Meeting within 2years?

[DR ASI 0]

Guys can you help me with this?I met my fiance when we were to get engaged for the first time.Its all totally arranged through our parents we got to know each other later and finally met in person on the day of our engagement.Will it be an issue as its based more on traditional arranged sort of meeting through family?Now we are intouch through phones and emails...so whtas the best evidence i can show??

[msu17 0]

The requirement is meet in person in the last 2 years. If you have done this, then you are ok. You can prove that with plane tickets, passport stamps, hotel reciepts, credit card bills in each others home town etc. Evidence of a relationship isn't needed until the consulate stage, and most of us mainly have phone records, letters, e-mails etc.

Edited July 16, 2007 by msu17

[YuAndDan 153]

It is very rare for USCIS to waive the personal meeting requirement.

You and your fiancé(e) intend to marry within 90 days of your fiancé(e) entering the United States, and are both free to marry, and have met in person within two years before your filing of this petition unless:

(1)

The requirement to meet your fiancé(e) in person would violate strict and long-established customs of your or your fiancé(e)'s foreign culture or social practice; or

(2)

It is established that the requirement to personally meet your fiancé(e) would result in extreme hardship to you.

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-129F.pdf

Why not travel to the foreign country, marry, and file for a CR-1 or K-3 visa?

Edited July 16, 2007 by YuAndDan

[DR ASI 0]

The requirement is meet in person in the last 2 years. If you have done this, then you are ok. You can prove that with plane tickets, passport stamps, hotel reciepts, credit card bills in each others home town etc. Evidence of a relationship isn't needed until the consulate stage, and most of us mainly have phone records, letters, e-mails etc.

Thanks alot now i feel abit relaxed....

[YuAndDan 153]

The requirement is meet in person in the last 2 years. If you have done this, then you are ok. You can prove that with plane tickets, passport stamps, hotel reciepts, credit card bills in each others home town etc. Evidence of a relationship isn't needed until the consulate stage, and most of us mainly have phone records, letters, e-mails etc.

Evidence of meeting is needed to be included with the K-1 visa application to USCIS ,(the I-129F), additional evidence of continuing relationship may be requested at the consulate for the visa interview.

From I-129F instructions:

7. What Documents Do You Need to Prove That You Can Legally Marry?

Provide copies of evidence that you and your fiancé(e) have personally met within the last two years; or if you have never met within the last two years,provide a detailed explanation and evidence of the extreme hardship or customary, cultural or social practices that have prohibited your meeting;

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-129F.pdf

[BYRON-LEIDY 0]

The requirement is meet in person in the last 2 years. If you have done this, then you are ok. You can prove that with plane tickets, passport stamps, hotel reciepts, credit card bills in each others home town etc. Evidence of a relationship isn't needed until the consulate stage, and most of us mainly have phone records, letters, e-mails etc.

Evidence of meeting is needed to be included with the K-1 visa application to USCIS ,(the I-129F), additional evidence of continuing relationship may be requested at the consulate for the visa interview.

From I-129F instructions:

7. What Documents Do You Need to Prove That You Can Legally Marry?

Provide copies of evidence that you and your fiancé(e) have personally met within the last two years; or if you have never met within the last two years,provide a detailed explanation and evidence of the extreme hardship or customary, cultural or social practices that have prohibited your meeting;

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-129F.pdf

One question...when you say two years, does it mean you have to know the person for 2 yrs...i only my fiance for about 5 months..

[KarenCee 3]

One question...when you say two years, does it mean you have to know the person for 2 yrs...i only my fiance for about 5 months..

No, it means you had to have met within two years of filing the I-129F.

[YuAndDan 153]

One question...when you say two years, does it mean you have to know the person for 2 yrs...i only my fiance for about 5 months..

No it means that you have been in the same place at the same time sometime in the 2 years before filing the I-129F, pictures together, airline tickets to the foreign country, or from the foreign country to the USA for your fiancee, entry/exit stamps in either passport, hotel receipts, ATM Receipts, ETC..

In my case we met on-line October 05, met July 06, filed I-129F Aug 06, got Visa Mar 07... I submitted evidence of having met last July. We only "Knew" each other for about 10 months.

[TimsDaisy 0]

From USCIS:

Submit evidence of meeting the meneficiary in person within the two-year period preceding the filing of the petiition. The primary evidence may include airline ticket stubs and receipts (that indicate month, day, and year), copies of passport pages taht show the identification page and admission stamps, military order(s), letter from Commanding Officer, or any evidence that will help the USCIS to determine that the petitioner has met the beneficiary within the two years. The secondary evidence may be film dated photographs of the petitioner and the beneficiary together. The following DOES NOT constitue evidence of meeting: disc, videos, emails, letters, phone bills, and greeting cards."