Would this cause any problems..?

[ScottFL 0]

We are at the stage just prior to my fiancee's interview in Kiev. She'll have all materials gathered and will be ready to make her appointment in the next week or so. Her cousin has asked her to visit her in Thailand for a 10 day vacation before the last step of the process, and she'd like to take her up on it since it could be a while before they'll see each other again. I don't mind waiting a few more days (5 years & counting in the relationship).

Does anyone think this could pose any problems at the interview? Besides the worries that unexpected things could happen, could the late visa stamp in the middle of our process raise any flags? Any other potential problems? If there are definite concerns, she wouldn't make the trip.

Thanks,

Scott

[mox 298]

We are at the stage just prior to my fiancee's interview in Kiev. She'll have all materials gathered and will be ready to make her appointment in the next week or so. Her cousin has asked her to visit her in Thailand for a 10 day vacation before the last step of the process, and she'd like to take her up on it since it could be a while before they'll see each other again. I don't mind waiting a few more days (5 years & counting in the relationship).

Does anyone think this could pose any problems at the interview? Besides the worries that unexpected things could happen, could the late visa stamp in the middle of our process raise any flags? Any other potential problems? If there are definite concerns, she wouldn't make the trip.

Thanks,

Scott

Tell your fiancee to enjoy her visit with her cousin, there won't be any problems. They might ask her what she was doing in Thailand as just a matter of discourse, but there's no reason it'll cause a problem.

[ScottFL 0]

Thanks, that's the hope. Sounds kinda risky to me. Any others have same or different take on this issue?

-Scott

[Zee Bee 61]

The US consulate is not going to care about where your fiancee was. All they need her passport for is to stamp the visa, not to see where she went on vacation. I would just make sure she is back home a few days before the interview.

Tell her to go and have fun

[mariapoe 0]

Scott,

I think that your fiancee can visit Thailand either prior or after the interview (it'd be rather hard to do it after because they may need ten business days to print the visa and deliver the passsport; however, the visa is for six months, so she'd have six months to enter the US.) In any case, I don't think that the US Embassy cares about where people travel before the interview, and why would they? Just get everything ready for the interview, make it all well-organized (they love it well-organized there !) And of course, if her interview will be scheduled, say, for Monday, she shouldn't fly back to Ukraine on Sunday, the flight delays may happen, etc... Just usual precautions, that's it!

Good luck !

Masha

[pushbrk 13,248]

The US consulate is not going to care about where your fiancee was. All they need her passport for is to stamp the visa, not to see where she went on vacation. I would just make sure she is back home a few days before the interview.

Tell her to go and have fun

Whether a Consular officer will care about where a visa applicant has been and/or whether certain travel will be cause a problem or delay in issuing the visa depends on where they travel. Thailand should be no problem. Afghanistan or N. Korea would and some other countries might cause a delay for further security checks and/or administrative processing.

For instance, a Chinese fiancee visited her cousin in Afghanistan in 2004. The visa was delayed significantly but eventually granted.