My Ukrainian fiancee had her visa interview at the US Embassy in Warsaw in March 2024 and the officer requested that she email them additional information before approving the visa. We compiled a comprehensive collection of all of the evidence requested and sent it to the email they gave her and they confirmed that they received it. Our case is currently still under section 221(g) "refusal" status and we have heard nothing since then.
On the Warsaw embassy website it says to wait 60 days before inquiring about cases that require additional processing. It has currently been 235 days. We went from expecting an answer within a few months to not knowing if we would have an answer within the next few years even. This is an absolutely agonizing anxiety to be placed on a relationship especially considering that I cannot visit often due to the nature of my job. The only information we can get from them is that they refuse to give us even a rough estimate of processing time and that they'll let us know eventually.
Since we don't know if the visa will be processed in the next couple months or the next few years, we are also deliberating on whether or not we should just get married abroad in order to apply for a marriage visa. But also I am worried about the case in which we get married and then a month later the K-1 is finally approved but then it is no longer valid since we are married at that point.
Have any other Ukrainians on here applied for K-1 visas through the Warsaw embassy recently? If so, were you requested to submit additional information and if yes, how long did it take before they finished the processing?
Also in your opinion, would it make any sense to get married and try and apply for a marriage visa right now?