MBSalvador

I'm not sure I understand the CR-1 Visa. My fiance and I have decided to get married in the Philippines but I can't live there. If we do get married there (and we want to) I have to come home to the USA after the wedding and try to get her here later. Is that what the CR-1 is for? The rules seem to indicate that the Embassy interview will require proof of us living together with proof of joint rent, bills, bank accounts etc but I only visit there, I don't live there. Isn't a marriage certificate and affidavits from witnesses enough? Or, is it impossible to marry her there and get her here without living with her there for 2 years? I can't find clear explanation on how it works. 

I'm not sure I understand the CR-1 Visa. My fiance and I have decided to get married in the Philippines but I can't live there. If we do get married there (and we want to) I have to come home to the USA after the wedding and try to get her here later. Is that what the CR-1 is for? The rules seem to indicate that the Embassy interview will require proof of us living together with proof of joint rent, bills, bank accounts etc but I only visit there, I don't live there. Isn't a marriage certificate and affidavits from witnesses enough? Or, is it impossible to marry her there and get her here without living with her there for 2 years? I can't find clear explanation on how it works. 

I met a Filipina online and we have been chatting every day x2 per day since October of 2020. She appears to be a very good person and I have emotional attachment to her. The pandemic prevents me from going there to meet her. From my viewpoint, it looks like the pandemic will go on for years and regardless of Covid and its variants, we will never go back to 'normal'. I see legal immigration for foreign spouses getting more difficult, expensive and time consuming and its just not feasible to fly her to Mexico and have her walk into the US like the last million illegals that did so. Certainly waiting times, restrictions, fees and requirements will just get worse too so, I think its best to forget meeting this woman and the idea of marriage, immigration etc is looking bleak, at least for now. I know she will be hurt if I break it off with her and I will be hurt too but I just can't see a way through. I don't even know if the feelings we have are real or based on reality because we have not actually met yet.  
 
What good reasons are there for going through all the trouble, money, time and effort to go to the other side of the world to meet her? I can just imagine that if flights and tourism open up in the Philippines, it could easily all be shut down within hours should they decide another 'wave' of the virus suddenly appear, or if China invades Taiwan and war breaks out, leaving me trapped in the Philippines which would be a death sentence for me. What are your thoughts? Is it worth it? Do you see the future as bright and full of hope? I don't. Change my mind.

I met a Filipina online and we have been chatting every day x2 per day since October of 2020. She appears to be a very good person and I have emotional attachment to her. The pandemic prevents me from going there to meet her. From my viewpoint, it looks like the pandemic will go on for years and regardless of Covid and its variants, we will never go back to 'normal'. I see legal immigration for foreign spouses getting more difficult, expensive and time consuming and its just not feasible to fly her to Mexico and have her walk into the US like the last million illegals that did so. Certainly waiting times, restrictions, fees and requirements will just get worse too so, I think its best to forget meeting this woman and the idea of marriage, immigration etc is looking bleak, at least for now. I know she will be hurt if I break it off with her and I will be hurt too but I just can't see a way through. I don't even know if the feelings we have are real or based on reality because we have not actually met yet.  
 
What good reasons are there for going through all the trouble, money, time and effort to go to the other side of the world to meet her? I can just imagine that if flights and tourism open up in the Philippines, it could easily all be shut down within hours should they decide another 'wave' of the virus suddenly appear, or if China invades Taiwan and war breaks out, leaving me trapped in the Philippines which would be a death sentence for me. What are your thoughts? Is it worth it? Do you see the future as bright and full of hope? I don't. Change my mind.

I met a Filipina online and we have been chatting every day x2 per day since October of 2020. She appears to be a very good person and I have emotional attachment to her. The pandemic prevents me from going there to meet her. From my viewpoint, it looks like the pandemic will go on for years and regardless of Covid and its variants, we will never go back to 'normal'. I see legal immigration for foreign spouses getting more difficult, expensive and time consuming and its just not feasible to fly her to Mexico and have her walk into the US like the last million illegals that did so. Certainly waiting times, restrictions, fees and requirements will just get worse too so, I think its best to forget meeting this woman and the idea of marriage, immigration etc is looking bleak, at least for now. I know she will be hurt if I break it off with her and I will be hurt too but I just can't see a way through. I don't even know if the feelings we have are real or based on reality because we have not actually met yet.  
 
What good reasons are there for going through all the trouble, money, time and effort to go to the other side of the world to meet her? I can just imagine that if flights and tourism open up in the Philippines, it could easily all be shut down within hours should they decide another 'wave' of the virus suddenly appear, or if China invades Taiwan and war breaks out, leaving me trapped in the Philippines which would be a death sentence for me. What are your thoughts? Is it worth it? Do you see the future as bright and full of hope? I don't. Change my mind.

Sorry you felt I was so condescending. I guess I learned that whole "I'll just get another one" from my ex-wife.

Sorry you felt I was so condescending. I guess I learned that whole "I'll just get another one" from my ex-wife.