Fiance Visa OR Marriage Visa?

[JustSherry 0]

My fiance lives in Pakistan. I met him when I was teaching English in South Korea. I became pregnant and returned home to America to have the baby. We want to get married and bring him here. I am trying to figure out the best way to do this. I am planning a trip to Pakistan in September regardless if we get married or not. We need to establish proof of our relationship if we go the fiance visa route anyway. I was wondering if marriage visa's or fiance visa's would be more likely to go through. What are the advantages and disadvantages of both?

[hanster 0]

My fiance lives in Pakistan. I met him when I was teaching English in South Korea. I became pregnant and returned home to America to have the baby. We want to get married and bring him here. I am trying to figure out the best way to do this. I am planning a trip to Pakistan in September regardless if we get married or not. We need to establish proof of our relationship if we go the fiance visa route anyway. I was wondering if marriage visa's or fiance visa's would be more likely to go through. What are the advantages and disadvantages of both?

you might want to refer to the following post, it is someone who has a situation exactly like yours (incredible ) and there are 9 replies for that post.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...mp;#entry677616

[JustSherry 0]

Yeah, thanks..I wrote that post. I wrote a new one in a different forum to get new responses.

Sherry

My fiance lives in Pakistan. I met him when I was teaching English in South Korea. I became pregnant and returned home to America to have the baby. We want to get married and bring him here. I am trying to figure out the best way to do this. I am planning a trip to Pakistan in September regardless if we get married or not. We need to establish proof of our relationship if we go the fiance visa route anyway. I was wondering if marriage visa's or fiance visa's would be more likely to go through. What are the advantages and disadvantages of both?

you might want to refer to the following post, it is someone who has a situation exactly like yours (incredible ) and there are 9 replies for that post.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...mp;#entry677616

[Magnolia31 0]

My fiance lives in Pakistan. I met him when I was teaching English in South Korea. I became pregnant and returned home to America to have the baby. We want to get married and bring him here. I am trying to figure out the best way to do this. I am planning a trip to Pakistan in September regardless if we get married or not. We need to establish proof of our relationship if we go the fiance visa route anyway. I was wondering if marriage visa's or fiance visa's would be more likely to go through. What are the advantages and disadvantages of both?

My own personal opinion is that a fiance visa is better. With the fiance visa, you get to bring him to the US and then he is allowed to wait out the other process there. If you get married and apply, he will have to wait out the process in his country. That takes longer than the fiance visa.

Isn't a baby proof enough? LOL ... all of this proof of relationship stuff just mesmerizes me. It makes my head spin.

[Reba 2]

a baby only proves one night, not a relationship.

[Robor007 0]

My own personal opinion is that a fiance visa is better. With the fiance visa, you get to bring him to the US and then he is allowed to wait out the other process there. If you get married and apply, he will have to wait out the process in his country. That takes longer than the fiance visa.

Isn't a baby proof enough? LOL ... all of this proof of relationship stuff just mesmerizes me. It makes my head spin.

That would only apply if she's talking about the IR-1/CR-1 spousal visa process. The K-3 spousal visa process seems to be about as fast as the K-1 fiancee process now.

As Reba said, a baby doesn't really factor in. I met a guy in the Philippines who is petitioning his fiancee and she is currently pregnant and her condition doesn't affect the speed of the process one way or the other. The burden of proof is there to weed out those petitions that are fraudulent and we all get treated the same way (with heavy scrutiny). It's sort of like 'guilty before proven innocent'.

[JustSherry 0]

It's true. So frustrating.... and now there are recent bombings in Pakistan, so I am hesitant to go there...esp. with my daughter. The problem is that right now we don't really have much proof of relationship, unfortunately. We didn't know we would need all of this stuff when we left Korea so we didn't hold on to anything....or enough, anyway. Do I need to be in the US to apply for a marriage visa? My other thought is if we both go back to Korea to work, we can get married and wait out the process there. I just don't know if that would work?? Maybe he has to be in Pakistan in order to do his part of the process. Does anybody know about this?

Thanks for all the responses!

Sherry