VinnyV88

Thank you for your responses, much appreciated!

At least we know now what the correct path is.

Hello,

I am asking this question for my father-in-law.

My FIL, who is a Legal Permanent Resident, petitioned for his wife, who was living in the Dominican Republic, and her daughter was a derivative of that petition.

So, now that that process is completed, they arrived in the US a couple of weeks ago, we are wondering what the daughter can do to bring over her young daughter who is 6 years of age.

When we were filling out her DS-260, we indicated that the daughter had a child and the plan was for her child to immigrate at a later date.

The question is, what do we have to do to initiate this process to allow the child to join her mother here in the US?

From what I researched, there is a "follow-to-join" option for them to use, though I'm not sure how to exactly start the process at this point.

I look forward to hearing back from anyone who can shed some light on this, as she misses her child dearly and I want to help them reunite as quickly as possible.

Thank you,

Vincent

Couple questions...

1. Did you fiancé show any symptoms?

2. Did you get tested?

tbroutin, did he go to his original interview? Did they let him go through with it? Or did they make him come back after he was cleared of TB?

Anyone else have a recent experience with this? I'm getting mixed signals elsewhere. Not sure if my my father in law can go through with his interview. He went for medical today and they need to do the three day saliva test and results won't be available for 8 - 9 weeks. Trying to figure out if he can still go for interview on Sept 7th.

Include all 3. Place the IV barcoded cover sheet on the IV docs and the AOS on the aos docs. Then on top of everything place that one that came with welcome letter. That's what I did and case was completed.

Thank you MrsBurgz!

are you emailing your documents or snail mail?

Snail mail. (only option)

Hi,

My wife is petitioning for her father. I'm getting ready to submit the AOS and IV package to NVC. I know I have to include a cover sheet with the package. My question is - there are three different cover sheets, do I have to include all three? The first one is the one that came with the NVC welcome letter, that has a checklist to complete. Then, there are cover sheets specifically for the AOS package and the IV package. It makes sense to include the specific cover sheets with there related packages, but do I have to include the one that has the checklist?

Thanks,

Vinny

I do have another question - Since the mother only speaks spanish, does the affidavidt have to be in spanish, and then translated? Or, can I write the letter in english for her and have her just sign it?

Hi Vinny88,

I remember your awesome story from another forum how you took a surprise trip to the DR. Good news to hear about your wife's citizenship. We are in the process of bringing my mother in law from the DR. On the original I-130 we sent in only a copy of the same birth certificate I have used for the last 5 years for K-1 and Citizenship for my wife. No other proof of relationship. If he is on the BC I would send it in. If they need more proof they will let you know.

Hey, wow.... good memory! Thanks for the advice! I think it's a lot easier for a mother as opposed to a father though. When the parents never married, it seems like they want more proof than just a BC. At this point, I might just send in what we got and see what happens. I'm again scouring the internet for samples of an affidavidt to use for her mother to write for her father, but I haven't come up with anything yet. But, I did find this post with your response and I'm glad I did... Hope all is well with you and the family!

Vinny

Hello all,

My wife, originally from the Dominican Republic, has recently become a US Citizen. She is now interested in bringing her father over. Seems pretty simple so far, the one thing that has come up is that her parents never married and this apparently complicates it a bit. According to what I read, we need to submit "evidence of a father-daughter relationship" and/or "evidence that an emotional or financial bond existed between them".

What would be acceptable evidence to prove those existed?

What we do have is her birth certificate, with both her parents name on it.

I was told pictures of there relationship would help. Unfortunately, when she was young, a fire burnt through their house and everything inside of it. So pictures are going to be very difficult to come up with if not impossible.

Another thing I was told is that as long as we have the birth certificate with both parents names, all we would need is an affidavidt that says that he is her father. If this is true, who should it come from? Her mother said she is willing to provide a statement.

Would that be enough?

Also, I would be very interested in seeing a sample of a statement that someone used previously in this same situation that was succesful in the past.

Thanks in advance, I look forward to hearing back from this great community!

Vinny

When filling out the G-325A and I-129F forms, is it ok to use letters like "ñ", "í", "é"? Or should I just use "n", "i" and "e"?

Thanks, and let me just say boards like this one are so helpful...

Vinny