A few things you need to know if you are submitting your K1 Fiance Visa without the aid of an attorney.
Requirements you must comply with before submitting your application. The requirement is meeting your fiance within two years of sending your K1 Application. Let’s say you met your fiance three years ago and want to file. Your application will most likely be denied. Take another trip to see her. Come back with updated travel documents and then submit your application.
There are a number of things that these trips prove to the USCIS officers reviewing your application. For one it ensures your relationship is current. They tend to not trust a long distance relationship that does not show face to face contact within two years. As they see it, most normal relationships have personal contact. If you have not seen your fiance in two years, then something is not right. This will definitely keep your application from being approved.
In the past two years you would have had to have some documented contact with your fiance. Once is ok, but if you want to prove your worth to the USCIS officers, then see her at least twice within the last two years. Just once will not show your true intent. Now this is my opinion, but a lot can happen in a long period of not seeing each other. A bond can grow weak. It is best to work on that bond by seeing each other every 6 months or at the least once in a year. But that is something you will have to work out with your fiance.
Some K1 Fiance couples are just not compatible. There were a few I met that had this problem of trying to get to know each other once they were together in the USA. Trust me, it is not an easy thing to do and most marriages like this end up in divorce. For the couples I talked to, it was even hard for them to just sleep in the same bed.
I met my fiance every four to six months and spent a total of three weeks each time I flew out to see her. The first time was very uncomfortable. The second time it was better. The third time I knew she was the right one for me. It is tough to make these trips, but well worth it once your fiance is in the USA with you.
Book a flight to see your fiance regularly and spend some quality time with her. Keep these simple things when returning from all your travels. You will want to keep your plane ticket stubs, hotel receipts, currency and exchange receipts.
Here is a list of the exact things I saved from my trips. I kept plane ticket stubs, hotel receipts, currency exchange receipts, and retail shop receipts. I often bought her things, so keeping the retail receipts were something that showed exactly my whereabouts. Receipts from retails stores always carry the name of the store, address and the date of purchase.
Taking a lot of pictures is something I did on all my travels with my fiance. I would also make it a point to take pictures of us together. These pictures would always have the date and time stamp on them. I would have two pictures of us from every trip I took with her. I attached all these pictures to my K1 Visa Application.
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