Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Didnt met my fiancee in the last two years	I read in the last week or two here on VJ, that in long memory there have been only two or so successful waivers for having not met. One was a bedridden man who obviously could not travel, and who's fiancee tried 5 times to get a visitors visa and was denied. The other was a member of some very small religious sect, who don't permit couples to meet first, even with a chaperone. Pretty difficult criteria to meet. Puskbrk is correct, and you need to take heed of his advice.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-02-20 12:36:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Confused!!! Does an approve i129f go to NVC or straight to the consulate?	It always goes to NVC, no matter what the notice says. It can take anything from a couple of days to several weeks to be sent there though.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-03-02 13:13:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Question about police certificate	If she was there on a visa, for 11 months, she lived there. So yes, she does. Edited by cdneh, 08 March 2012 - 07:45 PM.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-03-08 19:44:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	please i need your help...	No, you have to have met in person first, before you can file for a K1 visa. And while you can come and marry in a visitors visa, you would have to leave and return to your home country while a spousal visa is processed. To come to the USA with the intention to marry and stay is visa fraud, and can result in a ban from returning. Also bear in mind, visitors visas are very difficult to get.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-03-14 12:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	I live in Los Angeles area. Why does this site tell me to send my I-129F to Texas?	OP, you certainly have the cart before the horse. You need to do quite a bit of reading here on Visa Journey, starting with the K1 flowchart. It takes quite a lot longer than 6 months from application to Visa. Some people get lucky and get through the system faster, but they are the exception rather than the rule. Some people get sent requests for further information. That causes a delay. Some people who file petitions never successfully get Visas at all. I'm sorry that you went ahead and planned your entire wedding, and made deposits, and invited people who paid for plane tickets to attend, but please understand USCIS will be unmoved by this. Poor planning on your behalf will not generate an emergency on theirs. You cannot get around the process through perceived shortcuts, or hurry it up. You need to send your petition to the location they ask all K1's to be sent to. There is no short line, overnighting it only gets it to USCIS sooner, but once it is there, you will get into the line with everyone else. You have not filed, so no. Contacting your congressman to hurry the process is of no use to you whatever. Even if you had been waiting beyond the projected time frame, calling on their help is of dubious assistance at best. They can call and inquire, but they will not be told more than you can find out yourself. It doesn't give you any special status or consideration. It will do you no good to write your wedding date down on your paperwork or cover letter. USCIS are under no compulsion to make your time frame. You cannot go ahead if your visa is not granted in time, and marry anyway. You would have to begin again, at the expense of more time and money. Impatience could earn your fiance a ban, and is it really worth that? You will not get an expedite citing severe financial loss. That you imprudently went ahead and organized and paid for a wedding without benefit of Visa in hand does not fit the criteria. The US citizen portion of a couple needs to prove that they are financially able to support their spouse, and I get a little nervous when I see people at the early in the plot K1 petition stage pleading financial hardship. Read up on the process. Understand that none of us are particularly fond of USCIS, or the way that they do business. They are the only game in town. If nothing else, please try to grasp that USCIS want what they want, and how they want it. If they grant you and your fiance a Visa, they will do so in their own good time.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-03-14 11:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	is true that as soon as you received the NOA2 approval...	Hhhmmmm.....maybe it is possible "ONLY" in Philippines...anyways it's hard to argue with something that I never tried. But as soon as I got my approval (NOA2) OR the MNL case #...I will give it a shot and if it work or not.(i don't care what's the result) I will let u guys know... so STOP with the BULLYING we are not in grade school OR in high school to act very rude or impolitely here and it’s very unprofessional(you guys just showing what kind of mentality u guys have in person)…if you guys don’t like my question better yet don’t answer OR don’t even bother to read it….”CASE CLOSED” NO one is bullying you! If you don't want a truthful answer, then don't ask the question! Did you ever stop to think, even for a second, that people who responded to your question have been members here for ages, have been through the process, and just might possibly know the right answer? That people don't agree with you, and give you answers that you do not want to hear, does not make them bullies. It makes them honest. They are trying to help you avoid getting yourself into a situation that will lead you down the wrong path. By all means. You take your NOA2, and fly right over there with it. Attempt to gain entry and get interviewed based on that NOA2. I promise you, that will not work. I swear to goodness, signing up to VJ ought to compel a person to tick a box that they understand that informed opinion may or may not agree with your uninformed viewpoint.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-03-19 12:48:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	is true that as soon as you received the NOA2 approval...	Day 14 : MNL Day 15: Pay fees, Schedule Interview for + 17 days. This gives time for files and medical exam results to get top the Manila Embassy. If you are really gutsy and a RISK TACKER you can arrange airlines now. for +37 days Day 16: Start medical exam Day 18: Finish medical exam, confirm with St Lukes that they will have results to embassy before interview date. Day 32: Interview Day 42: Visa delivered to you in the Philippines. Day 52: On flight to the USA. Day 60: You will get the official notice from the Manila Embassy that you can now start what you actually did 45 days ago. I would caution anyone against laying out such a time frame, and for any country. I hope the OP, who will apparently believe anything told to him about the process, at least anything that agrees with how he thinks it out to go, isn't back here in due course, yelling..."It's day 42! You said that they would deliver my Visa, and it isn't here!" OP, I've said already that you can go ahead and get your ducks lined up with the NVC number, so you are organized for when the embassy gets your paper file. I've said already that you need to be aware of some of the things that can delay you. As long as you realize it is all well and good to be proactive, be aware also that no one here can predict how your case will go.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-03-19 11:01:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	is true that as soon as you received the NOA2 approval...	They might not even let you in the embassy if you show up with nothing but a NOA2 There is that.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-03-18 19:06:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	is true that as soon as you received the NOA2 approval...	He in no way said you could take the NOA2 and go to the consulate for an interview. But I see that facts have little bearing here. First your petition (not NOA2) to NVC, then your petition (not NOA2) goes to the consulate if NVC approves it then you schedule an interview. Exactly what everyone has been telling you. You can NOT take your NOA2 to the consulate and walk in for an interview as you alluded to in your initial post. Silly! Its an EAGLE, not an owl!	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-03-18 19:01:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	is true that as soon as you received the NOA2 approval...	there u go i knew it was possible to do that. now were back in business lol thanks!!!! NVC does not necessarily get petitions in and out 'quickly, in 7 days' Sometimes there are delays in the petitions even getting to them, and sometimes they delay sending them on, because of AP. You can go ahead with the NVC number and schedule all you like, and get organized, but understand that they will not interview you without a paper case file. So no, as you asked in your original question you cannot just turn up, clutching your NOA2, and be interviewed. You have to wait, just like everyone else does. What your friends sister has told you is impossible. Is true that as soon as you received the NOA2 approval you could just bring that approval to the embassy to use it for the interview instead of waiting for them to send it to the embassy?? A friend of mine told me this as soon as his sister got the approval her sister when to her fiancé country and they when both in the embassy and use that NOA2 for the interview. Is that possible? I mean if she did it just means it is possible lol usually it take about 2 months before the embassy received the approval why wait if ever right?	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-03-18 18:19:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Are there any fees to be paid to the nvc for k1 visa	Not at NVC for K1.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-03-24 22:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	meeting within two years prior to applying for K!	You have to have met in person in the last two years before you file for the K1. It's a requirement.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-03-22 21:55:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	new here.. :)	I think this has already been addressed, but a case won't be automatically denied if the couple hasn't met in person IF "the requirement to meet your fiancé in person would violate strict and long-established customs of you or your fiancé's foreign culture or social practice or it is established that the requirement to personally meet your fiancé would result in extreme hardship to you." From the I129f instructions. I almost wish people wouldn't trot this out. It hardly ever happens, only twice I can remember, or have heard of. That little paragraph has done more to instill false hope in couples who have none, who have not met the requirements, and by having not met before filing, will be denied. In the first instance, the gentleman USC was totally bed bound. He could clearly not travel anywhere. His fiancee tried many times to get a visitors visa, and she was denied each time . Second time involved some obscure religious sect that would not allow people to meet before they were married, or be together, even with a chaperone. Burn, your fiance is waiting on something that will never come. You won't get a NOA2. USCIS do not care that he stated in the petition that he meant to come and see you after he filed. They don't care about his business hours and when he can take a vacation. This is no way constitutes extreme hardship to him. He needs to grasp that there are requirements. Close enough doesn't count. He needs to understand that he must comply, every time, with the things USCIS want, and the order in which they want them. The sooner he knows that he isn't the one calling the shots here, the better off your journey will be. When your petition arrived at USCIS, your paperwork was taken apart, put in the order they want it to be, and put in a box. The cheque was cashed. The box went on to a shelf where it still sits. Once it goes for adjudication, and the person reading your paper work sees that he filed a month before you met in person it will be denied. If you filed in December, it could still be months before anyone actually looks at it, and when they do, and reject it for having not met the requirements, you will have to refile. All that time you were waiting for a NOA2 will be lost, and you will have to start over again. You need to have him withdraw, and begin again. i talked to my fiancee and he said that we will wait for the NOA2 and wait for their instructions. coz he stated in I-129F that he will meet me in January 2012( which he did) and that is the only time he can take a vacation and does not conflict with the normal business operation..	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-03-28 10:46:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Service Center (Touched)	Not all records get updated. Some show touches, and some never do. My K1 petition still shows only that they have received it, and was never updated again.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-03-28 14:37:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NVC after VSC NOA2	There have been others here who experienced a delay being sent to NVC, by a few weeks. We were one of some that were held up at NVC for AP on our K1, a few years ago, and for almost 8 weeks. We knew when it got there, by the date on the letter, in fact we were sent three letters to say it was going onwards, but it didn't. We never ever did get a letter to say it was being sent on. The only way we knew it was out and on the way was by calling. My consulate in AKL also emailed me to say they had the electronic file.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-03 18:12:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	pro/con	It will not speed up the process. USCIC are not bothered where offspring are born. If you do a search you will find several discussions on this topic.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-08 18:52:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Can my US fiance fill File Form I-129F, Petition for Alien Fiancé(e)	You do realize that if you are granted a K1 fiance visa, wheneer that may be, you have to marry your USC fiance within 90 days of arrival into the US? Just find this a bit shocking that you've never even met rhis girl and you're ready to marry her?? From the OP, he did say he thought they ought to meet first.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-10 15:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Can my US fiance fill File Form I-129F, Petition for Alien Fiancé(e)	I have only seen two exemptions made for having not met in person. One was a bed bound USC, who was unable to travel, and his fiancee made multiple attempts to get a visitors visa, and was denied. The other was a very small religious sect that did not permit meeting, even with a chaperone. Otherwise, I have not seen this waiver granted.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-10 15:07:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Can my US fiance fill File Form I-129F, Petition for Alien Fiancé(e)	You have to have met. And the United States citizen has to be the one to file, so she files, not you.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-10 14:51:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Evidence to submit with petition - originals/copies?	Once the petition is approved by USCIS, it goes to NVC who then sends it on to the embassy. Of course it does. But NVC does not examine petitions the way they do for CR1's at the NVC stage. NVC dos not require K1's to send them originals of anything.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-11 14:07:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Evidence to submit with petition - originals/copies?	Your petition will be going to a low-fraud consulate. In lieu of this fact, you do not need to overly front-load your application with proofs of valid relationship. I suggest you submit a moderate amount of evidence with the petition (but be sure to include enough that it conclusively establishes your relationship with your significant other). When you reach the interview phase, that is when you should be prepared and take every last piece of evidence you have that proves your relationship. You should submit photocopies to USCIS, they do not require originals. When you get to the NVC phase, that is when you need to submit all originals. I am uncertain if the photocopies need to be certified. To be on the safe side, when I submitted my application I always sent certified copies of everything. She is filing for a K1. I am unaware of a NVC phase for K1's. We sent evidence, boarding passes, hotel receipts, receipts from money machines where I withdrew funds that showed the location of the machine. I put as many as would fit of a similar type on the same A4 paper. We did not have pictures together, but we sent two of us separately, but clearly at, the same event. At the interview stage I had webcam shots, and they were happy with those. Edited by cdneh, 11 April 2012 - 02:05 PM.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-11 14:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	fiance visa revocation bona fide relationship	You have said in the past that your petition was denied, and was being sent to the fraud investigation unit. It would seem that your petition was returned for revocation. It says that it was closed in the office in Haiti, in the latest dated email sent to your senator. You were advised on all your previous threads on this topic to speak to an immigration attorney. Did you do that?	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-13 17:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Packet 3, Lost?	Have you tried emailing them? The below is from the embassy info tab at the top of this page. ParisConIV@state.gov If you leave your name, a phone number and your case number the embassy should call you back.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-12 22:48:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	USCIS account	We both had access. However, it still shows pending. Never did update at all. Never a touch.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-20 16:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NVC ADDITIONAL PROCESSING???	We are still waiting as patiently as possible. AP is just another word for limbo, lol. Does NVC send me, as the petitioner, an email? or text? or letter? when they finally ship? They never did send us an notice. They said the would, but nothing ever came. The only way we knew, is that having been there almost 8 weeks, we were in the habit of ringing every other day. ONe fine night, they just told us we were out of AP and been sent on.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-12 22:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NVC ADDITIONAL PROCESSING???	Our FOIA request showed that this was totally random. The document actually stated random. I was told at interview at ALK it was random. We just drew the short straw, and that was all. AP at NVC for K1 is not the same as for the IR-1/CR-1 Visa. Edited by cdneh, 11 April 2012 - 11:43 AM.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-11 11:42:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NVC ADDITIONAL PROCESSING???	Back when they started doing this with K1's, the would not tell you if you were in AP, unless you asked the direct question. I am not sure if that is still the case. I'd ask. They sent us 3 letters saying it would be sent on, all dated within the same week, but they still kept it there a further 7. I'm happy to say it takes less time than that these days	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-10 23:40:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NVC ADDITIONAL PROCESSING???	In fact, There is, no official list for the public! After honorably serving my country for 24years and 3wars with intelligence , I can say a lot of truths, but i will not! Have Good Day! And so can my husband. So? There is no official list. I am quite sure some countries warrant extra scrutiny.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-10 21:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NVC ADDITIONAL PROCESSING???	• What are the T-Countries? Although it is classified, the list of countries reportedly affected by these restrictions includes, but is not limited to, Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Djibouti, Egypt,Eritrea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya,Malaysia, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia,Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen And that list of T-countries can change at any time Read Hot Guy this post here! There is, in fact, no official list.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-10 16:04:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NVC ADDITIONAL PROCESSING???	Is Peru one of those countries? There is, officially, no list that says This Is a High Fraud Country. There are several countries that have been seen to have higher incidents of fraud, for VJ purposes. I have not heard of Peru being treated as a high fraud country. Middle East and Africa, India and the sub-continent, the far east except South Korea and Japan, can be considered as high fraud. Genrally South America is not except Ecuador which is for no apparent reason. Europe, Australia, Canada are generally pretty easy. Nigeria is all on its own a known category for fraud.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-10 15:15:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NVC ADDITIONAL PROCESSING???	Iran and a few other countries of birth will automatically fall into AP, give it a little more time! It does not matter where you come from, for K1 AP at NVC. This is true at the consulate level for higher fraud countries after the NOA2, but there are people from all over who end up in AP at NVC who are filing for K1's.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-10 14:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NVC ADDITIONAL PROCESSING???	Some K1's are held in NVC for AP. They started doing this routinely a few years ago. They are doing some checking of their own, name checks, that sort of thing. When I was stuck there, we were held up nearly 8 weeks. Times lately have come down quite a lot. We were told back then that it was random. There are a couple of threads, one pinned, and one new, which I will give you the links for. The pinned thread has got some useful info in it still. http://www.visajourn...uck-nvc-for-ap/ http://www.visajourn...-for-ap-part-2/	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-10 14:35:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K-1 visa delays, what to do about the ceremony?	I would not take the chance. If you file again now, or shortly, it might be December or into the new year before it is approved and you get the medical and all and get to the USA. If there is a slow down, which happens near the end of the year, it might be longer. It simply isn't worth the risk to me, or the trouble that ensues if they get an inkling that you are married, and trying to enter on a K1. If she can't move the date on the venue, you ought to cancel.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-26 07:46:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Wife did not make it past homeland and got k-1 cancelled	He's been accused of that, on account of his troll like behavior.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-27 05:19:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Wife did not make it past homeland and got k-1 cancelled	even if the OP is a troll this is a damn horror story for every k1 customer. it wasnt rainbows and sunshines at my poe either but god forbid... That's what worries me. If this is all a wind-up, poor pity the other K1's coming along who will read this, and worry, when most of the time that extra stress is not necessary. Yooouuu hooo..OP! Time to give us a bit on information to go on here.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-26 22:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Wife did not make it past homeland and got k-1 cancelled	We may never know why. In his past posts, both of them, he seems in urgent need of advice, but fails to give the info anyone would need to assist. But I agree, there is more to this story.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-04-26 08:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Expedited Action on K1	Expedites are rare. Very rare. Emotional distress is not something USCIS would consider, I'm sorry. I sympathize, and I know how hard the wait is. The unfortunate thing is there is really no legal remedy for that.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-07-18 11:16:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NO NVC..USCIS directly to Embassy	They do all go to NVC. Your letter says it will be sent to the consulate, and it will, but not before it goes through NVC.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-07-21 18:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Letter of Intent	We typed ours up on the computer, printed it out, and signed and dated it in ink.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-07-23 21:22:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Is there a downside to expedite request?	Military? why are those different from ours? They are active military, and facing deployment.	cdneh	Female	New Zealand	2012-07-24 09:47:00