SalishSea

Not just risky, it’s FRAUD. Petition her for a visa, properly..

K-1s do not submit further documentation or evidence at the NVC stage like CR/IRs do.

He is out of status and needs to leave the US immediately.

Isn’t an E2 visa an investor visa? Why would he have an employer?

What government shutdown?

He’s not eligible for a waiver.

Won’t be an easy path, OP. Looks like fraud, which is what USCIS will think, too.

I mean if you had petitioned her for an immigrant visa, where she would have interviewed in London and arrived to the US with a green card, enabling her to work and travel. Adjusting on ESTA is a way to circumvent the queue. Honestly, I’m not sure why it’s even allowed. Most people on ‘vacation’ don’t have the ability to just abruptly leave their lives back home like that.

Being unable to travel is a drawback to adjusting from ESTA instead of going through the proper immigrant visa process.

No one is any more special than anyone else in this process. We all have to wait our turns. Do not do a fraud. Petition the baby properly. Since you are a USC and free to live outside of the US indefinitely, you can return to the baby’s country and live there in the interim.

He hasn’t specified a plan, only that he wants to end chain migration and birthright citizenship. Anyone can speculate, but no one knows for sure. regardless of what trump does or does not change about the process, your siblings will not have visas available for them for 15-20 years.

The consulate will want to know about your relatives in the US. The burden is on you to show reasons to return to your country.

He cannot enter the country, using a B visa, with immigrant intent. That is fraud. He likely will have issues trying to visit at this point. Also, don’t you see that whatever issue has put his application in AP will still exist when he files for another immigration benefit?

Why didn’t you petition them properly?

It's not clear what you are trying to do here. Is she adjusting status from the tourist visa?

Yes, very. Most of the time it is an omission - a question was missed or a box not checked. Easy fix - just make sure you address whatever the issue is precisely as requested in the letter.

Whether a spouse is allowed (or expected) into consulates for immigrant visa interviews is very consulate-specific, so maybe a mod will move this to the Middle East page to get more responses. I would question that lawyer’s statement though. Does he have recent Jerusalem-specific experience? Because consulates in the post-pandemic world have really cracked down on allowing extra people inside, and I would guess that would be the case even more in geopolitically sensitive countries.

I believe the documents tab is only for CR/IR cases. At least, it used to be, maybe it’s changed.

Right, I get that. No one is accusing you of fraud. We are trying to help you avoid pitfalls though, and your previous experience is a great illustration of this- it underscores the need to really properly get to know a potential mate before even petitioning her. That person’s actions (ghosting you) serve to reinforce the reasons why K-1s are often denied for Pakistan. That person was obviously in it for reasons other than love and lifetime commitment. And the fact that you already had a failed situation with someone who was after a green card and a path to the US means the Islamabad consulate will heavily scrutinize your next one. My main advice is to take your time to get to know someone before petitioning them. Your hurry to get a wife won’t save you any time if she’s put into extended AP because your relationship does not look legit. again, good luck and please let us know how it goes.

Be aware that regardless of your religion’s limitations on time spent together in person (dating, as referenced in your thread from last month), it is a requirement to have met in person for both a K-1 and CR-1. And for high fraud countries (Pakistan is one, and a Pakistani in UAE still “counts”), the bar is raised even higher with regard to the bonafides of the relationship. Picking out a “match” from a matchmaker lineup and endeavoring to bring them to the United States without putting the normal types of effort into building a relationship does not bode well for visa approval. Also, if the timeline is your biggest priority, you’d do well to realize that nothing is quick with US immigration. It will absolutely take several years from petition to visa issuance, full stop. good luck.

If it’s a paid family/medical leave type of situation (we also have that in Washington state), then afaik it is not considered a public benefit. Employees and employers both pay into it via involuntary payroll deductions to the state, like an insurance plan.

“Looking into a match that lives in Abu Dhabi”?

So you’d just leave your apartment intact and continue to pay rent on it for a year, without being able to go there? Or did you pack everything up before coming here?

Yup, totally agree.