K-1 / K-2 question?

[Omar G. 4]

We are doing a K-1/K-2 visa, mainly our objective is to request at the interview the visa for K-2, accmpany and not follow to join. what we want is for them to give both visas, but we (my fiance and I) plan to fly first and get married and organized then in a couple months 3-4, i go back to Colombia and get my step daughter (shes 12 yr.). we dont want to have to wait because we wont have anyone do really help out in Colombia once the mother leaves. My step daughter will stay at her grandmother but she will not be able to go to the capital for any reason, we would like to have this visa issued so when we are ready we can bring her. is this possible?

Thanks

[pushbrk 12,569]

We are doing a K-1/K-2 visa, mainly our objective is to request at the interview the visa for K-2, accmpany and not follow to join. what we want is for them to give both visas, but we (my fiance and I) plan to fly first and get married and organized then in a couple months 3-4, i go back to Colombia and get my step daughter (shes 12 yr.). we dont want to have to wait because we wont have anyone do really help out in Colombia once the mother leaves. My step daughter will stay at her grandmother but she will not be able to go to the capital for any reason, we would like to have this visa issued so when we are ready we can bring her. is this possible?

Thanks

Yes on the visa issue but your difficulty would be obtaining Advance Parole for your fiancee to re-enter the US after going to get the daughter. She'll need that AP first and it generally takes three months or more after filing. You file after you're married. It may be possible for you to go back alone and retreive the daughter but that can get complicated as well. (non-parent international travel with a child)

[Kwagga 0]

If you request 'follow to join' your step daughter will be issued with her visa and will have 12 month in which to join you and your fiancee.

Im in exactly the same situation and have applied for my son to 'follow to join'.

Best of luck

[payxibka 10,045]

If you request 'follow to join' your step daughter will be issued with her visa and will have 12 month in which to join you and your fiancee.

Im in exactly the same situation and have applied for my son to 'follow to join'.

Best of luck

Actually it could be up to 18 mos. Twelve mos. to exercise the follow-to-join and another possible six months of visa validity.

[pushbrk 12,569]

If you request 'follow to join' your step daughter will be issued with her visa and will have 12 month in which to join you and your fiancee.

Im in exactly the same situation and have applied for my son to 'follow to join'.

Best of luck

Actually it could be up to 18 mos. Twelve mos. to exercise the follow-to-join and another possible six months of visa validity.

True but the OP is aware of "follow to join" and states that's not what they want to do, BECAUSE the child will not be able to travel to the Consulate for a visa interview. Their plan for the visa will work just fine. The probem is the mother's ability to leave and return to the USA.

I see three options

1. Do as planned and get the visas at the same time. If AP cannot be secured in time, get an emergency AP travel and retrieve the child.

2. Do the follow to join and take the child to their interview on the same trip you go to retrieve her.

3. Do as planned and get the visas at the same time but send the step-father to retrieve the daughter.

Number two is the safe way, IMO.

[Omar G. 4]

thanks for the help guys......pushbrk i would go with #3, well thats my original plan but dont know if im going to have a problem to leave Colombia with my step daughter. what kind of document would i be able to present? maybe a notorized letter from the father in Colombia and mother (my fiance) stating that i am authorized to travel to the US with the daughter? at the interview we are obviously going to have a notorized letter from the father granting authorization for the daughter to travel and live in the US.

pushbrk, in your ex. #2 you state ..... 2. Do the follow to join and take the child to their interview on the same trip you go to retrieve her.

wouldnt you mean do the Accompany K1? the child will be at the interview with passport and all documents. but we want to easiest way for her daughter to be able to travel in the following months once we get situated, it will be summer then we can look and register her for school ...etc....

thanks everyone

[pushbrk 12,569]

thanks for the help guys......pushbrk i would go with #3, well thats my original plan but dont know if im going to have a problem to leave Colombia with my step daughter. what kind of document would i be able to present? maybe a notorized letter from the father in Colombia and mother (my fiance) stating that i am authorized to travel to the US with the daughter? at the interview we are obviously going to have a notorized letter from the father granting authorization for the daughter to travel and live in the US.

pushbrk, in your ex. #2 you state ..... 2. Do the follow to join and take the child to their interview on the same trip you go to retrieve her.

wouldnt you mean do the Accompany K1? the child will be at the interview with passport and all documents. but we want to easiest way for her daughter to be able to travel in the following months once we get situated, it will be summer then we can look and register her for school ...etc....

thanks everyone

I said it was the safest, not the best fit for your needs. If she gets a visa when her mother does, the six month clock begins. You indicated the grandmother wouldn't be able to take her to the interview but if follow to join, her mother could. You like option 3. That's fine. Yes, if you have a notarized letter from both parents, that's probably enough but that's a question for the foreign government, not VJ.

[Omar G. 4]

thanks, what we are trying to accomplish is only one trip to the embassy and receive both visas. they are going this week for the visas, they will ask there if it is possible with letters from both parents, and i guess i can call the airline ask them and also try to ask customs agent, but i assume if we arrive in customs then we shouldnt really have a problem because we will already be in the US and the visa is issed and i will have the letters. i hope so.....thanks

[pushbrk 12,569]

thanks, what we are trying to accomplish is only one trip to the embassy and receive both visas. they are going this week for the visas, they will ask there if it is possible with letters from both parents, and i guess i can call the airline ask them and also try to ask customs agent, but i assume if we arrive in customs then we shouldnt really have a problem because we will already be in the US and the visa is issed and i will have the letters. i hope so.....thanks

The child's international travel with a step-parent should be solved for exit, not entry. Just be aware of the six month clock.

[Omar G. 4]

so where can i resolve this, would i be able to find this information out with the airline? because they would be the ones to deny me from exiting with my step daughter? i will not have any papers showing i am the legal gaurdien, but would i be able to get these some how once we are married? will we have any problems at the POE if only i am accompanying her?

[pushbrk 12,569]

so where can i resolve this, would i be able to find this information out with the airline? because they would be the ones to deny me from exiting with my step daughter? i will not have any papers showing i am the legal gaurdien, but would i be able to get these some how once we are married? will we have any problems at the POE if only i am accompanying her?

Maybe ask in the regional forum. Some countries have government folks controling exit as well as entry.

[payxibka 10,045]

If you request 'follow to join' your step daughter will be issued with her visa and will have 12 month in which to join you and your fiancee.

Im in exactly the same situation and have applied for my son to 'follow to join'.

Best of luck

Actually it could be up to 18 mos. Twelve mos. to exercise the follow-to-join and another possible six months of visa validity.

True but the OP is aware of "follow to join" and states that's not what they want to do, BECAUSE the child will not be able to travel to the Consulate for a visa interview. Their plan for the visa will work just fine. The probem is the mother's ability to leave and return to the USA.

I see three options

1. Do as planned and get the visas at the same time. If AP cannot be secured in time, get an emergency AP travel and retrieve the child.

2. Do the follow to join and take the child to their interview on the same trip you go to retrieve her.

3. Do as planned and get the visas at the same time but send the step-father to retrieve the daughter.

Number two is the safe way, IMO.

Thanks for the clarification but I was not responding to the OP...

[raymaga 25]

If you want to get both the K-1 and K-2 visas at the same interview appointment, then the K-2 will only be valid for 6 months.

So, you have two options:

1. Your fiance can come to the U.S. and marry you, then immediately send in the AOS and AP applications (if you have all the document prepared prior to your marriage, all you will need is the certified marriage certificate and then you can put the package in the mail.... we mailed ours 2 days after our wedding). Once the AP is approved, you and your wife could go back and pick up your step-daughter.

2. If your fiance is unable to accompany you to pick up her daughter, you could get certified letters from both her and the child's father stating that you have permission for her to travel with you to the U.S.

My daughter followed to join and both me and my husband went back up to Canada and brought her down to the U.S.

[NArocks 13]

Here is the scoop on the child leaving colombia,

You need to go to a colombian embassy here in the US and get a permission slip signed by the parents for the child to leave Colombia not sure if and where you can get this in Colombia sorry http://www.consuladodecolombiany.com/new_p...rmisosmenor.htm . It can only be notorized in Bogota for the child to leave the country without the parents. DAS ( colombian police ) wll not let the child leave the airport without this. Is the father still alive? He will have to sign and notorize this slip also . When my husband went to colombia to pick up the boys we needed this letter from the mom. Whn my son traveled in Christmas back to Colombia he had to have one from both parents.

As far as POE it should be fine just get a paper here in the US notorized stating your are her Guardian

so where can i resolve this, would i be able to find this information out with the airline? because they would be the ones to deny me from exiting with my step daughter? i will not have any papers showing i am the legal gaurdien, but would i be able to get these some how once we are married? will we have any problems at the POE if only i am accompanying her?

Edited March 2, 2009 by NArocks