Prior spousal Visa

[SirenandMartin 17]

So I have a question. I’ve been reading through old posts but not found anyone in a similar situation. I have my I-129F packet ready I am just waiting on my fiancé’s signed letter stating we will get married. So my question is about question 14 “Have you ever filed for another fiancé?”. I have never filed a Fiance i129f but I have filed an i130 for my ex husband. 

In 2009 I was married and the immigration paperwork wasn’t started until about 2011 or 2012. It was finalized in 2016 though and I was separated about two months after, but my divorce was finalized in July 2017, he was Mexican and we had been dating two years before we were married. We ended up getting married because I got pregnant rather than because it was something we truly wanted but we were really young and tried to make it work. The reason we separated was because I thought after the immigration process was finalized losing that horrible stress would make things better and our marriage would work. But it did not and January 2017 I finally asked him to leave. We finalized the divorce July 2017.

February I met my current fiancé but he’s British. And I have to go through the immigration process all over again. He’s currently in the UK but has been to the US once already. I have been to the UK and met his family too. The reason he is immigrating here is because I am still in school(engineering) and graduate 2019 but I’d like to stay in the US for a few years to pay off my student loans. Once my loans are paid off and we have a deposit for a home we plan on moving back to the UK. It’s really difficult to be away from someone you love so much and that’s why we’d like to close the distance. 

So my questions are:

1. Do I put no on question 14? I have put no but want to make sure.

2. Do I need to send any explanation or anything about my prior marriage apart from my divorce decree?

3. Is there an issue with my past marriage that would cause us to be denied? This one would break my heart but I feel I want to ask it to know if anyone has been in a similar situation.

[SirenandMartin 17]

Edit: question 43 “Have you ever filed form i129f for any other beneficiary?”

[Wuozopo 4,293]

15 minutes ago, SirenandMartin said:

Edit: question 43 “Have you ever filed form i129f for any other beneficiary?”

 

28 minutes ago, SirenandMartin said:

I have never filed a Fiance i129f

You answered your own question.

 

 

29 minutes ago, SirenandMartin said:

Do I need to send any explanation or anything about my prior marriage

Do not overthink this.

[SirenandMartin 17]

My fiancé says I need to stop overthinking too. I guess I’m just worried and I’d like to make sure I cross all my t’s and dot all my i’s. But thanks for your reply

[Wuozopo 4,293]

4 hours ago, SirenandMartin said:

My fiancé says I need to stop overthinking too. I guess I’m just worried and I’d like to make sure I cross all my t’s and dot all my i’s. But thanks for your reply

They aren't evaluating your life like the plot of a novel. For the petition, they check off that you have shown them paper evidence of:

1. One person is a US citizen (birth certificate)

2. You have met in person at least once in the last two years (passport stamps, boarding passes, purchases or ATM withdrawals in his/her town, etc, a few photographs)

3. You are fee to marry (divorce decree(s) all pages, signed by judge)

4. Both free to marry and intend to marry (signed statements from each)

5. If you met on website, details and terms showing you didn't pay fees to buy a fiancé.

6. Basic biographical info on forms and passport type photos.  Read form instructions.

 

They don't really ask proof of your undying love so you can go easy on the  Facebook status, twitter, love notes and the like, especially for an easy London interview. You both natively speak English so extensive chat logs showing you can effectively communicate is unnecessary.  

 

It's not as difficult as you imagine. Here's my tips for you:

• Get your information straight from the source. Read all the form directions top to bottom several times. Read all the links the London website offers on the K1 pages. Read FAQS. 
• Learn the next process coming up thoroughly instead of moaning on the wait time for the step you're on and checking status constantly. Read ahead instead of waiting idly.
• Use these forums to find those official sources or help you interpret a passage you found on an official source if you don't understand it. Use them to see how people messed up so you don't make the same mistake (read ahead to your next process). Don't let the forums be your main source of instruction. Often it's the blind leading the blind and contradictory responses. 
• Make a photocopy for your records of every single application, form, piece of evidence, and the check you wrote before you send something off. 
• Don't depend on your phone to get you through immigration. This is serious stuff. Get on a big screen. Print out the form instructions and follow them line by line. Underline or highlight important stuff in the details.
• buy a printer/copier/scanner/fax all-in-one if you don't already have one. Most useful because you have years of immigration documentation ahead of you.

[SirenandMartin 17]

Thank you so much for your tips. And yes I’ve completed my packet just waiting on his signed letter of intent to marry. I think before I put in the mail I wanted to get a little piece of mind on that question more than anything. But on number five you said that if we met on a website to show proof we didn’t pay fees. How would I do that? It was a gaming site, not even a dating site. But what would I add to show proof of that? I wrote in our question 54 a brief description of how we met and the site. 

And yes we know the waiting times currently we’re planning for getting married from December this year to February of next year.

Thanks again for the tips xx 

[Wuozopo 4,293]

17 minutes ago, SirenandMartin said:

But on number five you said that if we met on a website to show proof we didn’t pay fees. How would I do that? It was a gaming site, not even a dating site. But what would I add to show proof of that? I wrote in our question 54 a brief description of how we met and the site. 

That is newer than my personal experience. I think people currently put the exact details of the sight name, URL, and include the TOS printout from the website. You might get an RFE for more information if you only said we met on a gaming site or "on the internet", so add some specifics so they know for sure it wasn't an International Marriage Broker (IMB) which you said no to on your form.

 

 

 

 

[SirenandMartin 17]

19 minutes ago, Wuozopo said:

That is newer than my personal experience. I think people currently put the exact details of the sight name, URL, and include the TOS printout from the website. You might get an RFE for more information if you only said we met on a gaming site or "on the internet", so add some specifics so they know for sure it wasn't an International Marriage Broker (IMB) which you said no to on your form.

 

 

 

 

I did include the site name but since it’s not been sent out I will go ahead and add the url and the TOS. I’m glad you brought up something I did not even know about. I assumed that as long as it wasn’t a marriage broker we didn’t have to add anything apart from the site name. I’ll add the additional information though.

thank you so much!