First of all, this is close to a re-post, so let me doff my hat with apologies to the anticrosspostingpolice .

Moscow requires K visa applicants to fill out a D-156K. This form basically asks, "Are you married?" and then "If you are married, please tell us why you have a snowball chance in the hot fiery place (-- that would be Oklahoma, where I used to live -- (but I actually sorta got to like the place, and yes that's another story)) of getting a K1 visa?"

For K1 applicants, these are fair questions. For K3 applicants, this form looks problematic to me. So my questions:

1. How have the K3 filers among you coped with this form?

2. Does Moscow include it in the packet for K3 beneficiaries to fill out?

3. I emailed Moscow a couple days ago with these questions (politely put, of course). Was this stupid? What posture should petitioners take toward Moscow? That of an idealistic American who expects his government to perform legal services for its citizens in helpful, decent ways? That of a cynical American who avoid telling the government anything and expects them to twist anything they learn to mean an opposite thing detrimental to the citizen's interests? Or how far in between?

I hope for factual answers concerning the D-156K and, maybe, interesting discussion, based on posters experience, on how we should deal with gov and especially the Moscow post.

I am not applying for a K-3, and am no expert. But I understand that the DS-156k would just be for k-1 ppl, since if you are married (in the US for instance) not divorced then you couldn't marry the other person when they got to the US, so I doubt that people who are already married and applying for a k-3 would have to fill this out. Someone correct me if I am wrong...

Yodrak answered my post on the K3 board, in a way typical (brief, reasonable) for him.