RyanAndMary

4 hours ago, UserNameNA said:

Ryan, I would like to help... but you don't really give any indication as to what stage you are at. If you want to respond here or send me a direct message and i'll help you out the entire process. 

The issue was basically that there was no direction on timelines for K1 after getting it other than "get married in 90 days". Due to a bunch of different issues, our marriage had to take place on the 89th day.  We had conflicting information from this and other forums on whether or not we had to apply for AOS within those 90 days.  Most people had said you didn't, but we could not find an actual answer on the USCIS website or get in touch with an office who knew the answer.

So, the question pertains to the lack of information between K1 and AOS.  They claim that you have 90 days to get married, but really you have much less time because you're also supposed to apply for AOS in that time as well. We had no idea. It is frustrating that the USCIS does not give good directions and guidance. It's discouraging.

Regardless, we have received some PMs that were a lot of help and we appreciate your willingness to help us out. Thank you. We'll reach out directly if we have other questions.

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1 minute ago, Pitaya (火龙果) said:

I may have misread your initial posting....  Did the K1 visa beneficiary enter the US, using the K1 visa, and marry the US petitioner in the US? 

Yes.  I just wanted to know if it was normal for the communication to stop or if we should be worried about things being lost in mail or something like that.

31 minutes ago, Pitaya (火龙果) said:

BTW, good job at filling out your timeline, keep it current and be sure to do your reviews. It is people, on their immigration journey, keeping filling their timeline current and doing their reviews that give the VJ stats relevance. It helps all of us that rely on this DIY site. 

 

Don't expect the huge government bureaucracies to give you anything much more than a bone (approval), or a stick (RFE) every once in awhile, and an on-going ration of poking and prodding into your personal life throughout all of these processes. The rest of us characters are just trudging along on our own immigration journey.

 

Your next goals should be starting to enjoy your new life together. Become acquainted with the K1 Visa Flow Chart, https://www.visajourney.com/content/k1flow , sounds like you are at about step 18. Do what the rest of us have done at this DIY site, read up on the next steps in the flow chart by accessing the particular guide, and check for informative USCIS links  for that step, using a good internet search engine and READ. Google is the one the site uses and will work for your purposes. After that, if you still have specific questions, then ask them in the appropriate forum. For you, the next logical forums will be the K1/K3 AOS process and associated forums.

 

I would suggest that you file your combined Adjustment of Status/Employment Authorization Document/Advance Parole (AOS/EAD/AP - I-485/I-765/I-131) applications concurrently and as soon as you can after your marriage. Do some reading and research to find out the rationale for this suggestion.

 

Good luck on your immigration journey. Remember it is not a sprint race, rather it is a marathon, pace yourselves.

Thank you.  We will fill out the rest as it gets completed. 

19 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Looking at the entirety of your post and in what forum you posted this.

 

You had a K-1 visa interview.

 

You had no more communication from the USA government after the interview. That means no one called you to pick up the passport and visa.

 

You got married. Without a passport and visa, that means you got married in the country where you had the interview, and not the USA.

 

So bad news for you. You are no longer eligible to enter the USA on a K-1 visa. You have to contact USCIS to cancel your petition, and tell the embassy/consulate that you are now married.

 

The USA citizen now has to file an I-130, and you get to wait to apply for a CR-1.

 

If perhaps you exaggerated, and did get contacted by the embassy to pick up your passport and visa, you did enter the USA, and you did get married, then yes indeed, it is normal for the government to not send you instructions after point of entry. You had 90 days to get married and file for adjustment of status. 

 

 

They didn't call me to collect anything, it was mailed to me and the post office let me know it was there.  I didn't consider that to be them communicating with me because they just shipped it off and let someone else handle it.

My biggest worries are coming from the fact that they sent me links that literally didn't work and I had to hope the forms I dug up were current.  The links they sent that were broken were to forms I didn't find on our site so moving ahead with forms I've had to hunt down on google worries me.  I just found it odd that they'd send me links to things that didn't work, and then provide zero paperwork on next steps. 

Thanks for the responses

Thank you kindly

I don't know why almost every person responding here had to be nasty.  It's our responsibility?  DUH that's why we are using this site to gather information.  Being nasty and rude to people asking questions serves no purpose.  We ARE googling things, like I had to do at the start when the USCIS sent me broken links.  They don't need to "hold hands" but giving me a link to documents to fill out so we know they're the right ones and up to date, and not broken out of date ones like they sent me in the email should be a requirement.  Nasty people.  Why do you bother coming to the site to answer questions if you're going to be that awful?

We were given zero instructions on what to do after the wedding.  We are just following what's posted on the guidelines here but I do get concerned about not having up to date paperwork.  Is this normal for them to stop communicating with you after the interview and not provide ANY instructions?  What would we do if this site didn't exist?  

We're still waiting on my updated social but need to know if we use my new name or old name.

Thanks!

The initial information we received had us thinking it would be a few weeks before we heard back after sending in the packet 3.  It was about 24 hours later I got an email saying to go ahead and make it, it's been reviewed and accepted.  I didn't get sent the email with packet 4 until a few days later when I emailed them back with questions.

Because we were expecting a few weeks, we don't have all the paperwork together since we thought we had time.  My city takes 6-8 weeks to complete a police records check.   I'm currently on hold with private companies to see if they can get it done faster.

How long from the date I am told to schedule do I have to actually schedule it, and how long to actually complete it?

Thank you