Denied because we enaged too earlier, -- help!

[battambang610 5]

My fiancee got denied for K1 visa.  We engaged two days after I arrived in Cambodia, so the consulate said we engaged too fast. #######.  Consulate handed a one sheet with "x" mark on section 221g.  Not asking for additional documents.  This is unethical.  Please help, What should we do now? I am clueless.

[Gary Rich 284]

Get Married.. i'm sure other VJ.. experience veterans will inform you much better than I can.

[Crazy Cat 41,982]

17 minutes ago, battambang610 said:

My fiancee got denied for K1 visa.  We engaged two days after I arrived in Cambodia, so the consulate said we engaged too fast. #######.  Consulate handed a one sheet with "x" mark on section 221g.  Not asking for additional documents.  This is unethical.  Please help, What should we do now? I am clueless.

This doesn't sound like a denial....does it say the petition is being returned to USCIS? 

[battambang610 5]

13 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

This doesn't sound like a denial....does it say the petition is being returned to USCIS? 

 

@Crazy Cat please see attached letter they gave. 

[appleblossom 2,801]

Two days after you arrived (having visited and/or been together previously), or two days after you met for the first time? 

 

 

[Crazy Cat 41,982]

2 minutes ago, battambang610 said:

 

@Crazy Cat please see attached letter they gave. 

Yep.  That is a denial.  It will expire at USCIS. 

[Crazy Cat 41,982]

Time to spend more time together, marry, and file for a spousal visa, imho.  That K-1 application is dead.  The only (and very, very unlikely) option is to ask for a review before it leaves the consulate.  The consulate is not obliged to review or give you any more information.  Likewise, USCIS will not give an appeal.

Edited September 19 by Crazy Cat

[battambang610 5]

@appleblossom  My first visited in Cambodia and saw her in person but we talked for almost a year after my cousin introduced us.

[appleblossom 2,801]

Just now, battambang610 said:

@appleblossom  My first visited in Cambodia and saw her in person but we talked for almost a year after my cousin introduced us.

 

OK, that is unusual then and I can see why that would look suspicious. Generally the advice for a tough consulate is to meet several times before applying. 

 

I agree with the above, marry and try again after visiting more. 

 

Best of luck. 

Edited September 19 by appleblossom

[battambang610 5]

Thank you all.

[battambang610 5]

I think marry is the best option. Another long waiting   Do I need to do a traditional wedding or can go to court and get marriage license when I visit her again? or they need to see wedding pic etc and marriage license is not enough?

[powerpuff 6,744]

2 minutes ago, battambang610 said:

I think marry is the best option. Another long waiting   Do I need to do a traditional wedding or can go to court and get marriage license when I visit her again? or they need to see wedding pic etc and marriage license is not enough?

You’re focusing on the wrong thing. You need to spend much more time together in person rather than focusing on which wedding route to go. You can also marry via Utah Zoom marriage either when you’re both together in person or visit after the ceremony to consummate the marriage. But your primary focus should be spending much more time together otherwise just marrying isn’t going to resolve the denial.

[apnzz 268]

As the others have said, the bottom line issue is the lack of time spent together  through visits/physically in person, even if you married, that visa will also require you to provide evidence the relationship is genuine etc etc - just like the k1 does, even more so because the relationship then is at the next level of actually being married.

 

So jumping straight into marriage asap just to file the spousal visa could just result in the same issues; you need to strengthen your situation/case by spending more time together, more visits so that will essentially improve how the relationship is perceived as by USCIS and immigration officers.

 

After some more visits and more time spent physically together, collect proof and evidence alongside those visits, then approach the spousal visa as an option. 

 

Otherwise you risk having the same thing happen via spousal visa, either process they're going to want proof the relationship is genuine and real, and that's why they like to see multiple visits over time.

 

Goodluck!

[Boiler 45,727]

How much time have you spent together, seems you were engaged a couple of days after you met.

[SalishSea 17,969]

11 hours ago, battambang610 said:

My fiancee got denied for K1 visa.  We engaged two days after I arrived in Cambodia, so the consulate said we engaged too fast. #######.  Consulate handed a one sheet with "x" mark on section 221g.  Not asking for additional documents.  This is unethical.  Please help, What should we do now? I am clueless.

It’s not unethical.   Your choice to get engaged right after meeting for the first time absolutely screams of marriage fraud.  

That is not a normal relationship progression, and you’ve got the added issue of a high-fraud consulate.   
 

The burden of proof to demonstrate that it isn’t a ‘green card marriage’ is on YOU.  
 

Getting engaged when you don’t really know someone and have not spent a decent amount of time with them is a huge red flag, and rightly so.

 

Also-  “knowing/dating online” doesn’t count.

 

And if you think you’ll just go back for a quick trip and marry, you’re in for another denial.   You need to spend significant time together and have a real marriage if you want your gf to get an immigrant visa.   Maybe even consider moving there for awhile.

Edited September 19 by SalishSea