The K1 Experience

There is no garountee this informatin is accurate. If you need help I advise you get an immigration attourney to consult with about your specific case. I am simply putting out what I have learned from various sources to document what our understanding is of the process in front of us. The K1 process is all about paperwork. For starters you need two pieces of paperwork. First The i129-f petition for alien fiance. This piece of paper is filled out buy the US citizen and filed with the appropriate USCIS center. The filing fee is $170 dollars. Second The G-325a biographic information supplement. Not to be confused with plain old G-325, or G-325b or G-325c. It is a requested suplement to go with i129-f. You need one for each person involved in the petetion. IE the requestor fills one out, the fiance fills one out, and the fiances children if required. Additionally you need: Pictures taken in a certain style (passport) defined in the instructions on the i129-f form. These need to be no ol...

Well I guess the process of getting a K1 visa always starts with a story. How do people from two different countries actually meet? Date? Fall in Love? Decide to get married? For us it all started typically enough. We met at the wedding of a mutual friend. I was a guest, she was the Maid of Honor. Circumstances were such that we got to spend a couple of weeks together and to say the least we hit it off. So well in fact that we decided that we should not let the fact we lived some 4000 miles apart keep us from persuing a relationship. Truth to tell I don't think either of us really thought we had a chance in hell of making it work. What we did know is that we could not pass it by and wonder "what if". A good thing to because after a year and half of daily conversation (the internet is a very wonderfull thing) and several thousand dollars spent on trips to visit one another we found we Love one another and that we want to get Married. In fact if it were not for the 4000 ...