Processing Costs and Fees Breakdown

🏥Medical examinationYour fiance(e) needs to pass the medical examination prior to the interview.  An approved physician conducts the medical exam, and the costs vary (expect it to be $200 to $300 USD) from country to country. Check the cost of the medical examination with the approved physician before going for the checkup. Your K-2 Children may or may not need to have the medical exam before immigration.  If they do, then you’ll pay for each.

💲Associated Costs

Locating, obtaining and preparing supporting evidence: Along with the required fee you must submit supporting documents with your Form I-129F. These may include but are not limited to immigration, court, bank and tax records. You are responsible for any payment required to obtain the original document(s) or copies of these documents.

You must provide these documents to USCIS in the original language along with the English translation when applicable. You are responsible for paying for any translation services, which generally cost a few hundred dollars.  

🚕Travel Costs

 You are responsible for paying for any train fare, bus fare, tolls, gasoline, airline tickets or other transportation costs associated with the acquisition of the required supporting documents. After Visa approval, the biggest travel expense is the airline ticketto come to the US.

⚖️ More Money Matters

Attorney’s Fees: You can expect over $1999 flat legal fee + cost of filing petitions forms + embassy costs. If your application is fairly straight forward, with minimal complications, you can expect to pay less for legal services. However, difficulties in completing the application, acquiring the supporting documents or verifying your eligibility to Petition for Alien Fiancé will likely result in additional costs for these services.

❓How can I reduce these costs?

The simplest — but riskiest — way to cut the costs associated with your Petition for Alien Fiancé is to do everything yourself. On one hand, this means that you won’t incur any attorneys fees. On the other hand, without the help of a qualified immigration attorney, you have greater chances of making serious mistakes that could delay the review of your application, or even result in its rejection. Your only recourse in either case would be to file an appeal, and you may end up hiring an immigration lawyer to help you with that in the long run anyhow.

If you really don’t want to hire an immigration attorney, or you really don’t think you can afford it, there is another option. Here at Zontlaw, we provide a service that allows  you to do most of the paperwork yourself, and have one of our experienced immigration attorneys review the material before you send it to USCIS. Once you have sent the application to us for our reveiw, the attorney assigned to your case will  go over it thoroughly to identify any mistakes. If any are found, the attorney will then alert you about the problem, and let you know how to correct it before sending the application to USCIS. By using this approach, which is known as legal coaching, you will have peace of mind knowing that your application has been reviewed by an experienced immigration attorney without incurring significant legal costs.