WON'T RETURN (EXPIRING) PASSPORT WITH VALID VISA

[BeauteDLaVie 3]

My fiance is from Algeria. He is trying to renew his passport (which expires next month). He was told at the local office of his town that they could NOT give him back his old passport. This (old) passport has the valid visa. I don't believe that they made any suggestions on what he could do. Is this correct that my fiance will NOT be able to retrieve the (soon to be ) expired passport with the valid visa?. However, I read somewhere that one can travel with 2 passports (new & expired with the valid visa)to present to the customs officer

[icv21 110]

Each country may be different but usually when you have a reason like that they let you keep the old one...

[algerinou 2]

you mean that your husband have fiancè visa now at his passport ? and his passport expire next mont ? so he can bring with him to america all the papers of new passport when he got to america he will go to algeria conslate and they give him one new .

[Mourad's girl 8]

When was his interview? When was the visa issued? I thought they would not issue a visa with a passport that had less than 6 months validity

[BeauteDLaVie 3]

When was his interview? When was the visa issued? I thought they would not issue a visa with a passport that had less than 6 months validity

My fiance's interview was actually back in January 2014...and we were under a long, adminstrative processing. He did not get approved for his visa until December 2014 and of course he had to wait about a week to actually have the visa in his hands.I read somewhere that Algeria is one of the listed countries that have a 6 month extension for expired passports...maybe I misunderstood what I read but now we are in a dilema again. I don't know if it would be wise for my fiance to try to make the trip to the US within the 2 weeks before his passport expires (February) and for us to make a trip to the Algerian Consulate in New York to have his passport renewed...Upon his arrival, I don't know if the customs officer will look to this as a problem and deny him access into the US...and again from what my fiance told me, the local government office in his home town stated that he would not get his old passport back (with the current visa)...nor did they offer any other help on what to do..I just find it very odd that they would keep the old passport knowing the visa is still valid. I was thinking of calling the US embassy in Algiers to try to get some information on what can be done...I,too, question why they would issue the visa with about 2 months of validity..I am also questioning the local office keeping the passport...I was thinking of also contacting the Algerian embassy (in the US) to get some clarity if this is standard practice for them...I hope that we can get a positive, correct resolution soon

[NikLR 13,227]

The CBP won't find his lack of length of passport bad, after all, the K1 is a one time use visa. If he leaves before getting AP during his Adjustment of status, his AOS will be considered abandoned and you'd have to start over with a CR1 visa. I cannot comment on the rest of his issues, I just don't know the answers or can even guess what may or may not be helpful for you, I'm sorry.

[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from What Visa Do I Need - Family Based Immigration forum to MENA regional forum; topic is about passport procedures of Algeria and not questions regarding multiple visa processes.

Edited January 24, 2015 by Ryan H