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izola - 29 Jun 2005 21:13 GMT

My fiancee is american and is currently living with me in Sweden, he has
a residence permit here. We are pondering the idea of moving "back"
(well back for him but not for me) to the US next year.

We've figured as much as that we have to get married earlier than we had
wanted, but that can be dealt with

Though with all the different information available I'm getting
confused, as far as I can tell what we'll be filing for is a DCF? right?
Since he is here and he has a residence permit here.

I've been printing all the available information I can get through the
American embassy in Sweden (which isn't much in the big picture but
quite a lump of papers written in English I'll never be able to
comprehend fully). We both think that we've read somewhere in there that
this would be a very swift process due to the fact that he has his
Swedish residence permit, are we right here?

And is it infact a DCF (lord I hope I got that right so I don't have to
go through that lump of papers again to try to figure out if I'm saying
the right thing) that we would be filing for?

Any help is very welcomed.

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Petra - 29 Jun 2005 21:21 GMT

> My fiancee is american and is currently living with me in Sweden, he
> has a residence permit here. We are pondering the idea of moving
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> Any help is very welcomed.

As far as I know, you have to be married to be able to go the DCF route
and I think you said your fiancee.... so you have a choice there, so it
seems.
Does Sweden (Stockholm?) allow Direct Consulair Filing? That is not a
given, some consulates will not.
Success on your quest! *S*

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Eric S. - 29 Jun 2005 22:03 GMT

> As far as I know, you have to be married to be able to go the DCF route
> and I think you said your fiancee.... so you have a choice there, so it
> seems.
> Does Sweden (Stockholm?) allow Direct Consulair Filing? That is not a
> given, some consulates will not.
> Success on your quest! *S*

This is a common misunderstanding. Most, if not all, consulates will allow
DCF if the USC is a resident in the foreign country. They may have length
of residency or other requirements. London is a good example.

Some consulates will ALSO allow DCF if the USC is NOT a resident there. I
think some people hear or read about this and think it means that some
consulates don't allow DCF at all.

To be sure, check with the consulate.

- Eric S.

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meauxna - 29 Jun 2005 23:19 GMT

> > As far as I know, you have to be married to be able to go the DCF
> > route
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> - Eric S.

Good point, Eric.
For others' info, Canada seems to be the only country that *currently*
does not allow resident USCs to file in-country.
As of today, I'm not aware of any other country where *resident* USCs
can not file I-130 for an Immediate Relative.

izola: you'll find a good explanation of the process and what to ask
here: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?pg=dcf

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andrea874 - 30 Jun 2005 12:53 GMT

> Good point, Eric.
> For others' info, Canada seems to be the only country that *currently*
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> izola: you'll find a good explanation of the process and what to ask
> here: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?pg=dcf

Lousy Canadians!! :)

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hcj1440 - 29 Jun 2005 21:23 GMT

Yes, the Stockholm consulate accepts DCFs and your husband doesn't even
have to be resident in Sweden. And yes, that is the process you should
go through. Good luck, you lucky dogs!

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Rete - 29 Jun 2005 21:41 GMT

> Yes, the Stockholm consulate accepts DCFs and your husband doesn't
> even have to be resident in Sweden. And yes, that is the process you
> should go through. Good luck, you lucky dogs!

As a junior member you might have read the root posts at the top of
forum. One is about filing, experiences and faq. Go into that one and
follow it to the interview experiences. That will take you to the
experience pages and at the top of that page is definitie interview
experiences for different filings. There is one there for DCF. Go
there and read what others have gone through.

Just so you know, the Consulate does not call it DCF ... that is our
name for it.

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Immigration Forum / USA Marriage Base / June 2005

Which applies in our case