QUESTION HELP: Fiance Returning Home

[netport1 0]

Anyone know the answer to this one?!

A friend (a woman from Columbia) needs to return home because the guy who brought her to the US does not want to marry her (and no, this is not secretly me I am concerned because I do not want her to overstay her K1 visa and then jeapordize her chances of coming to the US sometime in the future.

She is on a short time line: her K1 runs out the middle of August (so only less than two weeks).

How does she document with US immigration that she is leaving the US to go back home? Does she just check in with them at the Miami airport for example before getting on the plane to return home? (Miami has direct flights back to Columbia). Or does she have to go to an immigration office to do this? If she has to do the latter, making an appointment etc is very difficult as she has no car and the office is far away.

Anyone know?

Immensely grateful for your help or a recommendation to ask someone in particular this question.

Netport1

[Alanlvsjudy 0]

maybe someone will give you a more definitive answer, but Im pretty sure just going thru customs at Miami will do the trick, they will stamp her passport and if theres any trouble in the future that stamp will serve as proof.

Good Luck

Edited August 1, 2006 by Alanlvsjudy

[Kez/JWolf 6]

Her K1 expiry date has nothing to do with it.... once the K1 has been used to enter the country it is finished with.... the date she need to worry about is the date on the I-94...

She should leave before that date or she will accrue overstay time as she did not complete the K1 by getting married within 90 days of arrival...

There is nothing that she need to do other than leave the country....

Kezzie

[Boiler 43,588]

and hand in the I-94 to the Airline staff.