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Community SpotlightDV Lottery of K1 Visa - Can I file for both?
Petrisaint Mpaka posted a topic in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures,
I applied for the DV lottery 2025 and hope to be selected this year. My fiancé and I discovered that there is a fiancé visa for the USA. Do you think if we apply for the K1 visa but are selected for the DV lottery that we can stop the fiancé visa process? What are the timelines and options here :)?-
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Confused about steps after marriage
SP1988 posted a topic in Adjustment of Status (Green Card) from K1 and K3 Family Based Visas,
My fiancee arrived last month on K1 fiance visa and we got married yesterday. It seems from what I have seen online that I made a mistake by not getting SSN prior to marriage? I am going to the SSN office on Monday to gather more information... also worried about employment authorization and travel authorization(s). Thanks for any insights!-
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Tourist visa cancelled by CBP agent. Can we still get a CR1 or K1 Visa?
yotajeeper posted a topic in What Visa Do I Need - Family Based Immigration,
Upon my gf's most recent arrival, her tourist visa was cancelled at the airport due to her frequent visits last year and suspicion of working here. She was denied entry and sent back same day. Is a CR1 or K1 visa process an option still? I would appreciate any advice or tips you can provide!-
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Recent Immigration DiscussionsOverseas travel after Green Card 5:42 am today
OlamAfruz
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2 RepliesHey me and my fianc e are getting close to the end of the K1 Visa but I have a question for the future that maybe someone here might have an answer to.
I (US citizen) am an overseas religious worker and it s our hope to continue this after we get her green card. We would need to be in the US for about a year and a half before going. It is our intent to live in America when I no longer have an overseas assignment but until then we regularly would return for 1 year furloughs, hence the need for a green card. I know about the 131 travel permission form but would this possibly affect her getting a green card due to permanent residency issues?
Complex issue involving deportation and bigamy 3:26 am today
Nutcracker
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3 RepliesHi all,
I would be really grateful if someone can help me with this issue. I went to us legally about 20 years ago but failed to fulfil the requirements of my visa. I got married to a US citizen but was deported and banned for 10 years. I went back to my home country and after few years of my wife trying to get me back to USA, we gave up. My wife initially wanted to get a divorce but then for some reason she did not follow through so we stayed married. I on the other hand got married in my home country (India) and subsequently moved to UK and had kids. My Indian wife and I got divorced few years ago and am single now. My USA citizen wife contacted me out of the blue and told me she had cancer and was undergoing treatment.
Now my question is if I can apply for a non-immigrant visa to go see her at least or in the best case scenario get an immigrant visa based on our valid marriage. We had applied for I-601 when I was in the US but do not know what happened to it.
I am looking forward to your replies which will be much appreciated.
Canada Police Certificate 11:18 pm yesterday
Saphrin
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Should we put our address now or the one assigned to us to move to in 10 days (I-130) 9:47 pm yesterday
Saif Sobih
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2 RepliesHi everyone,
We are filing for i-130 and we don't know what is the right approach for filing in regards to our situation.Situation:
the beneficiary (me) will have the medical exam on the 15th of December, and I want to file i-485 after I receive my medical envelope to avoid delays from RFE. We will also move to our own assigned apartment (we already have it assigned) on the 15th.
Right now we are living in a shared house, and we have a floor for ourselves in that house but the lease is written as a (full house lease with all resident) it doesn't necessarily show who occupies which floor.
Suggestions for i-130 filing:
1. Should we wait till the 15th till we have our new contract which shows that only us are occupying the place for (Bonafede document), and to avoid changing the address between now and the 15th incase we file now?
2. Should we just file now and specify in the rental contract that we rent a separate floor for ourselves, and put the current address then change it in 15 days (How do we even do that?)?
3.Should we file now and specify that we rent a separate floor for ourselves, and put our future address for mailing to avoid changing it in 15 days?What are your thoughts?
Packet 3 Status Inquiry & CEAC Website Trouble 8:31 pm yesterday
MaxAMillion
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2 RepliesHello! This website has been a very helpful resource for our Visa journey thus far, so I figured I'd make an account to ask some questions:
The status of my Visa application on the CEAC website has been set to "Ready" since October 3rd, it is now November 23rd and I haven't recieved anything in the mail or by email regarding Packet 3. On top of this, the CEAC website hasn't been allowing us to check the status anymore and doesn't load anything following pressing the submit button. Not even a message telling me that anything was filled out wrong or they couldn't find my case. I can confirm it's set to "Immigrant Visa" and I am entering my MTL number correctly. We've tried multiple devices on different internet connections as well.
I do have all the documents for Packet 3 ready, and I've seen that some users on here have successfully received Packet 4 by emailing their documents to the Montreal Embassy before they recieved Packet 3. Some users never even received Packet 3 at all and followed through with this. Is this a good idea? If so, what email should I send my documents to?
It's almost been 2 months and I'm worried that my Packet 3 has been lost in the mail, and not being able to check the status of my Visa case is worrying me. Is there anything I can do?