Important Documents For K1 Visa Holder

You have accomplished all the necessary documents that you need as a K1 visa applicant, alright. You and your fiance are both very excited when you passed the visa interview at the US embassy in Manila. You will wait for a week or two before you can get your K1 visa together with you Philippine passport. You may be asking, "What? Philippine passport? I thought I have my passport already?". Don't be misled. When you took your medical examinations at St. Luke's Medical Extension Clinic, they forwarded your medical results and your passport to the US embassy in Manila. So, after your visa interview, you will know if you pass the interview or not. If you passed the interview, the consul will tell you and congratulate you. They will give you your passport that very same day if you did not passed the interview. But, don't despair. Be positive. Always tell yourself that you will pass the interview.

HERE ARE THE 2 IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS THE IMMIGRATION WILL ASK YOU.

1. Your K1 Visa. It is attached right in your Philippine passport. Your passport must be valid. If it still has one year validity, that is fine.




2. This one is very important. You have your K1 visa, you have your plane ticket and you have everything else that you thought you might need when you come to the US. But, you missed one thing. CFO sticker. CFO stands for COMMISSION ON FILIPINOS OVERSEAS. You cannot board the plane if you do not have CFO sticker in your passport.



You can get this CFO sticker after you take the CFO seminar. I think the seminar costs Php150. It only takes a day and you can get your certifications and your sticker from CFO. It is a must for all the Filipinos to take CFO seminars.

DOCUMENTS YOU NEED TO BRING TO TAKE THE CFO SEMINAR:

1. Passport - When you receive your visa. You can get your passport inside the plastic, but do not, do not ever open the BROWN ENVELOPE. Only the immigration officials here in the US are the allowed to open that BROWN ENVELOPE. Remember that!

2. 2 x 2 passport size picture (2 copies) - If you still have a spare passport picture when you were applying at the St. Luke's Medical Extension Clinic when you took your medical exams, that is fine. I saved all my passport pictures when I was processing my papers.

3. Singleness or CENOMAR - CFO officials might ask you this, so better to prepare this and take it with you. I told you on my K1 Visa Application Procedures post, prepare 2 copies of your CENOMAR, for future references.

4. Authenticated Birth Certificate - Read number 3

5. Money - for payment.

6. Patience - You might wait and sit there for long hours. My colleagues and I have waited for 7 long hours before we got the certifications and the sticker. But, it's all worth it.

At the airport, they will attached this CFO certificate right at the last page of your passport.



You can take CFO seminar with the absence of your passport, but you will have to go back for the sticker. Don't you think it is a waste of time? To go there without your passport? Who knows if you, too, have to wait long hours like the others? It is time-saving to take the CFO seminar with your passport with you, you will meet new friends and you will hear some other interesting and cute love stories.

After you accomplished these 2 very important documents, you can sit back and relax and wait for your scheduled flight to the USA. Good luck on your journey.