Lengthy Visits

[Kracksnapplepop 0]

Hello everyone!

After reading through this forum I've found a lot of useful information. So, right off I'd like to say thank you to everyone for being so helpful!

Now, on to my question.. I know that the topic of visiting your fiance while having a K1 pending has been bounced around numerous times. I've read a bunch of threads on it, and I haven't exactly found what I was looking for.

I'm Canadian, and my fiance is the American citizen. I live with my mother, who was in a car accident about three years ago, shortly after we began filing our K1 stuff. Rather than keep on with school and work, I quit both to stay at my mother's house to help her out until she felt confident about her mobility once again. Because of this, we're only just getting aroud to me having my physical now. I currently have all the papers I need to send off, except for my physical package. Once that arrives and I send it off, I know it says I should be informed of my interview date within 2-4 months, etc. I would like to go and stay with my fiance for the next two months, while I wait for my interview date.. We'd like to make some wedding plans (dress, tux, flowers, cake), visit with his parents, and so on. However, I'm concerned about showing up at the border with him (he'd pick me up in his car) and telling the border patrol that I'd like to visit with my fiance for 2 months while we wait for the last leg of our K1 forms to be processed.

Has anyone done anything like this before? I have no proof of ties back to Canada to show that I'm just not going to up and marry my fiance once we're in the US. I don't want to get a job only to have to quit a few months later, and I haven't been paying my mother any kind of funds for living with her - it was a win/win situation with me staying for free and her getting the help she needed.

Should I not even bother with a visit this late in our processing? It'd be nice to get some planning done (not date-wise, but item-wise) considering the time limit a person is under to get married once the VISA is issued. I figured that bringing all of my paperwork would help show that we're trying to go about all this the right way, especially considering we've been moving through it all veeery slowly over the last three years in order for me to help my mother. What do you all think?

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Thanks in advance!

[Mona_Greg 0]

I don't know how it is with canadian citizen , but i have visited my fiance while our K1 was in process i spend 3 months with him in the US and had no problems at the airport to get in the country , i am german i don't know maybe it is different in your case , when i came back to germany i had only 4 weeks to wait for my Interview apointment which was really good that way we avoided the whole waiting period apart from each other . I wish you good luck ...

[Jaseball 0]

You could travel on your own to the US and meet him on the US side of the border in a town. When at the border I wouldn't volunteer anything about the K1 visa or anything.

Purpose of visit? Visiting friends

Duration of stay? 30 days or however long you are given

There just isn't any point to be nervous or volunteer information. It isn't like you are breaking any laws or doing anything wrong. If you get quizzed further you should answer truthfully, but the only thing is your lack of apparent ties to Canada could pose a problem.

[Carlawarla 1]

I'm a little confused. Unless I'm reading this wrong, you indicate that you started the K-1 visa process shortly after your mother had an accident, 3 years ago? When did you send Package 4 back to the Consulate? Which Consulate? After you send package 4 back to the Consulate, you could have your medical at the time, and save that information for your appointment time at the Consulate, but if you're waiting for an interview at the Montreal Consulate, you could be waiting well over 4 months! You can only stay in the USA for 90 days. You say you have no ties to Canada as you're not working right now, and you're living with your mother, so you'll have to come up with other things that perhaps prove you have ties to Canada. Are there bills in your name? Could your mother, as your landlord, write you a letter? Do you have bank accounts?

Visiting will have no impact on your processing times. Worse case scenerio is that they don't believe you have enough ties to Canada and they won't let you cross. But this won't impact on your K-1 visa pending, unless you lie.

It would be helpful for you to fill in your timeline as well. Again, unless I"ve read this wrong, I don't know how you could have a K-1 visa pending for so long.

Carla

Edited September 12, 2007 by cartoboy123