Critical Information About Meeting Your Foreign Fiance

by Art Saborio
A few things you need to know if you are submitting your K1 Fiance Visa without the aid of an attorney. 

There is a critical requirement 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. It is best to take another trip to see her. Come back with updated travel documents and then submit your application.

These trips prove certain things to the USCIS officers. They prove your on-going relationship. The officers tend to not trust long distance relationships that do not show a current face to face meeting within the last two years. To them the relationship is not normal. If you have not seen your fiance within the last two years, then something looks definitely wrong to them. This will be something that would have an immediate negative impact on your submittal and will most likely lead to your application not 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.

Not all K1 Fiance couples are compatible. I have met many that are not. The worst part of it is they found this out after they were finally together in the USA. The comfort level was not there and they even had a hard time just trying to sleep with each other.

Personally I met my fiance every 4 – 6 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.

Plane ticket stubs, hotel receipts, currency exchange receipts, and retail shop receipts were items I always brought back with me. Retail receipts were a great source of proof. They would always contain the name of the store, address and date that I bought the items.

Another thing I always did was take a lot of pictures of all our travels together. I would always take a few pictures of us together with a date and time stamp. I had at least two pictures of both of us from every trip and I submitted all those pictures as proof.