Questions please

[H Al 20]

Hello,

I have a question please. 6 years ago my husband applied for US visitor visa and was denied (we weren’t married at that time); and on 2018 we applied for fiance visa and was denied for lack of proof of meeting within 2 years before applying. So this year we applied for spouse visa. My question is will those previous denials effect our cr1 visa process?

 

Thanks.

[Crazy Cat 41,845]

No, those denials, in themselves, will not affect your spousal visa.   I assume you have met.

Edited December 28, 2021 by Crazy Cat

[SteveInBostonI130 3,434]

13 minutes ago, H Al said:

Hello,

I have a question please. 6 years ago my husband applied for US visitor visa and was denied (we weren’t married at that time); and on 2018 we applied for fiance visa and was denied for lack of proof of meeting within 2 years before applying. So this year we applied for spouse visa. My question is will those previous denials effect our cr1 visa process?

 

Thanks.

The previous denials will not affect your CR1.

 

IF the reason for any of those denials were for material misrepresentation or for security (terrorism, human trafficking, etc.), then those same reasons will affect the CR1.

 

One very troublesome item we have seen there that is a MAJOR issue is if your husband, who was just your boyfriend at the time,  stated that he was married to try to get that tourist visa.  This will cause USCIS to make him provide a divorce certificate from the marriage he stated in the tourist visa application.  I hope his tourist visa denial was not because of this.

[pushbrk 12,881]

24 minutes ago, H Al said:

Hello,

I have a question please. 6 years ago my husband applied for US visitor visa and was denied (we weren’t married at that time); and on 2018 we applied for fiance visa and was denied for lack of proof of meeting within 2 years before applying. So this year we applied for spouse visa. My question is will those previous denials effect our cr1 visa process?

 

Thanks.

Not in and of themselves, no.  Issues like whether you have met in person, or this is just a proxy marriage, and how much time you HAVE spent together in person, could be critical issues though.  Were you together in person when you "married"?  If not, have you been together in person AFTER a proxy/online marriage?  How MUCH time have you spent together in person?  Which country is he coming from?  All these things are more important that the visa denials.  Sounds like the fiance petition (not the visa) was denied.

[H Al 20]

53 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

No, those denials, in themselves, will not affect your spousal visa.   I assume you have met.

Thanks for your response. Yes I traveled twice after the K1 denial. 

44 minutes ago, SteveInBostonI130 said:

The previous denials will not affect your CR1.

 

IF the reason for any of those denials were for material misrepresentation or for security (terrorism, human trafficking, etc.), then those same reasons will affect the CR1.

 

One very troublesome item we have seen there that is a MAJOR issue is if your husband, who was just your boyfriend at the time,  stated that he was married to try to get that tourist visa.  This will cause USCIS to make him provide a divorce certificate from the marriage he stated in the tourist visa application.  I hope his tourist visa denial was not because of this.

No, when he applied for the visitor visa he never said he was married. I'm his first and only wife.

Thanks for your response.

41 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

Not in and of themselves, no.  Issues like whether you have met in person, or this is just a proxy marriage, and how much time you HAVE spent together in person, could be critical issues though.  Were you together in person when you "married"?  If not, have you been together in person AFTER a proxy/online marriage?  How MUCH time have you spent together in person?  Which country is he coming from?  All these things are more important that the visa denials.  Sounds like the fiance petition (not the visa) was denied.

Thanks for your response.  I traveled for marriage and I met him again 6 months after our marriage I stayed there for 42 days and planning to go there again in the coming months.

My husband is from Iraq where I'm originally from and yes it was the fiance petition that was denied.

 

Thanks all for your valuable time, appreciate it.