K1 Visa Timeline- Planning Wedding

[jkris 0]

I'm a USC and my fiance lives in Northern Ireland (UK). We're applying for a K1 visa and just got our NOA1 on April 9, 2013 from the Vermont Service Center. We're planning our wedding in the US for March 1, 2014. What are the chances that he'll have his visa in time for the wedding? What's an average timeline from receipt of the NOA1 to getting the visa in hand? Any advice is apprecaited!

[h_m 12]

I think the advice that most people would give you is to not plan anything until you have the visa in hand. It's hard to say how long it'll take, though ~6 months for the approval of the petition plus another 2-3 months for the actual interview seems reasonable. More experienced members may be able to give you something more detailed. Just know that there are often unexpected delays in these things and that's why most people would say not to plan anything yet.

[lost_at_sea 995]

You can examine the statistics for yourself here: http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/stats.php?cfl=

You are going to be warned by everyone here not to make concrete plans until you have your visa in hand, though. This process throws up all kinds of curve-balls and surprise delays, even with best made plans and folks with exceptional form-completion skills. I would concentrate on plannings things that are not time-sensitive (dresses, suits etc.), or only making bookings that you can reschedule without additional fees.

[duraaraa 203]

I think next March is pretty reasonable. It's, of course, always possible the visa is not ready in time.

[JParce 8]

It is better to wait until the NOA2 is approved and then you can plan your wedding, this process takes more time and more delays so it is better if you apply first wait until you get your NOA2 and then you can start plaining you wedding... I am still waiting to get my NOA 2 and I have 6 months and a week waiting, there are some applications that took lest time so that's why it is better to wait, you may be lucky to get it before 6 months or hopefully not a little bit more than 6 months...

Wish you the best with your application and hope you don't have to wait too long!

[LmmL 46]

Hi, I just wanna share my experience.

Since my fiancé and I got engaged last year, we have two main goals, to have our dream wedding and to get K1 Visa for me. While we gathered all the requirements for the petition we also planned everything we need for our wedding. I admitt it that I enjoy it, even until now I made a wedding timeline, because I know when I get the visa it's impossible for me to plan the wedding for only a month or two, and I'm glad we planned it since we got engaged. We both enjoy ourselves planning the things we need for our wedding while waiting for NOA2 (it takes 177 days until we got our NOA2), we got most of stuffs we need such as my wedding dress, he got his wedding suit, attire for bestman, maid of honor, flower girls, ring bearer, which will definitely make us stress if we plan it after we got our NOA2 we've discussed the food, venue, etc during the waiting period. And now when we have our NOA2 in hand, less stress we have, we are concentrate on the NOA2 now and not worried about our plans for our wedding because we've discussed and arranged most of the things when we were waiting for our NOA2.

[LmmL 46]

The wedding plan before the NOA2, But, yes, we set the Wedding date when the NOA2 arrived

[baron555 934]

I'm a USC and my fiance lives in Northern Ireland (UK). We're applying for a K1 visa and just got our NOA1 on April 9, 2013 from the Vermont Service Center. We're planning our wedding in the US for March 1, 2014. What are the chances that he'll have his visa in time for the wedding? What's an average timeline from receipt of the NOA1 to getting the visa in hand? Any advice is apprecaited!

Sounds reasonable. Be prepared to move the date as the visa process requires. Best bet is set no date until the visa is in hand.