Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K-1 Visa Interview Appointment Schedule	Hi. They can be kind of slow. Email the Consulate Nigeria & inquire about an interview. Your name, beneficiary, case # & both of your birth dates. It took a little over 3wks.	Fela's Girl	Female	Nigeria	2011-06-13 10:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Help...Passport kept after interview (told "not eligible for K-1") - New Delhi	Hi. Yeah it appears very odd, but they only keep your passport if they have considered to approve it. Just wait to see if you get passport in 2-3 days before you panic, if nothing then after 5 days you should have a visa. Good Luck!	Fela's Girl	Female	Nigeria	2011-05-16 05:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!	ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh @ u too lol gratz!!!	JC and XW	Not Telling	China	2009-10-06 15:01:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K-1 Visa, and sending money to fiance~~~	It would help if she kept the receipts from the money you sent her. My fiance had all the western union receipts, it helped during the interview process. Good Luck..	rbresse21	Male	Philippines	2009-09-28 22:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	US marrying UK citizen in California, then moving to UK	QUOTE (rebeccajo @ Apr 9 2009, 12:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Why would they need DCF? It sounds as if they intend on living in the United Kingdom......... The OP said that they plan on then moving to the UK for A WHILE. So, I think it is a good idea that we advise them about DCF. If you plan on living in the UK for 6 months or more, then if or when you decide to move back to the US together, you can apply DCF (direct consular filing -which when you get to that point you can read more about on this website!) and that will be much faster than applying for a K-3 spousal visa. As for you getting married here. As others have said, your british fiancee doesn't need a visa. However, if he/she enters the US as a tourist and tells the immigration officer at the border that he/she is coming in to get married, they most likely will not let them in! I know that you are both being totally innocent and plan on moving back to the UK, but the immigration officer doesn't know that and you'll have a hard time convincing them of that. Just a heads up.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-04-09 07:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Can I visit my Boyfriend in USA while my K1 visa is pending?	You'll find lots of stories about people who have both been denied and approved at entry (these are almost always from people of countries with the visa wavier program). In the vast majority of cases, the foriegn fiance(e) is let into the country. You do not need to go to the embassy before hand, just come like you would normally come, but be prepared for extra questions by the officer. You do not need to specifically tell them about the K-1 visa, but DO NOT LIE, as they do have access to this information. If they ask a question where you feel like you need to tell them about the K-1, then tell them and don't worry about it, but by no means make them think you are lying because they will catch you out on this! Bring lots of proof to show you are going back to your home country within 90 days. A return ticket is sometimes NOT ENOUGH. Sometimes it is and they wont even ask you to see it! But you just never know until you get there. If you have an NOA1 or NOA2, then have a copy of it with you. If you own a house or car or are renting a place back at home then bring proof of that. If you have a job (and hopefully you do as this is really good evidence that you are coming back), have your employer write a letter (and translate it, you can do this!) in English saying that you will be visiting the US for so and so many days and that you will be coming back to work on XX/XX/2009 and they can even include in the letter how much money you make per month and that way if the immigration officer wants to know who is supporting you, then you can show that as proof. Also bring print outs of your bank account in case they want to see how much money is in there (I was even asked for this as an American when I entered London last time!). Any type of proof that you can show you are coming back to your country is good. Again, JUST DON'T LIE.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-04-14 10:37:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	no case status at USCIS website	QUOTE (SJ14 @ Apr 15 2009, 03:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> its been a month since our NOA1 and i still find the status of our K1 in the USCIS website... what will we do??? thank you Maybe this is a silly question since it's been a few years since my own NOAs and therefore I might be remembering incorrectly. I apologize if I am. You say it's been a month since your NOA1 and you still find the status of your K-1 on the website....what? What is the status? And as I've read on here lots of times, the online status does not always reflect what is going on. People have been approved at interview stage for the K-1 visa and the status at USCIS still says pending and nothing about an NOA2 approval. Most of the time they update the online statuses and sometimes they don't! My online status (3 years ago) stated that my petition was going to the NVC and I NEVER got a letter from the NVC saying it was there or that they were forwarding it to the embassy in London. One day I got a letter from the embassy saying it was there and here was my interview date! Don't stress about the online status, it's not the most accurate thing out there. And it's only been 1 months since your NOA1, so definitely don't stress out yet!!! You have quite a wait ahead of you! If you got the hard copy of your NOA1 in the mail, DON'T WORRY.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-04-15 08:50:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Visiting USA after applying for K1	QUOTE (MissBecs @ Apr 15 2009, 04:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes I was thinking the same thing about it being so close to my last visit! I am considering just going to visit him one last time before we apply and then just deal with not seeing him for however long it takes. It sucks that he is in the army and is unable to get leave for 12 months as well! so no option of him coming to see me either! we have read through most of the options and I think this one is what we will go for! Possibly the only crazy twist in my story.. is that he has been married to a German before! he was based over there in the army for many years and met her, they were married for 8 years and divorced after she went nuts and ended up cheating on him while he was deployed! anyway the only thing that worrys me with this is perhaps it might look bad that he is going to be marrying another foreign person! hopefully the fact his last marriage lasted so long and they had children together might help to prove he isnt just out to get ppl into the country! crossing my fingers anyway! Thanks for your help I have been reading over these forums for the past few days and been a bit hesitant in asking questions, but glad I finally did because it was just doing my head in trying to understand it all! His previous marriage should not be a problem. Did he bring his German wife over on a K-3 visa (or any other type of marriage visa)? It sounds like from you post that they spent the entire marriage in Germany? Is she in the US with the kids now too? Just asking. Either way, it shouldn't be a problem. The American citizen is allowed two visas (without asking for a waiver) and as long as those visas are more than 2 years apart, then you don't have to ask for a waiver. He was married for 8 years, regardless of kids, it wont be an issue! Don't even worry about it! Just make sure you have all the divorce certificates and needed business for that in your packet! Lots and LOTS of people visit their fiance's while applying for a K-1, it's not a lost hope. It's just a risk that you have to decide if you want to take or not! If you want, you can visit him now (or as soon as possible) and file the K-1 while you are there. Then you will be with him for the first 3 months that you are waiting and hopefully after that you'll only have 3-5 months left (assuming your petition fits into the normal timelines....something that we can never ever know!)	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-04-15 12:41:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Visiting USA after applying for K1	Most of us here will tell you that hiring a lawyer is pointless. They cannot do anything that you can't do yourself and sometimes they can cause further delays in your process! So since you've found VJ, don't even think about getting a lawyer, unless your case some sort of crazy twist we don't know about yet! But for the most part, there is no need for a lawyer. In general, the K-1 is faster than the K-3, you can take a look at the immigration timelines up at the top and see this for yourself. Again, almost always the K-1 is faster, so this is probably your best bet. As for if you can visit the US, this is a trickier matter. Yes, you can. There is nothing in law that says that you can't. Since you are Australian and come from a low-fraud country, they might not even ask for proof from you for ties at home. They might ask you the normal questions they have asked you on every visit you have had to the US and let you in no problem. But then again, they might ask you more questions and based on what you have said, you do not have enough evidence to show you will be going back home. No job, no home (I assume you live with your parents?). This to me and any immigration guy says that you might not go back home. Again, since you come from Australia most likely they wouldn't even require these things from you, but they might and then you might be turned away and have to pay your own way back to Australia! Since you just visited in December then I would say you are even less likely to be let in because that was so recent. You can search for tourist visa during K-1 or something to that affect and find TONS of topics about this and see others experience. Or, you can post in the Australia forum and ask for peoples their experience as it should be more or less the same as yours. Good luck!	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-04-15 10:15:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	how to cancel attorney and if ok to cancel when u r in noa2?	QUOTE (tanging-mahal @ Mar 12 2009, 10:24 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> hi everyone there i just want to ask anyone there who have an attorney, coz we wanted to cancel attorney but we have noa2 and just waiting for letter from us embassy but our attorney handle our paperworks so we r confuse and wanted to cancel it already since it take so long.. Before I answer, can you clarify a couple things? Are you saying you want to cancel/fire your attorney or you want to cancel your K-1 petition? If you want to cancel/fire your attorney, then I'm not sure how that works since they would be getting all of your documents copied to them. Others who have had experience with attorneys and lawyers will have to answer that one! But if you want to cancel your K-1 because it is taking so long than might I suggest that you just hang in there!? I don't know your particular case, but every K-1 petition takes a while! If you are already at the stage where you received NOA2 and are just waiting on the consulate, you are getting close! Don't give up now when you are so close!! Clarify on your situation and I'm sure there will be more advice to come! Good luck and don't give up! Marina	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-03-12 04:37:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	i need ur help for my friend...	I'll go ahead and answer for later searches even though I know *you* already have an answer from your other threads. Only the USC/petitioner can cancel a petition. If guy #1 did not cancel the petition after she asked him too (which it sounds like he didn't since he is telling her that the case has been approved and sent to Manila), then she cannot apply for a second K-1 and expect it to get anywhere. USCIS will not issue another case number or approval for the same girl when she already has a K-1 pending. If the first K-1 is canceled THEN they can apply for a second K-1 and theoretically, there is nothing illegal about that (although, it will raise some huge red flags and I think your friend will be VERY hard pressed to provide evidence that this is a real relationship when we can see from your post that it is not!). Also, guy #2 is wrong. She still has a chance to go to the Embassy interview when she gets it and get the K-1 visa from the first guy. BUT, this is very very unlikely. They will see that she filed ANOTHER K-1 petition in between the first K-1 petition and the interview so that right there will scream "This is not a real relationship and I'm just in it for the Green Card!!!!" and because of that there is a HUGE chance that the visa will be denied. After the visa is denied, the US/petitioner (#1) still has to cancel the petition. If he doesn't cancel (and he probably wont, just to screw her up even more!) then she has to wait for the petition to expire (and I'm not sure how long that will take...but it's a while!). Once the FIRST petition has expired, guy #2 can petition for her AGAIN. In my opinion, I'm okay with this scenario in that USCIS is getting $455 off of these guys each time they file for this girl....maybe it'll make the rest of our visas go quicker since they're getting all this free money (although poor American guys if they think this girl is for real!). But again, with the petition from guy #2 (after the petition from guy #1 has expired), you aren't very likely to be approved unless you can show that it's a real relationship...and good luck with that.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-04-14 08:08:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Was I scammed	QUOTE (busterbrown @ Apr 13 2009, 08:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (daboyz @ Apr 12 2009, 03:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Tourist visas to the US are next to impossible to get in Bangkok. I have to disagree. My gilfriend at the time (now my fiancée) had a 2 minute interview and was granted a 2 year multi entry visa. All that documentation she brought with her wasn't even looked at. The interviewer asked her a couple of simple questions and told her that her passport and visa would be mailed to her in 2 days. ...unbeknownst to him, her boyfriend (fiancé....me) had already submitted her I-129 petition. Please don't take this offensively as I do not mean it as such at all! But how much money does your fiancee and her family have? (I don't want a real answer of course, just trying to make a point). For example, it is nearly impossible for a Brazilian person to get a tourist visa to the US. My fiance and his family could NEVER come to the US on a tourist visa with the amount of money they have. They are what you would call very middle class Brazilians. They all live in nice houses, all have steady jobs, all have cars, and that sort of thing -very middle class. This might sound like they are doing pretty well, but they only have these things because they have worked their azzes off their ENTIRE lives to have it. However, they cannot get tourist visas to the US (he's tried and failed). However, as hard as it is for most Brazilians to get tourist visas to the US, it is very very very easy for those Brazilians whose families have a lot of money. If your family makes over a certain amount of money a month (or if you make over a certain amount of money a month) then you'll get a tourist visa to the US within minutes. But if not, there isn't a chance! I ask this because maybe this is the case with your fiancee and her family as well. If her family and subsequently her, are doing really well in the money department then it makes sense why it was so easy for her to get a tourist visa. If not, then she got really really lucky! It is not normal for Thai people to get tourist visas to the US, just like it is not normal for Brazilians to get tourist visas to the US. I just wanted to point this out so that you don't get false hope to others who WILL be denied for their tourist visas!! But congratulations on yours!!!	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-04-15 09:15:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Skip K1, enter on a tourist visa and Marry?	QUOTE (krystiandjon @ Apr 14 2009, 02:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Another option you have is to marry in the US on a tourist visa, file the K3 and stay in the US until you have your interview (or until your stay on the VWP runs out, which will probably happen first) and then go back to Norway for the medical/interview. Not necessarily quicker but you don't HAVE to go the K1 route. For the record, I think the K1 is ridiculous because after receiving the visa you have to adjust status (to the tune of a thousand bucks). Good point, that is another option. But, the tourist visa lasts for 3 months right? Most likely that means that you'd only be in the US for a very very very short amount of time out of the entire K-3 process. And, if I understand correctly, the K-3 takes longer in most cases than the K-1. If you want to be with your fiance during the K-1 processing, that's okay as long as the two of you can afford it. You can come to the US now and file the K-1 while you are here and stay until your visa is set to expire, then go back to Norway. Around the time you go back to Norway you'd be around time that you'd get your NOA2 (most likely, but every country/case is different!). Then if your fiance could, he could come to Norway with you and stay the (I think) 3 months that that tourist visa is good for. That means you'd be together for about 6 months out of the whole process and then hopefully you'd be almost done. I lived in London throughout my first K-1 filing (of course, I had a work/student visa to live there, so I wasn't a tourist)...but being together through the whole process is totally possible as long as the two of you can afford it. As another option, if the two of you were married, could your then husband live in Norway with you and work? Then if he is willing to live in Norway then it wont matter if the K-3 takes a bit longer because you are still together and then you could move to the US. Some countries allow the foreign spouse to work once they are married (no fiancé/spouse visa needed), but others, like the US, do not. Good luck!	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-04-14 08:32:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Skip K1, enter on a tourist visa and Marry?	QUOTE (rebeccajo @ Apr 14 2009, 02:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (marina-del) You cannot come to the US on a tourist visa with the intent to marry. This could be why what your friend did was okay, because maybe he/she did not have the intent to marry when they entered. Just get the K-1. There's no problem with entering the US on a tourist visa with the intent to marry. Nothing illegal about that at all. The problem is entering the US with intent to immigrate , and using a marriage as a vehicle to circumvent other legal paths of living in the US. Thanks for the correction. You are right of course!	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-04-14 08:10:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Skip K1, enter on a tourist visa and Marry?	I just wanted to point out why what your friend did was MAYBE NOT illegal and why what you want to do is illegal. If your friend came to the US on a B2 visa, just to travel or whatever, and THEN met his future wife/husband, they fell in love, spur-of-the-moment decided to get married and then filed for his/her AOS then what they did was not illegal. If your friend came on the B2 visa with the intention to marry his/her American fiance(e) then what he/she did is illegal and he/she was VERY VERY lucky that they did not get caught. As others have said, if you do get caught you get really harsh bans. So what's the point in bypassing the legal route when it takes 6 months to a year when if you do bypass it you could be facing a life ban from the US? Even if your fiance(e) is okay living in Norway that means you'd NEVER be able to travel to the US, never met his/her parents unless they come to Norway, ect. You cannot come to the US on a tourist visa with the intent to marry. This could be why what your friend did was okay, because maybe he/she did not have the intent to marry when they entered. Just get the K-1.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-04-14 07:55:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	G325A applicants last address outside US?	.... my bad..my entire response should be void since I read the question wrong! oops! Edited by Marina-Del, 01 May 2009 - 11:36 AM.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-05-01 11:35:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Is HPV required vacination?	Every girl should get the HPV vaccine if they are between 12 and 26, regardless of if you are applying for a visa or not. Seriously, please go get it everyone. I was diagnosed with cancer a year and a half ago (I had surgery and am supposedly cancer free now, but I have to go to the doctor every 4 months) because of HPV. I'm young, have only slept with a couple guys and used protection....it can happen to everyone. Get the vaccine!	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-05-26 20:38:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	American marrying a Canadian	Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you can also apply for an extension on the K-1 visa. Am I remembering correctly? Like it is good for 6 months after it is issued, but I *think* you can get that extended if you need to (assuming you have a reason). Plus as others stated, you can wait to send in Packet 3. Or, ask them to reschedule your interview for a later date. Basically, apply now! But remember, with K-1 (unless you get Advanced Parole) no leaving the US until she has the green card, which takes about 3 months. My advice is to just wait until she gets the green card. Do a weekend away in the states somewhere near your house and then take a big honeymoon later.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-05-26 20:35:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	American marrying a Canadian	As Bobby said the CR-1 route or K-3 route seem to fit MOST of what you said, but there is no visa that I am aware of that fits everything you said. It's just not possible to do all of it (for example, her moving to the US before you get married to look for a job and then the two of you getting married in Canada -not possible unless she was able to get another type of work visa to the US completely unrelated to you). Again as Bobby said, take a look at the guides and see what each visa entails. You said you want to get engaged in the fall and then you want her to "move" to the US to start looking for a job, then sometime in the Spring get married in Canada. As I already said, you can't do that. She can come on a tourist visa for 3 months and look for a job, but she can't "move" here before you are married, unless it is on the 90 days that the K-1 is valid for before marriage. If you want to get married outside of the US then you have to go for the CR-1 or K-3 visa and you cannot get the K-1 visa which allows your fiancee to come to the US (before you are married) and stay for 90 days before the wedding. With the K-1 visa you have to get married IN THE US. Since you don't want to get married in the US, that's out of the question. You also say: "If we get engaged in the fall she would like to move here shortly thereafter so we can be together and so she can begin looking for employment. So a 90 day fiancee visa would not be long enough and I'm not sure that I can sponsor her since we wouldn't be married yet."" When you apply for a K-1 visa you are NOT MARRIED when you apply, you apply as a fiance. So, you would sponsor her BEFORE you are married, but this is a mote point because you can't get the K-1 visa if you are not going to get married in the US. Just stating that for the record. You and your fiancee can travel back and forth to Canada "to make wedding plans" now, on tourist visas. As long as you show intent to return to the US (or her to Canada) then you shouldn't have many problems going in and out of Canada while you are engaged, on tourist visas. Also you say that the two of you would be traveling outside of the US or Canada for your honeymoon. This is also something you cannot do easily on the K-1 visa. You can do it, but you have to get special permission and it's a pain and expensive and a bit hard to do, so most people choose not to do that. As far as I know you can have both American and Canadian citizenship...so she doesn't need to worry about that. She will have the green card for minimum 5 years and then she can apply for citizenship if she so chooses. I'm almost positive she would then be illegally able to hold an American and a Canadian passport. The US has NO problems with their citizens having duel citizenship, so that would be up to Canada. But I think I had friends in school that were American and Canadian, but I'm sure someone else can lead light to that. So so far I have told you why you cannot -with your current plans- get a K-1 visa. With the K-3 or CR1 visas you will get married in Canada and then apply for the visa (after the wedding). Each of those visas takes roughly 7(ish) or more months to get (just like the K-1 visa, but that is done BEFORE the wedding. For actual timelines you can look at the timelines at the top of the page). So if you and your girl want to get married next Spring then you wont be in the US until 2 winters from now -November-ish 2010 (roughly!!! Every case is different and maybe Canada is more expedited than I know). Once your fiancee arrives in the US, she will have a work visa that will be ready to use once she gets here. Then she can find a job and start working (if she could find a job before she moves that would be fine too, but she could not get a work visa to come until all of the paperwork is done, only tourist visas). Alternatively, you could go to Canada next weekend, get married, start the paperwork and your fiancee (then wife) will be in the US in about 7 month-ish. Or, alternatively again, you could just get married in the US next spring instead of Canada and start filing the K-1 visa now. I'm not trying to tell you which decision is right for you. Everyone has different situations and every visa is good and bad for different people! Good luck!! Let us know if you have any more questions! And read the guides, they have LOTS of information! Edited by Marina-Del, 26 May 2009 - 10:43 AM.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-05-26 10:40:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Overstay visa in another country	QUOTE (JimVaPhuong @ May 28 2009, 05:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He said she was going to get travel papers from the embassy, so I'm guessing she isn't going to be filing the visa application in Japan. Also, I'm guessing she's turning herself into immigration because it might be the only way she can leave the country. Oh, I see. And you're right. Some countries check your passports when you leave and some don't and I don't know anything about Japan. Good luck to the OP!	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-05-28 11:12:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Overstay visa in another country	QUOTE (Ed+Cindy @ May 28 2009, 04:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (wolverine0307 @ May 27 2009, 10:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What is the likelyhood of a person who has overtayed their visa in another country (Japan) still getting approved for a K-1 Visa for the U.S.. I am assuming it will be on the police report. She has been there for 8 years and is going to get travel papers from the embassy and then surrender herself to immigration there in Japan. Thanks for your help. No one cares. I wouldn't bring it up. However, if she is there illegally now, then the local US consulate may not process her, since you need to have lawful status in a country for the US consulate to process the visa. Ed and Cindy are right! The US gov't doesn't care about illegal stays OUTSIDE of the US. You can still get the visa no problem. But, as JimVa points out, they can always ask questions and while it's not a reason (in and of itself) to be denied, it would be better to have a TRUTHFUL explanation planned out before you go. However, as they said above, if she is illegal in Japan now, she might not be able to be processed at the US consulate in Japan. You'd have to check with the US consulate about that. Also, she might have trouble getting the police report from Japan while she is there illegally. A lot of countries, like Spain, will not let you get a police report if you are an illegal. Also, illegal stays (that are still continuing!) will NOT be on the police report! If they are on the police report than she would have been deported already! And why will she turn herself into immigration? What's the point in that? Edited by Marina-Del, 28 May 2009 - 10:47 AM.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-05-28 10:46:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Is it possible to have the fiancee visa packages sent to my post office mail box?	QUOTE (Nicole+Trav @ May 29 2009, 12:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> so will myself (the fiancee beneficiary) receive nothing from USCIS, only something from fiancee or is nothing emailed to me the foreign fiancee at all? Nothing is really emailed to anyone. Sometimes they send emails to the American (or whatever email address you give them on the forms) that give status updates on the case at USCIS level, but MANY (I'd go so far as to say most) never receive these emails. The American fiance(e) will receive snail mail of the NOA2 notification and sometimes (but not always) notification that the case has moved to NVC. Then once the case gets to the embassy in your country, YOU, the foreign will receive mail from the American Embassy that you will be going though. Some embassies send emails, but most don't from what I understand.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-05-28 18:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Is it possible to have the fiancee visa packages sent to my post office mail box?	Just as a quick note: The NOA1 and all of that stuff will go to the American, not the foreign fiance(e). Unless I'm reading incorectly, we don't know who is writing, the American or the foreign. Just thought I'd throw that out there! But as far as what address to put, others have answered that already and if you are the foreign then you WILL get mail at the embassy stage! Edited by Marina-Del, 09 April 2009 - 10:49 PM.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-04-09 22:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K1, K3, IR-1/CR-1 ? ? ? Which one to choose?	I agree with the other posters...meet her first, meet her again, and again and THEN talk about marriage. I know every couple is different and there are certainly some very very successful couples here on VJ who only met one time before popping the question (several people come to mind), but I can think of MANY more posters that have failed marriages because they simply didn't know each other well enough. Also, remember that she is the one that mentioned marriage and she hasn't even met you yet. Just a red flag that you would be smart to take notice of. I've had internet relationships before and I've had more traditional relationships before. My husband-to-be was a traditional relationship but the K-1 visa I applied for before (see signature below) started as an internet relationship. We talked online everyday for like 10 hours for about 6 months until we finally saw each other again (we originally met in a third country for about 6 hours before we exchanged emails). I thought I knew him very very well....but I didn't. And he didn't know me. After 2 years together (about half of that time spent in person) we realized it wasn't going to work. We both spent TONS of money on the K-1 visa (which he was approved for) and our wedding (which we canceled 30 days before I was set to walk down the aisle)!! Point is, take it slow! In the example above we lived together for almost 6 months straight and it still didn't work out!! Our relationship was AMAZING online, everything I could have asked for...but in person, it just wasn't good. Again, I'm not saying that online things never work out (VJ shows us everyday that they do!!), but take it slow! As for the visas, if you want to get her here faster, go the K-1. DO NOT get married next week. You can even meet her next week, file the K-1 the week after and visit her in Russia (or in a third country) throughout the roughly 6-8 months that it will take to get the visa. Not recommended from me, but good luck to you anyway!	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-06-01 09:33:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Proof of ongoing relationship	When you file the I-129F you do not, technically, have to include things like chat logs, emails, phone bills...ect. These things are used to show that you are in an ongoing relationship. Most people do send these in with the I-129F just to give more evidence, but at this stage it is not needed. So no worries there. But as the last poster said, we need to know your timeline to know where in the process you are, what you are doing, ect. Anyway, you DO need things like emails, chat logs, phone bills, letters, ect to show proof of ongoing relationship (which you need at the interview). Like Helloworld said, start collecting these things now. And please don't send them a million pages of chat logs. As we said to the OP you can just send in excerpts. This prevents them from having to go through a million pages that they don't care about and from you having to send in personal information. I think we all edit our chat logs before sending them in. You can even take a black pen to them and do it by hand (or electronically). They just want to see that you are having some sort of communication going. Trips that you make during the process can be used too...but the more types of information you have, the better. If you use calling cards to call him, can you send in the old used cards? Or, my calling cards were all online and there was a section where I could print out every time I recharged my card. So, it didn't have his telephone number, but just that every week I was spending X amount of money on a calling card for Brazil! Good luck and let us know if you have any questions!	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-06-01 19:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Proof of ongoing relationship	As Bobby said, no electronic media is accepted. We did the same thing that he did though. We took a sample from the chats. We used about 1 page for each month of chatting. In your case that would be like 7 pages, which in my opinion is plenty since I doubt they will read them anyway. I would include maximum two pages from each month, as seriously, they wont actually read them. Also, chat logs and things like this are secondary evidence. For the original I129F application you only need to show evidence that you have met in the last two years. Most people include evidence of an ongoing relationship, which is good too, but not needed. So, I can see that you have met based on the picture! But include lots of undeniable proof that you have met in the last 2 years (pictures do not do this!) You want receipts from when you visited her (hotel, ATM, restaurant), passport stamps, boarding passes, ect. Good luck! There are hundreds of lists on this website where people have listed what they sent so search for them and I'm sure you'll find a wealth of info! But don't hesitate to ask question either!	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-05-28 11:59:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Fiancee's ability to work in US.	To add: When she is getting her teachers cert for Florida most likely she will also be able to use some of her previous teaching experience as "classroom time". Most states require that you have a certain amount of hours in the classroom. For example, I am an ESL teacher here in Brazil and I plan on using the hours that I teach in the schools (children 5-15) as some of my "time in the classroom" when I apply for my teachers cert in GA. I've looked online at the requirements for GA and they said that I could do this for *some* of my hours, but not all. Check it out online.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-06-03 15:23:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Fiancee's ability to work in US.	It doesn't matter exactly...but that doesn't mean they wont still like it! They will look at it and like it, but if you -as the petitioner- don't meet the requirements then she still wont get the visa.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-06-02 16:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Tourist visa for family to go to K-1 wedding???	I think you already have your answer but just to add: For the tourist visa interviews (I assume in Mexico?? but this applies to anywhere that's not in the visa waiver program), you could bring a wedding invitation to the interview and perhaps an explanation of how they know the bride or groom but this is all that's needed. Don't worry about bringing anything else. I think that having an official wedding invitation would help show WHY you want to go. But as stated, this isn't the most important factor. The people applying for the visa are more likely to be approved if they are working (get letters from the employers saying how long they have been working there, how long they are going to be on holiday and when they are returning to work, you can also include the salary which will help show money available), if they own assets (houses or property is best, but even things like cars are good), show copies of bank statements to show funds available, credit cards ect.... For example, if your wife to be's brother wants to come and he is going to leave his wife and kids in Mexico, living in the house that they own, ect...he's very likely to get a visa. But still not guaranteed.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-06-02 10:51:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Mailing out I-129F Today	Congrats on sending the packet. It's early yet and you have quite a wait ahead of you, but there are things you can do. Start preparing the things you will need to send you fiance for the interview and start preparing your life to add him/her to it!	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-06-04 11:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Brazil or Argentina Embassy?	How long has your American fiance been living with you in Rio??? If he has been there for at least 6 months than you two MIGHT qualify for DCF in Rio (which would mean you get married like tomorrow, and file at the American Embassy in Rio as soon as possible (before he goes home)). That would mean you'd get your visa to go to the US in about 4 months (and you have 6 months to use it). I'm not sure how it works since you are not Brazilian either, but I do know it is possible for people to do DCF in countries where neither of them is a citizen...as long as they meet the requirements. So first question: how long has your fiance been living with you in Rio? Secondly, you can change the embassy at any stage, if you need to. So, as you said, I would go ahead and put Rio down, but if you need to change it later, it is not a problem. It would probably slow down your case a little though as changes like that always do, but it's not a problem in the long run.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-06-03 15:18:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Question about passport photocopy	Yeah, we need a bit more information to understand exactly what's going on. Whose passport was it? The US cit or the beneficiary? The US cit has an option of submitting their birth certificate or a copy of ALL PAGES (including blanks!!) of their passport. If we're talking about a photocopy of the beneficiaries passport then you'll have no problems; if we're talking about the US cit passport and they also included a birth certificate, then you'll have no problems; if your talking about the us cit and they did not include a birth certificate, then you *might* have problems. Most likely no, but you never know. Two petitions can be completly identical and one will get an RFE and the other not, so you can never know for sure. most likely you'll be fine. But if not, don't sweat it! You'll get the RFE and then send in the new material and it'll only put you back 2-4 weeks (which I know sounds like a long time, but you'll make it!)	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-06-04 11:05:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	starting the K1 process	It's called AOS -adjustment of status.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-06-04 12:06:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Fiancee had J1 Visa, Will this cause problems???	QUOTE (bigkeeser @ Apr 10 2009, 04:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And this isn't the biggest rush in the world that some people make it out to be. Let's remember that for some people it is a big rush for very very good reasons. It's not that they are just making it out to be a rush for fun. You and your fiancee (it seems) have been together for most of your relationship in the same place (I may be wrong) and it sounds like you'll be back in Germany and with her soon after you leave. But for some people here, they haven't seen their fiancee's in years! I was lucky in that when I applied for the K-1 me and my fiance were living together in London and now I live in Brazil with my fiance, so I've been with my SO throughout the process...but most people are not so lucky. They aren't crazy for making it a rush, they simply want to be with the one that they love.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-04-10 11:27:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Fiancee had J1 Visa, Will this cause problems???	All of us who are applying DCF have been living overseas for quite some time (otherwise we wouldn't be allowed to apply!) and most of us do not have houses back in the US. I'm sure some do, but you do not need that to prove Domicile. Do you still get mail in the US? Do you have a bank account? Have you paid taxes? All of these things work to prove domicile. Plus, you're not living in the US because the US army has stationed you overseas....I would imagine that would work in your favor as well. As someone else mentioned, if you have any address in the US (trusted friends, family) you can use their address! And even if you decide to do K-1 then you can file now while being abroad, you do not have to wait to come home (again just use a trusted friend or family members address). Also you say that you don't know if you could get married fast enough to qualify for DCF...and I'm not sure what that means. I'm not sure how long it takes to get married in Germany, but I doubt it's that long! Even if you are relocated in October, that's 6 months from now! If you and your fiancee got married in Germany next month and then you applied for DCF (assuming you meet the residency requirements of Germany, I'm not sure how being in the army and living on the base works with that!), then she will have her visa BEFORE October most likely. So it's up to you, do you want to wait until July/October 2010 for her to be in the US with you, or about 6 months from now?	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-04-10 08:41:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	how many people cancel their petition...more info inside...	QUOTE (MouadsWife @ Jun 13 2009, 09:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If your going to tag urself as the comment police, let me enlighten you that your comment was completely inappropriate and out of line when you say STFU. We are all here for support, and your not exactly falling in that category. No one wants to listen to comments like this. Something I learned in kindergarden btw... if you dont have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all. I disagree...I think he was completely in line in saying STFU.....but that's just my opinion. He wasn't attacking anyone with his remark...whereas the poster that was making horrible remarks about all Ukrainians was being highly inappropriate and violating TOS if I'm not mistaken...	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-06-13 20:25:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	how many people cancel their petition...more info inside...	I canceled a previous petition. Or actually, we didn't cancel it, we just never used his visa. In 2005/2006, while living in London, my Australia fiance (who also lived in London) and I filed for his K-1 visa. We went through the whole process, he had his interview, got the visa. The day AFTER his visa interview, I broke it off. I contacted the embassy and they said that as long as he never entered the US using the visa (which was valid for 6 months) that we didn't need to write any type of formal cancellation letter. That was almost 3 years ago and he never entered the US using it, so it was all canceled out. I broke it off because he wasn't the guy for me...and shame on me for not realizing that sooner. We lived together in London for a year and had dated for a year before that (I visited him in Aus for 3 months and he visited me in the US for 3 months). So I can't say it was because we didn't know each other enough, or blame it on the internet, exactly. Basically our relationship online was perfect, but it was the relationship in person that just didn't work. I knew that it didn't work for a lot of the time we lived together in London, but I kept telling myself that I could live with those things. He and I were really good friends, and we're still friends, that was why it was so hard for me to break it off. Once he had the visa though and we were scheduled to walk down the aisle 30 days later, it really hit me that I was about to get married to someone that I hated every night before bed. Like I said, we were good friends, but a relationship just didn't work. I broke it off and he was really upset (not so much about us breaking up really, but more about the cancellation of everything....his family had already bought tickets to the US for the wedding, he had already told his job we were moving, ect). We lost a lot of money not only from the K-1 visa, but from the wedding we canceled less than 30 days before it was supposed to happen. Like I said, he was pretty pissed at first, but now he realizes how silly we would have been to get married. About 2 weeks later he started dating another girl and they are still together and seem happy. I didn't plan on filing for anyone again. I was just living my life. But I lived abroad so naturally it was more likely for me to meet a non-American than an American. I started dating Del, a Brazilian that was living in London and we've been together since. We lived in London for 1 year together, then Italy, and now we live in São Paulo, Brazil. I feel totally comfortable with him and am confident that he's the one I want to spend my life with. I *never* felt confident that the Aussie was the one I wanted to spend my life with. I was kinda sure, but never confident. With Del I am sure. Basically, deep down I always knew that the Aussie and me weren't for each other...and deep down I've always known that Del and I were. Trust yourself.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-06-13 11:38:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Got All my documents	It doesn't really matter if you put it in a bubbled envelope or a box or whatever. Do whatever you need to do to make it all fit. Do as the poster said above and make sure it's addressed correctly. Actually, I think we put ours in a bubbled envelope and then when we took it to the post office our envelope got slipped inside one of those heavy duty UPS envelopes. It really doesn't matter as long as it all fits.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-06-15 10:40:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Just a word of advice!	QUOTE (Gary and Alla @ Jun 15 2009, 10:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Craig D @ Jun 15 2009, 12:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> How long is it before we can go back to her country (Peru) to visit her family? She has never been away from home for more than a week. Someone mentioned we may be able to go back during the 90 window we have to get married, others have said no. If not, can we go after our marriage ? After you get married you can file for her AOS, EAD and AP. Once you receive her green card OR AP, she can travel and return. Typically 3-6 months after filing, ours came in two months after filing but that was fast. I think you also posted this as a separate question. We did not delay the process very much (but didn't do it as fast as possible either) and my wife had her green card four months after arriving. Trying to get it done in 90 days is unrealistically optimistic...but possible. Gary is right, but to add to that. You -Craig- said in the above post that someone told you that you can go back during "the 90 day window" you have to get married. This is NOT TRUE. Unless, as Gary said, you can complete the AOS, EAD, and AP in this amount of time after you get married (which ain't gonna happen). Remember, the K-1 is a ONE TIME visa and once she enters on that she CANNOT leave again until she has completed AOS and AP. QUOTE (cca @ Jun 11 2009, 09:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Im going back 'home' to england in sep for my sisters wedding so thats something im definatley looking forward too!! And we're planning on moving back there in a year or so so i can go back to uni and get another degree seeing as its pretty much free compared to costs here. You do know that once you go back to England long term (ie, more than 6 months) you lose your LPR status in the US. This is unless of course you get your American citizenship before you move back to England. So, unless you have your citizenship, if you and your husband move back to England in a year or two then if you ever decide to come BACK to the US, you have to go through this whole process. all the way over again. Just a heads up.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-06-15 20:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Silly question..does having a common name slow...	Yeah, it's mostly for the male beneficiary. It's not too common for this to slow down the American petitioner. Like Gary said, there probably aren't that many William Jones' on the "bad guy" list...but you are also providing other information so that they can insure that you are this William Jones and not that one. Like place of birth, address, middle name, parents names, ect, ect, ect. Don't worry.	Marina-Del	Female	Brazil	2009-06-15 20:24:00