Question for K-1 interview

[INCT 0]

My fiance and I have gotten through all of the paperwork and now we are just waiting on the interview. When him and I met in November (while I was on vacation), we knew we wanted to get married. After I left Chile he applied twice for a tourist visa, once in February, I then visited him after he didn't get the visa. He then tried again in April, and again denied. Both times in the interview he said we were only friends for the pure fact that I thought if he said I was his girlfriend, they wouldn't think he would return to Chile. After he got denied the second time, within two weeks I then applied for the fiance visa. I didn't visit again until June (where he properly proposed <gave me the ring>- but we always said we would get married and he asked me a million times before that). We are just nervous that when we go in for the interview they will ask why when he interviewed the previous two times he said we were just friends. I can't decide if we should say we got engaged after his second attempt over the phone or in February (when he did actually ask me), but it may look bad because of his attempt for the tourist visa and saying we were only friends? Please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,

Kristen

[colinjess 0]

I am in a simular situation we decided over the phone that the fiance visa was the option for us( we already have sent the I-129f) but i havent properly propsed yet i was going to wait till november , which is the next time i will see my fiance!!

so i too would like to know when we should say we got engaged!

[chuckb 0]

I am in a simular situation we decided over the phone that the fiance visa was the option for us( we already have sent the I-129f) but i havent properly propsed yet i was going to wait till november , which is the next time i will see my fiance!!

so i too would like to know when we should say we got engaged!

In your cases, were you not friends? Are you not still friends?

Your engagement is when you (and your fiance) say it is. Who can say different?

Your legal marriage is a legally documented fact. That is different.

Why worry?

[Nich-Nick 3,353]

You can become engaged on instant messenger. You don't have to have a ring or party or be on bended knee. One person tells the other I want to marry you and the other says OK. Just pick a time and call it your engagement, as long as it's before you filed the package. That might be odd if it was after filing.

Agree with the friend bit above too. You are friends, not a lie.

Edited August 27, 2008 by Nich-Nick