How long did you know your fiance before you filed your I-129F?

[Al422 221]

Met on the internet August 2012. Met in person July 2013. Filed September 2013.

Yeah I know it is an issue, but we are ready for it.

[Zeeshanish 9]

I have known mine for almost 3 years now.

[HK12 273]

We met online in June 2010, met for the first time in real life in September 2010 and filed for the I-129F in February 2012 after four extended visits. We knew we were a great match right from the start, but we wanted to give ourselves some time and not rush into a marriage just for the sake of "being together". It just would have not felt right to us to get engaged or married after a couple of months. But, that is everyone's personal decision, and I do know that long-distance relationships are not easy to handle. On that note, good luck OP!

[xgrnberet1 19]

stop acting like this, its not depending pf country but case, if u are from england and big difference age, and u are from asia and same age and good real relation ship, so its clear, so please stop acting weird, ppl here are so wrong each case is specific, and of couse if the us citizen is 50 and the beneficiary is 25, its call fraud NO LOVE AT ALL

Huh? what in the corn Sam Hill you are talking about ?

[Steve&Ema 25]

Wow you guys have all known each other for a while. I guess we kind of rushed into our relationship, hehehehe. We meet online in March 2013. I went to meet her a month later. Then I visited a 2nd time in September 2013 and we got engaged. I filed the k-1 in October. So it was about 6 months that we have known each other. I am not worried about the interview though, since I plan to be there. Also it looks like the earliest she will be here is April 2014 so we will have known each other for a year at that point. Seems like long enough for me.

[TJandJR 69]

Met April 2010. Filed Nov 2012 = 2 year and 7 months. Interview Sep 2013. Denied. "failed to prove bonafide relationship"

[Pinkrlion 2,724]

Dated 5 years before he proposed and we filed.

[Chicagoguy 2 27]

You should check with other people from Brazil before you spend $$ and time for an interview. Many U.S. consulates and embassies won't let you in. In Moscow nobody extra gets through the door. But pictures together can be a help. I had two cameras with me and pictures of us together in both Russia and Turkey. They only asked her 1 question at the interview.

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

Started talking online in November of 2011, I flew to DK in January 2012, we got engaged and filed in April 2012. We ended up changing our minds and doing a CR1 later on, but that is a different story.

[SparklePony 238]

i notice most relations here met online (internet) and i think its not real relation to meet someone on internet, its why immigration ask this question ; " how and where did u meet"?

I think this is a very judgmental thing to say. Sure, there are a whole lot of phonies on the internet, and people having relationships that are not real because one of the parties is lying, but that doesn't mean that all internet-started relationships are fake and not real. I met my fiance in a community for a shared interest of ours where neither one of us was looking for a relationship. Over the months, as we talked more and more, things evolved. We didn't plan it, it just sort of happened because we were both completely honest in our online personas.

USCIS asks how people met and requires proof of meeting in the previous 2 years for more reasons than just weeding out the fake relationships.

[KayDeeCee 4,896]

i notice most relations here met online (internet) and i think its not real relation to meet someone on internet, its why immigration ask this question ; " how and where did u meet"?

How does it make a relationship real to meet for the first time face-to-face than to have met online first and then meet face-to-face and continue your relationship? I met my husband online. We have been a couple for 14 years now, and married for the last 3. I had no idea our relationship has not been real and our life together has been fake all this time. Does that mean we can stop paying our bills? We can quit working and run off together to live our fake, fantasy lives because we are not real and no need for real world things like jobs and money? Right.

Immigration asks how and where you met because it is a requirement of the I-129F petition to have met in person at least once within the last 2 years prior to filing. They ask questions about your relationship and how many times you have seen each other at the K-1 interview because they are trying to see if a couple has a bona fide relationship or is just in it for the visa.

How someone meets the person they plan to spend the rest of their life with has no bearing at all on whether or not their relationship is more 'real' than another.

Edited December 15, 2013 by Jay-Kay

[averageguy6 22]

stop acting like this, its not depending pf country but case, if u are from england and big difference age, and u are from asia and same age and good real relation ship, so its clear, so please stop acting weird, ppl here are so wrong each case is specific, and of couse if the us citizen is 50 and the beneficiary is 25, its call fraud NO LOVE AT ALL

I think you are acting weird…that was a totally reasonable question that was posted.

And of course Im 47 and my fiancee is 21….and no its not fraud and yes we are absolutely in love! What are you talking about, its incredibly common for foreign women to marry older men!

Geez!

[ltkenbo 3]

We met online in August 2011 and I first met her in person in March 2012. We filed on August 2013, so we had been talking for almost 2 years. I've also visited her 4 times about to be 5 and she hasn't had her interview yet. I know a lot of people have only met once and often times get engaged within a year or so it seems.

[averageguy6 22]

We met in May 2013 in person first time. I just saw her at a temple and I just started talking to her….we have been together ever since.

I proposed within 1 week….haha….we sent the K1 application in August, immediately after my divorce was filed.

[djv-tco 29]

I think this is a very judgmental thing to say. Sure, there are a whole lot of phonies on the internet, and people having relationships that are not real because one of the parties is lying, but that doesn't mean that all internet-started relationships are fake and not real. I met my fiance in a community for a shared interest of ours where neither one of us was looking for a relationship. Over the months, as we talked more and more, things evolved. We didn't plan it, it just sort of happened because we were both completely honest in our online personas.

USCIS asks how people met and requires proof of meeting in the previous 2 years for more reasons than just weeding out the fake relationships.

I second what SparklePony said.

I also met my fiancée in an online community a little over three years ago. Neither of us had finding someone special in mind but at the risk of sounding cheesy, love found us. We have travelled ten times to see each other in the last three years. The most challenging part was immigration options, or lack thereof - until DOMA was repealed. While my fiancée (USC) was visiting Vancouver this past September, she proposed to me. Little did she know that I also had a proposal planned. Needless to say, it was a wonderful evening of proposals with so much to celebrate. We put together the I-129F package before she flew home.

I'm sure there are those who met their USC fiancé(e) online with less than sincere intentions for going the K-1 Visa route but please don't lump everyone in the same horrible category of "fake relationships." The majority of us here are working so hard, jumping through every imaginable hoop so we can be with the one we love.

Edited December 15, 2013 by djv-tco