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disastronaut

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	Send: 11/3/2004 12:29:22 PM

I have been researching the process for getting a fiancé visa for my girlfriend. In my search for info, I discovered that there are many immigration lawyers that specialize in k-1 visas. I wasn't planning on using a lawyer for assistance, but I also learned that using them can speed up the process, and prevent problems with the paperwork and documents involved. I understand that many of these services include help in the whole marriage process, but we are not planning on marriage; just a visit to meet my family, and for her to see America. Can anyone suggest a lawyer or service that has worked for them?

Thunderdome

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	Send: 11/3/2004 1:34:09 PM

Dis, If you're not planning on getting married to her them maybe a fiancé visa is not the correct choice. I stand under correction from anyone here (I'm not US) but I think a person only gets 1 chance with a K1. That means if you don't marry her she'll never be allowed in again, at least not to you. Wtrav?

tradman

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	Send: 11/3/2004 4:16:03 PM

My fiance just received her, it is exactly as it name implies, if I do not marry her within 6 months then she has to leave the country. For myself, although I worried a lot in the weeks leading up to the application, I managed to obtain one without assistance when I visited her country. I am however British, and you fail or pass on the evidence that you supply...I know the American Embassies are a little more......how shall I put this, ..paranoid, taking them in seprate rooms and asking them things like what is the other persons favourite toothpaste. I met 2 Americans in Moldova, one was married and had been waiting for a visa for 15 months, and the other one had been waiting so long, his child(living in Moldova ) was nine months old. The British Embassy asked my fiance , my parents names, where I lived, my middle name, she did not know the answer to any:-))) They asked her 10 year old daughter, "did she understand where she would be living, she replied " 30 kilometres from J K Rowling:-))))))

Thunderdome

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	Send: 11/3/2004 4:34:13 PM

PAUL - hmm, let's see: Peter, Anthony, Uly, Lennard..... Trad, no wonder she did not know - you don't HAVE a middle name!!!

Frank Vans

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	Send: 11/3/2004 5:24:18 PM

I'm in the process now in trying to get the K-1 Visa for US entry. You do not have 6 months, but 90 days to get married or she will have to leave. Better for your family to go there to meet her. It is a long process and everything must be perfect. I have been doing it without a lawyer and if you want to give you feedback on how I did, I will let you know. If you are not into extreme details, get an lawyer.

Ditto

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	Send: 11/4/2004 9:09:00 AM

I am planning to hire a lawyer to handle our application. I don't want delays or a rejection, because I forgot to dot one of the "i"'s. After the wedding, a whole new snowball of paperwork starts for change of status, work permit, travel passport, so she can go back to visit. Of course this is all from the US perspective.

wessman

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	Send: 11/4/2004 9:24:03 AM

Actually, in America the paper work is not that hard, if you try you can do it I am sure,it might appear over whelming but the paper work can be down loaded off of the internet, there are 800- numbers you can call and they are very helpful the hard part is making sure you have what you need. Getting her here would be the hard part I would think.

Bastard_Kid

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	Send: 11/4/2004 9:34:35 AM

You know, I dated an Irish girl. We are still really good friends, but lets say by some wierd fate that I was to get engaged to her, would the process be as difficult as it would if she was Russian?

wessman

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	Send: 11/4/2004 11:30:55 AM

Getting her out of Russia is the hard part, once she is in America it is the same forms and procedure. I got married submitted the I-485 form and the was divorced two years later and they still had not aproved our I-30 petition for Alien Relative. They are very slow in Texas which is where Floridians sent imigration papers to be processed. I do not do simple tax forms only because I hate paper work but I handled all these forms and details myself. It is not that tough and the people I dealt with were very nice, I will say I did not like being lined up out side for two hours waiting with my wife to get in the building on a chilly day in Dec, waiting for an interview. Once we got inout of the rain it was cool but even with an attorney you will wait outside, we too had an appointment.

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