Fiance is pregnant with my child, do I submit reports as part of evidence?

[sluchie88 2]

Hi all,

 

First time poster, long time lurker.

 

I'm getting ready to submit a K-1 visa application for my fiance, who is Vietnamese. I'm not worried about meeting the relationship criteria. We've met multiple times in the last year and have ample evidence. Our relationship is genuine.

 

I proposed to her back in December, and we found out in January that she's pregnant. We are both so excited! We realize that the baby will be born in Vietnam, which is actually what we were planning on when we talked about having kids. We're timing things so our child can spend the first year there, and they will both come to the US in fall 2027. I know to file a consular report of birth abroad. I talked to a lawyer and all three of us will go in person to the Embassy in Hanoi. Not an issue.

 

What I am unsure of, however, is if I should submit translated ultrasound reports as part of the documentation for our application? I could see it having some bearing on proving our relationship is genuine, but I can also see it being extraneous. I would lean more towards send it now to avoid USCIS requesting further information down the line, but was hoping someone here might have some insight.

 

Thanks!

[TBoneTX 49,566]

51 minutes ago, sluchie88 said:

First time poster

Welcome, but you apparently posted in 2018:

https://www.visajourney.com/profile/302237-sluchie88/content/?type=forums_topic&change_section=1

51 minutes ago, sluchie88 said:

we found out in January that she's pregnant. We are both so excited!

Congratulations!

51 minutes ago, sluchie88 said:

if I should submit translated ultrasound reports as part of the documentation for our application

For your I-129F petition, more precisely (if you remain unmarried; if you marry, it's the I-130 petition -- superior in most ways).  The visa application comes later, after petition approval.

 

Include an ultrasound image (one) if you wish, but don't expect it to expedite your process:

https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/671721-no-pregnancy-is-not-grounds-to-expedite-your-process/

51 minutes ago, sluchie88 said:

having some bearing on proving our relationship is genuine

Time spent together in person is the chief factor in verifying a bona fide relationship.

51 minutes ago, sluchie88 said:

We're timing things so our child can spend the first year there, and they will both come to the US in fall 2027

Things might take longer than that.  Be 100% rock-solid sure that your fiancée/wife will be eligible to emigrate to the U.S. in terms of evidence, history, and circumstance.  Ho Chi Minh City (not Hanoi) is not a consulate to trifle with.  Do massive reading in the Vietnam regional forum here for requirements and standards.  Good luck to you!

Edited 20 hours ago by TBoneTX

[sluchie88 2]

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Welcome, but you apparently posted in 2018

Ah, okay, my bad. I thought that was a different site I used before. My first wife and I did go through the I-130 process, but she sadly passed away in 2022.
 

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Include an ultrasound image (one) if you wish, but don't expect it to expedite your process:

https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/671721-no-pregnancy-is-not-grounds-to-expedite-your-process/

Thank you. I had tried searching the forum to see about whether or not pregnancy should be part of proving the relationship, but all I really found were posts about whether it would expedite the process (answer: nope), or if it would impact paperwork or the actual processing of the petition (answer: nope).

I appreciate the response, @TBoneTX!

 

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Ho Chi Minh City (not Hanoi) is not a consulate to trifle with.

I'll do some reading on the regional section, but everyone keeps saying she'll need to go to HCMC and not Hanoi. But everything I've read on the Hanoi consulate website says they can process her visa application there... Is there something I am missing?

[TBoneTX 49,566]

22 minutes ago, sluchie88 said:

she sadly passed away in 2022

So sorry to hear.

22 minutes ago, sluchie88 said:

she'll need to go to HCMC

This.  HCMC is the only consulate that processes K-1 & CR-1 visa applications.

 

Edited to add:  Read reviews of HCMC, good and bad:

https://www.visajourney.com/reviews/index.php?cnty=Vietnam&cty=&dfilter=5

Edited 19 hours ago by TBoneTX

[milimelo 5,027]

With all that time and child in the mix, why not get married and file for spousal visa? Superior to fiancée visa and she's LPR upon immigrant visa activation and can work straight away and her time to naturalization starts as soon as she enters the US. 

[Dashinka 26,656]

I agree with @milimelo, and to add since you are not entirely rushed, and you want the child to spend their first year or so in Vietnam, it would seem a spousal visa would be the better option.  Regardless, it is you and your fiancé's choice.

 

Good Luck!

[sluchie88 2]

Tbh we went back and forth on the topic of k-1 vs cr-1 visas, but in the end we decided on a K-1 because the processing time is slightly faster in Vietnam, and we were limited on how long I was going to be there in spring 2026. From what we read, since she would be marrying a foreigner there would be paperwork and processing time on the Vietnam side for the marriage.

That, and when I talked to a lawyer a few months ago she said that Trump had blocked a few countries as no longer eligible for immigrant visa's. K-1 is technically not an immigrant visa, so it wouldn't be affected, is what the lawyer said. Vietnam was not on the list, but who knows if/when that could change with the orange man.

[Boiler 48,869]

Ultrasound is irrelevant, by the time of the interview the child will be 1.

[mam521 3,026]

2 hours ago, sluchie88 said:

K-1 is technically not an immigrant visa, so it wouldn't be affected, is what the lawyer said.

I wouldn't bank on this.  It's technically non-immigrant, but the intent is understood.  

 

CR1 is cheaper in the long run, too, and your wife could have a traditional Vietnamese wedding spectacle, which looks like a lot of fun if I'm honest!  If you got married now and your wife plans to stay in Vietnam with your little one until babe is a year, you might end up in that achievable window of 2 years of marriage.  If you guys can wait to relocate until a day or 2 after your anniversary, she'll get that 10 year greencard.  Removing conditions is taking forever these days and I don't see it getting any better.  

 

Ultrasound is irrelevant.  

 

You may want to look into what challenges you might face with obtaining babe's birth certificate so you can file the CRBA and get babe's US passport, once s/he are born.