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Tourist visa for K1 fiancee parents so they can be at the wedding? (merged topics)

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seanandkarina   2

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Hello everyone, I just had a question here, the title basically sums it all up. My fiancee's parents would like to try and come to be at the wedding here in usa when it takes place. I'm very happy that they've decided to try and come to be at the wedding as I think it would be wonderful to have both families there. My question is which visa to try and pursue for them, I'm thinking a tourist visa would be their best option, of course we all know they will have to go for an interview even if it's just the tourist visa. But I have concerns that they would deny the visa due to family being here, but a home stay visa I feel wouldn't be the appropriate visa since really with the exception of the wedding they would just be doing tourist activities on the island here where I live and where the wedding will take place.

Has anyone else gone this is?

Thoughts questions comments, and many thank yous in advance!!!! :)

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seanandkarina   2

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Hello everyone, I just had a question here, the title basically sums it all up. My fiancee's parents would like to try and come to be at the wedding here in usa when it takes place. I'm very happy that they've decided to try and come to be at the wedding as I think it would be wonderful to have both families there. My question is which visa to try and pursue for them, I'm thinking a tourist visa would be their best option, of course we all know they will have to go for an interview even if it's just the tourist visa. But I have concerns that they would deny the visa due to family being here, but a home stay visa I feel wouldn't be the appropriate visa since really with the exception of the wedding they would just be doing tourist activities on the island here where I live and where the wedding will take place.

Has anyone else gone this is?

Thoughts questions comments, and many thank yous in advance!!!! :)

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Avery Cates   1,141

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It's possible they'd get approved for a B-2, but unlikely without showing much proof of strong ties to return to in Russia.

November 14th, 2013: She's here!

December 12th, 2013: Picked up marriage license.

December 14th, 2013: Wedding

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Avery Cates   1,141

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It's possible they'd get approved for a B-2, but unlikely without showing much proof of strong ties to return to in Russia.

November 14th, 2013: She's here!

December 12th, 2013: Picked up marriage license.

December 14th, 2013: Wedding

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Pitaya   2,577

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~Duplicate threads merged~

~Please refrain from multiple posting of same topic~

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MacUK   983

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What's a home stay visa?

August 2000: We start e-mailing. I'm in Bosnia, she's in Florida

October 29th 2000: She sends me e-mail asking if I would marry her

October 29th 2000(5 seconds later): I say yes

November 2000: She sends me tickets to Orlando for when I get back

December 6th 2000: Return from Bos

December 11th 2000: Fly to Orlando, she meets me at airport

December 22nd 2000: I fly back to UK

January 3rd 2001: She flies to UK (Good times)

Mid February 2001: Pregnancy test Positive

Mid February 2001: She flies back to US

March 2001: Miscarriage, I fly to US on first flight I can get

May 2001: I leave US before my 90 days are up

June 2001: I fly back to US, stopped at airport for questioning as I had only just left

September 2001: Pregnancy test Positive again

September 2001: She falls sick, I make decision to stay to look after her as I am afraid I may have problems getting back in.

April 16th 2002: Our son is born, we start getting stuff together for his passport

March 6th 2003: We leave US for UK as family

Early April 2003: Family troubles make her return to US, I ask Embassy in London about possibilities of returning to US

April 16th 2003: London Embassy informs me that I will be banned from the Visa Waiver Program for 10 years, my little boys first birthday

June 13th 2006: I-129f sent

August 11th 2006: NOA1 Recieved

After our relationship breaks down she admits to me that she had never bothered to start the application process

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seanandkarina   2

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Thank you everyone for your responses, it seems the B1/B2 would be the only option and best option. They have strong ties being that my fiancee's father owns his company in Russia and they have two daughters there still and a grandchild and other family too. So hopefully that would be ample proof to show ties to Russia. It just worries me that the reason of their trip will be to witness our marriage and that's not really tourism.

Sorry about the duplicate thread, I'm honestly not sure how I pulled that one off and I didn't know how to merge or delete the other one. So thank you for fixing that.

And the home stay visa is only something the Russians offer, I wasn't sure if the Americans did or not but after a Google search I found they didn't. Haha

And yes they are a bit stricter with the Russians as far as visas go but not all former Soviet states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are all part of the visa waiver program.

Thank you all for your replies, help, and wisdoms. :)

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seanandkarina   2

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My brother in law married Russian girl and her parents got the visa to visit but not in time for the wedding so they had a good visit

Well we just got NOA2 so and I know the B1/B2 has a much faster processing time so hopefully if they started now we could make it all happen accordingly. It's really nice to know though that someone else was able to get the visa approved for the same purpose, this gives me some hope!!!! Thank you!!!! :)

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gregcrs2   1,778

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Sean, the 2015 B Visa refusal rate for Russia was 10.24%. So the chances of Karina's parents getting a B Visa to attend your wedding are statistically not bad. Be thankful they are not living in Ukraine. The 2015 B Visa refusal rate for Ukraine was 34.03%. Good luck!

 
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