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Hi, I am US Citizen living in Pakistan for past 5 year to take care of my property here which worth about more than $2 million. I do not have kind of income as properties do not yield that much positive cash flow that is required by USCIS but the property itself worth a lot if I sell it.
I want to know weather I can sponsor my mother and my wife based of my property market value? Or should I move back to US and generate an income or find a co sponsor to do so?

Hi, my fianc e [27F from the US] and I [28F from the UK] have been together in a long distance relationship since the beginning of 2018. Due to her being in university until 2020, and then the pandemic where she was living at home, it wasn't appropriate to begin a K1 visa until more recently.

I proposed to her in the summer of 2024 and we are currently working on our initial I-129F petition/K1 visa packet. I have seen many people include evidence of every time they have met each other in person, photos and plane tickets etc. However, we have met in-person a total of 14 times over 7 years, and 5 times in the last 2 years.

I'm very confused over how much evidence of meeting we need to include. I considered only including evidence of the last 2 years, but is this enough to tell the story of/prove our bona fide relationship? A lot of big events happened before the last two years like expensive trips together, meeting each other's families etc.

I'd really appreciate advice on how to narrow this down or help with what we should absolutely keep -- whether we should give a list of every meeting perhaps even if we don't include evidence for all of them, or is that pointless? Right now we've got photos from every meeting, receipts from a few big events, and our plane tickets from the two last times we visited each other, but it's feeling like absolute overkill with far too many pages. I'm just worried about taking out something we need.

We are also both women and in a lesbian relationship so we feel a bit more anxious about 'proving' our relationship is real and not just gals being pals.

If anyone has been in a similar situation with a long-term relationship finally applying for a K1 visa, I'd really appreciate the insight. Thank you!

I am confused on how to answer this as I am a CR1 and kids are CR2. They are not derivatives. One place online said if they are not derivatives you have to answer no to the DS-260 question "Is this child immigrating to the U.S with you?". I want to double check on here how accurate that is? Because the kids ARE immigrating with me, even if they're under their own individual case numbers?!

Hi everyone,

My fianc and I are going through the K-1 visa process, and our case was sent to the Department of State on December 27, 2024. It has now been 51 days, and our case is still at NVC. We received our case number via public inquiry on February 3, 2025 but we haven t received the official NVC email, and CEAC still shows "At NVC."

I know K-1 cases are usually transferred within 2 4 weeks, but I ve seen others with later case dates, also going to the same embassy in Ankara, Turkey, already receive their NVC emails while ours remains stuck.

Has anyone else, especially those with cases going to Ankara, Turkey, experienced similar delays? Does NVC send cases out of order? If your case was delayed, what helped move it forward?

I contacted NVC via the public inquiry form last week, but I haven t received any updates yet. Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Hello, I am Colombian, my husband is an American citizen and we have a 2-year-old baby. We want to know what type of visa we should apply for, both for me and for my baby. I hope you can help. Thank you.