K1 Visa Fiance Studying Outside of Home Country

[adaekwueme 0]

Hey guys I am new to this whole visa process but when me and my fiance started dating he was getting ready to leave his home country for a one year course in Malaysia. So throughout the course of our relationship he has been in Malaysia and I have gone to visit him 3 different times. But now he is getting read to go back to his home country and I am about to file his K1 application and I was just wondering if we will have issues since I've only gone to visit him while he was in school and I have not been to his home country. I plan on going to his home country in August so should I just wait to file then or does it matter?

[Naisha 5]

You don't have to wait until you visit him in his country. You can file now, you won't have issues as long as you met in person in the last 2 years. It doesn't matter where you met, I'm telling you this based on my own experience. I went to Malaysia in 2005 and worked there since 2006. I met my then-fiancee (my now husband) in 2010 during his deployment ( Malaysia is one of the countries they visited). Started dating online in 2011, the he went to visit me in Malaysia in 2012 and spend 23 days together. He proposed on Dec. 4, 2012, filed for K1 on Dec. 12, 2012... I went back to the Philippines on Dec. 31, 2012. My husband haven't met my family yet in the Philippines, but we're planning of visiting them next year. As long as you have met in person in the last two years and have a proofs that your relationship is bonafide, then you have nothing to worry about.