Fiance is citizen of another country

[essss 0]

Here is my situation. My prospective fiance is the citizen of another country and stays in Turkey for long time. I want to know where she might be scheduled an interview. In addition, would she face the problems with authorities in Turkey if the embassy would request the criminal records. 

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3 minutes ago, essss said:

Here is my situation. My prospective fiance is the citizen of another country and stays in Turkey for long time. I want to know where she might be scheduled an interview. In addition, would she face the problems with authorities in Turkey if the embassy would request the criminal records. 

her interview location is either the place of residence (where they have legal right to stay long-term) or place of citizenship.

depending on how long she stayed in turkey, she will need a police certificate from the local authorities

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[essss 0]

The question is if her visa expires, what problems she might face in terms of interview and the authorities wise.

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If her visa to remain in Turkey expires, that's for her to resolve with Turkish authorities, or she would seemingly have to leave Turkey.  We can offer no other advice on this U.S.-immigration site.

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On 4/16/2022 at 2:49 AM, essss said:

Here is my situation. My prospective fiance is the citizen of another country and stays in Turkey for long time. I want to know where she might be scheduled an interview. In addition, would she face the problems with authorities in Turkey if the embassy would request the criminal records. 

If your partner is currently living in Turkey she will have to provide a criminal background check from Turkey. 

If she leaves Turkey and returns to her home country or moves to another country she will have to provide a criminal background check if she lived in Turkey for over 1 year. 

There are old threads in the forum where beneficiaries had to provide criminal background checks from countries even though they were out of status/entered that country without inspection.

 

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Can't you provide me links for these threads? Thanks.

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27 minutes ago, essss said:

Can't you provide me links for these threads? Thanks.

Sorry... I don't have them handy. 

You can try to search for the old posts by going to the top right hand corner of the page and trying different variations of "illegal/overstay" and I believe the overstays I read about happened in Europe. Either France, Italy or Portugal, I'm not sure. 

 

Here are the rules for police background checks:

• Police certificates from your present country of residence and all countries where you have lived for six months or more since age 16 (Police certificates are also required for accompanying children age 16 or older)

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/family-immigration/nonimmigrant-visa-for-a-fiance-k-1.html#1

 

I will add another member had their K1 interview scheduled for South Africa even though they chose their home country of Zimbabwe for interview location. Generally NVC will schedule you for an interview at the consulate associated with your most current address. 

The person in this situation had to provide a South African criminal background check even though they were no longer a resident there. But, I'm not sure if they had to provide evidence of residency. 

 

Good luck with your journey! 

 

 

Edited April 17, 2022 by ROK2USA