avrora9002

I've been with my fiance for 5 years and have lived with her (in her country) for 3 years. I'm not trying out anything. Many have known their fiance for longer than you have and have gone the K1 route. Conversely, there are those who have never seen each other, gotten married, and pursued the CR-1 option. Quit acting like those that pursue the CR-1 are more "stable" or "real" than those that petition for a K1 visa.

You made an incredibly FALSE statement yourself about not being able to get a K-1 if you can't get a tourist visa.

Well you're lucky you were able to get a B1/B2 visa and do what you did. As a few others have stated, many significant others cannot get a tourist visa to the USA and follow your process. For some of us, getting married in our fiance(e)'s country would also be a bureaucratic nightmare. Why go through that pain twice (once with fiance(e)'s home country, another with USCS/NVC)? No thanks!
Point being you're being a little self-centered here IMO. I understand your logic, but you are also making huge assumptions about us K-1 applicants and our situations.

This is completely false. Lots of people cannot get a tourist visa because the CO is not convinced that they do not have immigrant intent. A K-1 has immigrant intent, so not being able to get a tourist visa has nothing do with someone's eligibility to get a K-1.
Could not have married in the US had it not been for a K-1 visa. My husband was denied a tourist visa 3 times trying to come visit me in my country to meet my family and friends in person instead of me always having to travel to him. There are many countries where it is difficult to procure a tourist visa.

Not really. They found someone, fell in love, and got married. It's legal and the overstay is forgiven. The US government allows for AOS because of things like that, but like all good things, people abuse it. People who overstay and never adjust their status, affect the next student. People who stay in the USA illegally are the ones who make it harder on others to get F1, J1, and B1/B2 visas.
People who say it's illegal to come to the USA to get married on a J1 visa or B2 are lying. It's not. The USA has marriage tourism. Look at Vegas! Look at Hawaii! People go abroad all the time to get married. The part that is illegal is to misrepresent to the CBP officer why you're visiting the USA. If you told the CBP that you were planning on coming to the USA, to get married, they'd say great, and likely ask for your ties to your home country. You may have to spend some extra time convincing them that you are in fact, not trying to stay, just wanting to get married. If you told them you were planning on getting married, then staying, they'd say great, get back on the plane and don't come back until you have a visa that allows you to stay
The burden of proof is upon the USCIS to show you lied, if that is what happened. The consequences are very serious if you do so. You risk a lifetime ban from the USA, which makes it hard on any significant other you may have here. There are immigration rules to every country you go to. Some are strict, and others are not.
Because the OP is outside the country currently, they can yes, come to the USA and get married. What they cannot do is intend to stay after marriage. To lie to the CBP is illegal. If that is your intent, then that is what you should state when asked "why are you visiting the USA." If you want to get married and stay, then there are a few legal routes in which to do so.

What process? Divorce
All you need to do is jump on a plane and go home. She can take care of the divorce with or without you......

Hello
I sent mine Feb 25, it was delivered Feb 27... We're now waiting for NOA, so I guess we're March filers also
And I send EAD and AP too

I don't think anyone will make negative comments about the actions of a 17 year old HOWEVER, if you want useful advice from knowledgeable members it is important to share as much information as you can at the beginning of your new thread rather than waiting until you're two pages in. You didn't include key pieces to your question so everyone is responding based solely on what you asked. Your initial post was lacking all these details and only asking if the length of time for a background check was accurate. Your information is coming from a lawyer who charged you a lot of money. You are posting on a site dedicated to supporting people who are doing this on their own and not usually with the help of lawyers. Keep all of this in mind while reading the responses you get. Most of us are going to tell you that your lawyer did something that is not necessary and that they he charged you too much money for it.
Most people won't read all the responses and therefore will miss the additional information you've added so expect to get more of the same responses.
Your situation is not as clear-cut as the original post. Good luck with the next steps. Hopefully nothing comes back from the FBI check that will make your process more difficult than it already is.

I completely disagree. As you stated, the K-1 visa is a non-immigrant visa. The visa's intent is to bring your fiancé to the US to get married. After that you can do what you want: stay and adjust status or leave the US. The only downfall to filing for a K-1 visa just to bring your fiancé here is that it is a more expensive and time consuming process than other non-immigrant visas.
There is no scam here. It is not a scam, or misrepresentation, to have intent NOT to stay and adjust. It is a choice you have
You said it perfectly here.

That is what i said to myself and my wife when sending it out with the DS-3025. Deal with the RFE if it gets here because there simply is no one answer to this. Some people with perfectly filled out DS-3025 forms also get RFE's.

The tax return you file will reflect your circumstances in 2014 only. Since you were not married on or before December 31, 2014 each of you must use single as your filing status. Likewise, starting with your 2015 tax return you must file as married. Married filing jointly is how most couples prefer to file, and generally carries a smaller tax burden than married filing separately. Congratulations on your wedding day today! Best wishes.

He was single in 2014. You will file as married jointly next year for the 2015 taxes.
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p501/ar02.html#en_US_2014_publink1000220721
Unmarried persons. You are considered unmarried for the whole year if, on the last day of your tax year, you are unmarried or legally separated from your spouse under a divorce or separate maintenance decree.

99% of the time you will always file married, filing jointly, then there are certain tax breaks your CPA can use.
Talk to good friends here in the USA, find a good honest, CPA (Certified Public Accountant) to always do your taxes.
If a CPA signs your return each year, it is highly unlikely you will ever be audited, just my experiences with this situation.
Good luck, and come back, as you will have many more questions, about the USA process.,.,..,..,.,

The same thing you could do by yourself but for a lot of money

hey - we gots a Guide in the GUIDE Section - please grab a PC, click the word 'Guides' in the Blue Menu,
and have a read, aye?
Logic Test - is 89 less than 90?

Nebraska is LIN and Texas is SRC

Sorry OP, this has nothing to do with your situation... All I can say is best of luck to you in moving on.
As for the quote above... Yeah, they don't have a divorce rate lower than most Western countries because of the big presence of the Catholic Church in the Philippines, and the fact that the country has no divorce laws. And that yes, one can get legally separated, but then cannot get married again. Nope, it is because they value marriage more. Give me a break.
You do realize that divorce rates in the USA have decreased dramatically in the past couple decades right? While the % of unmarried people has shot up? One could deduce from those stats that Americans give a lot more thought to who they will marry than they used to (and therefore value marriage pretty highly).
And I also wasn't aware that all Asian women were the same. All ___ billion of them. And ____ millions of Western women are all different from them. Interesting.

Some of you really don't think about what you're saying, do you?
Russian women are this.
American women are that.
Filipina women are this.
Stereotyping of any nationality is wrong and unproductive. Bad people - women and men - are everywhere. Even in Canada.
That also means good people are everywhere - women and men.

I'm not sure where you get your info, but it couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, if you take a look around this site you will find that by FAR Filipino women have used men to get to the US. There isn;t a week that passes on this site where I am reading about Filipino women arriving in the US and claiming VAWA when there is no abuse, getting to the US and dumping their US husband/fiance for a boyfriend they have in the US who is Filipino, very young Filipino women marrying men 30, 40 and even sometimes 50 years their senior just to get here and dump the poor sap,the list goes on and on. Am I saying that the majority of Filipino women who come here are merely in it for the green card? No. What I am saying in my years on VJ I have witnessed by far much more fraud going on in the Filipino portal.

Tell her to wake up at noon everyday,go to the gym for two hours, have lunch with her friends, or invite her friends to come over,sometimes go to the theater afternoon,shop, shop and shop , and bring Mac Donald's for dinner.Let's see what he will think about it.He can't complain, she is not working!

"I don't know how far the right of husband goes to stop his wife from working or doing what she wants."
Right?
None. Nada. Zero. Zip. Zilch.
She's in America now and she can do whatever the hell she wants as far as her career goes. He cannot force her to stay at home and not have a job. And it's really cruddy of him to change his mind about her career expectations now that she's here.
Love,
A chirping feminist

US embassies for the most part do not care for apostilles so don't bother. You also don't need anything apostilled for any paperwork here in the States.
Diana

So why do you need to request more documents with your private information? Do you need paper for your hamster? If you are trying to ask if the government will shred/destroy them the answer is no.

Call me old fashioned but don't most people want to be married for life when they get married?! I know I did on my wedding day and still do!

In my circumstances particularly, two former consular officers -- and two attorneys -- considered letters from family and friends "a good idea" or "a very good idea" to supply.
They need not be notarized, but they should absolutely include methods by which to contact the writers (e-mail addresses, phone numbers).
My fiancee had no visa and therefore no way to visit the U.S. and meet any of my family or friends. My people therefore wrote letters (in their own words) to attest to the duration and strength of my relationship with her, in accordance with all of the knowledge that they honestly had. Some knew more details, some not as much. The only information that I provided to the writers was the correct spelling of my fiancee's full name and the date when the relationship began. I ended up with 15 letters.
The attorneys (one of whom used to be a consular officer) said that "several" letters from my (U.S.) people would be sufficient, but to minimize the number of letters from HER people, because too many could lend the impression that the writers were angling for eventual permission to come to the U.S., too. Therefore, my fiancee collected three letters -- two from relatives, one from a friend -- from three of the cities where we were all together in person. These letters were brief and somewhat formal, entitled "Certificado" and with text to the effect of "I attest that T. & C. were together in my presence on X date(s), and that their relationship is serious and genuine."
Technically, NO such letters are REQUIRED to be included in an I-129f submission. I strongly urge that a FEW (two or three good ones) BE included. This is so that the embassy has this information up front, and so that the embassy knows that DHS (USCIS) has seen it. This extra step could very well prevent your loved one from being kicked out of a first interview -- or from being refused a visa outright -- due to consular claims of "lack of proof of valid relationship." I wish to high heaven that I had known and done this -- and so do other VJers.
Even if your embassy has typically handed out visas like popsicles, be acutely aware that consular personnel, conditions, and policies can change OVERNIGHT and WITHOUT WARNING. Except in the rarest of instances, consular decisions are FINAL. Decisions can depend (more than we know!) on what kind of day the officer is having. It therefore behooves us to protect ourselves in advance to the extent possible. Including two or three letters in the I-129f submission is an easy way to do so.
If any of these letters can head off a potential "red flag," so much the better. An example would be to have your boss write a letter to state why your visits to your fiance(e)'s country could last only four or five days -- the reason being that you work in a small office with tight production schedules, or whatever applies. If the consul already has this letter when he/she gets the I-129f package, he/she cannot question this issue or (it's hoped) throw your fiance(e) out of the interview without consideration.
Of course, the great number of these testimonial letters should be taken to the visa interview, with fresher dates on them, for presentation to the consul... if he/she is interested in accepting "proof of valid relationship" at all.
Avoid deciding for yourself how "strong" or "valid" your relationship is without these letters, because your perception means nothing. Only the judgment of the consular officer counts.