K1 Filers: How long did you wait before getting engaged? How long did you wait before filing?

[rrobin0609 387]

Hi all! I've been wondering for a while now how other quickly or slowly other couples filing for K1s progressed. The two main questions I want to know are: 1) how long before you became engaged? 2) how long after your engagement did you file the I-129F petition/receive your NOA1? You can include as much or as little information as you want. I just like data and seeing if there are trends of any sorts.

 

I met my fiance online in June 2015. My older sister had ended a 5 year LDR (he was from Germany) a few months before so I knew that if I was going to get myself into this it was going to end in marriage. On his second trip, which was three months long, he proposed. He probably was planning on doing it later in the trip since he asked on the first night while may car was broken down on the side of the highway 10 miles from my apartment. This was the beginning of March 2016. I filed our case in November 2017. It took me so long since I was finishing up my last year of school; I was in my job almost a year before I filed just to make sure I was truly settled in it and wasn't going to have anything crop up that could have been detrimental to our filing or eligibility.

 

Meeting to Engagement: 9 months

Engagement to NOA1: 20 months

[TBoneTX 45,319]

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[Andsco 89]

Hello! I was together with him for 10 months when he asked me to marry him. Since we saw that it would take a long time, we filed right away and we were together for 1 year and 3 to 4 months when we got approved!

[RJandHamid 1,133]

I met my husband in August 2015. I made 3 additional trips to see him and we got engaged in November 2016, I filed the K1 in December 2016. He arrived in July 2017 and we were married August 2017. 

[Umka36 781]

My wife and I were introduced back in October 2009 by a colleague at work. The first trip I went to see her was in April 2010 for two weeks. I took another trip in August 2010 for a month in which I proposed. I filed the I-129F in September 2010 was approved in April 2011. We delayed the process in order for her to finish up her teaching job, and was able to get the interviewed scheduled in August.

 

I visited her a few more times lasting between 2-4 week. One between X-mas/New Years, then in June 2011 for my birthday, and finally a month long trip in August 2011 for her interview/wrapping up personally business before her trip to the US. Married in September 2011 and filed AOS soon after.

[Unidentified 2,930]

We met right after my first year as an au pair in 2012 when my 2nd year was up I switched over to an F1 and moved in with him for a year. He proposed in spring 2014, I went home in May and we sent in our papers in July. We got approved in march or april 2015. I moved over in July and we got married in August. 

[yuna628 9,676]

I'm afraid our case is going to be one of those outliers.

 

Met officially: 2003.

Engaged: 2009.

Filed: 2014.

 

Yeah, we're weirdos.

 

 

[YecaCruz 379]

Met in 2010

Engaged Fall 2015. I wouldn't say yes until he had my parents' blessing which he got. Call me old-fashioned . I had the packet ready in 5 days from when he asked via facetime to when I sent it and having 0 knowledge about k1s. So thankful for this site and I'm so surprised I didn't miss anything and get any RFE's!

Filed Fall 2015

 

Edited June 12, 2018 by YecaCruz

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

We did file for a K1 first, so I'll go for that:

 

We started talking in November 2011

Met in person January 2012

Engaged  and became "exclusive" couple April 2012

Filed April 2012

Married October 2012

 

Talking to engagement: 5 months.

IRL meeting to engagement: 3 months

[TBoneTX 45,319]

Timelines pale in comparison to the reality that the most dangerous food is Wedding Cake.  

 

Started communicating late 2006

Visited March 2007; filed I-129F late May 2007

Hosed twice by rogue Guayaquil consulate (massive thread being composed about it)

Married Hallowe'en 2008 (wedding party on Pearl Harbor Day 2008)

Edited June 13, 2018 by TBoneTX

[Little_Vixen 1,869]

We met online around June 2016

Met in person June 2017

Got engaged December 16 2017

Filed K1 December 20 2017 (NOA1 Dec 22)

 

Its always interesting to see when people start calling it a 'relationship'. I felt like I was in a relationship since the end of 2016, but I hadn't actually met him. I kept telling myself that you can't call it a relationship if you haven't met face to face. You need that last confirmation that what you feel is real and the chemistry is there (and boy did we have chemistry ). So technically we were only dating 6 months before he proposed, but to me we had already been dating for a year. We had been talking about the K1 for a while before he proposed so I had all the paperwork with me when I went over in December.

 

I have a lot of admiration for people who can handle a long distance relationship that lasts that long. I haven't seen him since March and I'm already going crazy. Feels like it gets harder every time I have to say goodbye.

[debbiedoo 2,339]

we met in 2016 (online in feb and in person in april).we both pretty much knew from day one we would get married. he comes 'home' every 3rd week, and has for 2 years now lol. the OFFICIAL proposal was in march of this year. we filed in may.

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,092]

Saw her profile on an online dating site and exchanged one email in April of 2017

Started communicating online in July 2017 (when we think of as starting our relationship)

First in person meeting in October 2017

Proposed at second in person meeting in Feb 2018

Filed after meeting her family at the third in person meeting in May 2018

[Paul & Mallory 1,398]

We met online in July 2015. We talked/got to know one another for about a year before meeting for the first time (June 2016). He made three trips here after that in 2016, and came back the beginning of 2017 for two and a half months. We technically got engaged in August of 2016 during a visit stateside, but he didn't get a chance to "ask" my dad's permission until he came back the following trip (February - April), so that's when we consider it official. We had already decided which route to take at the end of 2016, so we began getting things together right after announcing our engagement in April, and filed for K1 the beginning of that June (2017). Now we are together and married!  

 

Meeting to engaged - about a year and a half

Engaged to filing K1 - 2 months

[Ben&Zian 4,398]

Think some move faster than others. We met late August 2014. Visited July 2015 and at that point we knew we wanted to pursue it all further but with my work at that point with a lot of traveling knew it wouldn't make sense so we waited until I stopped traveling in early 2016. So we had 2+ year relationship come interview time and all.