Exemption to Leave on K1 Denied

[RP&JE 1]

@Stingbass

Hello, I've been following your post and hoping you were able to get exemption on your latest attemp... any update?!? 🙏

Very interested to hear what you ended up including with your request that hopefully worked this time. (if you would be go kind to share) 

[top_secret 2,394]

On 5/16/2021 at 9:58 PM, Stingbass said:

the letter from the embassy which states that she will be staying in the United States for an extended amount of time

 I'm curious how the letter from the embassy was worded, as I could envision where "staying in the United States for an extended amount of time" may be seen differently by some bureaucrat than "Immigrating permanently to the United States".

[Stingbass 7]

@RP&JE hi there, we were in fact approved on our second attempt! We ended up going a bit over the top to prove that she would be staying in the states permanently. I provided our application for a 1 year lease on an apartment which she had signed, the flight itinerary for her one way flight (which I really didn’t want to book until she got the exemption, but I thought it would help), a copy of her airbnb receipt to show that she had an expiring stay in Sydney and no lease/home in Australia because she was expecting to immigrate, the statutory declaration which we re-worded to be more specific about her intent to immigrate and what we’ve gone through during the K1, a copy of her K1 visa, a copy of her passport, a copy of the letter provided by the embassy stating that she would be gone for an extended period of time, a copy of our letter of intent to marry and a cover letter which I typed up to explicitly explain our intent, process and reason we qualify for both the 3 months or more reasoning AND the compassionate/humanitarian reasoning. We got our response within about 24 hours and she’s already arrived here in the US as of yesterday! I’d say if you’re looking to get an exemption, go over the top to secure it the first time. It’s a pretty easy process generally. 

[RP&JE 1]

44 minutes ago, Stingbass said:

@RP&JE hi there, we were in fact approved on our second attempt! We ended up going a bit over the top to prove that she would be staying in the states permanently. I provided our application for a 1 year lease on an apartment which she had signed, the flight itinerary for her one way flight (which I really didn’t want to book until she got the exemption, but I thought it would help), a copy of her airbnb receipt to show that she had an expiring stay in Sydney and no lease/home in Australia because she was expecting to immigrate, the statutory declaration which we re-worded to be more specific about her intent to immigrate and what we’ve gone through during the K1, a copy of her K1 visa, a copy of her passport, a copy of the letter provided by the embassy stating that she would be gone for an extended period of time, a copy of our letter of intent to marry and a cover letter which I typed up to explicitly explain our intent, process and reason we qualify for both the 3 months or more reasoning AND the compassionate/humanitarian reasoning. We got our response within about 24 hours and she’s already arrived here in the US as of yesterday! I’d say if you’re looking to get an exemption, go over the top to secure it the first time. It’s a pretty easy process generally. 

thank you so very much for this detail. Congratulations on getting through all of this madness and so happy for you to finally be together. We’ll be applying in the next week or so and this will help tremendously. Best wishes to you!