Valid Petition at POE

[AnaMaley]

Hello everyone!

I don't know if anyone else has a similar situation. I went for my K-1 interview and got the refusal paper 221-g. While my fiance and I were gathering the necessary financial documents, the Petition I-129F expired (4 months passed from the date of approval). Finally, we mailed the financial documents to the U.S. Embassy, and I got the K-1 visa.

Has anyone had a problem with Petition validity?

Thanks!
AnaMaley

[nichole]

I see now why you are asking this question.

The valid petition referred to is in your file that the embassy gives you in a brown envelope marked "do no open". That's all you have to give them so they can open your package and make their notations.

As far as the date or expiration, it doesn't matter. I think in this case "valid" means not ****, not opened or tampered with, and with all the proper stamps or notations that USCIS and the embassy make on your paperwork during the process up to issuing the visa. It's a file we never actually see ourselves. If you didn't show up with your brown envelope, then it would be a problem.

All you need for POE:
Passport with K1 visa inside
Brown envelope consulate sent you
I-94 Arrival/Departure record (white one normally handed out on the plane, or get one upon arrival)
Customs Declaration (white with blue border on top, given out on plane)

[nichole]

Those I-134 documents become part of the "file". You wouldn't get the original signed I-134 back. We always make photocopies of everything we send/give to immigration for our records. At the interview, we took originals and photocopies of financials so they could see the original (tax transcript, pay stubs, bank statements) but keep the photocopy for their files. Thus we got back the evidence for the I-134 because they filed the photocopies we provided. And we have a duplicate of the I-134 form that we made before turning it over to the embassy. I re-used the same financial proofs with the I-864 for Adjustment of Status, but only mailed in photocopies. If you have an interview for AOS, then you can take originals for them to look over if they ask. As it turned out, the green card was mailed without having an interview.

We did the same original/photocopy thing at the embassy with the police certificate, birth certificate, etc. They looked at the originals, and filed the photocopies we provided. So those docs were also returned.