Where can we have our interview??

[sebanna361 0]

My fiance and I met while we were both living abroad. He is a citizen of the Netherlands and I am a citizen of the USA. We lived together for a year in New Zealand and decided to get married. We recently bought a home in Phoenix, Arizona and are now starting the fiance visa process. Currently, I am living in Phoenix preparing the house for renters and he is working in Australia, where he has a work visa. I also have been granted an Australian work visa. It is my intention to join him in Sydney as soon as our property is rented out. That way we can be together AND both of us can legally work while we wait for the fiance visa to be granted.

My question is:

- Can we do all our paperwork and interviews at the embassy in Sydney (where we will both be legally working and living)? Or will we need to fly back to his home country (the Netherlands) when that time comes?

Any advice or insight would be fantastic!

Thank you!

[arynmichael 3]

This sounds like a similar story as my fiance and I. We also met abroad, in Panama, and he is from the Netherlands. We wanted to see if he could continue to stay in Panama while we waited out the K1 process but we were told that he would have to go through the embassy in Amsterdam.

We spent the first two months of the K1 visa process in Panama together (June and July 2011) and will spend the rest apart (August to December 2011), him in the Netherlands and I in Texas. Since then it seems that it might have been possible to go through the embassy in Panama, but I would recommend going through Amsterdam. They are treating us very well and handling all of the papers quickly.

Worse case scenario, stay in Australia, but have someone to accept your papers and mail them to you in Australia and work until the medical and interview where he will have to go back to the Netherlands. Also make sure someone is there to collect his papers and answer phone calls because Amsterdam does send a Packet 3 and 4. They have also called my fiance on his Dutch cell phone a few times.

[Penguin_ie 6,003]

You need to send the paperwork to the US address, and need someone in the USA who can receive and forward USCIS paperwork to you but other than that yes, you can both be in Australia and as long as he is still legally resident there at the time of interview, he can interview there.

[sebanna361 0]

thank you for the info!