Marrying this summer

[RhondaM 0]

Hi anyone? everyone? I'm new on this forum. Just registered this weekend. I wish I had known this forum existed before because I would have consulted it sooner. I don't even know how to get started. I want to do the timeline, etc, but don't know where everything is located yet on the site. I posted this in the I 601 forum as well but thought maybe someone out there in the K-1 forum and K-3 forum had some experience with my questions.

My name obviously is Rhonda and my fiance is French. He had visited me several times in the US in 2005 but in March 2006 after returning to the US from a trip together he was stopped at O'hare and sent back. In July of 2006 he started the paperwork for his K-1 fiance visa. In November of 2007 we received his approval and in February 2007 he was called for his interview in Paris. He was told to expect his visa in two weeks. Then a call from the embassy asked for additional paperwork which we supplied. At that second appointment in Paris he was told he was denied and would have to fill out I 601 and I212. He was judged "unlawful presence" in the US--not for overstaying in the US, but we had made a trip to Canada and they said he was attempting to immigrate without the correct visa. Now our 70 page document for I 601 has been received in Rome and the waiting game continues. Does it really take 180 days????? What is the approval rate for Rome? I do have "hardships" that I hope that I have well documented. At least I hope they think they are acceptable hardships.

I have a question--and my lawyer (who is dumbfounded about the "unlawful presence" thing--that he never anticipated) has not been able to answer for me. I am going to France this June to spend time with my "cheri". We put in all the paperwork to marry there this June, because WE WANT TO GET MARRIED and had already thought we would be. But I'm afraid if we marry it will jeopardize the K-1 visa if his waiver is approved. But if the unthinkable happens and it isn't approved, I think marrying there is a good idea so we can restart a different visa.

Does anyone have an experience with this? How do you all get through the rollercoaster of emtions involved in waiting? I'm going crazy or at least I think I am. I've traveled to france last June, October, this March and again in one month. IT is so hard to be separated.

Thanks for reading my post and for any help you may be able to give me.

[john_and_marlene 162]

Hi anyone? everyone? I'm new on this forum. Just registered this weekend. I wish I had known this forum existed before because I would have consulted it sooner. I don't even know how to get started. I want to do the timeline, etc, but don't know where everything is located yet on the site. I posted this in the I 601 forum as well but thought maybe someone out there in the K-1 forum and K-3 forum had some experience with my questions.

My name obviously is Rhonda and my fiance is French. He had visited me several times in the US in 2005 but in March 2006 after returning to the US from a trip together he was stopped at O'hare and sent back. In July of 2006 he started the paperwork for his K-1 fiance visa. In November of 2007 we received his approval and in February 2007 he was called for his interview in Paris. He was told to expect his visa in two weeks. Then a call from the embassy asked for additional paperwork which we supplied. At that second appointment in Paris he was told he was denied and would have to fill out I 601 and I212. He was judged "unlawful presence" in the US--not for overstaying in the US, but we had made a trip to Canada and they said he was attempting to immigrate without the correct visa. Now our 70 page document for I 601 has been received in Rome and the waiting game continues. Does it really take 180 days????? What is the approval rate for Rome? I do have "hardships" that I hope that I have well documented. At least I hope they think they are acceptable hardships.

I have a question--and my lawyer (who is dumbfounded about the "unlawful presence" thing--that he never anticipated) has not been able to answer for me. I am going to France this June to spend time with my "cheri". We put in all the paperwork to marry there this June, because WE WANT TO GET MARRIED and had already thought we would be. But I'm afraid if we marry it will jeopardize the K-1 visa if his waiver is approved. But if the unthinkable happens and it isn't approved, I think marrying there is a good idea so we can restart a different visa.

Does anyone have an experience with this? How do you all get through the rollercoaster of emtions involved in waiting? I'm going crazy or at least I think I am. I've traveled to france last June, October, this March and again in one month. IT is so hard to be separated.

Thanks for reading my post and for any help you may be able to give me.

If you get married, he will no longer be eligible for the K-1. You would have to start over again with a CR-1 and optionally K-3 which will also be denied and require a waiver to be submitted after that denial. You need to remain single and continue with your current waiver request.

[MaydayDas 1]

Yes, once you get married k1 is not an option for you .

and if your lawyer is not so good.....change him...or do not use one anymore

[pushbrk 12,898]

Waivers are tough and tend to take a long time. First, as has already been said, if you get married, you start all over. K1 is for fiance. Once you marry your fiance, he is your husband. You must then apply for a spouse visa. The value judgment on the priority of time vs marriage is all yours.

Someone may be able to offer more help or answers if you'll elaborate a bit more on why he was denied entry and just what the Consular officer's rational was or might have been for the recommendation to deny.

[simple_male 1]

Sorry to hear your story. Please get a competent immigration lawyer.

Hi anyone? everyone? I'm new on this forum. Just registered this weekend. I wish I had known this forum existed before because I would have consulted it sooner. I don't even know how to get started. I want to do the timeline, etc, but don't know where everything is located yet on the site. I posted this in the I 601 forum as well but thought maybe someone out there in the K-1 forum and K-3 forum had some experience with my questions.

My name obviously is Rhonda and my fiance is French. He had visited me several times in the US in 2005 but in March 2006 after returning to the US from a trip together he was stopped at O'hare and sent back. In July of 2006 he started the paperwork for his K-1 fiance visa. In November of 2007 we received his approval and in February 2007 he was called for his interview in Paris. He was told to expect his visa in two weeks. Then a call from the embassy asked for additional paperwork which we supplied. At that second appointment in Paris he was told he was denied and would have to fill out I 601 and I212. He was judged "unlawful presence" in the US--not for overstaying in the US, but we had made a trip to Canada and they said he was attempting to immigrate without the correct visa. Now our 70 page document for I 601 has been received in Rome and the waiting game continues. Does it really take 180 days????? What is the approval rate for Rome? I do have "hardships" that I hope that I have well documented. At least I hope they think they are acceptable hardships.

I have a question--and my lawyer (who is dumbfounded about the "unlawful presence" thing--that he never anticipated) has not been able to answer for me. I am going to France this June to spend time with my "cheri". We put in all the paperwork to marry there this June, because WE WANT TO GET MARRIED and had already thought we would be. But I'm afraid if we marry it will jeopardize the K-1 visa if his waiver is approved. But if the unthinkable happens and it isn't approved, I think marrying there is a good idea so we can restart a different visa.

Does anyone have an experience with this? How do you all get through the rollercoaster of emtions involved in waiting? I'm going crazy or at least I think I am. I've traveled to france last June, October, this March and again in one month. IT is so hard to be separated.

Thanks for reading my post and for any help you may be able to give me.