Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Do you have to prove that you can financially support your fiance when he/she gets to the U.S?	Yes. You need to some homework on what is involved in this process and one of those items is being able to support the two of you on your own or getting a co-sponsor to do it for you. Assuming you will be doing a K1 visa for her, please read the guidlines on this site as to what you are getting involved in.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-03-08 22:14:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Questions about I-129F, Petition for Alien Fiancé(e)	You are asking a lot of good questions. BUT...your fiancee is the USC. She is supposed to be petitioning for you. SHE should be doing this work. It's good that you are involved but this cannot be done in a vacuum. If she "does not have the time" to work on this now, what will happen when the the other processes take place? I am not feeling the love here. Just my opinion.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-03-07 12:57:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Points of Entry	You can choose any flight or arrival point you want. Just remember, as an example, if she is flying to Ft. Lauderdale and then on to Chicago, FTL is her POE and will pass immigration at that airport.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-03-10 17:27:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Interview, who should answer?	She is applying for the visa and wanting to gain entry to the U.S. Typically she is the one to go, alone, to be interviewed. It is HER interview. Having said that, and as others have stated up thread, sometimes it is allowed for the petitioner to be present. Sometimes mandatory. And sometimes the petitioner is not allowed to be present at all.It is really up to the embassy to make that call. Many folks here will agree that if you are there, even if only for emotional support, it cannot hurt and could be beneficial. I know of one friend whose wife, then fiancee was being questioned pretty hard until she finally said, "if you don't believe me ask him, he is just outside". Visa was approved.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-03-12 09:59:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Packet 3	Long answer. Yes.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-03-14 15:00:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Leaving the US after K-1 Visa has been issued	You can leave anytime you want. The issue is coming back. You should not leave until you have, at least, your AP. And remember that you may also have to be here for her AOS interview, which she will need to do for her GC.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-03-17 16:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	is true that as soon as you received the NOA2 approval...	Look at this logically, if you can. The embassy NEEDS your paperwork to review your files BEFORE the interview. The CO NEEDS to understand your case BEFORE your interview. And YOU NEED time to gather all YOUR paperwork to be ready for the interview. This is simply not the case of just showing up at the embassy door and saying "here I am ". Do you really think the CO is going to reply "oh, sure Jane and John, let me go back to the office and get your stuff, oh we do not have your stuff, have no idea who you are, your background, your issues, but I will just ask some questions and give you a visa"? I think whoever is feeding this information to you is way out of line. Remember the NVC only approves the petition, the embassy approves the visa.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-03-19 09:27:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Working in the states	She can work with her EAD, a part of the AOS process.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-03-20 19:05:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Declaration of how you met. Question 18 of 129F	Quote.." I met my wife in Bulgaria in 20XX. We then met 3 more times during 20YY and ZZ". That was it and that was enough.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-03-19 19:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Country of both question	She was born in the UKR. That is the country you put down. My wife was born in Belarus when it was part of the USSR but her country of birth is still Belarus.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-03-23 22:51:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K1 visa and spent time together in person	I doubt if the declined tourist visa will have anything to do with your K1 application. Two different things. Although I have my opinions about people only knowing each other,face to face, for such a brief time, the rules only ask that you have met in the last 2 years. This you have done. Just be prepared to document this, showing significant proof of your relationship.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-01-29 15:00:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Middle name box in I-129f form	GandK How could you possible get an RFE for answering none, when the answer is none? Relax ! If you said your name was John Doe but some paperwork said Robert Brown..now that could be an RFE.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-03-19 19:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Unemployment	1. yes, you can use unemployment as income. 2. get married and go to school 3.best to use the best ones and no, you cannot email anything.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-03-30 17:37:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Haven´t received Packet 3!	Packet contains a form listing all the documents you need to bring. You do not actually take the packet itself to the interview. If you can go online and download all the forms, and the listing of the documents you will need ( med exam, police report and so forth), you should be good to go. Why it is taking so long, I do not know. Was the address correct?	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-03-31 20:05:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	financial question	As I remember, they want to know what you make, not how it is spent. If you look at the guides on this site, you will see what the various costs are during the process. Just remember that their will always be something else that crops up. But roughly, between filing fees, visa and medical fees, AOS fees, and whatever else is in there, $2000 is the lowest I would go.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-01 17:16:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	evidence of ongoing relationship-	You can print out a chat log ( basically header info) that show the volume of chats you have had and then print out a few, maybe 2-3 per month, of the less "steamy" ones. That should be enough.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-02 17:15:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	I am 19 and have never worked. (no income)	Federal aid ( Stafford loans for example) are not counted as income since the funds go directly to the school, not you.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-08 10:55:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Can my US fiance fill File Form I-129F, Petition for Alien Fiancé(e)	You can "fill out out " any form you want now. You just cannot FILE or SUBMIT it without having met in person . Period. It is a very firm requirement.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-10 15:14:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Quick(est) time for NAO2 (not expedited and not deployed)	Unfortunately there is not "quick end". 4-5-6 months is on the money.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-11 23:42:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	loss of k2 or finish schooling	Yes. He must arrive here before his 21st birthday. Not a day later. He can adjust his status and then wait for his GC. Although he could travel with an AP, he would have to return for his interview, if he does have one. Better to wait for his GC. Further, he cannot be out of country for more than 6 months. I am not sure about any kind of waivers for an extended overseas stay for schooling. Maybe some one else can answer that. I know that Gary and Alla had a son who was going to school in Moscow and traveling back and forth. You might try and reach them.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-10 15:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Aging out K-2	WOW !!!!!!!!!!! This is great news. Now..make sure your wife AND son are part of this approval. If he was listed as a K2 on her application then you both have been approved. His name should be on the notice, usually down in the left hand corner, as I recall. UDACHI !!!!!	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-03-08 00:07:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Aging out K-2	Rich I think you did ok. You have about 6 months to have his interview. It is still possible. I would stay on top of this. As Gary had mentioned, once you have the NOA2 get on the phone with the consulate and ask about an expedited interview.Have all his papers (police report, medical) ready to go as soon as possible. You may be able to tell them you do not need to go through the packet 3/4 process as you did it before and are ready to go. Bottom line, he needs to be on U.S. soil by August 11.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-03-06 12:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	...less than 30 days in total	The rule is that you must have met at least once in the past two years of filing your application. It does not specify for how long ( days, weeks). The more times you meet and the longer time you spend together will strengthen your case for a bonafide relationship. A number of people only visited for one week.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-13 07:52:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K-1question I've not seen.	You need to be free to marry. If you were married and divorced, then you need the divorce decree.If you were never married most countries will not require to prove it, since that may be impossible. But there may be some countries that may ask you to sign something attesting to that fact as a matter of formality.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-14 19:03:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Will marry within 90days BUT K-1 expires first - HELP	The K1 VISA, when issued, is good for 6 months. You have that time to enter the US. It is, as others have said, only good for a ONE TIME entry. Once here it is invalidated. It is replaced by the 194 paper which is given to you when you enter. THAT is good for 90 days, the time you need to get married. After you are married, you then need to file for your AOS.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-20 10:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	How to e-mail a I129F package	Forget the binder. Just use some paper clips to keep the pertinent pages together. Once received, they only put it in the order they want anyway and will throw the binder away. Use a cover page that shows your contents in the order you placed them. That's it. Give them what they want not what you think they need, unless you are coming from a high fraud country then some additional info may be in order.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-20 19:23:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Multiple Criminal Convictions..?	Why am I reminded of the song "Alice's Restaurant ? Op. If you never heard of it, I strongly suggest you download it someplace. I believe the singer was Arlo Guthrie. You will really love it.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-21 18:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Lawyer Aggravation	You are the one who has to find and compile all the data. Once you have it, you fill out some forms. All the attorney does is to fill in the same forms with the data you gave him. You can fill in the forms just as easily and save your self not only thousands of dollars but also a lot of stress. And remember, if he screws up, it is YOUR life not his that gets trashed.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-22 12:05:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	k-1 visa ruined! help!	Since this passport had a K1 visa in it, it would be a foreign passport. You replace those at a Consulate or Embassy of THAT country. The US Post Office cannot assist in this matter. my bad.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-24 19:36:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	k-1 visa ruined! help!	Go to your local post office with what is left of your old passport and apply for a new one. Some data should still be readable.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-24 18:03:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	k-1 visa ruined! help!	Your K1 visa expired when you entered the country in December. It is only a ONE entry visa. It was replaced by the 194 paper in your passport which gave you the 90 days to get married. By now you should have been married and filing for your AOS, which makes even the 194 irrelevant. You are fine if you have done this.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-24 09:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Affidavit of support	Well since she would mail it to them anyway, why not send it to them directly? Mail is mail.Just make sure you have correctly and properly identified it so they know who it belongs to.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-29 22:38:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Proof of relationship	Two,maybe three pages for each month ( to show a continuous relationship) is more than enough. You do not think they are really going to go and read all this do you? They process hundreds of visa applications every day, they do not have time for this and it will just slow things down for you.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-04-29 08:25:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	PLEASE HELP I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT	There is now a provision in the law where a person entering on a K1 can adjust status without marrying the petitioner. It's not an easy thing to qualify for, but it does exist. Can you give us a link to this? Never heard of it before. Thanks.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-05-02 23:12:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Letter of Intent to Marry needs to be notarized by a lawyer?	Exactly! The factor does not affect the result You should only have documents notarized when they specifically as you for it (which is requested sometimes for some documents). Notarizing anything that goes into the Packet 1 will not have any impact on the petition, it will only impact your wallet	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-05-03 10:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Manipulate Layover Time for K-1 Entry	I have to add, as flight crew, there are two airports in the U.S. I try to avoid due to frequent delays 1) Chicago O'Hare and 2) JFK....in that order. I have not travelled to or from the Philippines but I do travel from NC to Thailand, out of RDU (Raleigh, NC), to visit my fiancé several times a year. I have entered (POE) at Detroit, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., and Atlanta with no problems. I would leave 4-6 hours for her to enter, clear customs/immigration and go through another security screening and make a connecting flight. I highly recommend no matter where she enters you be there to meet her and help her connect. To clear up something posted earlier Delta does not have their own customs/immigration hall. These are government facilities are used by all airlines. As for you helping her with her bags I don't think you will be able to do that unfortunately. After clearing customs she will have to claim her bags from the belt....in the customs area (there are carts down there and sometimes a few sky caps hoping for a tip when they help you). If she doesnt connect to another flight she will pass by more officers pulling people/bags for random screening then come out where the public meeting place is. If she has a connecting flight before you see her she will take her bags to another area, not far away, to be re-checked to her final destination.....they pull random bags for screening here too. There will be airline agents helping people re-check bags/scan bag tags for tracking. Then she will come out to the public area. These days even though you just came off a flight, on landing in the U.S., she will have to get re-screened at a security checkpoint before taking a domestic flight. These lines can be very long just like the customs lines. It just depends on how many flights arrive at the same time. They try to space them out to prevent traffic jams but planes get delayed and sometimes several arrive at the same time. I personally use kayak.com to find tickets and check schedules. You can also use e-skyguide.com for checking airline schedules (no buying tickets here) between airports. It shows every airline and every flight they have between city pairs and can be helpful too. 4-6 hours seems like a long time but it beats missing your flight or being stressed about time. Hey, if she gets lucky and breezes right through then just check the monitors for an earlier flight go to that gate and list yourself standby for that flight. Touring the city she lands in could be fun. Just remember after a long flight and major time change she will have a hard time being awake to enjoy those tours. For me going West I adjust pretty quick. Flying East is always much harder on my body clock. As for the drive from NYC to NC I think you know I-95 ain't no country drive....lol. And traffic around D.C. Can be a nightmare. The drive from Washington to NC isn't bad and if you live in ILM there are probably direct flights (there used to be anyway). Good luck! Another piece of advice. If you find a ticket on a cheap airfare website and price on the real airline website is only a few bucks more.....buy from the airline. I had a bad experience once not being able to pick seats and when I needed to make a change the airline told me to call the website I bought the ticket on. It was horrible! The website was vayama.com. The point here is that many airlines use the international terminal and you could have 20-30 flights all landing within an hour of each other and the lines can be quite long. The Delta terminal has its own ( yes it is still the government) immigration and not nearly the same number of flights landing close to each other and therefore much shorter lines.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-02-08 16:42:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Manipulate Layover Time for K-1 Entry	Delta has their own immigration stations. Its not like the international terminals that has a ton of flights arriving every 5 minutes. It could go faster than expected. However, they have 2 terminals ( next to each other a 7 minute walk) and it is possible that a connecting flight might mean moving baggage from one to the other. But since I made the suggestion to you to stay in NY for a few days, maybe you will not have to do this?	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-02-08 13:06:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Manipulate Layover Time for K-1 Entry	When I came back to the US from Russia, it took me about 2 - 3 hours to get through Dulles (Washington, DC), and I'm a citizen! For some reason, I actually had to be further examined when entering the US... Anyway, I'm going to find a flight with about 4 - 6 hours of layover at the POE. Remember you were fling into the nations capital. Bit tougher. BTW. I am Viking at RWD. See you there.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-02-08 11:09:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Manipulate Layover Time for K-1 Entry	I know JFK well. Connecting times can be brutal. You need more than 2 hours. Four would be a minimum to be safe. As others pointed out, she needs to clear immigration, get her papers, then baggage, then customs, and there is no way you can be there. You will first see her coming out of the secure area with a ton of baggage. I do not know what airline she is flying on but I would bet she will arrive in the main international terminal, but may have to go to another terminal to pick up the connecting flight to NC. That is not difficult, but for a person not familiar with JFK, it can be very daunting. You must be there for her. Period. Now a suggestion. I suspect you both will want to be "back home" as soon as possible, but have you considered taking your time doing this? She will be arriving in NY, one of the greatest cities in the world ( I am a New Yorker ) so why not take a day or two to see this city? The ride back to NC passes our Capital, and can be a great time to talk in the car while driving through some beautiful countryside. When will she have the chance to do this again?	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-02-08 10:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	125% of poverty line, co-sponsors, and being a student	Income is income. As long as you are $1 over, you are good to go.	Enigma11561	Male	Belarus	2012-05-08 23:00:00