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Thank you all for such a quick response. Posting at this hour, I wasn't really expecting any response until at least tomorrow.

We went a bit crazy and submitted a few months of phone logs, a couple of pages of chat histories, 4 affidavits, photocopies of our passport entry stamps from flying to see each other, and a couple of pictures of us together or with family.

Caly, I don't consider that crazy at all. I managed to search some other topics in the meantime. I saw something about "frontloading" which seems like exactly what you did and I think that might be the way to go as well so I'm already planning to ask some of my friends and family that have met her to see if they would be willing to put something down for us.

But if anyone has anything else to add on this or regarding the visitors visa before/during this process, I'm still all ears. Thanks again to you both! Your responses are encouraging and help the process seem less overwhelming

Hello to all Vj members,

I'm new in this site, I've just have a question: What is the difference between Cr-1 visa into k-3 visa? Could anyone please help me... Anyway, I've just got married back in Philippines then would like to file for a petition, I'm just confused. Thank you! for anyone who could answer my question

Check out this guide...it has a table that should help you to weigh some of the common advantages and disadvantages between the two.

I just want to say thanks for posting. Especially to the author for their advice and initializing this, but also to many of you who replied...so very helpful. Thanks again, I'm bookmarking this one!

Hi,

I recently married my wife a few months ago. We were going to go the route of the fiance visa, but her mother is not in the best of health conditions and she was worried about being able to leave and return if she ever needed to check on her mother. I noticed on this site that with the CR1/IR1 visa she would virtually have her green card right when she arrived which would alleviate this situation but I didn't check out the documentation required for the I-130 believing that the marriage certificate would be our proof (definitely a bad move on my part). However, now that we are married and I'm looking to file the I-130 I realize that we unfortunately don't have the documents that they ask for to verify bonafide marriage. We do have of course the official marriage certificate, but none of the others and our only option looks like maybe filing affidavit(s) from people we know who could vouch for us.

I do visit her in her country regularly...3 times this year alone so far and I plan to go at least once more before the year is over. We also talk regularly on the phone, but I'm not sure if this counts toward evidence for this visa as it would for the fiance visa. I am also wondering if any of the experienced folks out there who have used affidavits would have any more detailed information on how the affidavits could be drawn up and maybe if there is a minimum number of affidavits to submit and qualify for this option. Any other tips on using the other options, if possible, would be appreciated as well if you believe that in your experience they are easier or that they provide a smoother process in some way.

Another concern we had was whether she could apply to come here temporarily on a visitor's visa for visiting purposes only before and/or during the above process without any complications to the above visa provided of course that she returned within the time allowed in the visa. We would like to make this process as smooth as possible. Thanks in advance for all of your assistance.

Another thing to be concerned about is taxes. Once you have been staying in the US longer than 180 days per calendar year you may be subject to paying taxes in both countries since the IRS (and possibly the state that you are staying in) can claim taxes based on you technically spending most of the year there and being a "resident". This will likely come up sometime later when you least expect it with other fines and fees added! Can you say...