horst+brunnhilda

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know what the deal is with timing and the medical exam for the consulate? We are going through the Frankfurt consulate for our K1 (just received and sent off the packet 3 checklist), and the information from the consulate says that you're supposed to have your medical 6 weeks before you want to enter the US at the latest. It seems that in Germany, the interview at the consulate and medical exams often happen in the same day. Does that mean we will have to wait at least another 6 weeks after the medical before we get the visa? We would like my fiancee to leave for the US as soon as possible after the interview date, so should we try to do the medical now, and not even wait to receive an interview date?

Thank you all for your help, we appreciate it so much!

Dear all,

We just got our NOA2, and so we're expecting to finally get married sometime this spring (march-may). The problem is that we would like to travel abroad this summer, both for work and pleasure. Our idea is for my fiancee to come here and for us to get married on the K1 visa. Then, we could go abroad for the summer and come back within the 90 day window you need to apply for AOS. Since my fiancee is German, she could enter the second time as a tourist at the end of the summer visa-free. Since I can only really travel this summer, this way we would like to avoid the problem of applying for AOS and waiting a long time to receive advance parole.

Has anyone done this before, is this feasible? I know you can't travel abroad after you apply for AOS, but can you travel abroad between getting married and applying for AOS?

Many thanks in advance, and good luck to everyone!