Ukrainian tourist visa

[CamIrwin 0]

My girl in Ukraine has a 3 year old daughter. She says she will leave her daughter in Ukraine for a few weeks to get a tourist's visa. Will this work?

And is there a difference between a tourist visa and a visitor visa?

Thanks

[Marco&Bettina 502]

My girl in Ukraine has a 3 year old daughter. She says she will leave her daughter in Ukraine for a few weeks to get a tourist's visa. Will this work?

And is there a difference between a tourist visa and a visitor visa?

Thanks

I don't understand. Why must she leave her daughter in Ukraine to get a Tourist Visa?

[Ralph and Meghan 19]

For what i know a tourist visa is 90 days and a visitor visa is 6 months.

If your country falls under the visa waiver program you'll get your tourist visa when you enter the US. A visitor visa goes trough the embassy.

[Boiler 46,641]

So she wants to visit you, she is going to apply for a Visitor Visa for just herself leaving her child 'hostage'?

[CamIrwin 0]

Yes basically hostage.

[CamIrwin 0]

I don't understand. Why must she leave her daughter in Ukraine to get a Tourist Visa?

She will leave her to show she will return.

[Boiler 46,641]

Some countries, PI comes to mind, seems quite common to leave Children behind.

No idea how the Ukrainian Consulate will look at things.

Might be a minor help?

[Avery Cates 1,141]

My girl in Ukraine has a 3 year old daughter. She says she will leave her daughter in Ukraine for a few weeks to get a tourist's visa. Will this work?

And is there a difference between a tourist visa and a visitor visa?

Thanks

Will probably be better and easier if you both just met in a 3rd country.

[LenaR 0]

Unfortunately, it may not be a good idea for her.

You see, it would be easier for he to get B1/B2 visa if she didn't have anyone in US.

In a lights of latest events here in Ukraine lots of new travel visas may be taken as an attempt to find a refugee (at least that's what happened for lots of people who applied during Febryary-March when riots were still on).

If you already started K1 process - I suggest to meet somewhere else, or YOU come to visit her. Same money, but you don't need any visa to enter Ukraine for 90 days. If she'll get denial right now - she'll get a record about that in her case and it can cause you some delays and questions in K1 visa.

The less things like this you have in your K1 case - the faster it goes.

Although, if you didn't start K1 and just dating, for B1/B2 visa she needs:

- owning a property (documents for house/apartament/car),

- work (paper that justifies that her month salary is at least $500 and better to have a letter from employers that they know that she's going to leave work for specific period and intents to go back. Make translation for it and notarise or just ask to make it in english and sign from the start.)

- paper from bank (showing certain ammount on her account that will prove that when she will enter US she may pay for herself, that she willnot become a hobo etc. For a moment when I was making my visa norm was to have around $4000-5000 for adult +half of that for every kid if follow. Can be done in bank on both languages UKR and ENG).

It also helps to make a small letter describin what she's going to do during her visit, where shes going to stay and why.

She may not get it all, but at least something from this list will help more than leaving her kid.

Good luck!