Question about K1 VISA! Fiancee in the states

[valefercrs 21]

Hi everyone! I am from Peru, my fiance is a US citizen and we are trying to complete the requirements for the I 129 F packet.

I am currently in the US visiting my fiance for the holidays on a B2 visitor visa i applied for 5 years ago (even before i met him ) and i will return to Peru in 2 weeks. We want to send the application before i leave but i don't know if the Second part "Questions about your fiancee"-Questions 15a, 15b,15c,15d...must be completed, since i am here in the US...or Would it be better if we send the packet after i leave so that we don't have to complete those questions...especially because question 15b asks about my I 94 arrival/departure number related to my last entry (which is Nov 11/2015), however...when i go to the US Customs and border protection web site..it only shows the I 94 number of my entry on Aug 15/2015!!

On the other side...is it necessary to send my birth certificate (beneficiary) and affidavits from family? We have been together for 2 years and have met each other 10 times in Mexico, Peru and the US...we are gonna send copies of boarding passes, receipts, hotels, trains, buses...around 15 pictures, skype calls history, emails, letters. We don't have the engagement ring yet but i hopefully this will be enough!

I hope anyone can help me with my questions!

Thanks in advance

[baron555 934]

Hi everyone! I am from Peru, my fiance is a US citizen and we are trying to complete the requirements for the I 129 F packet.

I am currently in the US visiting my fiance for the holidays on a B2 visitor visa i applied for 5 years ago (even before i met him ) and i will return to Peru in 2 weeks. We want to send the application before i leave but i don't know if the Second part "Questions about your fiancee"-Questions 15a, 15b,15c,15d...must be completed, since i am here in the US...or Would it be better if we send the packet after i leave so that we don't have to complete those questions...especially because question 15b asks about my I 94 arrival/departure number related to my last entry (which is Nov 11/2015), however...when i go to the US Customs and border protection web site..it only shows the I 94 number of my entry on Aug 15/2015!!

Your choice. You can only place the I-94 numbers that you have access to. By the time they get to your petition (many months from now) everything should have cleared in the system.

On the other side...is it necessary to send my birth certificate (beneficiary) and affidavits from family?

No, the first is only needed at the interview and the latter is secondary evidence and not a requirement.

We have been together for 2 years and have met each other 10 times in Mexico, Peru and the US...we are gonna send copies of boarding passes, receipts, hotels, trains, buses...around 15 pictures, skype calls history, emails, letters.

Great

We don't have the engagement ring yet but i hopefully this will be enough!

Not needed, only the signed Letters of Intent to Marry are required.

[valefercrs 21]

Thanks for your reply!

Hi everyone! I am from Peru, my fiance is a US citizen and we are trying to complete the requirements for the I 129 F packet.

I am currently in the US visiting my fiance for the holidays on a B2 visitor visa i applied for 5 years ago (even before i met him ) and i will return to Peru in 2 weeks. We want to send the application before i leave but i don't know if the Second part "Questions about your fiancee"-Questions 15a, 15b,15c,15d...must be completed, since i am here in the US...or Would it be better if we send the packet after i leave so that we don't have to complete those questions...especially because question 15b asks about my I 94 arrival/departure number related to my last entry (which is Nov 11/2015), however...when i go to the US Customs and border protection web site..it only shows the I 94 number of my entry on Aug 15/2015!!

Your choice. You can only place the I-94 numbers that you have access to. By the time they get to your petition (many months from now) everything should have cleared in the system.

On the other side...is it necessary to send my birth certificate (beneficiary) and affidavits from family?

No, the first is only needed at the interview and the latter is secondary evidence and not a requirement.

We have been together for 2 years and have met each other 10 times in Mexico, Peru and the US...we are gonna send copies of boarding passes, receipts, hotels, trains, buses...around 15 pictures, skype calls history, emails, letters.

Great

We don't have the engagement ring yet but i hopefully this will be enough!

Not needed, only the signed Letters of Intent to Marry are required.

[D.Ba 85]

Mail when you leave. Less question and less room for misunderstanding.

[kris&me 572]

_{why not marry and return home and do the CR 1}

_{with the problems now over K1 I wouldn't even try one}

[Transborderwife 4,666]

_{why not marry and return home and do the CR 1}

_{with the problems now over K1 I wouldn't even try one}

What problems? Nothing has happened yet.

[valefercrs 21]

We could marry in Peru, the problem is my fiance has been there 4 times and got really sick there with fever, diarrhea, vomiting...He is fine the first days but after that it becomes a nightmare. Even though i am a nurse and i was very careful with food and drinks he had, we were rushed to the ER three times. That's the main reason why we want to get married in the US, plus, i have family here so they can also be at the ceremony. We want to enjoy it and not worry about upset stomachs haha

_{why not marry and return home and do the CR 1}

_{with the problems now over K1 I wouldn't even try one}

[valefercrs 21]

That's most likely what we are going to do. Thanks for your reply.

Mail when you leave. Less question and less room for misunderstanding.

[Lelyze 49]

We sent our K1 petition in May last year, when I was here on B1/2 visa. We sent it 3 weeks before I left for my home country and had no problems, no rfe's and we were approved 5 months later. Good luck!

[Pennycat 880]

_{why not marry and return home and do the CR 1}

_{with the problems now over K1 I wouldn't even try one}

This is the third scare-monger type comment you've left newbie K1 applicants about this issue. While it is important to keep this issue on the radar screen, it is a great disservice to people to continue leaving comments like this. Please know that nothing has changed yet, things may not change at all but if they do, whatever happens to K1s will more than likely happen to CR1s as well. People with bad intentions can just as easily marry abroad and come in that way, and so *overall* security screenings may get tougher, or there must be a minimum amount of overall facetime spent together etc. It is better TO apply for the K1 now because if they do change or cancel the program (cancellation is never going to happen for a wide variety of reasons), those who have applied before the change will still be processed.

[Mena28 35]

Mail when you leave. Less question and less room for misunderstanding.

Thats what we did too. when we prepared the packet I was still in the US on my J-1, a few weeks before going back to my country. My now-husband waited with finishing them all the way until I left, then signed everything when I was gone already and sent it off a few days later.

We wanted to avoid there being any issues what with me being in and out of the country a gazillion times on various visas/VWP etc. And it was fine.

Got stuck in TSC which took forever, but with everything going to CSC since March - and for the time being - it should move fairly quickly.

[kris&me 572]

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4274/text

this is the bill congress is looking at to end K1 visas

We all think it will not pass but in the meantime,, K 1 visas will be harder to get

they already are

I wish you the best of luck

[uscan1 0]

We sent our K1 petition in May last year, when I was here on B1/2 visa. We sent it 3 weeks before I left for my home country and had no problems, no rfe's and we were approved 5 months later. Good luck!

Hi

Could you please guide me what is the next step after that, because my Petition has also approved by USCIS.

[Pennycat 880]

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4274/text

this is the bill congress is looking at to end K1 visas

We all think it will not pass but in the meantime,, K 1 visas will be harder to get

they already are

I wish you the best of luck

My fiancé has his visa and is sitting right next to me. I work for Congress. I know how this works. It is not already harder (generally, certainly regions maybe but we have no evidence of that yet). You are giving bad information to people, and I think intentionally trying to scare them. This is not accurate or nice.

[NataliaLin 18]

Don't forget to sign the G325a biographic information sheet too!