K1 visa concern

[zai93 2]

Hi everyone!

My fiance and I applied for the K1 visa last month. He is a US citizen and I'm from Morocco. 

I was wondering if my previous visas to the US can affect my K1 visa case? I was on F1 visa in 2016, I studied English for 3 months there and I returned home. Then I applied for a J1 visa and lived in the US for 2 years as an AuPair (that's when I met my fiance). I came back to Morocco on October 2018 to be with my family then my fiance and I applied for K1 visa on March 2019. 

Can that be a problem the day of my interview with the consular officer even if I never overstayed any of my previous visas?

 

Edited April 6, 2019 by zai93

[payxibka 10,045]

57 minutes ago, zai93 said:

Hi everyone!

My fiance and I applied for the K1 visa last month. He is a US citizen and I'm from Morocco. 

I was wondering if my previous visas to the US can affect my K1 visa case? I was on F1 visa in 2016, I studied English for 3 months there and I returned home. Then I applied for a J1 visa and lived in the US for 2 years as an AuPair (that's when I met my fiance). I came back to Morocco on October 2018 to be with my family then my fiance and I applied for K1 visa on March 2019. 

Can that be a problem the day of my interview with the consular officer even if I never overstayed any of my previous visas?

 

Should pose no issues 

[NicoleS 189]

I was on a J1 visa in 2012 for 3 months (summer job) and an F1 visa for 2 full years (2013-2015; MSc degree). I just had my K1 visa interview on Wednesday. The officer seemed happy actually that I already have so much experience in the US on those previous visas. That will help you, not hurt you as long as you disclosed your previous visas in your original application. We did, and even included copies of those previous visa docs in our original i129f and hopefully you did the same. I also brought those original visa docs to my interview, but they did not ask to see them (I think it shows up on their computer screen anyways).

[amah91 28]

Hello, 

just as long as you never overstayed any of your visas that shouldn’t be a problem at all. 

[Crazy Cat 41,853]

2 hours ago, zai93 said:

Hi everyone!

My fiance and I applied for the K1 visa last month. He is a US citizen and I'm from Morocco. 

I was wondering if my previous visas to the US can affect my K1 visa case? I was on F1 visa in 2016, I studied English for 3 months there and I returned home. Then I applied for a J1 visa and lived in the US for 2 years as an AuPair (that's when I met my fiance). I came back to Morocco on October 2018 to be with my family then my fiance and I applied for K1 visa on March 2019. 

Can that be a problem the day of my interview with the consular officer even if I never overstayed any of my previous visas?

 

Unless you didn't fulfill a home residency requirement, it shouldn't be an issue.

[JFH 12,190]

Assuming you did not breach any of the conditions of your visas or break any laws whilst here it will have zero impact on your K-1. It won’t help or hinder your case. Your chances are the same whether you have spent 20 years previously here or if you’ve never put a toe on US soil before. 

[chi6488 94]

Don't overstay any future visas.   Prior visas will definitely help showing you have kept your promise to return home..

[C90 376]

14 hours ago, zai93 said:

Hi everyone!

My fiance and I applied for the K1 visa last month. He is a US citizen and I'm from Morocco. 

I was wondering if my previous visas to the US can affect my K1 visa case? I was on F1 visa in 2016, I studied English for 3 months there and I returned home. Then I applied for a J1 visa and lived in the US for 2 years as an AuPair (that's when I met my fiance). I came back to Morocco on October 2018 to be with my family then my fiance and I applied for K1 visa on March 2019. 

Can that be a problem the day of my interview with the consular officer even if I never overstayed any of my previous visas?

 

Nope, no problem. Make sure you keep your passport with J1 visa in it with you, since you'll need that for AOS (there's a question on the AOS form if you've ever been here on a J visa and they request a copy of the visa) If you don't have it, make sure you get as much documents as possible to proof J1 (I didn't have my J1 anymore since I renewed my passport, so I just send in a letter from the au pair program that I did J1 and all the documents I did have from back then)

[nastra30 2,287]

You should be fine since you didn't violate any of your previous visas. Good luck.

 

[JFH 12,190]

3 hours ago, nastra30 said:

You should be fine since you didn't violate any of your previous visas. Good luck.

 

We don’t know that for certain. All we know is that she didn’t overstay. But there are other ways to violate the terms of a visa (working without permission is the main one). Not suggesting that the OP has done anything wrong but to say “you will be fine as you didn’t violate any of your previous visas” is a stretch when we don’t know for certain. 

 

There is also the possibolity that her J-1 was subject to a 2-year home residence rule. 

[nastra30 2,287]

1 hour ago, JFH said:

We don’t know that for certain. All we know is that she didn’t overstay. But there are other ways to violate the terms of a visa (working without permission is the main one). Not suggesting that the OP has done anything wrong but to say “you will be fine as you didn’t violate any of your previous visas” is a stretch when we don’t know for certain. 

 

There is also the possibolity that her J-1 was subject to a 2-year home residence rule. 

Right, perhaps OP can help clear things up.

[zai93 2]

On 4/7/2019 at 12:12 PM, JFH said:

We don’t know that for certain. All we know is that she didn’t overstay. But there are other ways to violate the terms of a visa (working without permission is the main one). Not suggesting that the OP has done anything wrong but to say “you will be fine as you didn’t violate any of your previous visas” is a stretch when we don’t know for certain. 

 

There is also the possibolity that her J-1 was subject to a 2-year home residence rule. 

No, I didn't work while on F1, I was working as an Aupair while on my J1 visa. I was not subject to a 2 year home residency rule.

On 4/7/2019 at 9:09 AM, nastra30 said:

You should be fine since you didn't violate any of your previous visas. Good luck.

 

Thank you!