Immigrant or nonimmigrant visa?

[FreeTanner22 0]

Is the K1 Visa an immigrant or Nonimmigrant visa? They say differently everywhere you look and it's driving me nuts. Make up your mind people! Haha, but seriously. Anybody know? Also, we filled out the DS-160, for a nonimmigrant, so now we are a bit confused. And they say to pay the fees and fill out the other forms, but where are they? When I go to CEAC, it just says to fill out the DS-160. Our case was approved by the USCIS on March 26th, and we had to call the NVC to get the case number and invoice, we never received the welcome letter which I'm assuming is cause the embassy is still closed. Peru embassy, anyone know when that might open? 

[geowrian 22,335]

K-1 is a non-immigrant visa. it is handled by the immigrant visa unit at the consulate, so it's often processed by and through systems used for an immigrant visa.

An immigrant visa uses the DS-260, and has a bunch of other steps at NVC before being handed off to the consulate for the interview.

[SteveInBostonI130 3,319]

K1 visas are non-immigrant.  The NVC has very little interaction with the application.  They review the paperwork to the extent to see which embassy it should be sent to.  They assign a case number and send it in the next diplomatic pouch to the embassy.  

 

The only interaction you will get is through the embassy directly.  They will send the email to the beneficiary when they get the paperwork, which will include instructions to fill out DS-160 online, where and how to pay the fees, how to schedule the medical, and a checklist of documents needed to be presented at the interview.

 

Greenbaum has most the links to Packet 3 information for the various embassies - you can check the K1 progress report forum posts for more information.

[Greenbaum 12,258]

4 hours ago, FreeTanner22 said:

Is the K1 Visa an immigrant or Nonimmigrant visa? They say differently everywhere you look and it's driving me nuts. Make up your mind people! Haha, but seriously. Anybody know? Also, we filled out the DS-160, for a nonimmigrant, so now we are a bit confused. And they say to pay the fees and fill out the other forms, but where are they? When I go to CEAC, it just says to fill out the DS-160. Our case was approved by the USCIS on March 26th, and we had to call the NVC to get the case number and invoice, we never received the welcome letter which I'm assuming is cause the embassy is still closed. Peru embassy, anyone know when that might open? 

 

The K-1 process is quite strange. For a time, it is both a non-immigrant and immigrant visa type. That is why the links (what you received in the email) will send you the process for immigrant which would be the I-864 and DS-260 even though it truly is a non-immigrant visa requiring I-134 and the DS-160. As you go through the stages, within the NVC system you look up your file under immigrant (ceac.state.gov/). It stays that way until after your interview and the approval and your visa is ready for issue. At that point, it changes over to non-immigrant. It truly is a non-immigrant visa with immigrant intent.

 

Join us in the MARCH 2020 K-1 NOA2 to NVC to EMBASSY thread and download the PDF file on the first post of the first page for tips, tricks and hacks to follow your case to the embassy. I'll post both links below:

https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/733618-march-2020-k-1-noa2-to-nvc-to-embassy/#comments

PDF with tips, tricks, and hacks. BTW this PDF is updated from time to time so you might check back to ensure you have the latest information.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nfin98c33IEpB0T0FlURERriblYmlm5O/view?usp=sharing

 

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