K-1 Dilemma: affidavit of support

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I would never marry in the Philippines, even my wife is from the Phils., as IF you marry there, you are virtually married to the same person for life. What if something does not work out. Death is the only thing that dissolves a marriage, or an annulment.

No such thing as divorce in Phils., and an annulment has about a 5-10% chance, and 3-6 years to finish.

Been there, done that, and tried that!

IF you are a US citizen you can get married in Philippines , You can get a divorce and do a K1 petition from Philippines again.

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I would never marry in the Philippines, even my wife is from the Phils., as IF you marry there, you are virtually married to the same person for life. What if something does not work out. Death is the only thing that dissolves a marriage, or an annulment.

No such thing as divorce in Phils., and an annulment has about a 5-10% chance, and 3-6 years to finish.

Been there, done that, and tried that!

wrong you can not get divorce in the Philippines, but if you married there you can divorce in the USA. you need to read the family code of the Philippines.

from the family code

Where a marriage between a Filipino citizen and a foreigner is validly celebrated and a divorce is thereafter validly obtained abroad by the alien spouse capacitating him or her to remarry, the Filipino spouse shall have capacity to remarry under Philippine law. (As amended by Executive Order 227)

[Hank_ 9,174]

Hi everyone i hope there is someone here who has the same dilemma as i have or at least just related to it..

I am planning to do or process a k-1 visa later on or somewhere around this year. But the problem is, i am still here in the Philippines as of the moment. And will be flying back to the US in Feb or earlier this March. I am out in the US for 3years. And when i get back there i am gonna start from zero though i have my mom there. So it means i have to find a job and work my a** off really hard. So i found clear answers of my questions from sir Bryan the other night about the whole process of a k-1 visa. But i still have few questions which has unclear answers, because there are no exact answers that i could eventually site online. So these questions are:

--since i do not have any ITR since the day i turned in a legal age, what else could i use to prove my sponsorship to my said "fiancé"?

--would a letter/certificate of employment suffice? (that states the nature of the job, the day the employment started, how many months i am under their employment, the salary i am earning in a month and the salary i will get in a year of working and if the job is temporary or permanent)

-and is it really true if the fiancé is from the Philippines, and the petitioner is using a co/joint sponsor the k-1 visa application is automatically denied?

Please do help me with these dilemmas i am going loca because of these. Thank you guys!

- copies of the most recent tax return and W2 are requested by the embassy as support evidence, not have this can make things difficult but not impossible. Employer letter would make my required list in your situation along with copies of all your pay statements/stubs.

- as for co-sponsor with the K-1, the best answer I can give is that it is a 50/50 chance of being approved with the K-1. Your co-sponsor being your mother is a plus as the embassy tends to accept a co-sponsor if that person is close family.. still no guarantees.

Pursuing the IR/CR-1 spousal visa is the (much) smarter way to go as the embassy has to accept a co-sponsor with this visa. And being you are currently living in the Philippines a DCF could be completed within 60 days of getting your final marriage documents from NSO.

[Hank_ 9,174]

I would never marry in the Philippines, even my wife is from the Phils., as IF you marry there, you are virtually married to the same person for life. What if something does not work out. Death is the only thing that dissolves a marriage, or an annulment.

No such thing as divorce in Phils., and an annulment has about a 5-10% chance, and 3-6 years to finish.

Been there, done that, and tried that!

You are very wrong (as in - That is so much bull I could start a fertilizer factory.). The OP is a USC, they could get a divorce in a heartbeat and it WOULD be accepted by the Philippines without issue (as long as the USC petitioned the divorce). No annulment is required.

@sir RAVEN thats the exact reason why my mother doesnt want me to marry in the philippines.

That is not the facts, or reality .... mis-information is truly a road best not traveled. (see my comment above)

[Hank_ 9,174]

Right now is seems as if Embassy is not requiring I-134 Affidavit of Support for the K1 Interview.

Manila Embassy does allow Co Sponsor on a based on individual basis (This may be a non issue now, due to not requiring I 134)

That is not true. The embassy instructions letter does list the I-134, most recent tax return and W2.

Now with that said, there are SOME, not all, that have not been asked for their I-134 and have been approved recently. But I for sure would not advice to NOT have the I-134 for the interview.

[JCramos 0]

@sir hank: thank you for your output sir.. But as i have said i really do not have any ITR. And i couldn't wait for a year to wait to have an ITR before filing for a fiancé visa because i and my fiancé has already have a child. And i dont want them to be separated anymore again, since we don't stay together in the same house and we barely see eachother because we are not yet allowed to stay together because for some Filipino cultures to be followed.. And as for the married thing. My mom doesnt want me to get married yet especially here in the Philippines, because as she says i and my fiancé are still young. We might regret it later if we follow our overwhelming emotions towards eachother. Because at this age, there are still more to discover in life and we might still change out mind. And if we really want to pursue in marrying here in the Philippines she is afraid if one of us would find that we made a wrong decision and that our marriage is starting to fail and eventually becomes a failure. That is why she agreed with me to file k-1 visa instead, because if i really want to marry she would want it to be done in the US because if i would or one of us would change our hearts then it would be easy to terminate the marriage. [but then again, that is not our (i and my fiancé) goal; which to get married, and see if it works and then if it doesnt get divorce..] of course our goal is to get married and make it for a lifetime and make a wonderful family together. And of course for our daughter.

But nonetheless sir hank, thank you for making things a bit clearer now i highly appreciate it