How To Bring your Fiance or Spouse to the USA? on K1 or CR1 visas gen40
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Channel: VisaCoach · 2018 · Howto & Style
https://www.visacoach.com = Bring Your Foreign Love to USA with a Spouse or Fiance Visa. Let VisaCoach guide you to success! https://www.visacoach.com/how-to-bring-lover-to-usa/ This video is for those who have not quite decided yet, which path is best for them. You are still trying to decide whether to get married first and apply for a CR1 spouse visa, or stay engaged and apply for the K1 Fiance Visa then marry once your partner arrives to the USA. I am going to talk about both paths side by side, so you’ll understand what happens with either, and hopefully this will bring you closer to decide one way or the other. And by the way last year there were about 40 thousand spouse visas issued, and also about 40 thousand fiancé visas issued, so there is not a clear cut favorite, in answering the “which is better question” Now, lets talk about : How To Bring your Fiance or Spouse to the USA to the USA ? Your partner needs permission from the US government to allow her or him to enter the USA. If you are just married, this is called a CR1 Spouse Visa, if you are planning to marry after arrival to the USA, this is called a K1 Fiancee visa. First we work together to produce a thick packet of forms, evidences and civil documents. This is required to demonstrate that you are eligible to apply, and that your true agenda is a genuine life together, not immigration fraud. The application itself looks pretty simple. It asks for "name, rank serial number". This often leads to overconfidence. Couples who really don't understand what all will happen, fill in the blanks themselves, submit the petition and usually end up shooting themselves in the foot. This typically results in the leading cause of denial, failure to convince the consular officer who interviews your partner that your relationship is genuine, is "bona fide". Sadly, US immigration has had bad experience in the past, with this type of "romance" visa. Many who were not eligible applied for fiancé or spouse visa's. In reality they were not seeking a life together in the USA, but only seeking admission to the USA. Their relationship was not real, it was a “sham” Gold diggers, gigolos, con-men even terrorists have used fiance or spouse visas as a back door into the USA. Normally in USA one is considered "innocent until proven guilty". But because of the bad apples who have abused the immigration system ahead of you, and have basically “poisoned the well” , now when you apply for a visa for your partner, regardless of whether you are married now, or plan to latter, Sorry, but, NOW immigration takes the attitude you are "guilty until proven innocent" This is how a lot of couples get in trouble. They sadly end up shocked at what happens at the interview. Because they are "IN LOVE", because they are sincere, because they may have already Made their vows, they assumed no special, no extra effort to prove their situation was needed. They assumed the consular officer would right away recognize their sincerity, and say “yes, visa approved.” So, they filled in the forms themselves, filing in basic "Name, rank and serial number" or they hired a cheap online form printing service. Those cheap "bare bones" applications, are usually enough to get one's "foot in the door". It's usually enough to get your partner sitting opposite a officer for the consular interview. Sadly, HOWEVER, just having your "chance at bat", chance to interview, is rarely enough to win approval. It is too often, not nearly enough to demonstrate “to the OFFICER” that your application is "bona fide". Now without enough information laid out in front of him, the consular officer, must stretch, must dig, must ask a lot of questions, to hear what he wants to know. Unfortunately, once you start down the path of multiple questions, the interview can easily deteriorate into an interrogation, Until the officer FEELS he can make a yes or no decision. Well, If he is short of time, or impatient or close minded or in a bad mood, or if your partner is not fluent in English, or fast enough to provide convincing answers, the simpler course for the officer, the safer course that does not risk his career or professional reputation is to deny. My signature philosophy at VisaCoach is we get achieve success by "doing the consular officers job for him". The consular officer has been doing his work for a while at the consulate. He has been trained. He has experience. He “Knows”, at least in his mind, what a NORMAL, and eligible couple should look like. He expects an honest couple will have done certain things, in certain ways. And on the flip side he also has strong ideas of what signs indicate they may not be honest. So, the CLOSER your situation matches his positive expectations, then the closer your case is to being approved.
