Getting a tourist Visa to a third country while waiting for a K1

[BJG2000 0]

I am just getting ready to start my K1 Application. and I am in research mode. 

 

I met my Fiancée in the Philippines a couple of weeks ago. And we are taking about meeting up in Denmark, since I have family that have already been planning a trip there and can go along. We are thinking that might be easier than the US.  We have been told by multiple people that once you have a boy friend or Fiancé, it is pretty much impossible to get a tourist visa to the US, from the Philippines. 

 

Anyway we are looking into what is called a Schegen Visa to Denmark. My question is how would officials view this? If I apply for the Fiancée visa first, would that send any red flags? 

 

I also know that they want people to be honest.  But my Fiancee is worried because she tried to get a tourist visa to the US before when she was trying to visit her a different Boyfriend and was turned down. Should she disclose who she is going to visit? 

[OldUser 6,616]

Why fiancé visa? It is more expensive and complicated than spousal visa. It's not any faster nowadays either.

Edited May 14 by OldUser

[BJG2000 0]

I have a hard time getting time off from work, and have other commitments at home as well. I just got back from the Philippines and don't forsee another trip there until January. Or maybe September if Denmark doesn't work out. 

 

When I was looking into marriage in the Philippines, it said you should plan on at least two weeks. Which would be difficult for me. 

 

So as people have said the spousal visa is faster and cheaper, but I can get the K1 started now. 

[Boiler 45,451]

Not sure what a K1 has to do with a Schengen, what is the connection?

[Lee Thacket 29]

4 hours ago, BJG2000 said:

I am just getting ready to start my K1 Application. and I am in research mode. 

 

I met my Fiancée in the Philippines a couple of weeks ago. And we are taking about meeting up in Denmark, since I have family that have already been planning a trip there and can go along. We are thinking that might be easier than the US.  We have been told by multiple people that once you have a boy friend or Fiancé, it is pretty much impossible to get a tourist visa to the US, from the Philippines. 

 

Anyway we are looking into what is called a Schegen Visa to Denmark. My question is how would officials view this? If I apply for the Fiancée visa first, would that send any red flags? 

 

I also know that they want people to be honest.  But my Fiancee is worried because she tried to get a tourist visa to the US before when she was trying to visit her a different Boyfriend and was turned down. Should she disclose who she is going to visit? 

 

I don't think the Danish or any other EEA government would care if you were applying for a US visa.  However, to gain a Schengen visa your fiancée have to confirm how the trip was being funded and that she had medical insurance in place.

[BJG2000 0]

The more I think about it, I think that they are not very related. The Danes are going to have different criteria than the US. There is a lot of posts I found about visiting each other on a visitor visa in their current country. But I hadn't found one about meeting somewhere else. Maybe because it doesn't really matter. 

[JimmyX 11]

25 minutes ago, BJG2000 said:

The more I think about it, I think that they are not very related. The Danes are going to have different criteria than the US. There is a lot of posts I found about visiting each other on a visitor visa in their current country. But I hadn't found one about meeting somewhere else. Maybe because it doesn't really matter. 

This sounds fun! No, there will be no problems from that standpoint. These are two different governments and no issues. The only red flag involved here would be the Danish flag.

 

Your initial post indicates you met your fiancée a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps it is an issue of wording, so I presume you mean that was your first in-person meeting and and that you have known each other for a while prior to the first meeting. From the K-1 standpoint, it may be challenging to prove the authenticity of the relationship in general if you file for the visa so soon after first contact. Again, I hope it was a simple misunderstanding on my part. Good luck!

[Lee Thacket 29]

22 hours ago, BJG2000 said:

The more I think about it, I think that they are not very related. The Danes are going to have different criteria than the US. There is a lot of posts I found about visiting each other on a visitor visa in their current country. But I hadn't found one about meeting somewhere else. Maybe because it doesn't really matter. 

 

Going slightly off topic I investigated getting married in a third country before going down the K-1 fiance visa route. In terms of the bureaucracy, cost and visas Denmark came out very well.

[Boiler 45,451]

5 hours ago, Lee Thacket said:

 

Going slightly off topic I investigated getting married in a third country before going down the K-1 fiance visa route. In terms of the bureaucracy, cost and visas Denmark came out very well.

And of course Utah

[BJG2000 0]

Thank you J and I. I have been in the relationship for 4 months. I met her in person a couple of weeks ago. That is short, but I don't think it is too short. We talk almost every day. and text a lot. 

[TBoneTX 45,260]

The Manila embassy hands out K-1 visas like candy.  Nobody will care if you want to travel to a third country.  In fact, the additional time together in person solidifies the nature of your bona fide relationship.

[top_secret 2,413]

It won't affect the K1 at all.  We submitted evidence highlighting our trip to Europe, including the visa and matching passport stamps, as relationship evidence with our spousal petition.

 

Your fiancées previous B2 denial won't affect the K1 either.  She must declare it honestly on the DS160 but they won't ask questions about it and if anyone did ask, she was "denied due to insufficient ties to her home countries".  That's the same reason everyone is denied B2 visas.  They gave her a slip of paper that said so.  No need to elaborate further.

 

Just a note on the Schengen visa.  Denmark has the second to highest denial rate for Schengen visa applications in the Philippines.  The only Schengen country with a higher denial rate for Filipino passports is Finland.  Before we were married my wife applied twice for Schengen visas.  She was denied by France so we went embassy shopping and after some research discovered the Netherlands is traditionally the most generous with Schengen visas in the Philippines. She was approved by the Netherlands a few months after the France denial.   Also, be aware that the Schengen visa process is a fairly arduous, paperwork intensive effort for Filipino passports.  It can be done.  We did it.  But Schengen visas are not easy with a Filipino passport.

 

 

[BJG2000 0]

Thanks for the information. 

 

[Lee Thacket 29]

Denmark has certainly become more hard line with regard to immigration over the last few years.

 

I think the main problem will be convincing the Danish government a single woman from the Phillipines has the financial resources to fund her trip. If she says her American fiance is paying that shows them both that she can afford the trip and that will not overstay.