Q: I'm filling out an I-129F but my fiancé doesn't know where and when his father was born. Should I just put "unknown?"
I'm trying to get my fiancé a k-1 visa.
A:
You can write "unknown" if it is truly unknown - but with the current administration I'd be prepared for issues from it. If you have any contact at all with that side of the family, or anyone who may know, I'd reach out to try and get the right answer.
Good luck! (Of course my best advice is to hire a lawyer).
Stephen Arnold Black agrees with this answer
A: I get this question a lot from my clients. My answer is normally, "If your father is alive and you are not completely estranged, then pick up the phone and ask him." The immigration process is full of tedious questions about birth dates, place of birth, addresses, employment dates, etc. It does not get easier after the I-129F is filed. You are going to run into lots of other annoying questions where you are not going to feel like tracking down the information. To be blunt, you're going to have to suck it up and get the information. That's just how it is. Attorneys had to go through a similar process to get licensed, so we know what a pain it is. Now, having said that, I do realize that sometimes there's just no way to get the information. Perhaps he is, in fact, estranged from his father and there's no way to find out this information. If you truly can't get the info (it's not just that it's inconvenient to get the info), then write "unknown" as a last resort. If you have one or two "unknowns" on your forms, you will probably be fine, BUT the more incomplete your forms, the more likely to you to run into excessive delays in your case.
A: If he has exhausted all ways of finding out, then “unknown” is appropriate.
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