DCF Filing in Seoul

I checked out quite a few resources when JJ and I decided to get her American CR1Visa here in Seoul instead of doing the fiancee route. Here are a couple of links that I used to figure out just what all Direct Consular Filing involved.

The CR1 is the visa that you will receive if you are leaving in Korea and have been married less than 2 years. The IR1 is for couples that have been married for more than 2 years.

Here are some links that I used to gather information before I started the long process.

Visa Journey is a great forum and I found some great examples of the paperwork that I needed to fill out. I also found someone that had just gone through the same process. I was able to email her and she gave me some great information. Here is her story. You should be careful with the information that you read. Every embassy around the world is a little bit different and all of them seem to require different types of forms/evidence.

The US embassy in Seoul has plenty of information written on their website. I read this page about a thousand times trying to make sure that I was following the process correctly. The website says that both of you do not have to be at the embassy to drop off the I-130. This is incorrect. The beneficiary must attend because there is one extra form that is not online that he/she must fill out.

Here are the posts describing our experience.