11 Months under AP !!

[Léon H 1]

Just now, Boiler said:

So you need a waiver to enter the US.

and what is a Waiver please? how to get one ?

[Boiler 45,576]

Waiver will allow you to enter the US despite your inadmissability.

 

Something the Consulate will handle.

[salhasl 113]

On ‎7‎/‎4‎/‎2018 at 7:18 AM, Léon H said:

and what is a Waiver please? how to get one ?

I hate to bring you bad news, but its highly unlikely you will get a K1 visa. Waivers are restricted to immediate relatives, and to the best of my knowledge, a fiancée is not considered an immediate relative. I have heard of multiple K1s being denied with no permission to apply for waiver. If anyone reading this has a K1 approved after being told waiver consideration, please correct me.

 

The only waiver approvals I have come across are IR waivers (spouse, children) and some other exceptions like P3 or some weird visa like that. Also, these waivers are extremely rare, and are highly opaque in terms of what qualifies and who is actually getting them. 

 

If you search under my handle, I have posted a few statistics on this topic that might get you more insight into what is going on. 

 

Things are still moving on this front though, and next few weeks should bring more clarity into waivers. 

[JennaL 151]

@Léon H, if more information comes out in the next few weeks regarding the waiver process, and it doesn't look like something that would work out for your situation, you can always get married and then re-file again with the spousal visa.  If this is accurate, you would then qualify for the waiver as a spouse of a US citizen, so just another avenue to consider for the future. Don't loose hope  

[Rayyan 27]

On 7/3/2018 at 11:18 AM, Léon H said:

Bonjour !
I applied for K1 Visa in US embassy in Paris to go marry my american fiancée in US, we lived together for over 2 years in Paris, and she left to work in USA from more than year during our visa process 
because we thought i would join her in 2-3 months.
Anyway, after the interview was placed under an administrative process  and get my passport because it may take a while, today it's almost a year that our case is on hold and all that I get from the embassy is emails asking me to wait, the last email to inform me that my medical exam was expired and i need to re-do it if they give me the visa later..
On may 2018 we got an answer from the immigration department in USA  - my fiancée called them by phone- that my file was closed and sent back to France, and that - everything looks good - ..but still, the US embassy says it's under AP till now.
Did anyone take that time to get an answer? is there any solution or at least anything to do about it? we are waiting from a year and you can't imagine how hard is it to put your life on hold for that long !!
P.S : i'm a Syrian citizen living in France for 6 years, and holding a french passport as a refugee, and have no criminal records at all...i never visited Syria or any banned country during the last 6 years.
Thank you in advance

I’m in a similar situation but with a CR-1 Visa! 

[salhasl 113]

On 7/9/2018 at 4:21 AM, Rayyan said:

I’m in a similar situation but with a CR-1 Visa! 

When was your interview? What happened at the interview? If you fill out your timeline it helps all of us (including you :-) )

[Rayyan 27]

9 minutes ago, salhasl said:

When was your interview? What happened at the interview? If you fill out your timeline it helps all of us (including you :-) )

Interview was at June 11th this year. The interview went well & they requested a waiver, which is still processing. 

[salhasl 113]

On 7/6/2018 at 4:08 AM, salhasl said:

I hate to bring you bad news, but its highly unlikely you will get a K1 visa. Waivers are restricted to immediate relatives, and to the best of my knowledge, a fiancée is not considered an immediate relative. I have heard of multiple K1s being denied with no permission to apply for waiver. If anyone reading this has a K1 approved after being told waiver consideration, please correct me.

 

The only waiver approvals I have come across are IR waivers (spouse, children) and some other exceptions like P3 or some weird visa like that. Also, these waivers are extremely rare, and are highly opaque in terms of what qualifies and who is actually getting them. 

 

If you search under my handle, I have posted a few statistics on this topic that might get you more insight into what is going on. 

 

Things are still moving on this front though, and next few weeks should bring more clarity into waivers. 

I just wanted to correct this since now i have found out that k1s are being treated similar to ir1 from waiver standpoint. I see more IR1s being handed out compared to k1s however but irs were always more numerous.