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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Venezuela
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I have so many questions my head is spinning. I'll try to keep this as summarized as possible. My fiancé and I met on Instagram through mutual connections about 3 years ago, she's from Caracas, Venezuela and I'm from the United States, despite her inability to speak conversational English, and the little Spanish that I know, in combination with translation, we've somehow been able to develop an incredible relationship. We recently met in Bogota, Colombia and spent a very romantic week together in which I asked her to marry me. Now we're beginning the visa process and I'm having so many concerns and considering using a visa service like Rapid Visa (although I hear they mostly have experience handling Filipino Visas).

 

The actual application... 

 

The addresses for simple things like her previous residence, employment, and schools... it's nothing like we use here in the United States. For example, her university (Universidad Santa María) doesn't even have an address on Google Maps, the information she is able to give me is just which campus she went to, and in doing some research on Google I found this address, Dirección: Final Autopista Francisco Fajardo, Vía Petare - Santa Lucía, Km. 4, Universidad Santa María, Petare, Caracas

 

Literally all the addresses she's given me are nothing like the United States, so I really have concerns filling out the  I-129F in regards to this. Do you think I should use Rapid Visa to have someone with a better set of eyes looking over everything? 

 

Do the dates of employment and residences have to be exact or can be estimated?

 

For me, I had periods of unemployment, do I need to list those periods or only my previous employers?

 

Regarding the evidence of a relationship, do I submit this (photos, scanned passport stamps, itineraries, chat/call logs, etc..) with my I-129F or is this evidence only needed for the interview at the embassy? 

 

Will our language and communication come into question? It truly is unique, but we seriously make it work. She's taking English classes and I've been in intensive Spanish studies since we first began talking so I imagine by the time it comes for her embassy interview and if approved, eventually the adjustment of status interview, I'll be more than conversational in Spanish and her in English. But could this be a problem?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

 

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Colombia
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On 6/26/2018 at 1:09 AM, VenezuelaVisa said:

I just found the Assembling the I-129F Package: Checklist, so that answers part of my questions, can anyone help me with the others?

About language and communication, I and my fiance are very similar to your situation. We got our K-1 approval last month. It took a little longer than usual (got REF for statement intend to marry within 90 days from my fiance) , but we do not have any problems. I guess it will be more of a concern in the consulate interview process.

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Did both of you attend the interview in Venezuela? I was thinking of obtaining a Venezuelan visa to go with her to the interview, or at least to visit and have more evidence that are relationship is in fact, legitimate,  but things are deteriorating x 1000 every single day there. I heard even walking through the Maiquetia airport is a risk. 

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By the way everyone, I ended up going with Rapid Visa, but after seeing their service agreement and the documents they prepared, I immediately cancelled the service. What a waste of money! Seriously thousands of dollars for them to aggregate a form, no legitimate review, no particular expertise. If anyone on here is wondering, yes, just do it yourself with the help of this website. You do not need Rapid Visa. 

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Colombia
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21 minutes ago, VenezuelaVisa said:

Did both of you attend the interview in Venezuela? I was thinking of obtaining a Venezuelan visa to go with her to the interview, or at least to visit and have more evidence that are relationship is in fact, legitimate,  but things are deteriorating x 1000 every single day there. I heard even walking through the Maiquetia airport is a risk. 

We haven't scheduled the interview yet. My fiance is still waiting for his passport extension to be issued. We don't know how long we have to wait. it seems everything in Venezuela is unpredictable!

 

I tried applying tourist visa from Venezuelan consulate. They rejected my visa application without giving reason. We had to meet at third countries. We are planing to meet again in Colombia before his interview. Yes, I think the more you meet in person, the more convincing that your relationship is true.

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