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Perhaps you are projecting too much of your experience onto the matter without realizing not everyone does a K1 for the reasons you assume.

SOme people are separated due to military duty, some people have religious considerations.

SOme countries have requirements for marriage which makes it much more simpler to marry State-side.

Some people just want to be married in the Good ole USA for what ever reason.

THe real question should be, "is there a problem with the K1 type visa, ..high failure rate? High fraud?

Other than your opinion is there any other reason to do away with the K1?

If there is, I might agree, but I am not aware of any overwhelming reason to not allow it.

Well said.

And I don't understand why the topoc starter suggests that getting married on tourist visa (or maybe student visa or work visa or whatever), which means breaking the immigration rules by the way, is better than getting a fiance(e) visa. Getting married in fiance(e)'s home country and then be apart after the wedding does not sound like a good idea to me either.

So, people just know better what's the best option for them.

That is cool. Interestingly enough, she has many different names. For the paperwork process while we listed all of them as alternate names, since her passport had Oxana on it, that is what is listed as her primary name. After the third day together I no longer called her Oksana, as there is a name with special meaning to her that I call her by. Did not realize this until a couple weeks ago how much meaning this name conveyed to her. I am special, as she considers anyone else calling her by this insulting!!! I am the only one allowed...yeaaa!

My passport says Oxana also, but it can be spelled Oksana as well, it's all the same - at least it doesn't affect the spelling in Russian

The wait is a bit easier now knowing VSC is at least doing something and approving I-129Fs again! I keep looking at Igor's list and so happy every time someone is approved! The more people they approve every day, the sooner they get to January

I keep checking the list also

try zaokeanom.com in Russian

thanks i have an account there, but there are more people here which means more information.

I met my fiance in the US (i was there for the summer) and we spent 3 months together, and then we made a deal - he comes to visit me in winter for a couple of weeks and i go to the States every summer for 2-3 months. It's been 2 and a half years since then and we just filed the petition.

She was probably in the US on Work and Travel program, so 2-year rule doesn't apply in that case.

I've been there - stayed 3 summers in a row in the US on J1 visa, but even after me and my fiance got engaged i figured it's better just go back and file for K1 visa - othervise i could cause some future problems for my family if they tried to get their visas later. Plus for J1 visa she is supposed to be a student and she might want to graduate before she leaves her home country. Anyway, it's something everybody should give a proper thought before they make a decision.

Welcome to the party. Nice to have a fellow filer with a beneficiary from Russia.

thanks!

and i am the beneficiary actually i'm just the one checking all kinds of websites and forums since i have a loooooot more free time.

and what's even nicer - apparently me and your fiancee happen to have the same name

Hello, everyone! hope you don't mind if i join the group of january filers

We're having the same problem, my fiance got NOA-1 in the mail almost a week ago, but we still can't see it online I keep checking it like a million times a day though... for some reason