Long Distance Love, help for B1/B2 visa

[ghosty81d 0]

hello people..here's my story.. i live in south india and she is a US citizen i met her on a chat site on January 2012 and fell in love ..she visited me here on april 2012 and stayed with me for 2 weeks and left..after that we keep in contact by phone call,chat etc ..now she wants me to visit her in USA and after i visiting there and returned back to india i wish to apply for a fiance visa and to get married to her in the US. i have never been out of india.i just got my passport.and there are a few things that i would like to point out:

1) i don't have a good job ..i do construction work and as you know india is 3rd world country and generally the payment is low

2) i am 24 years old and she is in her 30s plus she has a daughter

3) i have only basic education ..just high-school so not qualified for a good job

i have family here and has our own house and property..and she will cover all my expenses when i travel to the US including flight fare,food,house etc so is there any chance i can go to US and stay with her a couple of weeks on a B1/B2 visa?

also being a muslim would be a reason for visa denial?

does an invitation letter help and is it ok to send it by email?

thanks to everyone ..any help would be greatly appreciated.. i miss her alot

Edited December 8, 2013 by ghosty81d

[milimelo 4,545]

Based on what you've written, tell gf to file for fiance visa as it's highly unlikely you will be issued tourist one.

[calvm 10]

hello people..here's my story.. i live in south india and she is a US citizen i met her on a chat site on January 2012 and fell in love ..she visited me here on april 2012 and stayed with me for 2 weeks and left..after that we keep in contact by phone call,chat etc ..now she wants me to visit her in USA and after i visiting there and returned back to india i wish to apply for a fiance visa and to get married to her in the US. i have never been out of india.i just got my passport.and there are a few things that i would like to point out:

1) i don't have a good job ..i do construction work and as you know india is 3rd world country and generally the payment is low

2) i am 24 years old and she is in her 30s plus she has a daughter

3) i have only basic education ..just high-school so not qualified for a good job

i have family here and has our own house and property..and she will cover all my expenses when i travel to the US including flight fare,food,house etc so is there any chance i can go to US and stay with her a couple of weeks on a B1/B2 visa?

also being a muslim would be a reason for visa denial?

does an invitation letter help and is it ok to send it by email?

thanks to everyone ..any help would be greatly appreciated.. i miss her alot

Given your circumstances its highly unlikely that your visitor visa application will be approved... You should go for K1 directly...!!

Edited December 8, 2013 by calvm

[ghosty81d 0]

thanks..but it's been almost 2 years since we last met, is it possible ?

[ghosty81d 0]

can invitation letter sent by email?

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

Invitation letter won't help and will probably hurt your chances. You have to show why you must return home. A USC girlfriend does NOT increase your need to leave the US.

[canadian_wife 1,827]

If it has been more than 2 years since you last saw her then you do not currently qualify for a fiancé visa. Please apply for a tourist visa. However, if denied, she should come to India to see you.

good luck

[Boiler 45,978]

They have until April.

No downside of applying, well apart from the fee, must be a long shot. Presumably she is not Muslim the way you mention it.

[JayJayH 546]

hello people..here's my story.. i live in south india and she is a US citizen i met her on a chat site on January 2012 and fell in love ..she visited me here on april 2012 and stayed with me for 2 weeks and left..after that we keep in contact by phone call,chat etc ..now she wants me to visit her in USA and after i visiting there and returned back to india i wish to apply for a fiance visa and to get married to her in the US. i have never been out of india.i just got my passport.and there are a few things that i would like to point out:

1) i don't have a good job ..i do construction work and as you know india is 3rd world country and generally the payment is low

2) i am 24 years old and she is in her 30s plus she has a daughter

3) i have only basic education ..just high-school so not qualified for a good job

i have family here and has our own house and property..and she will cover all my expenses when i travel to the US including flight fare,food,house etc so is there any chance i can go to US and stay with her a couple of weeks on a B1/B2 visa?

also being a muslim would be a reason for visa denial?

does an invitation letter help and is it ok to send it by email?

thanks to everyone ..any help would be greatly appreciated.. i miss her alot

1. How long have you worked in your current job, and, is it a formal job?

2. Your fiancee, or the age difference between you, is irrelevant for a tourist visa application. The age difference between you may or may not matter on your fiance visa application. You cannot be denied a fiance visa because you have a big difference in age, but age differences (especially where the woman is significantly older) are looked at with more scrutiny. It will likely matter more if she is 39, than if she's 31.

3. You're not applying for a work visa. Your education is irrelevant.

4. Honestly, it is very difficult for a young Indian male, without an established job or property, to get a B-2 visa. The reason is because it's hard to convince the consular officer interviewing you that you will actually return to India. This becomes especially difficult when you have an American girlfriend, fiancee or wife, because in the consular officer's eyes, you could easily get married as soon as you enter the US and adjust status legally.

Section 214(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act states that consular officers are required by law to presume that every applicant for a non-immigrant visa actually intends to stay in the US indefinitely. It is the applicant's burden of proof to overcome this presumption.

If you do apply for a visa, and you are denied under section 214(b), it will not have any bearing on your fiance visa application, so it is safe to apply as many times as you'd like. However, if you are denied a B-2 visa because of fraud or misrepresentation (lying), your fiance visa will be denied as well.

5. The US has freedom of religion. No one has ever been denied a visa because they're Muslim.

6. Invitation letters can be submitted, but do not help much if at all.

Edited December 8, 2013 by Yang-Ja

[rocketman 6]

Indian consulates are not that welcoming of inter-religious relations. I have read many cases here in VJ where inter-religious K1 were denied without any explicit mention about it.

[ghosty81d 0]

Thanks to everyone for the useful replies..by the way she is Christian and i am muslim..does it affect the fiance visa processes?

[aaron2020 11,651]

hello people..here's my story.. i live in south india and she is a US citizen i met her on a chat site on January 2012 and fell in love ..she visited me here on april 2012 and stayed with me for 2 weeks and left..after that we keep in contact by phone call,chat etc ..now she wants me to visit her in USA and after i visiting there and returned back to india i wish to apply for a fiance visa and to get married to her in the US. i have never been out of india.i just got my passport.and there are a few things that i would like to point out:

1) i don't have a good job ..i do construction work and as you know india is 3rd world country and generally the payment is low

2) i am 24 years old and she is in her 30s plus she has a daughter

3) i have only basic education ..just high-school so not qualified for a good job

i have family here and has our own house and property..and she will cover all my expenses when i travel to the US including flight fare,food,house etc so is there any chance i can go to US and stay with her a couple of weeks on a B1/B2 visa?

also being a muslim would be a reason for visa denial?

does an invitation letter help and is it ok to send it by email?

thanks to everyone ..any help would be greatly appreciated.. i miss her alot

You have zero chances of getting a visitor visa. It has nothing to do with you being a Muslim. It has to do with the fact that you do not have a good job or other factors that show you are more likely to return to India after a visit rather than marry your girlfriend and stay in the US.

An invitation letter will hurt your chances since shows a US girlfriend - a reason for you to stay in the US and not a reason for you to go back to India.

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Do not waste time or money with the visitor visa.

Your girlfriend has until April 2014 to file for the K-1 fiancée visa. You can visit the US, get marry, and stay in the US by adjusting your status. If you don't want to marry, you can return to India after 90 days without violating US immigration laws.

If your girlfriend files for the K-1 after April 2014, the petition will be denied because the K-1 requires you two to have meet within the 2 years before the filing of the petition.

[JayJayH 546]

5. The US has freedom of religion. No one has ever been denied a visa because they're Muslim.

Indian consulates are not that welcoming of inter-religious relations. I have read many cases here in VJ where inter-religious K1 were denied without any explicit mention about it.

Thanks to everyone for the useful replies..by the way she is Christian and i am muslim..does it affect the fiance visa processes?

Again, the United States is a secular country with religious freedom. No one has ever been denied a visa because they're Muslim (At least not in modern history).

You can worship green grass, and your wife can worship tikka masala - You're allowed to marry, and you may not be denied any visa because of what diety or non-diety you choose to worship.

What rocketman mentions isn't about religion, but rather suspicion of fraud, based on cultural norms in the beneficiary's county.

If an inter-religious couple was denied an immigration benefit, it wasn't because of their religion, but rather the credibility of their relationship, based on the cultural norms in the beneficiary's country.

For example, in some countries, it is considered completely unheard of, somewhere even illegal, for a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man. So if the embassy looks at the case, they don't see "MUSLIM!" - They see "abnormal/socially unacceptable relationship." This doesn't mean visa refusal, but it raises suspicion.

In contrast for example, if a Canadian Muslim woman married an American Christian man, it might not raise suspicion at all, because in Canada, this is not illegal, nor would it be considered socially unacceptable. No problem at all.

Make sense?

So what you need to ask yourself is this..

Is it socially acceptable in India for you to marry a non-Muslim woman?

If it is not, this still does not mean visa refusal, but it does mean that the consular officers in Mumbai will likely wonder why you chose to marry a non-Muslim woman, despite it being socially unacceptable in your culture.

Edited December 10, 2013 by Yang-Ja

[rocketman 6]

plus there will be reasonable suspicion since you are Indian and I am assuming she is White. If there is a substantial education difference, then that can also trigger red flags. No one will deny you visa for being muslim, Indian, christian, black or white, But there are things that can cause reasonable suspicion regarding bonafide relationship.

For eg. if you are muslim and she is muslim of Indian origin, the CO will not think twice before stamping the visa, even if there is substantial educational background diff.

Edited December 10, 2013 by rocketman

[ghosty81d 0]

thanks people, it is legal to marry a non muslim here in india..and i don't care her religion or nothing ..she don't care mine either..love is blind as you already know.. anyway we gonna try the k-1.. i will let you know how it going and also i will ask for help in this thread when i go through the k-1 process ..thanks for all the help people you changed my misunderstandings regarding this visa process

Edited December 10, 2013 by ghosty81d