Marrying in the Philippines to bypass K-1, K-2 visas ??

[Jim and Myrewen 0]

Below I am reprinting a message that I received from a relative who lives in the Philippines. He says that this is an unpublished method to marry in the Philippines, have the spouse get a tourist visa, and then get back to USA in about 5 weeks, rather than the many months for the K-1 or K-2 visas.

Is there any truth or credibility to this? Has anyone ever heard of this working?

Would really appreciate some input here.

Details American Marriage to Filipinoi girl while you are in Philippines:

Doing a fiancée visa application in the USA is a very long process. You have to provide a lot of personal private info and need pictures together to prove you have met her in person. Analyn has to make 5 visits to USA Embassy for health checks and assorted background checks. Have to be at Embassy main gate at 6am to get in before 9am cutoff entry time. This means she has to stay overnight in close by hotel, which are not cheap in that area. Many filing fees payable as she goes through fiancée visa application processing process. Like close to 10,000P. On your side many filing fees and you need all her family history. Midwest immigration processing office is very slow.

Fastest way to get Analyn to USA as your wife is to get married in Manila. Here is how.

First she gets her Filipino passport. When you get to Manila go to USA embassy next day and ask for "Permission to marry Filipino form" fill it out while in Embassy. You need Analyn's NSO birth certificate paper which gives info about her parent's names and wedding date and location of birth needed to fill out the form. You should get form approved while in Embassy office. There is a filing fee to do this. Once you have legal PI marriage licenses, then you apply online at Manila USA Embassy website for tourist visa for your spouse.

No USA income tax requirements or back ground checks on Analyn necessary.

[RonnieKris 26]

I think this is not true.. If anything like this could be done, it would have already been done by some VJ members and relayed to us.

[Abby-Ron 8]

If it was true, then all filipinos would be going to the US in 5 weeks. Just shows how gullible you are to believe this story. Its most likely 100% a scam to get your money. Lets put it another way. Try it at post your experience here after going through the "5 weeks" method in going to the US and tell me how they scammed you and got your money.

[iahmjpinoy 6]

If it was true, then all filipinos would be going to the US in 5 weeks. Just shows how gullible you are to believe this story. Its most likely 100% a scam to get your money. Lets put it another way. Try it at post your experience here after going through the "5 weeks" method in going to the US and tell me how they scammed you and got your money.

Wow, how come you're coming off rude to this person, they owe you money or something? They were just asking if it's true. And, I think you need to re-read the post, I don't see anywhere there that it said that they had to pay someone outside of a goverment office to get it done.

Fastest way to get Analyn to USA as your wife is to get married in Manila. Here is how.

First she gets her Filipino passport. When you get to Manila go to USA embassy next day and ask for "Permission to marry Filipino form" fill it out while in Embassy. You need Analyn's NSO birth certificate paper which gives info about her parent's names and wedding date and location of birth needed to fill out the form. You should get form approved while in Embassy office. There is a filing fee to do this. Once you have legal PI marriage licenses, then you apply online at Manila USA Embassy website for tourist visa for your spouse

I'm still not sure where you got the 'scam' part from?? Or are you trying to say that the US Emabassy in Manila is going to scam them for their money? Eh, I do agree that this is most likely not true, but hey, I don't claim to know everything about the visa processes and all the loop holes that are there for people to take advantage of..

I myself am just playing by the rules and doing it per gov instructions.. Don't be so quick to jump on somenoe, they were just asking a question to get input, not to be put down...

Ingats!!

[pushbrk 13,422]

Below I am reprinting a message that I received from a relative who lives in the Philippines. He says that this is an unpublished method to marry in the Philippines, have the spouse get a tourist visa, and then get back to USA in about 5 weeks, rather than the many months for the K-1 or K-2 visas.

Is there any truth or credibility to this? Has anyone ever heard of this working?

Would really appreciate some input here.

Details American Marriage to Filipinoi girl while you are in Philippines:

Doing a fiancée visa application in the USA is a very long process. You have to provide a lot of personal private info and need pictures together to prove you have met her in person. Analyn has to make 5 visits to USA Embassy for health checks and assorted background checks. Have to be at Embassy main gate at 6am to get in before 9am cutoff entry time. This means she has to stay overnight in close by hotel, which are not cheap in that area. Many filing fees payable as she goes through fiancée visa application processing process. Like close to 10,000P. On your side many filing fees and you need all her family history. Midwest immigration processing office is very slow.

Fastest way to get Analyn to USA as your wife is to get married in Manila. Here is how.

First she gets her Filipino passport. When you get to Manila go to USA embassy next day and ask for "Permission to marry Filipino form" fill it out while in Embassy. You need Analyn's NSO birth certificate paper which gives info about her parent's names and wedding date and location of birth needed to fill out the form. You should get form approved while in Embassy office. There is a filing fee to do this. Once you have legal PI marriage licenses, then you apply online at Manila USA Embassy website for tourist visa for your spouse.

No USA income tax requirements or back ground checks on Analyn necessary.

Don't believe a word of it for one second.

[Dakine 26]

Below I am reprinting a message that I received from a relative who lives in the Philippines. He says that this is an unpublished method to marry in the Philippines, have the spouse get a tourist visa, and then get back to USA in about 5 weeks, rather than the many months for the K-1 or K-2 visas.

Is there any truth or credibility to this? Has anyone ever heard of this working?

Would really appreciate some input here.

Details American Marriage to Filipinoi girl while you are in Philippines:

Doing a fiancée visa application in the USA is a very long process. You have to provide a lot of personal private info and need pictures together to prove you have met her in person. Analyn has to make 5 visits to USA Embassy for health checks and assorted background checks. Have to be at Embassy main gate at 6am to get in before 9am cutoff entry time. This means she has to stay overnight in close by hotel, which are not cheap in that area. Many filing fees payable as she goes through fiancée visa application processing process. Like close to 10,000P. On your side many filing fees and you need all her family history. Midwest immigration processing office is very slow.

Fastest way to get Analyn to USA as your wife is to get married in Manila. Here is how.

First she gets her Filipino passport. When you get to Manila go to USA embassy next day and ask for "Permission to marry Filipino form" fill it out while in Embassy. You need Analyn's NSO birth certificate paper which gives info about her parent's names and wedding date and location of birth needed to fill out the form. You should get form approved while in Embassy office. There is a filing fee to do this. Once you have legal PI marriage licenses, then you apply online at Manila USA Embassy website for tourist visa for your spouse.

No USA income tax requirements or back ground checks on Analyn necessary.

Thanks for the laugh! In 5 years of banging around immigration forums this is by far the most incorrect info I've ever seen!~!!

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Thanks for the laugh! In 5 years of banging around immigration forums this is by far the most incorrect info I've ever seen!~!!

I have seen some things that are really out there like this one. Where does this stuff come from?

[Devkpaik 1]

Thanks for the laugh! In 5 years of banging around immigration forums this is by far the most incorrect info I've ever seen!~!!

I have seen some things that are really out there like this one. Where does this stuff come from?

Information like this comes from ill advised idiots who think they know about the visa process, but in reality are totally incorrect.

I am NOT talking about the OP, I am talking about the people who give other people ####### information like this.

I remember my fiance telling me what people have told her about the visa process, and they just gave her a bunch of BS information. I eventually told her to not listen to those morons because they have no idea what they're talking about.

To the OP, unfortunately this isn't going to be an option for you and you'll have to wait like everyone else, but eventually ou'll get through it.

[tallcoolone 102]

Another Point:

It is very hard to get a tourist Visa from Philippines to USA.

Many apply and very very few get them.

[Completely 3]

Below I am reprinting a message that I received from a relative who lives in the Philippines. He says that this is an unpublished method to marry in the Philippines, have the spouse get a tourist visa, and then get back to USA in about 5 weeks, rather than the many months for the K-1 or K-2 visas.

Is there any truth or credibility to this? Has anyone ever heard of this working?

Would really appreciate some input here.

Details American Marriage to Filipinoi girl while you are in Philippines:

Doing a fiancée visa application in the USA is a very long process. You have to provide a lot of personal private info and need pictures together to prove you have met her in person. Analyn has to make 5 visits to USA Embassy for health checks and assorted background checks. Have to be at Embassy main gate at 6am to get in before 9am cutoff entry time. This means she has to stay overnight in close by hotel, which are not cheap in that area. Many filing fees payable as she goes through fiancée visa application processing process. Like close to 10,000P. On your side many filing fees and you need all her family history. Midwest immigration processing office is very slow.

Fastest way to get Analyn to USA as your wife is to get married in Manila. Here is how.

First she gets her Filipino passport. When you get to Manila go to USA embassy next day and ask for "Permission to marry Filipino form" fill it out while in Embassy. You need Analyn's NSO birth certificate paper which gives info about her parent's names and wedding date and location of birth needed to fill out the form. You should get form approved while in Embassy office. There is a filing fee to do this. Once you have legal PI marriage licenses, then you apply online at Manila USA Embassy website for tourist visa for your spouse.

No USA income tax requirements or back ground checks on Analyn necessary.

Getting a Visit Visa from Philippines is really difficult.. But if shes working in the other country like me, they will granted her a Visit Visa.. This is a fact and based from my own experiences..?? But maybe I guess this is just a case to case basis situation. and it depends where country you are in..

I was working in Kuwait when I met my husband, we got married here in the Catholic Church.. At first me and my husband does not know if the US Embassy here can process a Petition for Alien Spouse., so I filed an application for a Visit Visa so we can visit his family... I submitted all the package to the Embassy, our marriage certificate authenticated by Foreign Affairs in Kuwait and the Vatican, did submit wedding pictures as well, his tax license, job information etc.. Then they scheduled me for interview, and passed it.. They issued a Visit Visa for me with 10 years validity... My friend in Qatar did the same thing as well, and the other american co worker did it also here for his wife.. We all granted a Visit Visa (10 yrs)..

But after a month, while researching online in the Embassy website.. I found out that they can process the Petition while in Kuwait, so we have decided to file the petition and the petition got approve and canceled the visit visa.. The petition got approved and not I am finally DONE with the VISA process.... I researched and researched.. till I found the answer.. Sometimes also I am not saying that people in the VJ do advise wrong things but still you need to do your own research and get a second opinion.. I had a lot of experience on people telling me negative things, and it almost put me down, but I did it....

The point is, if you want to marry now, just do it.. and apply for CR1 visa.. this is better than a K3 visa.. This seems longer but it is cheaper and you can apply for SSN at the same time.. Once approved and went to the US, your spouse will receive his 2 years greencard and SSN without AOS and EAD Application...

My advise is, in any process there is no shortcut way.. We all have to go to the process, but we have to do it right..

Visit Visa for 10 years is good only when you are both living overseas.. Meaning you can bring her and she can stay there for 6 months whenever.. But if you are working overseas and she have her greencard, she is obligated to return to the US and meet the physical presence every 10-11 months..

Edited September 11, 2008 by Completely

[Laura+Tom 2]

oops wrong thread.

Edited September 11, 2008 by Laura+Tom

[KimandRuss 0]

Perhaps this was before the adam walsh law changed all the rules for DCF?

In any case it's BS another example of 'dont believe everything you hear/people tell you'.

[chris4gretchen 1]

First, its next to impossible to get a tourist visa even for a spouse. they will look at it as being used to immigrate. secondly using a tourist visa to immigrate is illegal. I would be very wary of anyone giving you advice on how to break the law especially concerning Federal immigration laws.

once you marry in manila, you will have to file a K3 visa. That is about the same or alittle longer than a K1 visa. either way there is no legal way to circumvent the immigration process.

Chris

Edited September 11, 2008 by chris4gretchen

[Gator's Bike 0]

if that is true for sure that filipino have to voyage long way to come in USA and when arrived here you have to hide yourself because you will illegal allien lol

check uscis , nvc and usem for informations if you are bound to USA

[payxibka 10,048]

Midwest immigration processing office is very slow.

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Besides the obvious that everyone else has pointed out, this is quite dated, because if the "Midwest" immigration processing office being referred to is Nebraska, that service center has not done I-129F's for quite a few years.

And if it actually worked as advertised, the underlying premise would work virtually worldwide and not just Manilla.