Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Is the K1 worth it for our situation?	QUOTE (Old Dominion @ Oct 19 2009, 08:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> All things considered, just put the tourist visa idea out of your minds. Marrying in a third country, e.g., Mexico, seems to fit your plans best. Of,if you are willing to just get married wherever you are, can your family come there to be with you? That's the problem...my family doesn't have the cash for that at the moment. My parents are retiring and trying to sell their house that isn't going anywhere fast. So at the moment my family can not afford this. But it does seem the best option now. (I have to say I'm very disappointed.) You can't help who you fall in love with but if you are American...it's a lot easier if they are too. haha.	Mel&Bek	Not Telling	Uzbekistan	2009-10-19 08:32:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Is the K1 worth it for our situation?	QUOTE (canadian_wife @ Oct 19 2009, 07:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> K-1 visa is for couples who plan on marrying in the US and having the beneficiary become a US resident. Since that is not your intention, why would you file a petition which will cost you hundreds of dollars to file and pursue if you don't intend on following it through? I'd focus on having your fiance build as many ties to his home country as he can. It is about showing the CO why your fiance HAS to return to his country, not reasons for visiting the US Good luck Thanks for your quick response but as we are not living in my fiance's home country I don't know how to make ties there. His family owns a restaurant...if they put that in his name will this help? "Ties to his home country"seem to be children (which we don't have yet), a house which we can't afford yet, a great job, which he'll have to be with for at least 5 years...We are young and don't have our lives all set up yet...which I actually like we can travel more easily. But getting him to meet my family is becoming really difficult and upsetting experience . One day we might want to reside in the USA but like I said we are young and enjoying our youth. (The K1 visa is 455 dollars and the tourist is like 256) 200 bucks to relieve our suffering is worth it.	Mel&Bek	Not Telling	Uzbekistan	2009-10-19 07:47:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Is the K1 worth it for our situation?	Hello everyone. I'd like to start by saying we are brand new to this site and a few people from a travel site suggested this site. We hope those people are correct about it helping us b/c this whole business that we don't fully understand gives us a headache. Ok I'll try to keep this as short as humanly possible. I'm Mel (an American citizen) and my fiance is Bek (an Uzbek citizen). We meet while both working in the United Arab Emirates and fell in love. While there we applied for a tourist visa for him so he could see where I am from and meet my family. Unfortunately we were denied saying his ties to his home country were not strong enough. Since then we have both left the UAE and spent this past summer '09 in Uzbekistan where I got to meet his family. Now we are living in Astana, Kazakhstan. We plan to marry this summer 2010. I would like that to be in the USA. (Only my immediate family as to save all the money we'd spend on the honeymoon and a house somewhere). At the moment we are not intending on living in the USA after we get married. I like to live abroad and with the economy the way it is I think we are better off abroad for now. I know the fiance visa is for starting the immigration process but we aren't interested in that part. We really just want him to meet my family. But I think the tourist visa will never happen for us I feel the K1 is the only way to go. HELP! Am I right or wrong? Do we have other options? And after all the reading I have done about the visas...it looks like in order to file your K1 forms you must be in the USA? Is this true? Is there a way around this if you have a residence abroad. (I mean it's already 455 dollars for the application then a 1000 plus for a flight.) THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE ME! I was trying to contact immigration lawyers but they want nothing to do with people overseas. Mel	Mel&Bek	Not Telling	Uzbekistan	2009-10-19 07:15:00