Met a Filipina here in US who was here on K-1 visa

[charlieprince 24]

that's actually a real case btw.. this girl came here on an arranged marriage, while here met an american citizen, didn't marry guy she was supposed to, the guy filed saying fraud, etc

she got hit with a lifetime ban so even though she married the citizen out of love/etc

she's sol she already has a lifetime ban for legality

[JohnR! 5,495]

From what the OP posted she seems to be an honest person, not just someone trying to turn a trick, as you suggest.

She should have married the first guy and whalloped him with VAWA.

[baron555 934]

That is what I was afraid of, that she would have to go back home, and that figures, just when I meet someone that I really hit it off with, and who is already here, I lose her...

OK, so if she has to go back, and then I have to petition her to come back, will the time we spent together here, along with the pictures we took, count for the having met within the last 2 years requirement,

Yes

so that I would not have to fly to the Philippines again like last time?

Last time?

Is there any kind of rule about her having to wait some length of time before she could be allowed for me to petition her on a new K-1?

No

Edited February 27, 2015 by baron555

[Hank_ 9,173]

Hello again to all of the wonderful people who gave me such great advice on a problem I posted before.

I met a Filipina a few weeks ago who had arrived in the US back in the end of November 2014 on a K-1 Fiance Visa, but things didn't work out with them, and she did not marry him. Her K-1 Visa expired a few days ago, and she and I want to have some time to get to know each other better to see if we want to make a life together. We are close to the same age, and are getting along just great, and I sure hope there is a process or a proper form to fill out that would allow her to extend her K-1 so that we might have a chance to see if we can make each other happy.

Can anyone tell me if this is possible, or are they just going to come along and scoop her up and send her home? For the record, she wants nothing to do with her original fiance, he turned out to be a violent jerk, and in my opinion mean and bitter enough to call immigration to have her picked up. I sure would like to have the time for a chance at happiness...

I appreciate any help you can give me.

Rob

That K-1 visa was for marrying "the other guy", which she was to complete within the 90 days, if those 90 days have passed she needs to return to the Philippines as she is now out of status... as in illegal. Buy her airfare back to the Philippines then start the K-1 process to bring her here.

Yes take pictures and collect documentation that she was here with you (copy of her passport and entry stamps, airfare boarding pass) as evidence you have met within the 2 years requirement then she does not need to fly to the Phils.

[Nakai & Vic 15]

What happens please explain. Is she suppose to marry someone that treats her bad and be unhappy? just because she got her case expedited. Did she know he was going to be like that when she got here? What makes a couple more deserving? the fact that they had to wait longer. I am sorry for couples wait, but that does not make it more deserving.

How do you know he treated her bad, because thats what she said? How about she is just trying to do what a lot do and that is to get a green card, how do you know she didnt use the first guy just to get here and now she is hooking up with this guy cause the first guy found out about her plans and cut her off? This happened to my brother, and by the time he got her here on the K1 she had already found some one with a little more money so when she got here she told him she changed her mind and that she met someone else. Then should tried to pull that VAWA mess on him so she could stay.

[j&ana 363]

That's an interesting point. It is possible (not probable, not likely, and not saying it happened....just possible with the expedite) that she met her first failed fiance as little as 6 months ago (3 months to process expedited k1, 3 months of being here), whereas there are people languishing in TSC who have been waiting for NOA2 for 7 months. Crazy when you think about it. ::smh::

That is possible, but if she just wanted to get a visa to come to the USA. she could of just marry and file for vawa. There are people posting on this site all the time about fail relationships. Some are long relationship. others are very short relationship. Is a couple that knows each other longer but does not communicate that much, better then a couple who only knew each other for a while, but communicate daily?There will always be fail relationships,

For a poster to say her relationship fail because she Filipina and had her case expedited is wrong. that other couples are more deserving is wrong. Does waiting longer for the visa makes a couple more deserving of one ?

Edited February 27, 2015 by j&ana

[Pennycat 880]

That is possible, but if she just wanted to get a visa to come to the USA. she could of just marry and file for vawa. There are people posting on this site all the time about fail relationships. Some are long relationship. others are very short relationship. Is a couple that knows each other longer but does not communicate that much, better then a couple who only knew each other for a while, but communicate daily?There will always be fail relationships,

For a poster to say her relationship fail because she Filipina and had her case expedited is wrong. that other couples are more deserving is wrong. What makes a couple more deserving of a visa?

I didn't agree with the "this is what happens" part that the other poster said and I can't speak for the other poster. So...I don't know. I personally choose to interpret it as "when these visas are so quick and easy to get they will be abused" but, again, not being the person who said that ....I don't know. Even if that is what they mean, I don't see it that way myself.

I was only pointing out how insane the difference between an expedited application vs the new normal at Texas is. This woman (in theory) had enough time to meet someone, get engaged, get a visa, come here, have the relationship fail AND meet a new person all in a span of time quicker than many people have been waiting for a single piece of paper to make it through TSC. It's the potential to have met after many others filed that's crazy to me. It's like one of those "the average-aged NBA player wasn't even born by the time Michael Jordan retired"* kind of things.

*I have no idea if this is actually true, I don't even like basketball

[Nakai & Vic 15]

That is possible, but if she just wanted to get a visa to come to the USA. she could of just marry and file for vawa. There are people posting on this site all the time about fail relationships. Some are long relationship. others are very short relationship. Is a couple that knows each other longer but does not communicate that much, better then a couple who only knew each other for a while, but communicate daily?There will always be fail relationships,

For a poster to say her relationship fail because she Filipina and had her case expedited is wrong. that other couples are more deserving is wrong. Does waiting longer for the visa makes a couple more deserving of one ?

I dont think being expedited has anything to do with the failed relationship, I think what the poster is saying that because they are expedited it pushes others behind and then when it dosent work out they may have wasted time for others to have been approved faster. Most people have very good intentions when they enter this process its just sad that non phillipine applicants have to wait. so when you see something like that it can strike a nerve.

People who live in glass houses....

When you make that statement you do realize your also throwing stones???? But your right I am, and I am sure a lot of people where thinking that same thing.

[Sunnyland 639]

If you plan to petition her for K1 visa, she will have to go back home ASAP (in case she is not banned already for overstaying). In case you do follow the K1 path (or any) be prepare to answer some questions during the process.

Keep in mind that she was in a K1 visa not long ago with someone else, and shortly she will be in another one with another guy (you). That will put some red flags in your case. Make sure to know her VERY well before you proceed. Sometimes it's better to have a distance before you proceed, you see if what you have survives the distance test.

All the best for you no matter what path you take.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

She need not go all the way back to the Philippines; she simply has to leave the U.S.

If she could find a way to relocate to Canada or Mexico, for example, it would be more convenient for you.

She needs to leave the US. Then she would only need to reenter the US lawfully. There are several ways to do this, a new fiancée visa with you as the petitioner, or you get married outside the country and you petition for her as your wife, for example. Many other paths as well.

[charlieprince 24]

Bottom Line: she has to leave the US

and like I said, be very careful as she is already treading on risky ground.. I don't know if they'll contact the other guy if you file a new petition, but just pray they do not and he is not vindictive and makes it out to be fraud

a lifetime ban lasts how long?

yup.

[Yurika & Jim 77]

Rob Corvette, on 27 Feb 2015 - 02:25 AM, said:

so that I would not have to fly to the Philippines again like last time?

Last time?

OP has a history... http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/519703-married-in-philippines-divorced-in-usa-now-want-to-get-k-1/

[j&ana 363]

How do you know he treated her bad, because thats what she said? How about she is just trying to do what a lot do and that is to get a green card, how do you know she didnt use the first guy just to get here and now she is hooking up with this guy cause the first guy found out about her plans and cut her off? This happened to my brother, and by the time he got her here on the K1 she had already found some one with a little more money so when she got here she told him she changed her mind and that she met someone else. Then should tried to pull that VAWA mess on him so she could stay.

You are right I do not know. However I also do not know is someone that has waited longer then her for a visa is more deserving of the visa. Does waiting longer for a visa makes it more deserving then another. If her intentions was just to get a visa. and the other guy found out ,the outcome would of still been the same regardless if the visa would of been approved in 6 months or two years. Taking longer to get a visa does not always mean a couple knows each other better and make them more deserving of a visa.

[j&ana 363]

OP has a history... http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/519703-married-in-philippines-divorced-in-usa-now-want-to-get-k-1/

Yes he does, and it sounds like the guy is not taking time to get to know a girl. and is just wanting to be with the first girl he meet or in other words desperate.. That does not mean that the Filipina he met now is like that

[TBoneTX 43,058]

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