I-129F
Petition for Alien Fiancé(e)
Form I-129F is how a U.S. citizen asks USCIS to classify a foreign partner as a K nonimmigrant. A K-1 classification lets your fiancé(e) enter the United States to marry you, and a K-3 classification lets your spouse enter to wait for an immigrant visa. Children of a K-1 or K-3 can apply as K-2 or K-4 without a separate petition.
The petitioner is always the U.S. citizen. The foreign partner is the beneficiary. USCIS decides the petition first, then it goes to the Department of State, and the beneficiary applies for the visa at a U.S. embassy or consulate.
The form asks about your history, your beneficiary's history, how you met, and any protection orders or serious criminal history. You can fill it online on this page for free without an account, then print, sign and mail it with the evidence listed below.
Your A-Number if any, classification requested (fiancé(e) or spouse), names, mailing address, five-year address and employment history, birth details, parents, previous marriages, how you became a citizen, earlier I-129F filings, children under 18, and places you have lived since 18.
The same kind of detail for your partner: names, birth details, marital history, I-94 data, children, address in the U.S. where they will live, address abroad, name in native alphabet, family relationship to you, whether you met in person, marriage broker details, and the embassy requested.
Protection orders, specified crimes, other arrests and convictions, and the multiple filer waiver request.
Ethnicity, race, height, weight, eye color and hair color.
Petitioner's statement and signature, interpreter's certification, and preparer's statement.
Extra space for longer answers, with page, part and item numbers.
Tick whether you are filing for a fiancé(e) or a spouse. For a spouse, say whether Form I-130 is filed and attach proof, such as a concurrent I-130, a receipt or approval notice, or the receipt number.
Give your full legal name, mailing address, and the places you lived and worked in the last five years. If you used other names, list them. Overflow goes in Part 8.
Say how you obtained citizenship and, if you have filed an I-129F before for anyone, give that person's name and the final action taken.
Use your partner's full legal name and the mailing address in the United States if they have one. Item 11 is a mailing address, Items 45 and 46 are where they intend to live in the U.S., and Items 47 and 48 are the address abroad.
For a fiancé(e), say whether you met in the past two years and describe it with evidence. If not, explain the exemption you are asking for. Select N/A if the beneficiary is your spouse.
Say whether you met through an international marriage broker. If yes, give its details and attach the signed consent form the broker obtained from your beneficiary.
Name the U.S. embassy or consulate where your beneficiary will apply. A K-3 spouse who married abroad must apply in the country where the marriage took place.
Answer every question. For listed offenses you must send certified court and police records, even if sealed or expunged, and USCIS shares this history with the beneficiary through the Department of State.
Tick the interpreter and preparer boxes that apply, sign and date. A typed or stamped name is not accepted. If a lawyer or accredited representative helped, include Form G-28.
Type or print in black ink. Use N/A for items that do not apply and None for a numeric answer of zero.
You get the real form, filled in a browser tab, with nothing standing between you and the finished PDF.
File at the USCIS Dallas lockbox. USPS goes to USCIS, Attn: I-129F, P.O. Box 660151, Dallas, TX 75266-0151. FedEx, UPS and DHL deliveries go to USCIS, Attn: I-129F (Box 660151), 2501 South State Highway 121 Business, Suite 400, Lewisville, TX 75067-8003. USCIS international offices cannot decide this form.
Fees change, so check the USCIS fee schedule page for Form I-129F before you file.
A birth certificate, naturalization or citizenship certificate, Consular Report of Birth Abroad, unexpired U.S. passport, or a consular officer's statement.
One color passport-style photo of you and one of your fiancé(e), taken within 30 days of filing, and proof that earlier marriages ended, such as a divorce decree, annulment or death certificate.
Evidence of a genuine intention to marry within 90 days of admission, and evidence you met in person within two years of filing, or evidence for the exemption.
Your marriage certificate and the Form I-797C showing Form I-130 was filed, unless you file both together.
USCIS rejects an unsigned form and one missing key fields in Parts 1 and 2. To withdraw, send a signed written request. Once the beneficiary has been admitted in K status, you can no longer withdraw.
I-130
450 fields, 12 pages
G-28
101 fields, 4 pages
G-1145
6 fields, 1 page
I-485
730 fields, 24 pages
I-765
161 fields, 7 pages
You must be a U.S. citizen. USCIS describes two situations.
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The U.S. citizen petitioner. The foreign fiancé(e) or spouse is the beneficiary and does not sign the petition.
Yes, within the two years before you file, unless you establish an exemption for strict long-standing customs or extreme hardship, with evidence.
No. A K-1's child can apply as a K-2 and a K-3's child as a K-4, without a separate petition, if the child is unmarried and under 21.
To the USCIS Dallas lockbox. The USPS and courier addresses are on the USCIS Form I-129F page.
Yes. Fill out Form G-1145 and clip it to the first page of your filing.
No. USCIS says it cannot decide this form at its international offices.
