K-1 Fiance Visa

Live from Las Vegas, what’s our next question?

Joseph Clifton. My girlfriend is Chinese, she is not born in a hospital so she doesn’t have her birth certificate, but a household registry, which is an official Chinese document.

We’ve got a question coming in from Harvey, “I have a felony from over 10 years ago. What are my chances of getting my fiance approved for a K1 fiance VISA?” Well, without knowing what the felony conviction is, that’s difficult to say.

We got a question from Darnique. “My boyfriend from Nigeria is quite a bit younger than me. Can we get a K1 fiancé visa?” Absolutely. We’ve already touched on this same, basically same question before. There’s no reason why you shouldn’t get approved, but if you’re asking about the age difference, we have seen some concerns from Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, basically several countries in Africa.

My husband has lived with me in Indonesia for three years and hasn’t filed taxes. Is that a problem for my K1? Well, you have to have filed your taxes if he was legally required to file taxes, and we’re not tax experts, but being outside the United States does not mean you don’t have to file taxes.

Next question is from Caitlin Hanson. My foreign boyfriend has tried three times for a tourist visa to America and was denied three times because he didn’t have strong ties to his home country. Does it hurt his chances of getting a K1 visa if we’ve recently in the past tried for tourist visas?

Okay, we’ve got a question coming up here from Arden, “What’s considered too big of an age difference for a fiance visa? My fiance is 20 years younger than me. Is that going to give me problems getting an approval for the visa?”

Nino asks, “Can same-sex partners get a fiance visa? What is the process?” Yes, to answer your question, absolutely. It used to be state by state, and you had to say that you were gonna get married in a specific state. But when the Supreme Court made it legal everywhere in the United States that same-sex partners can get married, so male/male, female/female, yeah.

My fiance and I have spent countless hours on Skype but have yet to meet in person. Can Skype logs go to proving our relationship is bona fide? Absolutely but you can submit any kind of evidence. They have some guidelines on evidence but there's not an exact punch list where they say, "You've got […]

So, question number two. Ejay is asking, “Hello, I have a fiancee in the Philippines. I want to file a fiancee visa for her. I’m serving in the U.S. Army. Is there any way to make it faster since I’m in the military? Similar to what we talked about expediting. You can apply, yes.

Okay, I think there was another question.

Okay, here we go. All right, so Jerry’s asking, “My fiance has a tourist visa, and I want to know if there’s an issue for traveling to the U.S. on a tourist visa, now that we have applied for a K1 fiance visa.”