K1 Visa Requirement

[jflores 2]

You are better off saving your money. It's going to cost you a nice chunk of change through the process. You don't need an attorney. Read and inform yourself, ask any questions here.

Good luck!

[Gracenp2 14]

English only on the main forums

Really?

[hamigirl710 112]

I disagree with the 2 above posts. Pink/jen. The requirement is to have met and File the 129-F before 2 years have past. After that you stay current with the Embassey of Country and keep your petition active by staying in touch, pay the Visa fee. You are required to file before 2 years, not have seen eachother in 2 years after you have filed.

Its not a face to face within 2 years. its filing before 2 years having met face to face.

Tim/Mav I disagree with you it does not matter if you have known your fiance for 1 month or for 20 years you just have to have met in person within 2 years of filing.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_2994.html#1

Under U.S. immigration law, a foreign-citizen fiancé(e) of a U.S. citizen is the recipient of an approved Petition for Alien Fiancé(e), Form I-129F, who has been issued a nonimmigrant K-1 visa for travel to the United States in order to marry his or her U.S. citizen fiancé(e). Both the U.S. citizen and the K-1 visa applicant must have been legally free to marry at the time the petition was filed and must have remained so thereafter. The marriage must be legally possible according to laws of the U.S. state in which the marriage will take place.

In general, the foreign-citizen fiancé(e) and U.S. citizen sponsor must have met in person within the past two years. USCIS may grant an exception to this requirement, based on extreme hardship for the U.S. citizen sponsor to personally meet the foreign-citizen fiancé(e), or, for example, if it is contrary in the U.S. citizen sponsor’s or foreign-citizen fiancé(e)’s culture for a man and woman to meet before marriage.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?app=forums&module=post&section=post&do=reply_post&f=80&t=390441&qpid=5708811

Who is Eligible to File?

U.S. citizens who will be getting married to a foreign national in the United States may petition for a fiancé(e) classification (K-1) for their fiancé(e). You and your fiancé(e) must be free to marry. This means that both of you are unmarried, or that any previous marriages have ended through divorce, annulment or death. You must also have met with your fiancé(e) in person within the last two years prior beginning the K-1 Visa petition process (filing the I-129F). This requirement can be waived only if meeting the non US Citizen's fiancé(e) in person would violate long-established customs, or if it would create extreme hardship on the US Citizen.

Edited September 23, 2012 by hamigirl710

[TatTot 7]

You don't need a lawyer, you need VJ. You just have to personally meet face to face within the last two years before filling...