US Immigration from Thailand

Hi everyone, I'm a little new here and trying to get everything straight.

My fianc (petitioner) and I (beneficiary) are moving back to South Africa from Thailand to start the process of applying for our K1 visa. She will be heading to the US first for a friends wedding and also begin the process for the K1 visa through Rapid Visa.

While working here we have managed to accumulate a decent amount more funds than needed to satisfy the poverty guidelines. This is a combination of assets and cash in both our names. Since we plan on living in South Africa together and move to the USA together that means that she won't have a stable form of income in the US until we leave.

Would this situation cause some issues for us in the application process? Any advice would be welcomed.

Kind regards,

Dewald & Brittney

Hello everybody,

Our K-1 interview yesterday was cancelled due to COVID, so we quickly grabbed the next available on June 15. Afterwards we realized this date will not work due to medical exam timing and a few other factors.

So, we want to try to get an earlier interview date, but we have used up all our cancellations already so we cannot see the schedule any longer (previously we could see "Next Available Appt. Date". We are willing to pay the visa fee again in order to be able to monitor the schedule, and we hope we could do this WITHOUT cancelling our interview June 15. Ideally we can keep June 15, and if something becomes available in May we grab it. I have no idea if any of what I just said is possible in the US Travel Docs system.

We have called the embassy multiple times and they just tell us they recommend we keep June 15. Unclear if we pay the fee, that automatically cancels our interview. Confusion over CGI number, Virtual Account Number, etc...Emails are replied with copy/paste nonsense. I did not post this in the Thailand forum as it is pretty dead over there; I imagine the online system is the same across all embassies.

Thanks...

We submitted a form 824 in October and it was received November 2, 2020. Due to the backlog at the lockboxes, the date of the NOA1 is January 29, 2021.

As we are nearing the 6 month mark for the actual submission, should I be expecting action in the next 2 or 3 months, or should I be counting the wait time from the NOA1 date (in which case we have probably a six month wait still)? I'm not getting impatient, just looking to understand what timeline I should be expecting.

So my Fiancee had her name changed at a really young age and has both birth certificate copies that are in Thai, will I need to get both of them translated as evidence for legal name change?

This is for my original petition I am sending into Dallas for the I-129F.

I am not sure because there is no requirement in this submission for her birth certificate, but would this fall under legal name change that needs proof?

Thank you!

Hi everybody. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to handle our current K-1 situation around timing of the visa interview and medical exams. I am the USC.

Our visa interview was supposed to be today but was cancelled due to COVID. We rescheduled for the next available date, June 15. Here is the problem: the medical exam will expire on June 23, so that will may not be enough time for my fiance (the beneficiary) to get the passport/visa and travel to the USA. My understanding in this scenario is that the K-1 visa itself expires, and we'd have to hope the embassy re-issues it (is this true?)...not something we want to risk.

Here are our choices as I see it:

Option 1: Request an expedited interview or cancel June 15 and try to grab an earlier interview if one opens up. Total gamble.

Option 2: Do another medical exam immediately - the problem is, we have to do a tuberculosis sputum test which takes up to 60 days to receive results, so the results may not be available for the interview.

Option 3: Postpone the interview date into July, and do another medical exam immediately to try to time the results to be available well before the interview as well as the exam expiration date well after the interview. Pushing back the interview will get us dangerously close to some critical documents expiring so we hate to consider this but it may be the safest bet.

It's a ridiculous situation. Our medical results are only valid for 90 days, and each time we do the medical there is a 60 day sputum test. Juggle all that with interview cancellations due to COVID and pending document expirations. Our NOA2 was one year ago

Very much hoping somebody on here might have a really nice Option 4 for us...appreciate the read.