Is there a required timeline from "relationship to engagement"

[cavaliers23 1]

Hi everyone!

 

Let me share my story.

 

My petitioner (female) is in the US and I am in the Philippines. We started dating when she visited her family here on May 2017 and we kept in touch since then until we decided to book a trip for two for HK on November 2017 and made it as an official relationship but we have known each other since highschool (11 years to be exact).  We have pictures, boarding passes and plane tickets during our HK trip but we dont have pictures during her May visit since we were still dating that time. She will be coming to visit me this March 2018 and we will surely take lots of pictures as a preparation also if we get an RFE and for the interview purposes as well. She already filed this month for K-1 Visa and my issues are:

 

1.) Would it be okay that we made it official on November 2017 and we finally decided to file this Jan 2018? Is the timeline okay? 

2.) Is it okay that we only submitted pictures during our HK trip? (but we submitted screenshots of facetime, call logs and texts)

3.) Though we are in a bonafide relationship, is the timeline from "relationship to engagement" okay?

4.) Is the Philippines still one of the countries with the highest approval rating?

5.) In your own honest opinion, do you think we have a strong case for approval?

 

Thank you and more power to this page!

[NatO23 235]

12 hours ago, cavaliers23 said:

Hi everyone!

 

Let me share my story.

 

My petitioner (female) is in the US and I am in the Philippines. We started dating when she visited her family here on May 2017 and we kept in touch since then until we decided to book a trip for two for HK on November 2017 and made it as an official relationship but we have known each other since highschool (11 years to be exact).  We have pictures, boarding passes and plane tickets during our HK trip but we dont have pictures during her May visit since we were still dating that time. She will be coming to visit me this March 2018 and we will surely take lots of pictures as a preparation also if we get an RFE and for the interview purposes as well. She already filed this month for K-1 Visa and my issues are:

 

1.) Would it be okay that we made it official on November 2017 and we finally decided to file this Jan 2018? Is the timeline okay? 

2.) Is it okay that we only submitted pictures during our HK trip? (but we submitted screenshots of facetime, call logs and texts)

3.) Though we are in a bonafide relationship, is the timeline from "relationship to engagement" okay?

4.) Is the Philippines still one of the countries with the highest approval rating?

5.) In your own honest opinion, do you think we have a strong case for approval?

 

Thank you and more power to this page!

Hi,

 

Your timeline is very similar to mine, just one year apart. I had known my (now) wife for around 4 years through twitter, and we were just friends for a long time. We started to get closer in 2016, and met in person for the first time that November. We got engaged in January 2017 during my second visit and filed everything a week later, so just a couple of months after meeting for the first time. Our petition packet only had photos from our original November meeting and the January meeting, and we were approved first time around with no RFE. We're married now, and I'm waiting for my green card to arrive!

 

I think that USCIS realizes how easy it is to maintain a long-distance relationship nowadays, with FaceTime/texting/Skype etc, and so as long as the photos and any other evidence you sent (we included cards and letters too) proves that you are in a bonafide romantic relationship, that timeline will be fine. As you said, you can take more photos and collect more evidence of your time together during her next visit in preparation for the interview, so that will help too. 

 

Good luck to you both, and I hope the waiting time goes by quickly for you.

[cavaliers23 1]

4 hours ago, NatO23 said:

Hi,

 

Your timeline is very similar to mine, just one year apart. I had known my (now) wife for around 4 years through twitter, and we were just friends for a long time. We started to get closer in 2016, and met in person for the first time that November. We got engaged in January 2017 during my second visit and filed everything a week later, so just a couple of months after meeting for the first time. Our petition packet only had photos from our original November meeting and the January meeting, and we were approved first time around with no RFE. We're married now, and I'm waiting for my green card to arrive!

 

I think that USCIS realizes how easy it is to maintain a long-distance relationship nowadays, with FaceTime/texting/Skype etc, and so as long as the photos and any other evidence you sent (we included cards and letters too) proves that you are in a bonafide romantic relationship, that timeline will be fine. As you said, you can take more photos and collect more evidence of your time together during her next visit in preparation for the interview, so that will help too. 

 

Good luck to you both, and I hope the waiting time goes by quickly for you.

Thanks God that there is someone who has similar scenario as mine. Anyway, are you a Filipino? How was the interview? I am really anxious about our case because of the time that we made it official to the time that she filed. But we are pretty much confident with our evidences even if they ask for RFE because of the photos that we will be taking during her visit here this March.

 

Thanks a lot!

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16 hours ago, cavaliers23 said:

Hi everyone!

 

Let me share my story.

 

My petitioner (female) is in the US and I am in the Philippines. We started dating when she visited her family here on May 2017 and we kept in touch since then until we decided to book a trip for two for HK on November 2017 and made it as an official relationship but we have known each other since highschool (11 years to be exact).  We have pictures, boarding passes and plane tickets during our HK trip but we dont have pictures during her May visit since we were still dating that time. She will be coming to visit me this March 2018 and we will surely take lots of pictures as a preparation also if we get an RFE and for the interview purposes as well. She already filed this month for K-1 Visa and my issues are:

 

1.) Would it be okay that we made it official on November 2017 and we finally decided to file this Jan 2018? Is the timeline okay? 

2.) Is it okay that we only submitted pictures during our HK trip? (but we submitted screenshots of facetime, call logs and texts)

3.) Though we are in a bonafide relationship, is the timeline from "relationship to engagement" okay?

4.) Is the Philippines still one of the countries with the highest approval rating?

5.) In your own honest opinion, do you think we have a strong case for approval?

 

Thank you and more power to this page!

1) Yes.  Petition requirement is only that you have met face to face once within the past two years.

2) I hope you sent more than pictures.  USCIS doesn't care about facetime, call logs, texts.  These will be ignored

3).  For the petition see #1.  You have time for bonafides for the Embassy interview

4) Don't know

5) Don't know.

[NatO23 235]

15 hours ago, cavaliers23 said:

Thanks God that there is someone who has similar scenario as mine. Anyway, are you a Filipino? How was the interview? I am really anxious about our case because of the time that we made it official to the time that she filed. But we are pretty much confident with our evidences even if they ask for RFE because of the photos that we will be taking during her visit here this March.

 

Thanks a lot!

No, I'm from the UK. Honestly, don't worry about your timeline. As long as you're not lying and you show evidence of truly being committed to each other, they won't really be interested in how fast things moved in your relationship. As the other person said - it would be a good idea to collect other pieces of evidence for the interview. Flight receipts, letters and cards, boarding cards, hotel reservations with both names on it... anything that shows the beginnings of a life together. 

[VANESSA NOLGUEN 1]

hI GUYS, what about a 14 years relationship, and have a 6 year old kid together, not married but barely being able to apply for K-1 visa for me. we live border to border so wee see each other almost every weekend ever since. im scared. i know we should ve have all this fill out years ago, but we went throu some economic problems, very BAD, aour child is register as a US citizen tho, and here we are barely doing this with all my hopes up. our daugthers, I am very scared of how all this will turn.

some people say you got it! because of the many years and the kid.

and some make me doubt a lot about this application being the right one. people say just get merried there and then move to the US..