Critical Information About Seeing Your Foreign Fiance
A few things you need to know if you are submitting your K1 Fiance Visa without the aid of an attorney.
Requirements you must comply with before submitting your application. The requirement is meeting your fiance within two years of sending your K1 Application. Let’s say you met your fiance three years ago and want to file. Your application will most likely be denied. Take another trip to see her. Come back with updated travel documents and then submit your application.
There are a number of things that these trips prove to the USCIS officers reviewing your application. For one it ensures your relationship is current. They tend to not trust a long distance relationship that does not show face to face contact within two years. As they see it, most normal relationships have personal contact. If you have not seen your fiance in two years, then something is not right. This will definitely keep your application from being approved.
See your fiance within the last two years. Once is not enough if you really want to show a trend. Meeting once does not show true intent. This is my personal opinion but there are things that can happen over three years of not seeing each other. A bond becomes weak without face to face contact. It is best to see each other every 6 months or at the least once a year. But that decision lies with the both of you.
Not all K1 Fiance couples are compatible. I have met many that are not. The worst part of it is they found this out after they were finally together in the USA. The comfort level was not there and they even had a hard time just trying to sleep with each other.
I made it a point to meet my fiance every 4 – 6 months and I would normally visit for three weeks. The first was a little uncomfortable. The second time I met her it was better. The third time I realized that she was the one for me. The trips were hard and long, but they are well worth it once your fiance comes to live with you in the USA.
Hop a plane regularly and spend some time with your fiance. Here are the things you need to keep while on your travels. Hang on to your plane ticket stubs, hotel receipts, currency exchange receipts.
Plane ticket stubs, hotel receipts, currency exchange receipts, and retail shop receipts were items I always brought back with me. Retail receipts were a great source of proof. They would always contain the name of the store, address and date that I bought the items.
Pictures were something I took a lot of when we took our trips together. I would take as many as I could of just her and me. The date and time stamp feature on the camera came in handy on my travels. I took a minimum of two pictures of use together on every trip. When I did submit my application, these pictures went right along with my K1 Visa Application.