Peru K-1 Visa

[Heartcycle 0]

I am trying to bring my girlfriend/fiance to the US with a K-1 Visa. I'm in the process right now of filling out the paperwork. I've done some research and finding out that it is difficult for people from Peru to get a tourist visa into the US. Is there a reason for this? Does anyone have any experience with getting a K-1 Visa and getting approved or denied? Are these visas usually approved? If this is an issue, what is the best way to go about of getting my fiance here? Would it be better to marry her first? Is it easier to bring her here if she is my wife? This is all new to me and any advice would be appreciated. We have been communicating since March 2014 and we love each other very much. I just came back from Peru and spent 6 wonderful days with this woman and we want to be together.

[Caryh 5,206]

Tourist visas are difficult to get from some countries due to the high number that come on them and never leave. This has nothing to do with getting a K-1 visa, as the K-1 visa applicant is assumed to be staying as long as they get married to the petitioner within 90 days. Countries where few qualify for tourist visas, can have high rates of approval for K-1 visas. My wife's country is certainly such a place.

There are advantages to both the K-1 visa and CR-1 spousal visa. The K-1's main advantage is the its normally faster and the beneficiary and petitioner get a little time to change their minds. Its disadvantages are the process costs more, the beneficiary can not work or drive until their status is adjusted, or at least until the EAD issued. This leads many K-1 immigrants to go a bit crazy with boredom, feelings of no control or freedom and home sickness. The spousal visa takes longer, but they come into the country with a green card stamp, can work and get a drivers license from the day they arrive, it cost less than a K-1 plus AOS, but it takes months longer.

[M and C 32]

Caryh has good points so you should consider them in choosing whether to apply for a K-1 or a CR-1.

In all intents and purposes, one important key in petitioning is to be able to prove that your relationship is genuine. Document the times that you are together, and also your online correspondence (I'm assuming there are no cultural or traditional prohibitions that the two of you can't see each other before getting married) . Just be thorough in the paperwork so you don't get RFEs and delay the process further.

[KayDeeCee 4,891]

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~ Moved from K-1 Process to What Visa Do I Need - OP still deciding on immigration path~