Mare-n-Tram

OP certainly seems to have lots of friends who are in difficult immigration situations....

I'm sorry you're going through this. While it is plain to see something is amiss, I would just give them what they want, as silly as it might sound to take a picture with a newspaper (geez, sounds like a ransom or something!!). Others have been suspected of fraud and were put through very detailed stokes interview, and guess what, they passed just fine, got their GC and rode off into the sunset happily ever after. If my husband and I had to take a stokes interview, it wouldn't be a problem because we know our answers would match to a tee.
So don't worry, when the relationship is real, you prevail! Like someone else mentioned, maybe someone reported something about you or your wife to USCIS. A disgruntled former bf or gf, jealous friend, envious family member, who knows.
Stay strong and keep a united front. Love conquers all
Good luck!

To me, it sounds like she wants you to empathize with how she is feeling and maybe she thinks you don't.

It sounds like a pretty natural response to me... You need to ask her to really contemplate whether leaving her family for potentially a couple years at a time is gonna be an issue, has she prepared herself mentally?
If you have a 9-5, is she aware she may be stuck at home, alone for a few months prior to being able to work (if that is in you're plans)?
Her responses to you may be cause for concern, may not, as one prior poster stated, you need to have a real heart to heart.
Her devotion to her family, as well as her honesty with you, in my opinion, are positive attributes.
She needs to make up her mind and coming from a guy who has been thru 2 divorces, listen to your gut & if she or your gut are feeling too uneasy, nip it in the bud now.
You and/or her having personal moments of clarity, just prior to the final steps in your VJ, I believe are quite natural. My Baby Ko & I have really been having some good heart to hearts lately as reality is setting in, for the first time she & I are expressing some of our darkest concerns...
Of course I have read the rare instances of Pinays who use foreigners for a ticket to paradise, she has read about the men who have gone Jekyll & Hyde and mistreated their wives...
Not a big deal to me that we are now discussing those worst case scenarios, but I'm listening to my heart as well as trying to excercise all my street smarts & knowledge gained with age and past experience. For me, it's a go, but I also talked to & chatted with over 50 pinays prior to finding the person I could love and stimulate me in all the places that eventually matter, and although physical attraction was one of those attributes, believe me, it was not the only one, if it's gonna be long term, you both gotta click & click good!
All the Best,
Leo

I would like to re-iterate that K1 visa is not given "to wait and see". The purpose of the visa is to bring your foreign fiancee here for marriage which allows you to get married in US. It is designed for people that made this decision to get married. If anyone makes this statement during interview that they applied for visa "to wait and see", they would get denied. Simply because this is not a purpose of the visa. Similarly, B1/B2 visa is "to visit", not to get married. Each visa has its purpose and "wait and see" means misrepresentation.

I say the K-1 is flawed because it makes it way to easy to get into situations like this one. If it didn't exist then chances are this never would have happened for this couple.
If they had been required to be married before he could file to bring her and her children to the US they might have never got married or if they did then by the time she arrived at POE they would have built a better relationship.
Fact is that while the K-1 was designed for use by couples who would have trouble getting married abroad it has become a "try before you buy" Visa for too many.

Dear fellow VJers,
I see all sorts of calls for getting a police, etc.. I am sorry but this terrifies me.. Have we lost our humane compassion?? I am USC.. However, grow-up! When you bring foreign fiancee, you do have responsibilities! If you cannot handle them you should find someone here. I am terrified even with people that buy a dog and once they move or feel tired of it they get rid of it so they would be put to sleep. This is terrible! Now, you are dealing with people! If you are not absolutely sure that you want to spend your entire life with this person do not get them here! Do not plug the system with your applications for K1.. You disrupt their lives. At least have responsibility to return their lives to normal! My opnion is: if you bring someone here and disrupt their lives you have responsibility to completely restore their lives to what it was before you disrupted it. This is just my opinion. For example, I am a very hto -tempered person. However, I realize that my wife have nothing here.. So, I hold my temper and do not argue with her even when she is unreasonable.. just because of this..

I have to disagree that the K1 is to allow a couple to get to know each other. Although that may be what many people use the 3 months for, I believe the 3 months is to plan a wedding. If you aren't sure that you want to marry the person you are petitioning, in my own opinion, you have no reason to file a K1 petition. It makes the wait time and process longer for those of us who ARE sure we want to marry the person we've petitioned for.
On top of that it seems the OP allowed less than 3 weeks to "get to know" his fiance? Unless he thought he knew her and she turned out to have a completely different personality once she arrived in the US, this sounds like a really ridiculous situation where someone did not take the responsibilities of a K1 visa seriously.
BUT the OP did not come here for criticism or judgement, just advice. My advice - to "extricate" yourself from the situation don't marry her. You legally have no financial responsibility for her or her children. Like many others here have suggested though- you may have a moral obligation.

Do an immediate debriefing with your husband. Ask him to write down every question he can remember and every answer he gave--this is not the time to be defensive, but rather to put yourself in the place of the CO and see how you would have reacted to his answers. Also, what other red flags are there with your case--a few bad answers usually aren't enough to derail a case. Be brutally honest with yourself--and do it immediately while everything is fresh in his mind.
Then come back and tell us all the red flags as well as the questions and his answers, and then we can start to help.

First it was illegal for you to be employed and working for wages without a valid EAD card or Green Card.
Therefore, your friend did not have the proper authority to hire you for employment for wages. You both are in the wrong, so you have to decide how you wish to pursue file a complaint against the friend for wages, and confess at the same time that you have broken an immigration law. :wacko:

Well, in many ways you have probably wasted the time and money spent on getting a K-1 visa. The visa is good for a one-time entry to the US for a foreign fiancee of a US citizen to enter the US for the purpose of getting married and applying to remain in the US. There is certainly nothing wrong with applying for the K-1 visa entering the US and getting married and then leaving the US, but you didn't necessarily require a fiancee visa to do that.
If your 'wife' leaves the US after entering on a K-1 visa she will not be allowed back into the US unless she has either her green card (AOS) or a travel document known as Advance Parole (filed for at the same time as the AOS application) or a CR-1 visa. Once the K-1 is used it is over and done with - there is nothing there to be used again.
In order for your wife to return to the US you would need to petition her for an IR-1/CR-1 spousal visa. You would start this by filing the I-130 petition either in the US or at a US Consulate overseas if you are legally living in that country. She would have to redo all of the security checks, medical exams, you would have to provide the same financial information and she would have another interview.
Yes, your passport needs to be valid in order for you to return to the US. If it is due to expire during the time you expect to be away you should go ahead and apply for a new one now. That way you won't have a problem re-entering the US, even though you are a US citizen.
I am not sure why it is necessary for you to move back to Russia right away, but if you chose to remain in the US long enough for her to get her green card, she would be allowed to travel outside of the US for up to one year and still be allowed to return to the US with you (as long as you don't intend to reside overseas and this relocation is temporary). If she planned to be outside of the US for more than one year then she would need a special type of travel permission and would have to return to the US before 2 years are up. If your planned time in Russia is temporary, you may wish to consider delaying your plans to move at least until she gets a green card so you don't have to go through the whole immigration process all over again the following year. The CR-1 process itself takes about a year so you would almost need to apply for it shortly after you leave the US if you wanted to return a year later. If you don't intend to live in the US for a while, then there is no need for any type of visa.
You are making it very complicated on yourself. If you have room to consider other options, you may find it much more sensible to delay your year outside of the US for a few months so she can get her green card.

immigration is great, but illegal immigration is ridiculous. As a taxpayer i dont want my money paying for people who shouldnt be here and illegal immigration is a slap in the face to all of us who work and wait to do things legally. Illegals obviously think they are better or have more justification to enter the US than anyone else if they are going to illegally cross borders or stay passed visa issuance.