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In this case the CO has to be convinced that you are married , as members here advised you , once he suspected that you are married you'd deny the visa and would tell you "That's not the type of visa for your fiance" , wish you best of luck.

Yes because everyone on this board is smarter than lawyers and knows the system of Egyptian marriages. If you wish to investigate yourselves instead of speculate you can simply google what kind of marriages are legal in Egypt and the United States. As I have stated, according to the United States Embassy in Cairo, my attorney, and the Egyptian Authorities we are not legally married in any form. Unless anyone of you has more knowledge than that I advise you do your research before you dish out advice to others. Situations of marriage are different in each country.

This is taken directly from the US Embassy site: " The only legal marriage for foreigners in Egypt is a civil ceremony performed at the local marriage court, which is in accordance with Islamic practice. Persons wishing a religious ceremony may arrange for one separately, but it is the civil ceremony that establishes the legal marriage." (http://egypt.usembassy.gov/consular/acs12.html)

Thank you everyone for the poor advise and know-it-allness. Hope you all have a great journey.

Does anyone know the Egyptian recipe for baked zucchini with meat and the milk sauce topping

One more question please. There is a section where I have to write her address in Arabic, but when I try typing it comes up with weird characters. Is this something that can be hand-written?

When I downloaded the pdf pamphlet it allowed me to write it in Arabic type. You can install the Arabic type on any computer. While it is ok to hand write it, I tried and the lines are just not big enough to make it legible. Have you solved the issue yet? If not you can always have her translate it to Arabic for you and copy and paste it in the proper lines. Good luck!

I have kind of a silly question, but I want to be sure of it before I file the visa.

My fiance is living in Egypt and I would like to start filling out the K-1 visa. This is her address pulled off of Google Maps:

El-Mohandes Salah St

Kafr Tohormos

Qesm Boulaq Ad Dakrour

Giza Governorate, Egypt

Is Giza Governorate the city? I have had people tell me that, Giza, Cairo, etc. Can I just put a city and country and exclude province, state, etc?

Thanks in advance!

Giza Governorate is not the city, but the state or province. Qesm Boulaq Ad Dakrour is the city. In Egypt, a 'Governorate' is the state. For example, my fiance lives in the City of Port Fouad in Port Said Governorate. Do you have a building number or apartment number for her? Her address should be listed on her Egyptian identification card, at least my fiance's is.

We know that my 'fiance' will have to start getting his documents translated to English but we have just filed our K1 papers. I know the Egyptian bureaucracy is terrible and it takes forever to have things translated, as I have had to have my personal documents translated before which took over a month.

I know it will take a while for him to receive his interview, anywhere from 4-12 months but would you consider it too early to start getting papers translated now? Papers with little time relevance such as his military exemption, birth certificate, and university papers? IMHO better to get them done early then find out we are moving quicker than expected then not have them done on time. Any ideas or experiences would be helpful.

Thanks in advance for the advice.

Why do not you just do it right , and go to Ministry of justice and have that civil marriage it will only take a couple of hours and a week to receieve your marriage certificate

My family will not support our marriage if we do not agree to have the legal ceremony in the United States, besides, my children deserve to be involved. And anyone who has dealt with Egyptian bureaucracy knows that it is a complete pain to get a marriage legalized with a foreigner. Go to this office and have this guy sign, then another office to have another individual sign that the other guy signed, and so on. It would actually delay our process even more by the time we got all the paperwork done and an appointment with the embassy to have the translation of the marriage certificate stamped. For us, this is the way we have decided to go. As with any situation, everyone's is different, and a personal choice.

Welcome to the forum.

Best wishes on describing to the consulate officials about your "non-marriage" marriage union. You can try to explain it to the folks here at VJ site as good practice. The interviewing consulate officials are the ones that you have to convince.

Good luck on your immigration journey.

Our attorney has informed us not to offer that information up unless asked specifically. It is widely known in Egypt that this is a common practice though, as living together without a union before God is forbidden in our religion and illegal in Egypt. I have known several other couples act similarly and have no issues with their visas. After speaking to an Egyptian attorney as well as our American immigration attorney it seems as though this will cause us no problems as our religious practices are well known. But thank you for the heads up.

I will use the word union then in this case. In Egypt, we do have a religious document stating we are 'joined' before God. This prevents us from being charged with adultery but gives us no rights legally. Any unions preformed in Mosques, Churches, or Synagogues in Egypt are only viewed by both governments (Egypt and USA) as civil. In order to become legally married you must go to the Egyptian Government in Cario and have a completely different type of 'legal' marriage. Most people, at least Egyptians, that I know have both ceremonies.

According to our Attorney and the Egyptian Governement, our union is only civil. We have no marriage rights either in the USA or Egypt. We were advised to either become legally married in Egypt or file K-1.

Today:

Port Fouad Egypt

Local Temp without sun factor or humidity 33°C=91.4°

Local temp with heat index 42°=107°

Local temp with sun factor and heat index: 50°C=122°F

I can't wait for Winter or to be back home... Whichever comes first!

Hi! My name is Gamila and I am from Wisconsin. I met my fiance Wael, who is Egyptian, online through a mutual acquaintance, I woman I knew married one of his best friends. For a few weeks they pushed us to meet one another, but both of us just kept putting it off. Neither of us were interested in a relationship at the time but decided to talk just to shut them up. LOL

I had been married for 10 years and just ended an engagement a few months before. I had very bad experiences with men and was not figuring our relationship to go very far. However cliche it sounds, my fiance and I instantly bonded and were engaged by the end of our first conversation. We were religiously married 6 weeks later in Port Said, Egypt where I stayed from 11/28/2013-09/29/2014.

We struggled going back and forth for the longest time about what we should do, stay in Egypt or come the the US. We have three daughters from my first marriage, whose father wouldn't let them travel. As much as he didn't want to come to the USA, and I didn't want to go back, the girls always come first.

After returning to Egypt this past March we decided to go ahead with the K-1 visa so the girls and my family would have an opportunity to be at our legal wedding since they couldn't attend our religious ceremony. We just filed our initial papers the 27th of July and are anxiously hoping this process will be over with soon.

I am a professional photographer and currently studying journalism. I spend most of my time in Egypt playing with my cats and crocheting to pass the time. As with boredom I am open to making new friends and helping folks wherever I can.

So yeah... I guess that's about it.

Wishing everyone luck in their journey! <3 <3

My fiance is Egyptian so he speaks Egyptian Arabic and he is also very fluent in English. I can speak Egyptian Arabic well enough. I can speak quite fluently Lebanese Arabic. I know, since living in Egypt I should really speak Arabic, but I am really nervous when I speak it. I do speak it when I have to (with his family, at appointments, while out getting produce, etc...) but at home we mostly speak English. Except to our cats, whom we speak to in Arabic.

For us, it was an easy answer. My ex-husband was never going to let my three daughters move to Egypt. While neither of us really wanted to live in the Untied States due to the discrimination but there wasn't much of a choice, the girls come first.

Thanks. That's what I though but I didn't want to take any second chances.

Looking at getting our K1 filed soon, just wondering about the blank spaces. For example, my fiance doesn't have children, prior spouses, other names, ect...

What would you suggest I do with these spaces? Leave them blank or fill them in with 'n.a.'? Just want to fill this all out correctly so it isn't denied or something. Thank you all.