Which country???

[Janette 0]

Hi everybody,

I have joined only recently and am not sure if this is correct place to post this. My fiance (a US citizen) and I (a German citizen) are planning to petition and apply for a fiancee visa, then enter the US, get married there and apply for conditional permanent residency for me there. I have done research on USCIS websites etc. to find out what information and documentation is required. However, I have lived (and am still living with my fiancee) in Mexico for the past 4 years on a non-immigrant resident visa. Before that I lived for 12 years in the United Kingdom. So even though I have a German passport and my permanent address is in Germany where my family is I am not really there. So I am wondering in which country I should actually be while the application process is running (my plan was to do it from Mexico because I have my whole live here but now I am not sure anymore). Also from which country would I be asked to provide police records and all that? I hope maybe someone can help with these questions.

Thank you very much in advance.

[rocks 494]

Hi everybody,

I have joined only recently and am not sure if this is correct place to post this. My fiance (a US citizen) and I (a German citizen) are planning to petition and apply for a fiancee visa, then enter the US, get married there and apply for conditional permanent residency for me there. I have done research on USCIS websites etc. to find out what information and documentation is required. However, I have lived (and am still living with my fiancee) in Mexico for the past 4 years on a non-immigrant resident visa. Before that I lived for 12 years in the United Kingdom. So even though I have a German passport and my permanent address is in Germany where my family is I am not really there. So I am wondering in which country I should actually be while the application process is running (my plan was to do it from Mexico because I have my whole live here but now I am not sure anymore). Also from which country would I be asked to provide police records and all that? I hope maybe someone can help with these questions.

Thank you very much in advance.

You can go through the process in Mexico. Just put use the address where you are living and be sure to indicate your country of citizenship. You will be asked to put all of your addresses from the last 5 years on the G-325A. Police certificates are not required until the interview stage.

Police certificates from your present country of residence and all countries where you have lived for 6 months or more since age 16 (Police certificates are also required for accompanying children age 16 or older)

You can read about the requirements here

Edited May 16, 2012 by rocks

[N&S 32]

Just another heads up - I am also German but had been living in the UK for about 6 years by the time I applied for the K1 visa and it worked without a problem. The German police certificate was easy enough to get (even sent to the UK) - I just faxed them the documents in question.

If Mexico is where your home is right now and where you want to be until you get the visa you should definitely do it from there (although I was told when asking about applying from the UK that at least the London embassy can sometimes take longer to process cases from non-UK citizens; went through in a reasonable time though). You might want to check out the forum for your embassy of choice before you make a final decision but as Germany isn't exactly a "high-risk" country you shouldn't be in too much trouble either way.

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