Question about visiting my fiance, with my child to help him with K1 visa documents

[Monica Torres 1]

Hi everyone!

My fiance (USC) who lives in Sacramento, told he has a plan for us, he said: "come to visit me again (i did it 2 times last year), bring your daugther with you this time, quit your job in Venezuela, and stay with me for like 2 or 3 months (we have tourist visa, valid for 6 months once we get in US), and help me to build and send the first package for K1 visa,with more recent pictures of all of us, then you have to go back to wait for the rest of processing time, and we can plan another visit in the future, while K1 visa still is in process"

My doubts: Can i travel with my daughter during school months? can she attend school in US while we are visiting? Is this visit for a long term affect our aplication to K1 visa?

Thanks

[Touch of Treble 39]

You might get denied entry when you first arrive in the US. This is because you will have quit your job, have your daughter with you and be staying for while...you can say you are going back home to wait for the K1 to process, but to the Border Protection agent interviewing you their first thought will possibly be - hmmm, left job, has daughter during school term, looks like an attempt to stay! What your Fiance is proposing is not illegal, it just doesn't look good from the border point of view. Will you have strong ties with your home country? If you took leave without pay and had a return date set in place, with a letter from your employer, and if the school also gave you a letter stating the date when your daughter will start back at her school, and if you have a lease agreement or home mortgage agreement showing that you are returning back to a home etc, that will all help.

Good luck and plan carefully.

[liberty23456 15]

If you mention the word K1 at the entry there is a high probability you will get denied. Otherwise a good plan to wait out the painful K1 process with your loved one. Not sure about your daughter's school.

[Andrea&Henry 311]

I'm agree with them. Even if you dont mention the k1, or that you re quitting your job, I wouldn't take any risk. the 1st part of the k1 package (the one he need to send) it's not complicated. He must follow instructions and that's it.

Edited January 28, 2013 by Andrea&Henry

[liberty23456 15]

I'm agree with them. Even if you dont mention the k1, or that you re quitting your job, I wouldn't take any risk. the 1st part of the k1 package (the one he need to send) it's not complicated. He must follow instructions and that's it.

What's the risk? Being denied at the entry point and wasting a plane ticket? On the flip side is spending many months of the K1 process alone. Of course I would take that risk. This is one of the very few human ways of going through the process, another one being moving to her or 3rd country for the duration of the process.

Edited January 28, 2013 by liberty23456

[Monica Torres 1]

Thank you for your replies.

It's true, if I say the words of "I quit my job, K1 visa, staying for 3 months with my daugther during school term" will be for sure, entrance denied. But like my fiance said, why not take advantage of your tourist visa while we are doing this process? we know about concequences of overstayed or getting marry while i'm there.

[liberty23456 15]

Is this visit for a long term affect our aplication to K1 visa?

If you do not overstay the at the entry granted period of time it can only help your K1 as you have a solid ongoing relationship. You probably don't want to make false statements at any point as this could come back to haunt you.

[Andrea&Henry 311]

What's the risk? Being denied at the entry point and wasting a plane ticket? On the flip side is spending many months of the K1 process alone. Of course I would take that risk. This is one of the very few human ways of going through the process, another one being moving to her or 3rd country for the duration of the process.

A denial at the point of entry can set a bad record for her, jeopardizing her own k1 process. That's the main risk from my point of view. And Yes, she may make it and have no problems but what if she don't? How can she explain during her interview, she got denied at the POE because she was planning to stay for 3 month with her fiance AFTER quitting her job and her daughter's school? They WON'T think: "aww she just wanted to spend 3 month and then go back home" NOO, they will think she was denied cause she wanted to ilegal immigrated to the US to avoid the regular procedures, get married and stay.

The american embassy in Caracas is everything BUT a piece of cake. Even when we have low rate of denials for k1 and cr1, people there can get very RUDE during the interview, very inquisitive. And a denial in US POE is not something they will NOT ignore as simple as that.

Remember, for the US GOV all the beneficiaries, we are all walking frauds for them. That's how I see it! and our JOB is to prove them, they are wrong. That's why we need all this paperwork, all the pics, letters, chats logs, interviews etc, so they can see our honest intentions. Even though, I met so many people here with true and honest intentions and never make it.

So the other part of our job, is not give them any reason to give us a denial

but in the end she need to decide what's best for her and her k1 process.

Edited January 28, 2013 by Andrea&Henry