Midge, keep in mind that once your fiance arrives in the US, the countdown starts and you only have 90 days to get married from the date of entry. With your proposed wedding date, he would have to arrive on July 22, 2011 or later. According to your timeline, he could possibly arrive in January or shortly thereafter. You would have no choice but to get married quickly and then have the big ceremony later that year just for your friends and family, unless if you have both already decided he would come later in the year. If I'm not mistaken though, the K-1 visa is only valid for one entry into the US from 6 months from the date of issue. Just keep an eye on your timeline.
Hi everyone! First off, I'd like to start by saying thank you to everyone who posts on VisaJourney, your experience and tips and the website in and of itself has been an absolute gold mine of information and support. It is thanks to all of you that I have finally submitted my I-129F for my fiance. I have already received the NOA1 which was very exciting, of course. )
Now I have been browsing the website even more deeply, and have come to realize that I may have a slight problem. My fiance is Nigerian, and we had an engagement ceremony to celebrate our engagement. There are a few threads already about this topic and discovered them tonight. In my I-129f petition I included photos of the history of our relationship, and I included the engagement party photos as well (thinking it would help our petition). It has come to my attention that the US Embassy in Nigeria may consider this as a marriage (and upon further research should not have been added as it is considered "too much information.") However, my fiance and I are not married and we did not go to the registry in Lagos to get married and we do not have marriage certificates. We are waiting for his arrival in the US to get married. So we are truly and honestly just engaged. To make things even more interesting, I am also about 4 months pregnant with our first child. Now I am having major anxiety thinking that we should have just gotten married and I could have filed the I-130 in the first place.
So my questions are as follows:
Are there any VisaJourney members with fiances in Nigeria that have been approved for the K-1 visa even after submitting photos of the engagement?
Would it possible to quickly go and get married in Nigeria and then send in the I-130 as well? (After I already received I-129f NOA1)
Should we just relax and leave the petition as it is, since we are just truly engaged?
I would just feel so much better if I heard from one person with a fiance in Nigeria that they submitted the engagement party photos and they were still approved for the K-1. I'm worried... thanks for the help, and thanks for reading. I really just want to feel better about this.
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