Rito

Hello,

I know that there is up to a year wait when filing for the K1. My question is, if I can send in the proofs asked for; gifts recipets, letters with stamps, package reciepts with date and address, photos of us together, description of how we met in person, etc. He is in India, I am from the USA. Is it possible to go ahead and file for the K-1 while I am on my visit to his country? I will be there roughly 6mos. and it would really eat up some of the time we would need to be seperated. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks!

Yes, you can file your I-129F from anywhere in the world. We filed ours while we were both in the US, so I could make the boy sign things.

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My Fiance lives in Northern Ireland (as you all well know by now) and I'm wondering where he'll have to do his Medical exam? My cousin's fiance (from england) only had two options for places to go for it, and they were both in England. I'm hoping they only listed the ones that were near him, and there are more in NI and other British countries?

P.P.S: I also found the following on a transcript of an interview from the US Embassy:

My Fiance lives in Northern Ireland (as you all well know by now) and I'm wondering where he'll have to do his Medical exam? My cousin's fiance (from england) only had two options for places to go for it, and they were both in England. I'm hoping they only listed the ones that were near him, and there are more in NI and other British countries? Does anyone know? Cause if he has to fly to England for the exam, and then fly back again for the interview, it's going to be a lot of hassle and expense...yikes!!!!

Hey Jessica&Carl -

As another Northern Ireland filer, I've been wondering the same thing. The US Embassy in London website says:

They seem to imply that you take the medical in London, then have to wait for results and then do the interview in London. What a mess! Is this the case in practice? Can anyone who's been through this verify?

PS: The website also says the medical exam costs £180. Ugh! As if this wasn't costly enough.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...p;#entry3245551

Pretty much summed it up nicely.

Comedy gold i'd say lol.

Holy ######. Reads more like a tragedy... I hope he's getting the help he needs.

some countries suggest to the usa person that they attend interview that suggestion is really a demand u could talk to tbonetx or look at his profile for his story to see what thats about

sara

Oh dear... what an irritating time he had.

Good luck to you, Confundida. It's infuriating how some people seem to have very different experiences with K1 due to bad apple embassies and bad apple employees.

Our interview was in march of 2008. I couldnt make initial interview because of work. So they gave us an open interview. Therefore I made arrangements that didnt affect my job and I flew to Dominican Republic and went to interview.

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding, but how did you both have an interview? My understanding is that in the K1, only the beneficiary interviews, in his/her home country.

Oh dear, he is back.

@Rito, you'll learn more who Seattle2Cebu is if you see his topics - an interesting read indeed.

Heh - I just did. I guess every community's got their trolls.

I am going alone and my packet 3 arrived at the embassy on the same day as yours so maybe we will get an interview date together. Im gonna write down how to get there based on reviews on here and once you are in I think its pretty self explanatory. You will be fine but I share your anxiety. Its a scary day for all of us. Will we get there on time? How long will we wait?

My fiance's going alone - probably in two months. I've been in the UK for the past month and was hoping at the beginning of the process we'd be here at the same time, but NOA2 is a long wait. Good luck to you, Nikki.

I strongly advise against the k-1, unless you establish a history together IN PERSON

I strongly advise against marriage unless you establish a history together in person.

Here are some visiting threads from the Canada forum, it's one of our most frequently asked questions. The absolute key is to have proof of ties to your home country with you. Another key, of course, is to go via a port where you pass through U.S. customs and immigration before getting on the plane

Wow, thanks for all the links!

::Gets tea for Saturday morning reading::

Thank you, but he has lived in 2 different towns since age 16 - does he need one from both towns or does one cover them both?

My understanding after I asked the question in <a href="http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=233894">this</a> thread is that one UK police certificate will cover the whole country, everywhere he's lived. You write the addresses he's lived at in the past five years on the form itself, which is here:

http://www.acpo.police.uk/Certificates/Pol...0App%20Form.pdf

I see this question come up a lot

I'd love to hear from someone who was denied traveling while the visa was pending. Common knowledge seems to be that the border official can stop you for "whatever reason" if you've applied for a K1... in people's experiences, what causes this to happen?

I'm so nervous about my SO being turned away at the border, I'm having him wait in the UK until he has the K1 visa. But if the risk is practically nil, maybe he can come visit after all.

Hello. Myself and my British/Northern Irish fiance will be in San Francisco, CA.

Hi all, it's been at least a year since I posted last! My husband (UKer) and I are expecting our first kid this coming year. I tried to look on various UK government sites about registering the birth so our kid has duel citizenship but am totally confused. It looked like I could either just file for a passport for it or get some sort of birth registry cert from the embassy. Anyone have any good info for us? Thanks!

If you register a birth with the provided link, and the kid was born in the US, are they automatically a duel citizen once you apply for a British passport?

Penguin_ie is correct, the application form asks for addresses for the last 5 years. The form gives room to list five, if your fiancee can't list all of them for whatever reason then they should note that in the further information section. The application form link is below:

http://www.acpo.police.uk/Certificates/Pol...0App%20Form.pdf

Thanks so much!

I notice that page 4 of the form you linked to says "Have you ever lived in Northern Ireland? If YES, please provide details on the continuation sheet." Do you know what kind of details they could possibly want, since they'd already have the addresses from the form?

Hi,

Just a quick question, is the annual income to be indicated on the affidavit of support forms the gross or net annual income?

Thanks,

Arch

Gross income (source)

My fiancee has a family home in the UK, but as a student for the past five years moved four times in his British college city and sometimes stayed with friends. I'm not sure the UK would have a record of everywhere he lived. I'm wondering if all of this is a problem, and if so if just the family home address will do, and how we can go about getting these certificates? In the biographical G-325A form in our I-129F I did mention that he lived in these various addresses, but for the interview could we just get one for his family address? Would the discrepancy matter?

Thanks so much!

Hello everyone. I have not been on this website for a long time.

Hello RANNK1. I'm so sorry to hear what you are going through. But I did want to mention that when I checked your timeline and saw that you are not yet married, I drew a huge sigh of relief for you. This man seems to be using you for immigration to the US, but the power is in your hands because now you can refuse to marry him. I know the visa process is painful, long, and expensive, but I assure you that an unhappy marriage and divorce will be moreso. I'm glad you have time to get out of this, and move on with your life.

Good luck to you.

Thanks for all the info... I'm in my mid 30's and he's in his early 30's. I've never been cheated like this before and never knew how cruel this worldly lust people can bring to one another. I just think that people are faithful that all.

Does anyone have a help format of what my letter should look like to be sent to the USCIS? Can anyone really open a line of credit under my name and ID in another country??? Please give me more advice and info.

I don't buy his ticket, he's going to come up with that on his own and he has a brother here in the USA will support that part with or without me. Yet it's great lost for me, HIT LOTTERY FOR HIM, but he's not that talent or educated with any kind of potential so after he cross his own path he'll probably have to find another way to be a gold digger.

I want to THANK ALL OF YOU from the bottom of my heart for sharing you knowledge, experience, and expertise... Please share ALL you can! I'm waiting to hear more...

As someone else mentioned, if he enters the US on the K1 visa but doesn't marry you or leave within 90 days, he becomes an illegal immigrant. It's not really a ticket to a great life - if he leaves the US, he'll have trouble reentering, for one. Getting work will be hard. Really, it's as though he jumped the fence at that point.

What we don't have information on is what he's getting out of you. Is the money you described as lost in the visa fees? It just seems unlikely that he'd go to all the trouble to become engaged and file for a K1 for one entry, in order to become an illegal immigrant in America. What is he gaining? Certainly not your money. The visa fees are lost, but he'd have no access to any more. He can't open a line of credit under your name, and he has no access to your bank account unless you gave it to him.

I'm also the US citizen in our US/UK pairing. We're planning another visit during visa processing time, but I'm going to go over to the UK. I've heard a few stories about being stopped at either the US or the UK border, too. But I've also heard you can prevent that as long as you have sufficient proof of your intent to return to your home country!

In regards to the interview date, you don't get to pick it, but some people over in the UK region forum have reported being able to influence their interview date by letting the consulate know they have a specific wedding date. It seems like the consulate tries to consider the wedding date when scheduling interviews

Thanks for the help, Leenie! I'm actually visiting him in the UK also, from mid-December to mid-January, so we will have plenty of time together. Also, we've been a long-distance couple for four and a half years, so really the visa wait doesn't seem like as big a deal to us.

Thanks for letting us know about the interview. Even if you can influence it within a few weeks, however, a last-minute trans-continental flight is a bit out of our budget. Plus my fiancee is better able to secure work in the UK than here. So, we'll see each other again when he's got that visa.

- Rito

Another just told me to get her here on a tourist visa and marry her when she gets here, and say we met on her visit..

Wow, that is some horrible advice you got! As I'm sure you found out later, doing this is illegal and can have serious repercussions if found out, including your fiancee not being able to enter the country for years. It's great that you're here instead. I've found the forums and advice invaluable, and definitely didn't feel I needed a lawyer after reading the guides. Good luck!

- Rito

I'm late sounding off in this group - but hello fellow October 2009 filers. I'm a US citizen, my fiancee is a UK citizen and currently visiting me on the visa waiver progamme. When he goes back to the UK, he's going to stay there until the interview rather than make another visit to the States. I read too many scary stories about people getting turned away for a visit. Also, I wasn't able to determine if you get to pick your interview day or not, but if you don't then his being in the UK will mean we won't need an expensive last-minute flight.

Our NOA1 was sent from CSC on October 13, so like you are waiting for now.

Rito

Dear VJers....I don't know what to do with my case being delayed.

You may want to think about what they may have found in your background check. Are there any crimes or outstanding warrants they may have come across? Hopefully the November touch means they finally have what they need and can proceed.

I met my person online. No idea what percentage do, and of course the numbers would be inflated at VJ, but I have to imagine they see it a lot.