anniebanani

it's our backup plan, but it's not possible for us at the moment unfortunately. seeing each other irl is hard, and we'd have to find a third country that has gay marriages legalized. we met each other recently to meet the visa requirements of course, in thailand, and although they just about a month ago had legalized LGBTQ marriages, we can't go there again this year, bc my partner has no more vacation days, and obviously that would require a lot of money for plane tickets again. so we're kinda stuck with this choice now. back when we planned this whole ordeal, we picked k-1 because waiting times had been shorter and we didn't have a country to visit to get married.

hi michael! thank you for the link and for your kind words! so far i'm thinking we should at least try to get it somewhere else, even if it'll take some extra time. the schengen wouldn't be so bad if it didn't require to have 3k+ euro in your bank account on top of visa fees, and also plane tickets and hotels being more expensive, it's unbelievably a lot for me, less so for my partner, but still a very sizeable amount. i'll keep looking at what others have to say, i have to hope we'll get through this whatever happens

hello! i'm russian, and me and my partner are preparing to send the application for a k-1 visa. i've been researching about the possibility of transferring my case from warsaw, because getting a schengen visa is extremely hard, i don't have the ability to get the necessary savings for it, and my partner had already been supporting me a lot financially and would have to sponsor me for that too, so i was hoping to make it easier on us by asking to transfer the case to a country that doesn't require a visa. however, i've seen very mixed info, for some people it worked out, and for some it didn't and they ended up having to apply for a visa anyway, regretting wasting their time. so my question is, is it worth it to try and ask other consulates to accept our case, at which point in the process we can do that if so, which countries might accept russian k-1 cases, OR should we just accept the visa route and try to save up enough money? let me know what you think! also, i saw people mention a russian telegram chat, if anyone here can send me the link i would greatly appreciate it!