Adding k1 visa spouse to apartment as a guest or on lease . Background check!?

[tachi88 4]

Hello!

My fiance and I are still working on our k1 visa application. I am the USA citizen and I live in Florida. My fiance is from El Salvador.

I am thinking of where we will live once he arrives on the k1 visa.

My current apartment doesn't allow unauthorized persons to stay without having a the guest do a background check and he must fill out a rental application as well.

How do I get the background check to my landlord if my fiance is not a US resident?

I understand that once we are married, he gets a ssn. My apt is the only place he and I can stay together,but he can't stay without a background check! Do we have to get an international background check somehow sent to my landlord prior to his arrival? Do we get it from the embassy? Do we get a copy one he gets the k1 visa? I just don't understand and am very scared! Will he have to live in a hotel or something?

My fiance and I both have never committed any crimes.

Thank you for your help!!

Edited April 28, 2016 by tachi88

[Transborderwife 4,666]

Usually there checking for local felonies and such as many will not rent to felons.

[Boiler 45,541]

I always thought Landlords arrange the background checks?

[tachi88 4]

Landlords typically do, but how do they get a background check on someone just entering the USA on a k1 visa? He had no record of anything in the USA. Only his home country. My understanding is you have to have a ssn to get a background check. And since he won't have one right away, I don't know where he can stay until that happens??

[Boiler 45,541]

Lots of people in the US do not have SSN's.

Have you discussed this with your Landlord?

[Transborderwife 4,666]

Landlords typically do, but how do they get a background check on someone just entering the USA on a k1 visa? He had no record of anything in the USA. Only his home country. My understanding is you have to have a ssn to get a background check. And since he won't have one right away, I don't know where he can stay until that happens??

No. You don't need an SSN for one. I had one done without one. They checked my first and last name and date of birth for records.

[tachi88 4]

No because I wanted some advice first just in case. Because the lease agreement says that visitors staying more than 2 days must have a background check and file an application. I'm afraid once she hears "he's coming on a visa and has no record and you can't do a background check" she's going to immediately say no and my fiance has no where to go.

[tachi88 4]

No. You don't need an SSN for one. I had one done without one. They checked my first and last name and date of birth for records.

But where can he get a background check in the US if he's just arriving on the k1?

Maybe I just don't understand how a background check actually works? :c

I thought background checks are run on people who live in the USA...

[Transborderwife 4,666]

But where can he get a background check in the US if he's just arriving on the k1?

Maybe I just don't understand how a background check actually works? :c

I thought background checks are run on people who live in the USA...

The landlord should be the one doing the check.

[tachi88 4]

The landlord should be the one doing the check.

So when they're doing the check, it's just to pull up if there are any felonies

in his name? I was confused bc I thought to have a background check, you need finger prints etc to run, and since he doesn't have those yet, I didn't know how my landlord can do a search on someone who isn't here in the USA yet.

[tachi88 4]

My landlord doesn't need a background check from his home country or something?

Also, thank you all for replying to my thread thus far. I appreciate it!

[htfaust 131]

Try adding your spouse anyway and let they worry about doing the actual background check. If they ever need anything from you, they'll ask.

[Limey 551]

When I first moved to the US I moved into my wife's rented apartment. It was a big development of apartments, owned by a company. I probably could have just stayed there without them finding out, but we like to do things properly and the lease had a similar provision about people staying. They added me to the lease - had to pay about 100 bucks as I recall (to handle the paperwork). They took a copy of my passport.

They didn't seem to have any problem with me being from overseas - consider that the background check done on me by USCIS was probably much more thorough than they'd do to a US resident. I think they also appreciated that I could have just "forgotten" to register with them and saved 100 bucks, so I probably wasn't the kind of person who'd give them any problems.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

My landlord doesn't need a background check from his home country or something?

Also, thank you all for replying to my thread thus far. I appreciate it!

Shouldn't. Ask about it and see what they want

[tachi88 4]

When I first moved to the US I moved into my wife's rented apartment. It was a big development of apartments, owned by a company. I probably could have just stayed there without them finding out, but we like to do things properly and the lease had a similar provision about people staying. They added me to the lease - had to pay about 100 bucks as I recall (to handle the paperwork). They took a copy of my passport.

They didn't seem to have any problem with me being from overseas - consider that the background check done on me by USCIS was probably much more thorough than they'd do to a US resident. I think they also appreciated that I could have just "forgotten" to register with them and saved 100 bucks, so I probably wasn't the kind of person who'd give them any problems.

I see! Thank you for your reply!

That's what we are trying to do also. It's possible I could sneak him in to my apartment, but I don't want to have anything go wrong by taking that risk!