I want to know if anyone has attempted to get a tourist visa for their fiancee/spouse to visit while they were waiting for an interview? My husband is currently waiting for scheduling and it looks like it could be 4 more months before he's actually scheduled in Lagos. please

It probably won't be easy to get at all considering that you have already applied and are in the system for the I-129F - which has immigrant intent. Tourist visas do not so you would have to try and prove that you don't have intent when applying for a tourist visa (if you are even allowed to apply at all - someone else should be around to give you this answer).

Filing I-129F doesn't show immigration intent in the way you think. After all immigration intent is all about not leaving when you visit. You generally can enter the USA on a visitor visa while I-129F is processing, as long as you plan to leave the USA on that vistor's visa, and not remain and file AOS. Just because you intend to immigrate to the USA at some point in the future, doesn't mean that on any trip to the USA before that date you have immigration intent.

That said, West Africa is a high fraud part of the world, so visas will be highly scrutinised.

together2love and dr_lha,

What I-129f?

There is an approved I-130 and an immigrant visa application that appears to have completed pre-processing at the NVC and may now be at the consulate.

Yodrak

Yodrak, I was responding specifically to together2love, which is why I continued their error about the I-129F.

Try not to generalize, and be more specific. Not all countries in West Africa are considered "high fraud".

OK, I didn't mean to offend anyone. I meant Nigeria.

Where did you get this info from???? Hogwash! Tourist VISA have absolutely NO impact on your applications nor do they effect your tourist visa application when you have an existing application in for immigrating. This information is keeping families apart. There are many stories on here, including my own where my wife, while waiting for her Immigrant interview, recieve a 5 year B-2 Tourist visa. APPLY!!!!!!! Your chances are high you will get it as long as you tell the truth, dont hide anything, and express it would be foolish for you to overstay your tourist visa while waiting for your immigration visa. First it is illegal, and you can be deported and banned from reentry in the US for 10 years, and it would be foolish to jeopardize this when so close to getting your immigrant visa. Second, just have the required information they ask for, pay the $100 application fee and go for it. Yes there are officers who are tough, but MOST donot want to keep families apart.

Thanks for the information everyone. I just want to clear it up that I did not apply for I-129f, but have an approved and completed I-130 like Yodrak noticed. My husband is awaiting interview scheduling in Nigeria. And yes I know Nigeria is notorious for fraud, and it's very hard for them to get tourist visas. I did email the embassy to see what information they could give me. I just wanted to see if anyone here at VJ had any similar experiences that I could take into consideration. I think I'm going to advise him to apply. I only have $100 dollars to lose if they don't approve him.

HI, Im married to an LPR and haven't received I-130 approval. I want to here your story about filling Tourist Visa for your Spouse. It so hard to wait for so many years before I can go to USA. I am from Philippines. As I read your reply you give us hope that WE can also file for Tourist Visa.. Anyway, how long did your wife stay in the USA under TOurist Visa? 5 years?!!! .. some people say that people have pending petition CANNOT apply for Tourist Visa because Immigration thinks that they'll never go back to their home country..

Thank you very much..

Thanks for correcting me. . . very interesting to hear this. I'll make a mental note for the next time someone posts this question to quote you on this experience.

That's just so lame and misadvised, because it is Nigeria doesn't make it 'high fraud', so shut ur trap! All you had to do was advise on what you know and not what you don't know thereby insulting Nigerians on here!

That was uncalled for.... do you have facts and knowledge any different or only opinion yourself? Even the OP acknowledged that there is a semblance of truth......

Stating fact is not an insult.

The fact is that Nigeria is a high fraud country for US immigration, Phillipines is another (in fact, those are the top two last time I looked).

Nigerians on here have no reason to be insulted by what I said. I never inferred anyone from Nigeria on here was committing fraud, I just said that because Nigeria is a high fraud country, anyone going through the Visa process from Nigeria can expect to be scrutised due to the unethical actions of some of their countrymen.

A well respected Immigration Lawyer who frequents another board said a long time ago that the world is divided into 4 Categories as far as Visa Fraud is concerned.

Nigeria was No 4, in its own category.

Philippines would be in Number 3 with quite a few other countries.

heheh, it's so good, it's worth correcting:

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It pays to remember that the Department of State has a "fraud profile" by overseas post -- and from bad to worse on fraud it is -- "low fraud", "medium fraud", "high fraud", "Lagos". [I've been told this by ex-ConOffs].

Folinskyinla

My computer died and so did my collection of good quotes, thanks.

oh no!
I am *so* overdue for an external HD. I shudder to think what would happen...

I had backed up everything, I thought.

But when it died I could not recover my Outlook pst file, so all my notes and contacts went.

I now also have a San Disk Cruzer, $18 for 1 GB. Comes with software that backs up Outlook so I can have all that with me as well as a secure copy of any other crucial bits..