Preparing The Petition
Here we have to prepare two separate petition applications, one for the K3 interim visa and one for immigration as an alien relative. Remember, the K3 visa provides interim immigration status pending a formal petition application that when completed will enable the alien to obtain green card status.
Your attorney will apply the information outlined below for both petitions as required.
We establish US Citizenship by including in the package copies of the citizen’s US passport, US birth certificate or certificate of naturalization. Any one of these documents will suffice.
We then have to explain with the aid of photographs, testimonials, phone bills etc, how the parties met and how their relationship developed culminating in an marriage.
A duly notarized copy of the wedding certificate will prove marriage to alien.
When all the required information is completed your attorney will write a brief (letter in support of the petition) that will argue before USCIS the merits of your petition and refer to all the documentation in support of your petition.
Even though we will be only at the petition phase, your attorney will also be gathering additional information from you to cover all the other phases as far as possible so that work can continue on your case after your petition has been filed. The following are some of the items that your attorney will instruct you to prepare and send in.
1. Copy tax returns over the last three years. Both parties.
2. Police Report. Alien only.
3. Evidence of net worth
Information on any potential co-sponsors to the application (see later).