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Normally, the K-1 visa requires the K-1 applicants to meet within the two years immediately prior to the filing of the K-1 fiance visa. However, the immigration agency allows for two exceptions to this requirement. One exception is based upon the extreme hardship that would be felt by the K-1 petitioner. The second exception is … Continue reading “K-1 Visa’s Meeting Requirement Waiver: Beneficiary’s Long Established Cultural Practice” The USCIS recently made public a K-1 visa opinion from an applicant who sought to obtain a waiver to the K-1’s meeting requirement. Due to a lack of evidence demonstrating that a K-1 waiver was appropriate, the applicant was denied and his Pakistani fiancee could not enter the United States to marry him. K-1 visa … Continue reading “Recent K-1 Fiancee Visa Case Shows Need for Counsel When Seeking Waiver of Meeting Requirement” A U.S. citizen must file a K-1 visa petition for a foreign national fiance(e) if the couple plans to marry and remain in the United States. In fact, the K-1 visa only allows the foreign national fiance(e) to do just that: enter the United States and marry. Once in the United States, the foreign national … Continue reading “The K-1 Visa’s Two Year Meeting Requirement” |