No idea where to start! Advice needed

[mpheonix 7]

How would the Argentine Embassy approve you for a United States visa?

You CANNOT be approved for a K-1 while in the US. The beneficiary must apply at the US consulate in their country. There are no US embassies in the US. You do not/cannot apply at a local USCIS office for a K-1. The USCIS does not process the visa applications. That would be DoS.

Stating that you might be mistaken while posting misinformation is still bad and unhelpful. Confusing things for people and giving blatantly incorrect information helps no one, but it can hurt. Saying your 'answer in regards to visiting and being forced to leave still stands' is just silly nonsense when you have posted plain and utterly wrong information.

Listening to the call center employees at the USCIS misinformation line will not help you any either.

Do they really give you a lot of bad information at the call center? o.o

That seems a bit counter-productive. =/ This is a gov't operation though, I don't think I'd be all that surprised.

[KayDeeCee 4,893]

Do they really give you a lot of bad information at the call center? o.o

That seems a bit counter-productive. =/ This is a gov't operation though, I don't think I'd be all that surprised.

They are very well known for giving out horribly wrong information. Do a search here on VJ about the USCIS misinformation line.

The ones that answer the phone are not immigration officers. They are call center employees. They read from scripts and know very little about the immigration processes. They cannot access anything about your case that you cannot do yourself by checking your case status on the USCIS website. You need to be transferred to a tier 2 immigration officer in order to get more detailed information about your case.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Do they really give you a lot of bad information at the call center? o.o

That seems a bit counter-productive. =/ This is a gov't operation though, I don't think I'd be all that surprised.

YES! The Call center is called around here the "misinformation line." The people that answer the phone are NOT USCIS employees, they are subcontracted call center workers. They don't know what they are talking about, and yes, it is a problem.

You got very poor, just crazy wrong advice from them and are telling people here about it.

VJ is full of people who have actually gone through the process and know how it works. Take a step back and learn from the senior members here and you'll be in a much better position to give out advice.

The post Jay-Kay quoted is just wrong in every way.

You can visit while the K-1 is in process. You don't need to do extra paperwork. You cannot do a medical or an interview in the US for a K-1 visa (and ESPECIALLY NOT at the Argentine Embassy in the US - you'd get visas to Argentina there, not visas to the US, you've got it backward). Interviews and medicals are done abroad ONLY at the US embassy in the foreign country. The US embassy gives out US visas. You must be outside the US to get a K-1, then you enter on the K-1 to trigger your status and the 90 days to marry.

[mpheonix 7]

Well damn! I'm SO adding that to my file. That's ridiculous!