I need help! Please

[lola12 1]

Hi everyone, I have a question and I hope you guys can help me. I applied for a tourist visa in august 2010 and was denied, I am engage to a us citizen who is in Afghanistan at the moments but will be back in less then 3 weeks! Can we apply for a K1 visa?? Thank you very much for your help

[marklovetina 52]

yes, it will not affect... yes ur fiance can file a k1 but be sure u already met in person..

[Gothika 0]

Hi everyone, I have a question and I hope you guys can help me. I applied for a tourist visa in august 2010 and was denied, I am engage to a us citizen who is in Afghanistan at the moments but will be back in less then 3 weeks! Can we apply for a K1 visa?? Thank you very much for your help

Lots of people says applying for tourist visa doesn't effect your K-1. But what i think is in legal point of view they are right. But when you go for the K-1 interview there are some questions you need answer on DS-156 and one of the question as i remembers is "whether i sought or seek admission to US by misrepresenting". When you think about it at your whole idea is to somehow goto US and marry a USC. K-1 is not an immigrant visa, So, B1/B2 & K-1 Falls into non-immigrant category and of course they know what you are trying to do. It might be problem at the interview but as i said earlier legally they can't deny your visa. If the denial occurs then you ahve to spend about minimum 5K to have an attorney fight for the cause and spend time. THIS IS WHAT I THINK.

[desert_fox 32]

Lots of people says applying for tourist visa doesn't effect your K-1. But what i think is in legal point of view they are right. But when you go for the K-1 interview there are some questions you need answer on DS-156 and one of the question as i remembers is "whether i sought or seek admission to US by misrepresenting". When you think about it at your whole idea is to somehow goto US and marry a USC. K-1 is not an immigrant visa, So, B1/B2 & K-1 Falls into non-immigrant category and of course they know what you are trying to do. It might be problem at the interview but as i said earlier legally they can't deny your visa. If the denial occurs then you ahve to spend about minimum 5K to have an attorney fight for the cause and spend time. THIS IS WHAT I THINK.

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No one is talking about misrepresentation........applying for a tourist visa is not misrepresentation, unless you applied for a B-2 with a real intent of staying and didnt disclose it.

[Gothika 0]

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No one is talking about misrepresentation........applying for a tourist visa is not misrepresentation, unless you applied for a B-2 with a real intent of staying and didnt disclose it.

Of course it is not. But if you had a finace/ee in US that time and you didn't enclosed that information, that is misrepresentation.

[baron555 934]

Hi everyone, I have a question and I hope you guys can help me. I applied for a tourist visa in august 2010 and was denied, I am engage to a us citizen who is in Afghanistan at the moments but will be back in less then 3 weeks! Can we apply for a K1 visa?? Thank you very much for your help

You will not have a problem. The prior denial will not affect anything going forward, especially with a K-1. You did nothing wrong; they just said no., for whatever reason they deemd it necessary to say that.

[baron555 934]

Of course it is not. But if you had a finace/ee in US that time and you didn't enclosed that information, that is misrepresentation.

Not if they were not asked. Your whole misrepresentation discussion is a total assumption and does nothing to answer the OP's question. Prior visa denials do not affect future visa attempts. Yes they will have that in their system and of course one must show proof of meeting and proof of a valid relationship. Let's assume they have that, OK?

[newlyweds2010 208]

well obviously it depends on the reason why you were denied the B visa. if you were denied based on some inadmissibility that would also be a reason of denial for the K visa, then you might have problems.

[lola12 1]

thank you guys for all the help. the reason of my b2 visa denial was because they didnt think I had strong ties in Mexico, but the officer told me I could applied for it whenever I wanted, My fiance and I decided to apply for a k1 visa as soon as he gets back to the states from Afghanista, and I was concern this will affect me. But I see some of your responses are very positive and I will file for K1 visa in 3 weeks. Thank you for all your responses.

[Islapaz 41]

My fiance was also denied a B2 visa for the same reasons. We went trough the K 1 process and at our interview not even a question about it was asked. In any case this visa denial was even more proof of our relationship, as the main reason was to visit my family Good luck.

[newlyweds2010 208]

Then I'd say you're fine. Not having sufficient ties with your country of origin is a problem for a non-immigrant visa such as the B visa, because they may think that you will not go back home after the visa expiration. On the contrary, the purpose of a K1 visa (although still not an immigrant visa) is exactly that, to move to the US and after AOS become a permanent resident. Therefore, you are not required to show ties with your country of origin.

Edited October 23, 2010 by newlyweds2010