Seek Tips to Strengthen K-1 Petition to Hong Kong embassy

[ToddRona 2]

Hello, I'm new here. Please forgive my naivete in this post. I am trying to learn as much as I can from you all.

I am in the process of gathering documents for a K-1 visa application for my fiancee, Veronica, a Philippine native who lives in Hong Kong as a domestic worker.

Based on the info I've reviewed here, I think our petition will be STRONG because

- our documentation of our relationship of 1 year and 7 months is very extensive(1000's of emails, phone call records, text messages, video chat sessions, videos and; photos, letters, and gifts sent through postal mail; support letters from friends and family; ability to support)

and will be WEAK because

1. I've only visited her once in Hong Kong, and only for a few days (her employment contract only allows 1 day off/week; she asked for and got two)

2. I didn't propose to her then, or give her a ring while there (we didn't want to rush it during our first face-to-face meeting, though now, in hindsight, I wish we would have). I did give her what I called a "promise necklace," as a symbol of my promise to marry her.

3. I've read on another site that HK embassy has denied otherwise worthy applications for having only 1 visit

4. I don't know how we can demonstrate wedding plans unless we know when she's coming.

If anyone has any counsel on how to address any of the four points above, we'd be very much appreciative. May God bless you and your journey.

Todd and Veronica

[shawnandaileen 1]

Hello, I'm new here. Please forgive my naivete in this post. I am trying to learn as much as I can from you all.

I am in the process of gathering documents for a K-1 visa application for my fiancee, Veronica, a Philippine native who lives in Hong Kong as a domestic worker.

Based on the info I've reviewed here, I think our petition will be STRONG because

- our documentation of our relationship of 1 year and 7 months is very extensive(1000's of emails, phone call records, text messages, video chat sessions, videos and; photos, letters, and gifts sent through postal mail; support letters from friends and family; ability to support)

and will be WEAK because

1. I've only visited her once in Hong Kong, and only for a few days (her employment contract only allows 1 day off/week; she asked for and got two)

2. I didn't propose to her then, or give her a ring while there (we didn't want to rush it during our first face-to-face meeting, though now, in hindsight, I wish we would have). I did give her what I called a "promise necklace," as a symbol of my promise to marry her.

3. I've read on another site that HK embassy has denied otherwise worthy applications for having only 1 visit

4. I don't know how we can demonstrate wedding plans unless we know when she's coming.

If anyone has any counsel on how to address any of the four points above, we'd be very much appreciative. May God bless you and your journey.

Todd and Veronica

I think the only legal requirement is that you have met within 2 years, make sure you include the photos in your packet. More experiance VJer's may have more info for you tho. And hopefully you can meet again while waiting for the interview and add those pictures when its time for the interview.

[ToddRona 2]

I think the only legal requirement is that you have met within 2 years, make sure you include the photos in your packet. More experiance VJer's may have more info for you tho. And hopefully you can meet again while waiting for the interview and add those pictures when its time for the interview.

Thanks for the reply. Yes, we'd LOVE to visit eachother again, soon. I do look forward to hearing from the others here, as well.

God bless you!

Todd and Veronica

[preciousgift 2]

Hello Todd & Veronica,

I have a friend that same as you guys situation. They dated for almost two years and visited his fiancee twice before applying K-1. Since you are planning to visit her again and give a ring, I think everything is gonna be fine to petition her (K-1).

I processed my K-3 visa in HK Consulate. I also worked there as domestic helper. My husband and I met on Christianmingle.com and had documented 5 months relationship through emails, phone calls,.etc. He came to HK for a 9 days vacation and after 3 days we got married. My K-3 petition took 4 months,actually it should be sooner if we are not busy on our jobs.

I will be praying for you guys!

[ToddRona 2]

Hi PreciousGift,

We're encouraged and surprised. I had generally heard that K-3 visas take much longer --like years, instead of months.

How was your interview at the HK consulate?

Would you be willing to give some tips to my fiancee, Veronica?

God bless you

Thank you very much for your prayers~~

Todd and Veronica

Hello Todd & Veronica,

I have a friend that same as you guys situation. They dated for almost two years and visited his fiancee twice before applying K-1. Since you are planning to visit her again and give a ring, I think everything is gonna be fine to petition her (K-1).

I processed my K-3 visa in HK Consulate. I also worked there as domestic helper. My husband and I met on Christianmingle.com and had documented 5 months relationship through emails, phone calls,.etc. He came to HK for a 9 days vacation and after 3 days we got married. My K-3 petition took 4 months,actually it should be sooner if we are not busy on our jobs.

I will be praying for you guys!

[preciousgift 2]

Todd & Veronica,

That's what we heard too when we were planning about " petition ". We would like to tried that time the K-1 but our relationship was only 2 months. I heard that we should have atleast 2 years relationship and we don't want to wait that long. So my husband hired a lawyer because he don't know the immigration thing. He lived in NC but he hired an immigration lawyer in CA. The lawyer advised us to get married and file a K-3 since our relationship is kinda you know whirlwind romance. We met last week of Nov. 2005 in an online dating site and we got married April 2006.

About the Interview in HK Consulate. I had fun, honestly! It was great! The staff and Immigration Officer are polite and friendly. I was there for almost two hours but I was interviewed for only ten minutes or less. There are two persons interviewed me, the first was a Chinese woman and she asked me if I brought the reqirements and I gave all what I brought for the interview: pictures, emails messages and chat messages that I printed out, phone bill statements, money remittance receipts, my husband's air ticket when he came in HK, NSO Birth Certificates, HK-Marriage Cert., CENOMAR, NBI clearance, HK-Police Clearance Receipt, and what's on the document checklist.

Here are the questions that I remember they asked me:

What is your husband's name?

When is his birthday?

Where is your husband live?

When you and your husband's met?

How you and your husband's met?

When did you and your husband get married?

The Chinese woman also asked me about some of the pictures, I think she is a bit fascinated of our pictures because I heard her talking about it when I was waiting to be call. She thought maybe I don't know cantonese language but I knew a little bit cause my employer don't speak in english so I have to speak in cantonese. I put all our pictures on a hardbound photo album and it was kinda hard to insert in the window counter but I and the Chinese woman managed to slide it in. We were laughing because we thought the photo album will get stuck in there.

My suggestion is use a softbound photo album.

Anyways, the second person was the American IO, she interviewed me for i think 5 minutes and asked same question then I swore in and she congratulated me and exclaimed (in a lower voice) Welcome to America!

Then the Chinese woman told me to go on the ground floor and go to the courier window and pay the shipping fee to send back my passport with visa on it.

This is one of my happiest day and I Thanked God that everything was smooth and fast on our immigration K-3 journey.