sending money to my fiancee

[amitt90210 0]

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Hello everyone here at VJ. I am in the early stage if my K1, and have a few questions. I met my fiancee at a family event in USA and fell head over heels for her. she will be sponsering me in a month or so. My question here is that since she is not employed right now I dont want to become a burden for her and her family. Nor do i want her to ask her famliy for my K1 fees. So can someone please let me know how much it would roughly cost. she will be hiring a lawyer and i want to know how much to send her, as she will not tell me even if i asked.

I read some other articles and it comes to about $4-5 K. That should be about 2500 GBP. I will sending this to her account, so she can not refuse to accept. But i want to know any other opinion i can get.

Thanks in advance.

[kmiami15 8]

It seems about right... but for now, you would just need $340 (filing fee for the petition) plus other costs like printing pictures or taking the passport pictures and mailing in the documents .... I saw a post detailing the overall costs, but I can´t seem to find it.... I am not sure how much the lawyer would charge you.... but I would recommend to please read the guidelines and read the the guide for the K1 vise under the "guides" tab on top of this page... try it out and see if you can save the money on the lawyer... you will need it late for visa medical exam tickets and adjustment of status once you arrive to the US.... if both of your situation is not complicated (no criminal records, everything pretty straight forward), I would recommend maybe you do not have to use a lawyer... however, it is up to you two how you feel more comfortable..... keep us posted.... again, there should be no need to send your fiancee all of this money all at once.... I think she can use $500 to begin with and keep the rest for the remaining of the process.... take care... good luck...!!!

[KayDeeCee 4,893]

These are just the immigration filing fees:

I-129F petition fee: $340

Visa processing fee: $240

Adjustment of Status fee: $1070

Removal of Conditions fee: $590

Naturalization fee: $680

Total from petition to citizenship: $2920

She just needs to pay the $340 to file the I-129F. You could pay your own $240 visa processing fee when the time comes for your K-1 interview, and you will be in the US with her and married already for all the rest of the form fees.

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[I & B 273]

Consider using paypal instead of a wire transfer. Depending on the fees charged by your bank for currency conversion, you may save quite a bit of money by using paypal.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Costs

K1 route = $1680 + £280

$340 (USCIS) I-129F petition

$240 (Embassy) Visa fee

£45 ACPO Police certificate

£235 (Knightsbridge Doctors) medical exam

$30 Courier fee if home delivery

$1070 (USCIS) Adjustment of Status/Work Authorization/Advance Parole

[baron555 934]

Why pay a lawyer?

[Hank_ 9,174]

nix the lawyer... follow the guide here on VJ.

[Avery Cates 1,141]

Nix the lawyer, the process is more or less very easy to do yourself. Lawyers can and have screwed things up and made it worse.

The only real rough aspect of the process is the length of waiting. However, a lawyer can do exactly nothing about that, so they're a waste of money.

I use PayPal for the odd times I have to send her money. If it's linked to your bank account there's very minimal fees.

If you want to send her the $340 for the I-129f fee that's fine, but I would not send a large amount in the thousands, on the off chance USCIS or DHS checks her records and sees that, there's potential that they could think it's not a real relationship and you're paying her to get US citizenship, which will lead to additional complications that you don't want.