Tourist Visa frm Manila to USA

[DonMc 11]

Hello Folks,

 

What are the odds of a fiance getting a tourist visa to the USA while K 1 visa is in process(just started)?

She is self employed. Has business licenses. Rents an office. Owns a vehicle. Has child that will stay behind with sister while she travels.

She has a sister here that is citizen and came in on K1 7 0r 8 yrs ago. Here mother is here and wants to go back to Philipinnes. She wants to visit sister and take mother home.

Naturally we hope to visit as well.  She thinks a trip to Hong Kong will help as her sister was denied tourist visa and consular told her to go to HongKong and come back and re apply.

I have asked this before and have listed all the pros and cons as I see them.

Any thoughts or experience would be appreciated

[Crazy Cat 39,233]

Unlikely, due to intent to immigrate.  Why the rush when she will be in US via a K-1 in a few months?

[payxibka 10,044]

5 minutes ago, DonMc said:

Hello Folks,

 

What are the odds of a fiance getting a tourist visa to the USA while K 1 visa is in process(just started)?

She is self employed. Has business licenses. Rents an office. Owns a vehicle. Has child that will stay behind with sister while she travels.

She has a sister here that is citizen and came in on K1 7 0r 8 yrs ago. Here mother is here and wants to go back to Philipinnes. She wants to visit sister and take mother home.

Naturally we hope to visit as well.  She thinks a trip to Hong Kong will help as her sister was denied tourist visa and consular told her to go to HongKong and come back and re apply.

I have asked this before and have listed all the pros and cons as I see them.

Any thoughts or experience would be appreciated

Roll the dice and spend $160 that is the only way you will know for sure

[DonMc 11]

Thanks for the reply.   As to "Why the rush?""    The answer is irrational. It is hormone related.

 

As to "roll the dice""  I dont mind chancing the $160.00 but would not want to see her get a plane ticket and get turned around at the border or worse yet stack the deck against her/us as far as the status of the K 1.  We have been going back and forth on the roll the dice question for some time.  The decision was to file the K 1 and wait. But sometimes women change their minds . . . . .at least that has been my experience!

 

I too must admit that I am not the most patient guy in the world . . . .

[payxibka 10,044]

7 minutes ago, DonMc said:

Thanks for the reply.   As to "Why the rush?""    The answer is irrational. It is hormone related.

 

As to "roll the dice""  I dont mind chancing the $160.00 but would not want to see her get a plane ticket and get turned around at the border or worse yet stack the deck against her/us as far as the status of the K 1.  We have been going back and forth on the roll the dice question for some time.  The decision was to file the K 1 and wait. But sometimes women change their minds . . . . .at least that has been my experience!

 

I too must admit that I am not the most patient guy in the world . . . .

You only asked about the chances for a visa and nothing about the chances of admittance once a visa was secured.

 

A visa denial or a refused entry will not stack anything against you as it relates to the K-1

[JE57 239]

It's strange that the CO would tell her sister to go to Hong Kong and then come back and re-apply.  Going to Hong Kong is visa free for Phlippine passport holders for 14 days so going to Hong Kong and returning doesn't show much in way of reducing risk of overstay in my opinion

[bakphx1 785]

If she has strong ties to her country, it is kind of trying to to tell two different stories at the same time.  She wants to immigrate to start a life here (K1) and she has ties that prevent her from immigrating (B1).  This contradiction is not lost on CBP at all.

 

Best to try and use that money to see each other outside of the US while it's pending instead. My opinion.  I have a friend with a CR1 visa pending and the spouse recently came for a visit on ESTA, they gave her a lot of static and said that she couldn't do it again. 

Edited March 31, 2018 by bakphx1

[mcdull 474]

I seriously doubt any visa officer would suggest visiting Hong Kong will somehow turn a visa denial to approval. 

 

Is she paying for her trip to Hong Kong? If so, by all means. We have stores and stores.  

[DonMc 11]

I think the best thing to do is for me to try and get back there for the visit.  That way the plane ticket wont be wasted and she wont have to chance the hassle at the border.  There are things I  would like her to see here and help make decisions on while we wait and her mother really really wants to go home. Thanks for the advice everyone. I wont post this again. Maybe I will get lucky and the K 1 will go through quickly. Positive Thinking!

[Boiler 43,434]

Less than 10%

[j&ana 363]

7 hours ago, DonMc said:

Thanks for the reply.   As to "Why the rush?""    The answer is irrational. It is hormone related.

 

As to "roll the dice""  I dont mind chancing the $160.00 but would not want to see her get a plane ticket and get turned around at the border or worse yet stack the deck against her/us as far as the status of the K 1.  We have been going back and forth on the roll the dice question for some time.  The decision was to file the K 1 and wait. But sometimes women change their minds . . . . .at least that has been my experience!

 

I too must admit that I am not the most patient guy in the world . . . .

My wife tells me all the time I am the most impatient person she know but with the visa process you have to have patient,It is hard believe me I know

[sy1983 31]

Just meet her in HK and remedy your hormones

[JFH 12,189]

She goes to Hong Kong, you meet her there and her mother flies to the Philippines alone. Simple solutions all round. 

[Springrain22 427]

The best way is to wait for k1 to be processed. Her chances for a tourist visa are slim to none.

 

What happened to your hormones?