Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Internet Printouts	Hi, We used our online flight information to prove that I was where I was (ha ha ha - try saying that three times quickly, lol). It was a flight from NJ to Buffalo (I drove from Buffalo back home to Toronto). There were no stamps in my passport to back it up and no boarding passes, but if you have these things then all the power to you. What I did do though, was submit a credit card receipt that also showed that I was there. We had to do a lot of creative work to prove that we had met, because we had no boarding passes etc. Just tie your proof back to your "description of having met" story. What many VJers have said in the past is to create a whole picture for the adjudicator to see. You want that person to get a sense of your relationship and of the circumstances under which you met. You don't need Proof of Ongoing Relationship at this point. When you first submit the K-1 petition, all they are asking for is Proof of Having Met. Save the Ongoing Relationship info for you embassy interview (or in case you get a RFE and they want more info). Best advice - triple check everything and if you don't think a piece of evidence is not self explanatory, just add a little footnote to the page saying what it is. At least then YOU know you will have done everything in your power. Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-10 08:40:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Received Notice of Approval	Congrats on your approval! If you compare the timelines of others that have filed from the same country as your beneficiary then it will give you an estimate of how long until the interview etc. Good luck with the rest of your process and don't forget to fill in your own timeline to help others. Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-10 20:15:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K-1visa photo	We used K-mart and it was very cheap. Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-11 10:00:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NOA2 and now what?	Congrats to you. According to the timelines, cases are being transferred in less than two weeks - some in less than a week. So I would not wait as long as two weeks to call. Good luck with the rest! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-11 11:14:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Its our visa almost ready??	Congrats to you! Your speedy process will certainly give other CSCers hope. If you would be sooooo kind as to PLEASE fill in your timeline. It's such great news that really needs to be shared. Thanks. Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-08 12:41:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	You've gotta love	Well, the good news is that you know that you are not hung up in security checks (which seems like it could be a nightmare). Just keep plodding away and hopefully something will happen soon. Good luck Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-11 09:58:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	9-11 Blessing!!!! approved 9-11-06!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!	Congrats to you! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-11 11:10:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Got it !!!!!	Congratulations!! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-11 14:50:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	APPROVED!!!	Great news! Congrats to you both! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-10 08:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	APROVED!!!	Congrats to you both! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-11 14:51:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	CSC approved	Very good news indeed. Happy for you both. Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-11 20:12:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NOA2 at last!	Congratulations! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-11 20:07:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	The news I've been waiting for	Huge CONGRATS are in order! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-07 09:57:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	IT'S PARTY TIME!!!!	That is absolutely FANTASTIC!! Congrats! Let the fun and games begin! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-08 14:45:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NOA2 Approved!	Thanks for the "well wishes" everyone. Appreciate it! Monique	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-07 19:14:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NOA2 Approved!	We got our approval notice today via the USCIS website. Yay! On to the next step. Good luck and lightening speed to all still waiting - though it seems as though CSC sure is trying to catch up this week. Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-07 16:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	approved/with convictions	Well, congratulations to you! It must feel nice to be over this hurdle despite your convictions. Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-11 21:07:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	checked after Wolf just now...AND ME TOO!!!!	Congrats to you! And I was just thinking the same thing about Gary's list, lol. Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-12 09:16:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	requirements for fiancee visa	hello everybody, am new in this site. I just want to ask help from you about the requirements for the fiancee visa. thank you You need to have a fiance/e. Welcome to VJ! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-12 09:19:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K-VISA-WAT IF BOTH MET IN 2 YRS BUT NT ENGAGED	The requirement is that you have met at leat once in the past two years. So yes, your going for a visit for a week or so is fine to satisfy the requirement. They do not care how you got engaged, only that you are free, willing and legally able to marry. Now, what I cannot answer is whether or not only seeing each other once in two years will reflect negatively at the interview - someone with more experience will have to answer that. Good luck Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-12 09:29:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	CSC noa2 APPROVAL SEPTEMBER 11th	Congrats! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-12 09:33:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Woo hoo..approved NOA2!	Congrats! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-12 09:17:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Thanks GOODNESS!!!	Congrats to you - and thank you for agreeing to Kirsten's suggestion to fill in your timeline! Yay! Mo Edited by mozplay, 12 September 2006 - 09:43 AM.	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-12 09:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	omg, omg, OMG!	Congrats to you both! Your relatively quick turnaround will certainly give hope to the CSC timelines. Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-12 09:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Approved!!!!!	Congrats! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-12 09:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Today was a very good day at the CSC!!	A great post! Congrats to everyone who has been waiting so long! I too am overwhelmed with all the Approved posts this morning - keep em coming! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-12 09:21:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	G325A Form Question	we wrote 'deceased' too. Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-12 15:26:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Do grown men cry?	Congrats! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-12 09:23:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	FINALLY ! ! !	Congratulations to you! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-12 09:26:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Residence question	As the beneficiary, you will have to get a police certificate (it's a criminal background check) once USCIS approves your petition and the NVC hands it off to the UK consulate. From what I understand.. it can take some time to obtain in the UK. Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-12 16:57:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	We're both in tears over this. Please help. I can't be without her.	Jim, I'm glad you have joined VisaJourney in your efforts to figure out your options, but be very careful how you respond to people. Know that some of the folks on this thread have been giving good, solid, valuable advice for free for many many years. If you want to learn all that you can, you may want to put yourself in a place of humility and just take it all in. Good and bad, criticism and kudos. I am Canadian and my husband is the USC. When we first decided that I'd be making the move to the US, I naively thought that the process would maybe take a month or so to complete. In my mind, that was reasonable, right? I can't tell you how surprised I was when I started doing the research. But here is what we finally decided to do. I gave up my apartment and changed my permanent address to my aunt's address whom I had lived with before especially during transition periods. I packed up everything I wanted to keep and put it all in storage. At the end of the school year (I was a teacher) I put my dog and 1 suitcase in the trunk of my USC's car and we crossed the border. I had a history of crossing back and forth for a while, but they still pulled us into secondary mostly because I was not in my own car. After a short stay there, we were allowed to cross. At that point, I intended to stay for the summer and then go back to work in September. But getting pulled into secondary at the border crossing frightened the ####### out of me and we changed our plans. As a Canadian, I can VISIT the US for up to six months during a 12 month period. And that's what I did. We filed for a K-1 Visa while in the US and I stayed the six months living off of my fiance's savings. At the end of those six months, I returned to Canada for about 3 weeks while I attended the interview in Montreal, got the medical done, said my final goodbyes, rented a one-way Uhaul and loaded up my stuff. Crossing the border this time was a breeze, because I had all my paperwork in order. So all in all, we were apart for under a month and at that point, it was like a little vacation. Now, much of this will be different for you as you plan to get married first. When I filed, there were advantages to the K-1 route that I don't think exist anymore. But as a Canadian, she can VISIT the US for most of the waiting period. And regardless of what you say, there must be someone she can stay with if the six months are up and she needs to go back. Canadians aren't heartless people - someone will let her couch surf. It's just a matter of timing though. I agree with others ... she shouldn't be in the truck with you with all your worldly possessions. Can she cross before that? Is there someone for her to stay with in Buffalo? How long between your marriage on Monday and the date of your move? Regardless, good luck and take comfort in knowing that though the process is the same for Canadians as everyone else, at least you are closer to her than those who have their spouses and fiancees halfway across the world. What's a few months when you will have the rest of your lives together.	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2013-03-13 11:52:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	Approved	Congrats on the approval! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-09-11 15:17:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	Denied at POE	Definately be honest as often - they already know the answer anyway. They guy who interviewed me said it was common to hear of people being denied or at least pulled into secondary at least once throughout this process. Don't worry about it at all. Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2007-03-30 09:01:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	COsponsor?	I do know that you need a co-sponsor if your own sponsor/fiance/spouse's etc income is less than 125% of the poverty line (which is $16,500 for a family of 2). The co-sponsor's and your sponsor's incomes cannot be combined. They each have to stand alone. However, the co(joint)-sponsor's income is considered as 'household' income meaning it can be combined with others in the same household. The link given before has a complete table and of all the pages ... this one is relatively easy to follow. Heaven help us all if I have given wrong advice here, but this is the one thing I felt competent to reply to at this point. Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-06-11 21:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K-1 visa confusion	[quote name='Gwen666' date='Jun 12 2006, 01:24 AM' post='246041'] [quote name='mozplay' post='245791' date='Jun 12 2006, 02:39 AM'] 1. Because we have always driven across the border to see eachother I do not have any stamps at all in my passport, nor plane tickets or anything like that. We stayed in two hotels during the first year (out of town weddings) and I will contact both the venues to see if I can still get duplicate receipts. However, if this is not the case will credit card and bank statments showing that I have spent money in the US suffice as proof that we have seen eachother in the past 2 years when filing the I-129F? We have MASS quantities of emails saved to prove the 'ongoing relationship' part. [/quote] The "ongoing relationship" bit is not nearly as important as being able to prove that you have met-hotel receipts and credit card statements prove you've been to the US but not that you've actually, physically met your fiance. Make sure you include plenty of concrete evidence like photographs to back this kind of thing up! Got it! Photos are not a problem at all - we have lots - I even have some of him attending school functions with me and lots with his family. Whew! Now I just gotta go dig up all the past bank/credit card/cell phone statements.	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-06-12 06:26:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K-1 visa confusion	Ummm .... my divorce is final this month. (Been separated for 3, or is it 4?, years now.) Do I have an 'oops' to anticipate? lol	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-06-11 21:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K-1 visa confusion	Ok, I think I am developing a callus on my right wrist from using the mouse all day but the amount of information here .. and useful, comprehensive information at that is staggering!!!! I feel so much better after reading many of your posts - I think I may actually sleep tonight and I will very much try to take the advice of one member and now drown in the process. Now ... I have two questions that I cannot seem to find answers for (forgive me if I am just blind): 1. Because we have always driven across the border to see eachother I do not have any stamps at all in my passport, nor plane tickets or anything like that. We stayed in two hotels during the first year (out of town weddings) and I will contact both the venues to see if I can still get duplicate receipts. However, if this is not the case will credit card and bank statments showing that I have spent money in the US suffice as proof that we have seen eachother in the past 2 years when filing the I-129F? We have MASS quantities of emails saved to prove the 'ongoing relationship' part. 1a. (so it's still technically only two questions, lol) Do the customs agents at the border keep records of me crossing that I can request for petition purposes (also when filing the I-129F)? 2. How long (approx.) between initially filing the I-129 and then filing for permission to travel? Is this the 30-90 day period? or is this more like the 4 - 6 month period? I ask this question assuming at this point that I will indeed stay with David for a few months after he files and then come back up here for the medical etc (which is the 30 - 90 days, right?). So question 2 actually points to when the US stops frowning upon my re-entering, customs officers are happy about it and we can be re-united. And to answer an earlier question ... David will be able to come up and visit too - but since he is going to be doing post-grad work, then it's just easier if I come down. Even with a full-time job, my schedule has always been very flexible. Thanks for all the welcomes and well-wishes all! I really do appreciate all of this! Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-06-11 20:39:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K-1 visa confusion	Thank you so much for the advice received thus far. I do know how lucky I am now. While I was waiting for responses I read through some of the posts from couples who live MUCH farther away. It makes my stresses seem small - my heart goes out to them. I'll keep checking and it looks like I will probably see you all on a daily basis. Just to be clear - I do belive that the lawyer was talking about me staying in the states while I filed the I-129 (I just keep referring to it as the K-1 but I'll stop doing that now). One more quick question though - to prove that I did not intend to stay illegally inthe US past the I-129 process, will bank statements, cell phone bills and the fact that I have a car in Canada be enough? I obviously won't keep my job if I do intend to stay with David through the process (not fair to the school or students), however, my boss certainly is willing to write me a letter giving me an indefinate leave of absence. Also, I do not own a house to hold a mortgate or deed for. Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-06-11 14:58:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K-1 visa confusion	Hi All, I just joined this site today and already reading through the posts I'm thankful I found it - you all seem sensible and helpful. Thank goodness! Let me give you the basics on my own story and hopefully someone can help: I'm Canadian and my boyfriend/fiance is a USC (look - I'm learning the lingo already!) We have been dating for two years now and are planning to be married and live in the US at lease for the next few years while he finishes his masters. In chatting with a lawyer about the quickest way to be with David in the US legally, we were advised to come in as I always do - driving across the border for a visit and then file for K-1 status. However, in reading posts on a few forums, this seems like a HUGE no-no. Even in a recent post by Beth on this forum a number of you indicated that this was highly illegal and could cause problems later on. I don't know if this makes any difference, but I don't intend to work under the table or anything while the filing etc is in process. Also, I work in the educational system, so bear in mind I have the summer off anyway - even if I were to remain in Canada and go back to work, it would not be until September. So here are my questions: 1. Why the heck would the lawyer tell me to do something that is illegal?!!?!?!? (Ok - I know you may not be able to answer for his actions - just wanted to get it off mychest) 2. Is applying for the K-1 really the quickest route or should we be married? 3. Is is true that I cannot travel to the US once the K-1 application has been filed, if it is filed while I am in Canada? 4. If this is true, then what is the time line on that? Is it the 30 - 90 days that I keep hearing about? Or is it the 6 month timeline? 5. Is it legal to file for K-1 status with me in the US, spend the summer together and then return to Canada for the rest of the process? Is this still illegal and therefore can possibly cause problems? 6. Have any of you actually stayed in the US through the process and it not been a problem? As you can guess, I so desperately want to be with David, however, not if it will come at the cost of our long-term lives together. I'm not trying to move to the US for fraudlent reasons, however, the thought of not being able to see him for up to 6 months is killing me. Can somebody tell me the best possible course of action here (and maybe reccommend a good therapist and an even better maseusse to ease the stress of this process!). One last question - general consensus is that using a lawyer is throwing your money away - does anyone recommend using one of those do-it-yourself kits? Or is that jsut as bad as hiring a lawyer? Thanks in advance for all your help. I'm looking forward to some valuable discourse. Mo p.s. fair warning -once i send this i am going to realize that i have forgotten a million things!	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-06-11 14:33:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	New I-129F is ready!	Thanks... checking it out right now! ...thanks Thanks for posting this. I just 'practiced' filling it out . Mo	mozplay	Female	Trinidad and Tobago	2006-06-15 20:42:00