A Question on a K1 Visa Re-validation? Left the USA without AOS...

[Mike and Maria 15]

Okay... got it!

The I-94 expires on September 14th...

I* will send a new email right now!

Thank you

[Darnell 8,478]

Hey ! Yer Welcome ! Tell Yer Friends!

[Mike and Maria 15]

One quick question Darnell...

What exactly will Maria be doing once she gets her name on the security guards list?

Obviously it must be to enter the embassy... but can you tell me what she should do once she gets in the embassy? Does she follow the original procedure?

Does she need to bring any documents?

I'm sorry to be a pest...

[Darnell 8,478]

this is where it gets iffy...

she needs to be 'documentarily qualified' to have that visa re-issued.

so stuff will get looked at, from the copy of the casefile that the IV Unit still has, silly stuff with expiration dates:

1. NBI/police clearance report issuance date

2. medical exam date

so if these docs' issuance dates are golden, she doesn't need another thing. if something expired, well, she needs another one, in order to be 'documentarily qualified' to receive the visa (again).

[TBoneTX 43,005]

What Darnell says, plus evidence that supports the emergency need to have returned to her country.

[Mike and Maria 15]

_{Okay... Thank god all of that is still current, including the medical...}

_{I am glad to know that she may not need to bring anything because it is all here in the USA because I was fairly certain she could come back...}

_{Luckily, the embassy has the case file and we were there in May of this year..}

_{Hopefully this is the last question... where should she go? or who should she ask for once she is in the embassy?}

_{I went to our visa embassy appointment with her and it is a confusing place at best...}

_{I just want to be able to tell her to "go to window A" or "Ask for the immigration desk",,, something like that, so she understands what to do once she is in the embassy}

[Mike and Maria 15]

^{Hi TBone TX!}

^{Well... the emergency was complications with her sister's first pregnancy... Filipino families are so very close to each other...}

^{When her sister said she was having issues, Maria was so worried that she flew back to be by her side...}

^{Now things are stable, but there is no "medical evidence" that I can get...}

^{It will only be her explanation of why she left the USA...}

^{I hope that is enough?}

[Darnell 8,478]

the response she gets back from the IV unit - will contain further instructions on where/when/who to see.

if she walks in instead, the security guard will tell her where to go and when (what time during that day)

regardless of either method, she'll be going back to the IV Unit, talking with a Vice-Consul.

[VOL 425]

I would go to Manila yourself.

Lines tend to clear out after 12 and then I would enter the Embassy and try to get this issue taken care of.

I would let your girl try to see if she can solve it, But you know how they (people in Philippines) let to give people the run around.

IF she hasn't got this issue solved by 14th I would be booking a trip

[Mike and Maria 15]

It is so frustrating that the embassy does not respond to ANYTHING.... emails, phone calls...

There has been NOTHING from the IV unit, and I have sent 4 separate emails spaced evenly apart over the past MONTH

So Darnell and Vol... thank you again So you both think that she should fly to Manila and just go to the front gate directly?

And go there after lunch?

I even sent the email requesting her name be added to the guard's list and nothing...

[Mike and Maria 15]

Quick update!!!

My girl went to the embassy... the guard let her in at almost noon today...

She is inside going to the IV UNIT -window 38!

So far, so GOOD!

[Mike and Maria 15]

Well bad news... and I am very upset about it.... the "vice consul" just told her that they cannot "reissue" her K1 visa!!!!

She even showed them this:

9 FAM 41.81 N6.3 Reissuance of K-1 Visa

(TL:VISA-2; 08-30-1987)

If a K-1 visa, valid for a single entry and a 6-month period, has already been

used for admission into the United States and the alien fiancé(e) has

returned abroad prior to the marriage, the consular officer may issue a new

K visa, provided that the period of validity does not exceed the 90th day

after the date of initial admission of the alien on the original K visa and

provided also that the petitioner and beneficiary still intend and are free to

marry. The alien’s return to the United States and marriage to the petitioner

must take place within 90 days from the date of the original admission into

the United States in K status.

I can't even f'ing believe it!!!!!

[Mike and Maria 15]

_{I cannot believe how incompetent the embassy is... she is there crying outside the embassy.... the in charge there told her that they cannot reissue the visa because she did not get a AOS before she left!!1}

_{She even showed them the code REQUIRING them to review and reissue...}

_{SOB!! We have until September 14th on our current visa and the $#$#$@# said we need to start completely over!!1}

_{What bullsh*t!}

[rev28 0]

My advice better consult an immigration lawyer. The K1 visa re-issuance has procedures that we dont know much. The immigration lawyer can help.

Edited September 10, 2015 by rev28