I am a US citizen living abroad in Israel, my fiance's home country. It was the only way for us to be together while dating because Israel grants work visas to boyfriends/girlfriends of Israeli citizens as long as we live together (domestic partners). Now we have decided to get married and want to move to the US. We actually can't get married in Israel even if we wanted to because Israel does not have civil marriage, only religious. He is Jewish and I am not, so we can only get married in the US.
Here are my questions:
Will the fact that I don't live in the US be a problem when I petition for his K1 visa? In Israel, I am not considered a resident, only a tourist permitted to work.
When sending in the petition, can I put my address of residency as my parent's address (my last place of residence in the US)? Israeli postal service is scarily unreliable, and I don't want to risk any important paperwork getting lost in their system.
How can I prove that we will both live in the US together after getting married?
When getting my fiance's documents apostilled, do only the originals have to be apostilled or also the translations? Do the translations need to be notarized by an Israeli lawyer or an American notary?
US citizen living abroad in my fiance's home country
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I am a US citizen living abroad in Israel, my fiance's home country. It was the only way for us to be together while dating because Israel grants work visas to boyfriends/girlfriends of Israeli citizens as long as we live together (domestic partners). Now we have decided to get married and want to move to the US. We actually can't get married in Israel even if we wanted to because Israel does not have civil marriage, only religious. He is Jewish and I am not, so we can only get married in the US.
Here are my questions:
Will the fact that I don't live in the US be a problem when I petition for his K1 visa? In Israel, I am not considered a resident, only a tourist permitted to work.
When sending in the petition, can I put my address of residency as my parent's address (my last place of residence in the US)? Israeli postal service is scarily unreliable, and I don't want to risk any important paperwork getting lost in their system.
How can I prove that we will both live in the US together after getting married?
When getting my fiance's documents apostilled, do only the originals have to be apostilled or also the translations? Do the translations need to be notarized by an Israeli lawyer or an American notary?
Thank you!