Medical Exception For K1 Visa Meeting Requirement

[mitchc 0]

Hello I have been corresponding with a young lady in the Philippines and want to marry her. I currently have a medical condition with my feet which I am unable to walk on my feet and require a wheel chair to walk any distance and have extreme pain in both feet. I am on Social Security Disability for this condition and cannot work at all. The question I have is that I am unable to travel to the Philippines to meet my potential fiancée due to my medical condition, so how do I have a chance of getting a wavier of the meeting requirement. In addition, I understand that in addition the Philippines do not have handicapped accessible facilities like the US.

What can I do? Is it possible to show an extreme hardship. I truly believe that going there is not an option. She cannot come here to the USA. Can anyone tell me what I can do? I know the waiver is difficult to get. What evidence do I need. I have thousands of medical records as I have had surgeries on both feet.

Please Help!

[Georgia16 2,858]

Have she tried to get a visitor visa? ...

Maybe to another country you could meet at.

Can't you travel if you have somebody with you that could help you on your entire trip?

[Merrytooth 5,748]

Date locally then, there are plenty of nice pinay in US as well.

[Boiler 45,730]

People in wheelchairs travel.

You do not need to meet in PI.

[Illiria 980]

Getting the waiver for medical reasons is exceptionally hard, basically you have to be unable to use any method of transportation to meet her anywhere, and as others can do it uscis will assume you can unless you can prove that you can't. Finding the travel difficult is not a high enough reason to have the meeting requirement waived.

As others have stated she has to show she can't come visit you by trying to get a visitor visa to any country you can get to and you have to show that you can't meet in another country such as Mexico or Canada and have evidence from your doctor saying you can't be on a plane or cruise ship. I recall someone who wasn't allowed to fly being told to go on a cruise ship instead.

So you can see the burden of proof is very high, I don't recall a medical one being successful, there was one for religious reasons but that is the only one out of dozens I have heard of being given the meeting in person waiver.