Adding K2 after K1 approval

[Amy&Aldo 2]

Hi everyone. I need some advice. Our K1 petition was recently approved, but my fiance has not had his interview with the embassy yet. My fiance has an 8-year-old daughter, and at the time I filed the petition, we did not believe she would be accompanying him to the US, so I did not apply for a K2 visa for her. This past weekend my fiance had a discussion with his child's mother and she indicated a desire for the child to move with him to the US. Is it too late to add her to the petition? If so, what is the route we should now take to bring her to the US? Any helpful advice is appreciated!

[payxibka 10,047]

Hi everyone. I need some advice. Our K1 petition was recently approved, but my fiance has not had his interview with the embassy yet. My fiance has an 8-year-old daughter, and at the time I filed the petition, we did not believe she would be accompanying him to the US, so I did not apply for a K2 visa for her. This past weekend my fiance had a discussion with his child's mother and she indicated a desire for the child to move with him to the US. Is it too late to add her to the petition? If so, what is the route we should now take to bring her to the US? Any helpful advice is appreciated!

Regardless of intent to travel, ALL children of the beneficairy should have been "named" on the I-129F petition. If you really did not do this then you will need to contact CDJ and see what they will or will not do. If by chance you did "name" the child, then all is good and the child along with her father can still apply for a K-1/2 visa considering the petition filing is not the same as a visa application.

Edited January 19, 2009 by payxibka