Visiting US after k1 is approved

[Mk/Mk 0]

Hello,

Our plan is that once our k1 is approved, I would enter the US on that visa around October 2015, as we need time to save up a little more money and our visa would still be valid until November. We live around 2 hours apart and I go visit him every two weeks. I'm canadian. My question is am I still able to visit him under the visitor visa until I enter in on the k1 in October?

[Unshakable Faith 493]

Hello,

Our plan is that once our k1 is approved, I would enter the US on that visa around October 2015, as we need time to save up a little more money and our visa would still be valid until November. We live around 2 hours apart and I go visit him every two weeks. I'm canadian. My question is am I still able to visit him under the visitor visa until I enter in on the k1 in October?

I believe that once the K1 visa is issued, it will override any other US visa that you may have. The next time you enter the US after your K1 visa is issued, you will be using the K1 (which is a one time entrance).

[Dualie 185]

This is an often debated question. As I understand it, once a K1 is issued all other visas are recinded or cancelled. Now, Canada doesn't have an actual visitors visa per se, but I am thinking that when you cross the border, they want to endorse that visa. I got my CR1 back in mid February, but I had lots of stuff to tie up before I could come across permanently. I asked the same question, even emailed the border crossing, and the answers I got were unclear.

The thing to remember is - your entry is always at the descretion of the CBP Officers on duty at the time. I didn't want to take the chance so I waited until just this past Friday to enter at POE, and did not visit my husband once that visa was in my passport. No one knows what the guy or gal at the border will decide to do once they see that visa in your passport. It is the chance you take. They may let you, or you may be turned back if you are not ready to use it.

Someone else may have more knowledge than I, this is what I was told and what I went with. Good luck.

Edited April 20, 2015 by Dualie

[Bonnie&Bob 33]

This question was asked when I was at my interview last week and the CO answered it clearly. Here is your answer. When you enter the USA after your K-1 is issued, that is the only visa you are able to use at the POE. Once your K-1 has been used to enter the USA it is a one time pass until you are married. If you leave the USA before the marriage, YOU ARE OUT until you marry in your own country and wait the CR-1 process in your own country. They will deny your entrance back into the USA. You are also not entitled to a waiver because you are not yet married which would have to be filed before you left the USA.