US Immigration from Colombia

I, 26 F, am the US citizen and my boyfriend is the foreigner. He is from Colombia and does not have a tourist visa at the moment. The wait time seems to be very long in Bogota and we have heard from many friends and colleagues that rejection rates are high. We have been in a serious relationship for over a year now and would like to marry and reside in the United States in the next few years.

A long engagement does sound ideal to us since we are both pursuing degrees. However, we have no idea where to start and have very little knowledge about immigration and the K1 visa process. I was recommended this page to avoid having to pay a lawyer as much without doing my research first.

please send recommendations or any advice on what you think we should look into first, there seems to be loads of information and I would like to know what would be relevant to our situation.

Thank you so much

Greetings all,

I will soon be restarting the IR1 process for my wife. We have been married since 2012, as we married while I was living in Bogota, Colombia for four years. Due to some traumatic life circumstances we decided to put a pause on our relationship and I returned to the United States in 2016. That changed two years later after she ended up getting her tourist VISA in 2018 and has visted me three times and will return again this summer.

So the question being, should I wait to start the VISA process again until she visits on her tourist VISA this summer or should I just go ahead and start the porcess again now. Once again, we are legally married in Colombia and we got all the way up to the "waiting for the interview to happen" when we cancelled the process before, which of course I now regret, because I have to start all over again. The only reason I would delay starting the process until she visited is because I dont want any conflict with her existing toursit VISA and the IR-1 process. Thanks for any advice and help.

Don

Well, my wife passed the Civics test and the English reading and writing part of the test in Feb, but failed the understanding English part of the test (the N-400) as she did not remember her whole phone number and had a problem answering the number of trips abroad question. Those were the only questions.

She re-took the understanding English re-do just last week. After extensive studying her N-400 ,she failed. From her description the agent asked 1 question and It sounded like she got it right (Why do you want to become a citizen). She answered "to vote". Was then asked to explain and she got confused and answered again "to vote". No good, sent to the office to see the agent's boss and was told she failed.

We just got the letter, and it mentioned a possibility of a hearing----of course for an extra fee.

Has anybody requested one? Know of anybody who has? Results?

At this point, should we get a lawyer? I need to check locally, but any idea on a price range for a lawyer and if one is worth it? I might have thought wrong but I was always under the impression that a lawyer is good for you if you are bad with paperwork and can help in explaining things but I thought they cant be involved in the test/interview? Or have I been wrong? Up to her citizen attempts (she is terrible at tests) everything has been easy. I must have killed a whole forest on her initial petition for residency making sure all forms were perfect and kept ALL records of our life together back then.

Any ideas. She is really feeling down about this.

Thanks

Hello....

I respectfully looked and researched before asking this.

My wife and I, in the USA, are trying to get b2 tourist visas for her brother and nephew who live in Colombia. I filed 2 separate visas (nephew is 21, dad is 53) so as one doesn't potentially knock the other out of getting approved.

I think i made a mistake. I paid for the visas tonight but didn't set the appointments yet. My question is...does anyone know how or if i can schedule their appointments together in Bogota or did i screw myself by filing and paying the fees before finding the answer to my question?

Thanks for any assistance.

My wife's mother passed away when my wife was 12 years old. Her grandmother (mother's mother) took legal custody of her. When my wife becomes a US Citizen, is there any chance that she can petition for her grandmother who was legally her parent?