPS website. So check if that's what you have too. Hope I've helped.

Congrats

Hi, thanks for posting your question. I got a little curious about everything since I'm a Filipina and I had no idea of any registration here in the Philippines before getting married outside the country. So I did a little research as well. Correct me if I'm wrong, was this the article you've read.

If it was, the writer said she's married to an Austrian and it might be a different ballgame when your married to one, so might have needed to register the marriage first.

I did a two-hour research on this and nothing, other than that website, advises about marriage registration. I've checked the US Embassy in Manila website, but did not see anything related to it too.

I'm thinking of it this way, if I'm a FILIPINA who will get married in the US -- basically I need to change my last name to my married name. So I asked my Fiancé (who was a Filipino Citizen before he got naturalized in the US) and he helped me on this -- that I just need to forward my passport and change of name request in the nearest state that has a Philippine Embassy to process it -- this might be the "registration of marriage" part since I need to submit proper documentation that a marriage took place.

Again, this is just me and my fiance's thoughts. I know more VJ followers who are/were in the same situation who could help us further. So, I'll be watching this topic.

These links could be helpful too, basically advising how to "register marriage" in Philippine Consulate to change name in passport:

in California -- http://www.philippineconsulatela.org/consular%20services/conserv-ppt.htm

in Chicago -- http://www.philippineconsulatela.org/consular%20services/conserv-ppt.htm

Just to clarify, is it the Assembled I-129F Package you sent last March 2010? When your fiancee sent it through USPS, did you pay for delivery confirmation? Usually that's the best way you could tell if they've received it.

Hi there,

I am new to all this (which I'm sure I'm not alone...) can anyone give me a 'sample' or example of what a letter of intent should say? I wrote my own and sent it to my English fiance, but I am so afraid it may be wrong....

It goes something like this:

This letter is to inform you that i intend to enter into legal marriage...blah blah, during his stay in teh US on a K1 visa, which i have submitted a petition for. (Obviously, haven't done that yet)

What else does it need to say? Also, I'be been told to send him a letter of 'invitation' (inviting him to marry me and live with me in the US?) and i've done this as well, but again, afraid it either says too much or is missing some vital piece of info.....

if anyone who's been approved would like to let me see what their letters said, I would greatly appreciate an example to go by. THank you soooooo much!

Here's our letter of intent Good Luck!!

Okay, I've placed the incorrect URL Sorry

Here, hope this is the correct one.

me and my fiance have a lot of pictures together with family friends and relative, howd you guys write your names on the back of pictures? did you guys write all names of your family relatives and friends?

Yup, we did. All our family/friend's name are written And we did it digitally. We made a word file with blank boxes and later on pasted the pictures on the boxes. You may just write the labels on the back of the pictures as well. But we wanted it to look really neat and we didn't like the idea of just putting the pics on ziplock. We made another copy for ourselves that we can later on use for the interview or just keep it like a scrapbook.

Here's a sample of what we did, this time with pictures and captions already.

hi everyone i have a questions howd you guys photo copies your mails and letters? for evelope did you guys copied front and back? and for cards front and back also? same thing for the letters?

Hi! Well what we did was to photocopy the part of the envelope where the stamps are and basically in the Philippines/US there are dates stamped into it too. And as for the cards, we've photocopied an open card where the message is written AND did the same for the front/back side -- coz we've figured out that cards from the US has label at the back side that it was printed in the US and so goes with cards printed in the philippines. I know they don't really care about those details, but we were ####### about it.

yes, he should put the last address he stayed at for more than a year when he was still in the philippines. this part enables the govt to see where he was last at before going to the US (last permanent add they could trace). good luck and god bless

Oh, I sooo won the bet

Thanks again for all those who replied. VJ people never fails to amaze me

Hi, we're just wanting to clarify G325A part where it asks

"Applicant's last address outside the US of more than 1 year"

My fiance/the petioner was just naturalized. Went to US when he was 14, so before that time he was in the Philippines.

He understands the statement as: Him being the USC already, he left the US and stayed in another country for more than a year, then he should put something in this field. But since he hasn't, he wants to put NONE.

I understand it as: Stating whatever country you've been to even before you got naturalized, therefore he should put where he lived in the Philippines before he left for the US.

Any idea on who's right?

Okay, here's ours. We will be passing it by coming Monday. Wish us luck!

Okay, here's ours. We will be passing it by coming Monday. Wish us luck!

We will be sending like one pic per day when he was here, and that's like a total of 21 days and extra photos from our engagement which was his birthday too. i guess just to be sure, put in some photos that has landmarks from the foreign place. we will be sending some with Mall of Asia facade, i see a Philippine flag in your profile so i guess you know where that is

this video was helpful:

We will be posting ours as well just before we post 'em to USCIS so atleast we can ask for comments just in case there are more infos to add. Thanks for posting this thread. I'm sure it will help a lot of couples.

I don't know if this will apply to you. Some of my records have the "JR" suffix (birth certificate) and some don't (passport) so I left the "JR" out on #1 of the I-129F form but wrote in my full name with the "JR" at the end on #7 "Other names used." My I-129F petition was just approved yesterday without any RFE's. Hope this helps.

Oh thanks

But both last name on his birth cert and passport lists his JR..

and both displays LAST NAME as DOE JR

So we might use that instead.

I think there's an echo in here. The above might work. I know for sure this will work.

LAST NAME: DOE JR

FIRST NAME: John

MIDDLE NAME: Ray

Thanks!!

Hi guys, I've seen this topic before but there was no clear clarification about it and we just want to make sure that we don't have a rework just because of this small detail.

Okay, in I129F form how do you fill it out if your name ends with a suffix JR?

In what area will we put the suffix when there is no specific box asking for the suffix?

Sample name: John Ray Doe JR

Will it be--

LAST NAME: DOE

FIRST NAME: John JR

MIDDLE NAME: Ray

Or will it be safer to just put--

LAST NAME: DOE

FIRST NAME: John

MIDDLE NAME: Ray

and fill out Other Names Used John R. Doe JR

Thanks!!

Okay we have the same problem. So JR should be on the first name part? Or should it be on other names used?

Say --

last name: DOE

first name: John

middle name: Ray

Other names used: John R. Doe JR

What do you think?