No, you CANNOT file a I-129F and marry while waiting.

[Fandango 1,439]

The F stands for FIANCE(E).

If you marry whilst waiting, you are considered abandoning your fiance(e) visa, and you will have to start over with a SPOUSAL visa.

Anyone wanna add anything?

[nane1104 146]

I think you pretty much covered it all..

[*julez* 124]

Good thinking Lisa, since this does come up so frequently. If it can't be stickied, it should be added to the K1 FAQs.

P.S. I'm happy to see that both you and I are July filers!! About time for both of us, eh???

[Sinergy 3]

LOl

yes id love to add some things

1. if you get married and you filed papers with the court or state in the place you were married, you CANNOT FILE THE K1 FIANCE VISA

2. if you go back to your fiances country and get married and still try to come on a K1, YES you will be denied

3. uscis is not that stupid, they have computers and the ability to check on these things if they need to.

4. DONT FORGET, everything you send and tell to the immigration is sworn by a nortary therefore can be in contempt if lied about.

and finally, K1 = FIANCE (not married, wanting to marry)

K3 = SPOUSE (husband, wife, already married, no longer want to marry bc already married)

Edited July 26, 2007 by Ionescu

[wioombeen 0]

The F stands for FIANCE(E).

If you marry whilst waiting, you are considered abandoning your fiance(e) visa, and you will have to start over with a SPOUSAL visa.

Anyone wanna add anything?

This doesn't apply to me at all, but now I'm curious. I see a lot of people who are filing for the Spousal and Fiance visa at the same time. why is that? :)

thanks for appeasing my curiosity

Wioombeen

[Fandango 1,439]

Good thinking Lisa, since this does come up so frequently. If it can't be stickied, it should be added to the K1 FAQs.

P.S. I'm happy to see that both you and I are July filers!! About time for both of us, eh???

Yeah, isn't it great!?!?!?! About freakin time no kidding!!!! I'm going to be hittin your timeline like a mofo, you do realize that? lol

HERE WE GO!!!!!!

Tara....this thread was for YOU, hon!

[Sinergy 3]

Good thinking Lisa, since this does come up so frequently. If it can't be stickied, it should be added to the K1 FAQs.

P.S. I'm happy to see that both you and I are July filers!! About time for both of us, eh???

Yeah, isn't it great!?!?!?! About freakin time no kidding!!!! I'm going to be hittin your timeline like a mofo, you do realize that? lol

HERE WE GO!!!!!!

Tara....this thread was for YOU, hon!

woman you treat me so well

[Urge To Race 2]

Where do you see lots of people filing for the Spousal and Fiance visa at the same time?

This doesn't apply to me at all, but now I'm curious. I see a lot of people who are filing for the Spousal and Fiance visa at the same time. why is that? :)

thanks for appeasing my curiosity

Wioombeen

Edited July 26, 2007 by Urge To Race

[no name 1]

Where do you see lots of people filing for the Spousal and Fiance visa at the same time?

This doesn't apply to me at all, but now I'm curious. I see a lot of people who are filing for the Spousal and Fiance visa at the same time. why is that? :)

thanks for appeasing my curiosity

Wioombeen

The K-3 requires a I-130 and an I-129f, so therein lies the confusion.

[*julez* 124]

The F stands for FIANCE(E).

If you marry whilst waiting, you are considered abandoning your fiance(e) visa, and you will have to start over with a SPOUSAL visa.

Anyone wanna add anything?

This doesn't apply to me at all, but now I'm curious. I see a lot of people who are filing for the Spousal and Fiance visa at the same time. why is that? :)

thanks for appeasing my curiosity

Wioombeen

The I129-F is filed in conjunction with the I-130 for K3 visas.

[eric_and_teresa 10]

The F stands for FIANCE(E).

If you marry whilst waiting, you are considered abandoning your fiance(e) visa, and you will have to start over with a SPOUSAL visa.

Anyone wanna add anything?

This doesn't apply to me at all, but now I'm curious. I see a lot of people who are filing for the Spousal and Fiance visa at the same time. why is that? :)

thanks for appeasing my curiosity

Wioombeen

I guess you've been looking at couples who are filiing for K-3 (spouse visa) not for K-1. Couples who file for K-3 also use the same I-129F form, but prior to sending the I-129F they have to file for I-130 (Petition for Alien Relative). It's the same form but it's a different process. K-1 / K-3 Comparison

[Urge To Race 2]

I agree that this is probably what wioombeen was referring to, and I was heading there too, all ready to write up a bit explaining the dual purpose of I129f, but I figured for someone who has hung around VJ for as long as wioombeen must have a clue to how a K3 works.

wioombeen,

When married people file the I130 and the I129F they are ultimately pursuing K3 for their spouse. The I130 petition alone will result ultimately in an IR-1/CR-1 immigrant visa. Married people cannot file an I129F without a pending I130. Unmarried people petitioning for their fiance(e) file an I129F, which ultimately results in a K1 visa for the fiance(e). The I129F is used for both purposes.

Where do you see lots of people filing for the Spousal and Fiance visa at the same time?

This doesn't apply to me at all, but now I'm curious. I see a lot of people who are filing for the Spousal and Fiance visa at the same time. why is that? :)

thanks for appeasing my curiosity

Wioombeen

The K-3 requires a I-130 and an I-129f, so therein lies the confusion.

Edited July 26, 2007 by Urge To Race

[^KK^ 3]

Amen

[jundp 191]

July filer too

I'd like to add here that a WEDDING and a LEGAL MARRIAGE are two very different things. So if someone is wanting to do a religious ceremony in their SO's country, they need to check the legalities of it. USCIS clearly tells us that a non-legal religious ceremony is ok, as long is it is not legal in the country in which it takes place.

Good thread, Lisa. Maybe people will read it?

[~Nini~ 2]

Can we please sticky this? Please? Please?