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yoshi89   0

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Hi, I am a US citizen and am going to marry a Costa Rican. I really want to get married in Costa Rica in March 2007. I do not want to wait to file for a k-3 visa after we are married. Is it legal to get a K-1 visa, marry legally in Costa Rica and then bring him to the USA and marry here as well. My thinking is he will get the K-1 visa by March and be able to come home with me after the wedding. We then could marry in the USA as well.

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Waiting in Vancouver   6

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Nope absolutely not ... The whole idea of the K-1 for a fiance not a spouse ... If you were to get married then you would have to turn around and apply for a k-3 ...

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YuAndDan   153

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Nope absolutely not ... The whole idea of the K-1 for a fiance not a spouse ... If you were to get married then you would have to turn around and apply for a k-3 ...

Ok thanks! Do you happen to know how to apply DCF?

Check with the consulate in Costa Rica the residency requirement varies from country to country, which is the length of time that the US citizen is resident in the foreign country.

The email for the consulate there is consularsanjose@state.gov

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kitkat1   5

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Hi, I am a US citizen and am going to marry a Costa Rican. I really want to get married in Costa Rica in March 2007. I do not want to wait to file for a k-3 visa after we are married. Is it legal to get a K-1 visa, marry legally in Costa Rica and then bring him to the USA and marry here as well. My thinking is he will get the K-1 visa by March and be able to come home with me after the wedding. We then could marry in the USA as well.

It seems appear that Costa Rica does not handle DCF but you would have to confirm either way directly with them. Since the purpose of the K1 is to bring the foreign fiance to the US to get married here, most people end up having a wedding in the US first. Then, once the new spouse has advanced parole and can travel outside of the US while all of the other AOS paperwork is pending, go back to the home country for a visit and another wedding.

One word of caution - timelines vary for a variety of reasons. The USC files the initial petition based on where you live. If your service center is Vermont, it may be fast. If it's CSC, it will be slow. Then there are always other possibilities - RFEs for missing information, security check delays, adminstrative review delays, delays in getting the approved petition to the NVC, delays in getting the approved petition from the NVC to the consulate, backlogs at the consulate and how long it takes them to schedule interviews, and then again the potential for fingerprint hit delays or administrative review.

Point is, it's not a good idea to plan on any one date for when this process will be finished with visa in hand or to set a wedding date, make plans, buy plane tickets, etc. You just never know. Most people who filed in March expected to be finished with the US portion of the petition process within about 90 days (which had been fairly typical for the prior 6-8 months of timelines). Then the IMBRA law debacle hit and we all got delayed for months and months. Instead of 90 days, it was 168 days (and more).

So just be prepared for the very high potential for things going wrong and delays happening.

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Campanita   0

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Costa Rica does offer DCF (although they do not advertise themselves as DCF, they are). I am an American married to a Costa Rican, we got married in CR and applied for his visa in CR and it was all very easy. Well, the paperwork is not easy but the actual interview was a piece of cake and my husband received his permanent resident card in the mail one month after he arrived in the States. I highly recommend going the DCF route!

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rosyanne   0

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If you are in middle of K1 and you don't want to change it into K3 ... the only way for you is to wait until she get her visa and get married here.

If you want to get married there, you HAVE TO apply K3.

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