Question about "lifetime" of a k1 visa

[elar14 0]

got a question im hoping the good folks here at vj know the answer to:

i am in the military, and due to my job, must go through a process before marrying a foreign national, part of that process is having her birth certificate...well it seems now that the military has priority in the Philippines for getting documents...and our only copy is in the hands of our lawyer. so my question is, if she gets her visa soon (we still dont know the interview date) can we hold off for a while before bringing her to the U.S.? how long is the visa good for? i dont want to bring her here only to find out that she has to leave because we CANT get married in the 90 days in which we have to marry due to the government not allowing me to marry her.

if the visa is good for say, 6 months, we will be fine im sure....but if she must use it immediately...we might be screwed. i would ASSUME (based on no knowledge, but just using common sense) that the visa wouldnt take effect until she actually enters U.S. soil....is this a good assumption?

thanks for reading my long post, and hopefully someone has the answer

[KFH 0]

The visa is good for six months.

[DARUMA07 25]

The 6 months starts from the day the Visa was issued.... Then you have 90 days once she is here to get married.

[lovda_pi 0]

I was also in the military when i met my first wife who was a foreign national from the Philippines. I was stationed on subs as a Radioman with a TS SSBI clearance, and had no problems marrying her, what are the new requirements, cuz I would say don't worry about the military saying no, i have only heard of one case and that was because she belong to some group deemed terrorist by our government. Good luck..

[elar14 0]

I was also in the military when i met my first wife who was a foreign national from the Philippines. I was stationed on subs as a Radioman with a TS SSBI clearance, and had no problems marrying her, what are the new requirements, cuz I would say don't worry about the military saying no, i have only heard of one case and that was because she belong to some group deemed terrorist by our government. Good luck..

im a CTI2, mine is TS/SCI (i think thats what you meant since SSBI means single scope background investigation...i had that too)...its a bit more stringent these days. its not a problem to marry her, its a matter of getting the paper work in and cleared before i CAN marry her. someone in SSO dropped the ball and told me my next step was getting married and informing chief...not true, i informed them of it, which is on record, but i needed to file these forms....which are a bit late now since i wasnt aware i needed them. so its not that i CANT marry her, i just need the permission, so to speak. so its just getting the paperwork through, and then waiting for approval...and i dont want to bring her here and burn up the three months waiting for approval, you know?

[lovda_pi 0]

I was also in the military when i met my first wife who was a foreign national from the Philippines. I was stationed on subs as a Radioman with a TS SSBI clearance, and had no problems marrying her, what are the new requirements, cuz I would say don't worry about the military saying no, i have only heard of one case and that was because she belong to some group deemed terrorist by our government. Good luck..

im a CTI2, mine is TS/SCI (i think thats what you meant since SSBI means single scope background investigation...i had that too)...its a bit more stringent these days. its not a problem to marry her, its a matter of getting the paper work in and cleared before i CAN marry her. someone in SSO dropped the ball and told me my next step was getting married and informing chief...not true, i informed them of it, which is on record, but i needed to file these forms....which are a bit late now since i wasnt aware i needed them. so its not that i CANT marry her, i just need the permission, so to speak. so its just getting the paperwork through, and then waiting for approval...and i dont want to bring her here and burn up the three months waiting for approval, you know?

Had the TS/SCI also I just routed a chit and then had to listen to everyone tell me were to young, don't know each other that long (dated 2 months LOL and are marriage lasted 15 years) If you let them know about the time requirements they may push it through for u. Just a thought.

[JSRF 0]

got a question im hoping the good folks here at vj know the answer to:

i am in the military, and due to my job, must go through a process before marrying a foreign national, part of that process is having her birth certificate...well it seems now that the military has priority in the Philippines for getting documents...and our only copy is in the hands of our lawyer. so my question is, if she gets her visa soon (we still dont know the interview date) can we hold off for a while before bringing her to the U.S.? how long is the visa good for? i dont want to bring her here only to find out that she has to leave because we CANT get married in the 90 days in which we have to marry due to the government not allowing me to marry her.

if the visa is good for say, 6 months, we will be fine im sure....but if she must use it immediately...we might be screwed. i would ASSUME (based on no knowledge, but just using common sense) that the visa wouldnt take effect until she actually enters U.S. soil....is this a good assumption?

thanks for reading my long post, and hopefully someone has the answer

She has six (6) to use the visa and ninety (90) days to get married once she arrives here in the US. Being in the military and you may have order that you are not in country for a period of time, you should let them know that. That way they can slow thing down a little that way you will not have a problem time running out.

GOOD LUCK and God bless.