Here is a checklist to help you plan for your K1 visa application:
1. Visiting Your fiancé
- Take time-stamped photos together
- Take time-stamped photos with fiancé's friends & family
- Keep your boarding passes
- Keep receipts from restaurants & stores
- Get to know details about your fiancé
- Gather documents for USCIS filing (see below)
2. USCIS Filing
- Form I-129F
- Form G-1145
- $535 check for the filing fee
- Cover letter
- Statements of intent to marry
- Primary proof of meeting in person within the last 2 years
- Passport photos (petitioner and beneficiary)
- Proof of U.S. citizenship (birth certificate)
- Evidence of all previous marriages ending (ie. death certificate/divorce decree)
- Proof of legal name change (if applicable)
- Certified copies of police & court convictions, in compliance with IMBRA
- Send via trackable mail or courier
- Embassy Phase
- DS-160 Form
- Passport with at least 6 months of validity left on it
- Divorce documents of previous marriages (both parties)
- Police certificates from current residence country
- Police certificates from other residence countries lived for 6+ months
- Medical exam
- Vaccinations records
- Evidence of financial support (I-134)
- Alien birth certificate
- Affidavit of support (if requested by embassy)
- Evidence of relationship
- $265 embassy fee
3. After Visa Granted
- Travel to USA
- Marry within 90 days
- File adjustment of status (green card)
NOTE: If you are a RapidVisa customer, a more detailed, customized checklist will be generated based on your information.