Apply for tourist visa while waiting for i-134k to be processed?

[Cheesehead22 86]

I was wondering if its acceptable for my fiance to attempt to get a tourist visa while we are waiting for our k-1 to get processed. I can't keep taking vacation to see my fiance in the Philippines all the time, if she could visit me out would help us. 

 

Thanks

[Lil bear 4,083]

3 minutes ago, Cody Lehr said:

I was wondering if its acceptable for my fiance to attempt to get a tourist visa while we are waiting for our k-1 to get processed. I can't keep taking vacation to see my fiance in the Philippines all the time, if she could visit me out would help us. 

 

Thanks

It is allowed yes … but highly unlikely it will be granted 

[Boiler 44,943]

Might want to look at processing times.

[Crazy Cat 41,288]

Issue 1.  The queue for a B2 interview is quite long.

Issue 2.  Your fiance has shown immigrant intent.  Chances for a non-immigrant visa are very slim, imo.  This would be seen as an attempt to usurp the long K-1 queue.

 

 

Edited April 20, 2022 by Crazy Cat

[Chancy 6,239]

On 4/20/2022 at 11:19 AM, Cody Lehr said:

I can't keep taking vacation to see my fiance in the Philippines all the time, if she could visit me out would help us.

 

Visit you in 2024 maybe, assuming your fiancee gets approved for a tourist visa.  According to an FB group I'm in, the earliest available B1/B2 interview slot in Manila is for November 2023.

 

[eric_and_teresa 10]

On 4/20/2022 at 11:19 AM, Cody Lehr said:

I was wondering if its acceptable for my fiance to attempt to get a tourist visa while we are waiting for our k-1 to get processed. I can't keep taking vacation to see my fiance in the Philippines all the time, if she could visit me out would help us. 

 

Thanks

This is just based on my personal experience at the Guatemalan consulate, many years ago. I applied for a Tourist Visa while waiting for my K-1 to be approved and I was granted one, and was able to visit my fiancee (now husband) for Chrismtas that year. I was willing to take the chance, the wait back then was not that long and I did not mind losing the money. It won't affect your K-1 process.. Now that being said, I had been a tourist visa holder since I was a child and had traveled as a tourist many times before I applied for the B2 that time.  If I can find my post about that experience I will post it here, I was worried when entered the POE but I was truthful and stayed only for one week then went back home and waited for my K1. 

[Cheesehead22 86]

A year for a tourist visa that's probably going to get denied... Yikes. Thank you all for your responses. I had no idea a simple tourist visa would take so long. The wait used to be less than a few weeks. 

 

How did the government let it get this bad? A year is unacceptable. My neighbors joke that my fiance should just cross the southern border, it would be easier

[Cheesehead22 86]

3 minutes ago, eric_and_teresa said:

This is just based on my personal experience at the Guatemalan consulate, many years ago. I applied for a Tourist Visa while waiting for my K-1 to be approved and I was granted one, and was able to visit my fiancee (now husband) for Chrismtas that year. I was willing to take the chance, the wait back then was not that long and I did not mind losing the money. It won't affect your K-1 process.. Now that being said, I had been a tourist visa holder since I was a child and had traveled as a tourist many times before I applied for the B2 that time.  If I can find my post about that experience I will post it here, I was worried when entered the POE but I was truthful and stayed only for one week then went back home and waited for my K1. 

Thank you so big, please post if you find it. Many people get denied with no explanation

 

[Crazy Cat 41,288]

3 minutes ago, Cody Lehr said:

A year for a tourist visa that's probably going to get denied... Yikes. Thank you all for your responses. I had no idea a simple tourist visa would take so long. The wait used to be less than a few weeks. 

 

How did the government let it get this bad? A year is unacceptable. My neighbors joke that my fiance should just cross the southern border, it would be easier

There is no right to visit the US.  There are many, many, many people in line to visit and immigrate. There are only 24 hours in a day.  This problem will not be solved for a long, long time.

Edited April 22, 2022 by Crazy Cat