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Can I fly to the US on approved K1 visa with round trip ticket or should I buy one way?

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Basically title, my fiancé and I are waiting for the US embassy to process my K1 visa and we're looking at flight prices.
One way tickets to the US are around $1600 were as round trip tickets are $950 or less. Is it gonna be an issue if I buy a round way trip and only use one part of it?

I don't really care if the airline sanctions me but more concerned about the customs officer seeing my round way trip and getting funny ideas.

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A round trip ticket is fine.  Just make sure the return flight is cancelled.  There are cases where not cancelling caused issues at the AOS interview.

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If you buy a return ticket you could look into getting a refundable instead of just canceling the return. It could end up being cheaper. We did that and got the money back so the first half end up being pretty cheap. 

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did that for my wife when she came on her k1 because round trip was cheaper like you said. Just cancel the return, or get a refundable one as mentioned. Airlines won't care, unless you do it multiple times, and even then they just send you a you've been bad email. I've got a bunch of them in my in box. I do whats called " Hidden city ticketing" all the time to save cash, and even though it pisses off the airlines, not much they can do. For now at least. Just booked another one last week. booked to Thailand, but getting off in Taipei for a week, then jumping a cheaper airline onto Thailand.

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10 hours ago, ShandoMoncelle said:

Basically title, my fiancé and I are waiting for the US embassy to process my K1 visa and we're looking at flight prices.
One way tickets to the US are around $1600 were as round trip tickets are $950 or less. Is it gonna be an issue if I buy a round way trip and only use one part of it?

I don't really care if the airline sanctions me but more concerned about the customs officer seeing my round way trip and getting funny ideas.

you can buy the 2 way ticket if its cheaper. just forget about the return ticket once you land in US. not an issue.  use skiplagged ( search on google) for cheaper tickets.

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duh

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10 minutes ago, igoyougoduke said:

you can buy the 2 way ticket if its cheaper. just forget about the return ticket once you land in US. not an issue.  use skiplagged ( search on google) for cheaper tickets.

Failure to cancel the return leg has caused some applicants big problems during adjustment of Status interviews.  I haven't seen it in a few years, but it has happened.   Maybe USCIS has better record keeping now..LOL.

 

 

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"The US immigration process requires a great deal of knowledge, planning, time, patience, and a significant amount of money.  It is quite a journey!"

- Some old child of the 50's & 60's on his laptop 

 

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13 hours ago, ShandoMoncelle said:

Basically title, my fiancé and I are waiting for the US embassy to process my K1 visa and we're looking at flight prices.
One way tickets to the US are around $1600 were as round trip tickets are $950 or less. Is it gonna be an issue if I buy a round way trip and only use one part of it?

I don't really care if the airline sanctions me but more concerned about the customs officer seeing my round way trip and getting funny ideas.

I booked a round trip , exactly cause of the price difference- I just didn't board the flight back or even requested a refund. No issues at all.

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5 hours ago, Crazy Cat said:

Failure to cancel the return leg has caused some applicants big problems during adjustment of Status interviews.

How did USCIS find out it was not canceled?

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