K1 visa process and the regional travel ban in the Schengen area.

[stuckonyou 75]

Hi everyone,

 

I just wanted to make a post where we could talk about the K1 visa process within the Schengen area and the travel ban that is currently affecting us. So any information, updates, personal progress or frustrations in your own visa cases are welcome here as long as you keep a good tone. This is meant to be a place where we can "gather" and support each other, help out if possible or just be among other people in a similar situation. One day this waiting will be over, but for right now lets share the process together and celebrate together later on once we finally get our visas and can be reunited with the person we love without having to say goodbye again. 💕

 

If you want to be a part of this thread feel free to introduce yourself and let us know where in the process you and your fiancé/e are currently at.

 

I'm a Swedish K1 that met a wonderful man on a Christian dating app early last year. We got engaged in August and sent in the I-129F in late September longing to start sharing the rest of our lives together. Everything went smoothly up until the travel ban on Schengen came along... We literally heard about the travel ban the same morning as I had my visa interview on March 12th. We had preliminary plans to get married in April. We were so close and it felt like we literally stumbled on the finish line. It was heart breaking. But at least the interview went well. The consular officer said congratulations, but that they had to wait for my medical results to come in and that she didn't know what the guidelines would be yet with the travel ban. A week later we got an email from the embassy saying that the medical results had come in, but that I was currently ineligible for a visa due to the Presidential Proclamation (travel ban) and that the application will be reviewed again once the proclamation is lifted. So that's where we're at. Still waiting 260 days after the visa interview. We haven't seen each other in 15 months and there's not even enough words to describe how much we miss each other and wish that this was over. When I left Chicago in August last year my fiancé didn't have anymore vacation days for that year, and then the NOA2 came early January so we decided to save his vacation for our wedding and honeymoon. In the beginning of the fall we heard about Americans having made it to Sweden successfully as a partner to a Swedish citizen and we wanted him to come and visit me, but he wasn't allowed to change any vacation days. So now our hope is that he will be able to come for a week in January when he gets new vacation days...

 

So what about you? What's your story? How are you holding up?

[OlgaA 67]

Hello, I really appreciate what you wrote here! I hope you will see each other soon this is just temporary! Thank you for this post it's really helpful! We are waiting for K1 visa interview since last March. We have not seen each other for a year and we are waiting this ban is lifted because interview will take place in Poland (I am from Belarus ), I just want to tell don't stop believing in better and this situation will pass one day. Good news came about a couple of weeks I got mail from embassy it says they can't give interview us till ban is lifted but we can start getting ready papers for interview, we hope it wasn't sent just without reasons and hope for hearing some good news soon. I want to encourage everyone who is waiting K visas do not let sadness come, after Christmas it will change and we will hear good news soon. I wish everyone good luck! Be patient and believe in better! God bless you!

[Greenbaum 12,259]

This topic has been replied to and discuss here on VJ a thousand of times. You may want to be a part of the conversation at the original post (which now numbers 93 pages) found here:

 

Has Anyone Left Europe's Schengen Area for 14 Days to Then Enter USA? - Coronavirus Covid-19 - VisaJourney

[OlgaA 67]

51 minutes ago, Greenbaum said:

This topic has been replied to and discuss here on VJ a thousand of times. You may want to be a part of the conversation at the original post (which now numbers 93 pages) found here:

 

Has Anyone Left Europe's Schengen Area for 14 Days to Then Enter USA? - Coronavirus Covid-19 - VisaJourney

Thanks 

Edited November 29, 2020 by OlgaA
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[stuckonyou 75]

14 hours ago, OlgaA said:

Hello, I really appreciate what you wrote here! I hope you will see each other soon this is just temporary! Thank you for this post it's really helpful! We are waiting for K1 visa interview since last March. We have not seen each other for a year and we are waiting this ban is lifted because interview will take place in Poland (I am from Belarus ), I just want to tell don't stop believing in better and this situation will pass one day. Good news came about a couple of weeks I got mail from embassy it says they can't give interview us till ban is lifted but we can start getting ready papers for interview, we hope it wasn't sent just without reasons and hope for hearing some good news soon. I want to encourage everyone who is waiting K visas do not let sadness come, after Christmas it will change and we will hear good news soon. I wish everyone good luck! Be patient and believe in better! God bless you!

 

Thank you for responding and for being positive and full of faith! We all need more of this! ❤️
 

It does sound positive that they said to start getting your papers ready. Hopefully that means something. Let's hope something happens soon. 😇

[stuckonyou 75]

4 hours ago, Greenbaum said:

This topic has been replied to and discuss here on VJ a thousand of times. You may want to be a part of the conversation at the original post (which now numbers 93 pages) found here:

 

Has Anyone Left Europe's Schengen Area for 14 Days to Then Enter USA? - Coronavirus Covid-19 - VisaJourney

 

Thank you for sharing this link. I hadn't seen this post.

 

Although it doesn't really (at least not the last page, I admit to not reading through the entire thing) deal with the K1 visa processing. As long as the embassies in the Schengen area aren't issuing K1 visas going somewhere else for 14 days to enter the US doesn't help with your actual case which is more of what I wanted to have a post about. Information, updates and progress and so forth regarding the processing of our visas. It seems to be a great thread if you're just wanting to visit while you're waiting, though, so thanks for sharing. ☺️

Edited November 29, 2020 by stuckonyou

[Greenbaum 12,259]

9 minutes ago, stuckonyou said:

 

Thank you for sharing this link. I hadn't seen this post.

 

Although it doesn't really (at least not the last page, I admit to not reading through the entire thing) deal with the K1 visa processing. As long as the embassies in the Schengen area aren't issuing K1 visas going somewhere else for 14 days to enter the US doesn't help with your actual case which is more of what I wanted to have a post about. Information, updates and progress and so forth regarding the processing of our visas. It seems to be a great thread if you're just wanting to visit while you're waiting, though, so thanks for sharing. ☺️

If you can travel to a country that is not in the Schengen area and wait 14 days, you can fly to the USA and enter without any problems. There have been many who have completed that same trip without problems.

[stuckonyou 75]

Just now, Greenbaum said:

If you can travel to a country that is not in the Schengen area and wait 14 days, you can fly to the USA and enter without any problems. There have been many who have completed that same trip without problems.

 

I know, I've heard about people doing that. But that has been people who are either going for a visit or had their visa issued before the travel ban came into place.

 

Now the embassies just keep saying that "they can't take action on a K1 visa case" (unless you belong to an exemption within the Presidential Proclamation, and then you wouldn't need to wait in another country for 14 days to begin with) as long as the proclamation is still in place. So it doesn't really help the processing of the visa at all that I would be willing to take a detour for 14 days to a non travel ban country when they're not issuing it. I wish it did, though. 😇 I would totally go on a vacation with some other K1 needing to do the same thing or perhaps I could stay with my fiancé's relatives in Guatemala for two weeks. But unfortunately I'm not being given that option by the embassy. ☹️

[OlgaA 67]

42 minutes ago, stuckonyou said:

 

I know, I've heard about people doing that. But that has been people who are either going for a visit or had their visa issued before the travel ban came into place.

 

Now the embassies just keep saying that "they can't take action on a K1 visa case" (unless you belong to an exemption within the Presidential Proclamation, and then you wouldn't need to wait in another country for 14 days to begin with) as long as the proclamation is still in place. So it doesn't really help the processing of the visa at all that I would be willing to take a detour for 14 days to a non travel ban country when they're not issuing it. I wish it did, though. 😇 I would totally go on a vacation with some other K1 needing to do the same thing or perhaps I could stay with my fiancé's relatives in Guatemala for two weeks. But unfortunately I'm not being given that option by the embassy. ☹️

I agree they don't give you option to go to nonban country to wait 14 days, so everyone has  to wait. 

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