Thai K1 Visa special situations

[dirk41 0]

Hi, my fiancée are filing for a K1 visa with the intent of getting married in the USA upon approval. There may be a few snags that I would like to ask about here if anyone has any experience dealing with them.

We were totally honest about her employment history for the last 5 years. She last worked at a hotel for a month, was unemployed for about a year while I supported her, worked at a bar as a cashier on soi 7. Before that she worked at another hotel for about 1 year on soi 22. Prior to this she had a job at a pool hall, a sports bar, and a restaurant. She has never excepted money for prostitution- this I am sure of. NEVER. I am worried that the bar work will look bad during the interview. I mailed the petition paperwork yesterday.

I have lived here in Thailand with her since may of 2011 and our first contact was via facebook through a mutual friend around june of 2010. I visited her in August 2010 for about 3 weeks and then again in January 2011 for another 3 weeks.

I am currently unemployed but I have stocks/savings/401k of over $160k at the moment. I was working in Iraq at the time we first began communicating and we spoke via skype every singe day. Sometimes we would leave the camera on while we both would be sleeping

I am 29 years old and my fiancee is 27, she has a high school diploma and started university but did not finish the first term due to financial issues.

Does anyone have any advice or experiences to share? Is the bar work a straight denial of the k1? I think its kind of unfair to assume every girl that works in the bar is a prostitute.

We want to be open and honest with the government because we both believe this is the best way. Any thoughts?

Thanks so much!

Dirk

[Karee 4,190]

Hi, my fiancée are filing for a K1 visa with the intent of getting married in the USA upon approval. There may be a few snags that I would like to ask about here if anyone has any experience dealing with them.

We were totally honest about her employment history for the last 5 years. She last worked at a hotel for a month, was unemployed for about a year while I supported her, worked at a bar as a cashier on soi 7. Before that she worked at another hotel for about 1 year on soi 22. Prior to this she had a job at a pool hall, a sports bar, and a restaurant. She has never excepted money for prostitution- this I am sure of. NEVER. I am worried that the bar work will look bad during the interview. I mailed the petition paperwork yesterday.

I have lived here in Thailand with her since may of 2011 and our first contact was via facebook through a mutual friend around june of 2010. I visited her in August 2010 for about 3 weeks and then again in January 2011 for another 3 weeks.

I am currently unemployed but I have stocks/savings/401k of over $160k at the moment. I was working in Iraq at the time we first began communicating and we spoke via skype every singe day. Sometimes we would leave the camera on while we both would be sleeping

I am 29 years old and my fiancee is 27, she has a high school diploma and started university but did not finish the first term due to financial issues.

Does anyone have any advice or experiences to share? Is the bar work a straight denial of the k1? I think its kind of unfair to assume every girl that works in the bar is a prostitute.

We want to be open and honest with the government because we both believe this is the best way. Any thoughts?

Thanks so much!

Dirk

I know soi 22 quite well. I guess it would depend on the hotel. If it was Imperial Queens Park or Regency, than that is probably cool. If it was something like Hotel 27 or any of the places they have upstairs in Washington Square, not good. I know when I lived there from 2004-2007 any mention of working in any bar no matter what bar was a quick denial.

Working on soi 7, soi 7 1/2 and soi 22 doesn't look good. I'm not saying anything about your girl, but both of those sois are pretty notorious for ex-pat lady bars.

The tourists go to Nana, Patpong, Cowboy etc. There are no cashiers that I could see on any bar on soi 7, unless they were bartenders. Bed bar and Q bar are on soi 11. I know it sounds odd, but 7 and 11 are two totally different worlds.

[toma1 10]

worked at a bar as a cashier on soi 7.

Is the bar work a straight denial of the k1?

Ugh. That's a huge red flag. I wouldn't say its an automatic denial, but you're not going to just sail through, either...