No. Please make sure to give all your documents to your fiancé(e), so that he/she can present them along with other required documents at the final interview.

For fiance(e) visa applications, if the U.S. citizen is in New Zealand at the time of the applicant's interview, we urge him or her to attend the interview with the applicant. For family-based (spousal or children - unmarried & under 21 years of age) applications, the U.S. citizen spouse/parent is required to attend if filing the petition on the day of the interview.

Yes, unless your children are already U.S. citizens. Children, regardless of age, who are applying for immigrant or derivative fiance(e) visas, must attend the interview.

The fiancé(e) petition cannot be filed with oversea offices. The only petition that you may be able to file while you are in the country is spousal petition for her (Petition for Alien Relative, Form I-130). This petition can be filed with local CIS offices (Citizenship & Immigration Services).

American citizen files a petition for a fiancé(e) visa if the couple plans to marry in the U.S. This visa will allow you to enter the U.S. for 90 days to marry there and apply for legal permanent residence after your marriage. American files a petition for a visa for their spouse if the couple is already married, the spouse currently resides outside of the U.S., and wishes to immigrate to the U.S.

Yes, provided you first obtain permission from USCIS. Please see the USCIS website for further information. The fiancé(e) visa is a one-entry visa. You are required to marry within 90 days of your arrival and to apply immediately thereafter to USCIS for an adjustment of status. You may not depart the U.S. until after you have adjusted your status and have been granted lawful permanent resident status. Please see USCIS website for further information.

Generally not. Many categories of immigrant visas involve long waiting periods before the visa can be issued. It is generally not possible to spend this period in the U.S. If you intend to remain permanently in the U.S., attempting to enter on a nonimmigrant visa or under the visa waiver program is not advisable and could result in your involuntary return to Australia.

The requirements for a fiancée visa are simple. You must be a US citizen. Permanent residents of the US are not allowed to obtain fiancée visas. Both you and your fiancée must be free to marry. This means that if either has been married previously, you are either divorced, widowed or the marriage was annulled. You must have met your fiancée in person within the previous two years.

When your fiancée receives her fiancée visa, she has six months to enter the US. After her arrival in the US, you have 90 days to marry her or you must send her back to her home country. There is no legal way to extend the 90-day time limit. While she is in the US you are completely responsible for her financially.

For fiancé(e) and family-based (spousal or children – unmarried & under 21 years of age) visa applications, if the U.S. citizen is in Australia at the time of the applicant’s interview, we urge him or her to attend the interview with the applicant.

No. An applicant for a fiancé(e) visa must apply for the fiancé(e) at a U.S. Embassy or Consulate outside the U.S. as he or she is required to enter the United States on the visa.

No, the alien fiancé must be outside the U.S. in order to receive the K-1 visa. All processing of this visa is conducted by the U.S. Consulates abroad. Upon entering the U.S., the alien fiancé must marry the petitioning U.S. citizen within ninety days. An extension will not be granted. If the alien leaves the U.S. without marrying the petitioning U.S. citizen, the alien will not be permitted to re-enter the U.S. on the same K-1 visa. The process will need to be started over.

The fiancée visa petition cannot be filed until you are both legally free to marry. You will be required to wait until all prior marriages are terminated before you are eligible to file a fiancée's visa petition. A person who plans to travel to the U.S. to get married and then return to his/her place of permanent residence abroad may apply for a visitor (B-2) visa, or if eligible, travel visa free under the Visa Waiver Program.

Canadian citizens are required to have a visa in order to enter the United States in Treaty Trader or Treaty Investor status. All successful E visa applicants and their dependents are expected to present valid passports in order to be issued the visa, regardless of nationality.

Yes. All applicants on ‘J’ visa programs must attend a personal interview at a US Consulate prior to issue of the J-1 visa which is a requirement of participation. US consulates are located in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth so regrettably for some applicants, interstate travel for the interview will be involved.

The KI visa is issued to the fiancé(e) of a U.S. citizen who will marry in the United States and apply to take up permanent residence after marriage. The K-3 and K-4 visa is issued to the spouse of a U.S. citizen who is the beneficiary of an immediate relative petition and his or her child(ren) under the age of 21. The K-3 and K-4 visa allows the holder to travel to the United States to reside while his or her immigrant visa petition is being processed by the U.S.

If your fiancée is under 40 years old and has never previously been to the United States or Western Europe, there is most likely only one US visa for which she will qualify, a FIANC?E VISA. Her chances of obtaining any other type of visa are very small. We have observed attempts at many different avenues for individuals to obtain other types of visas for their fiancées. All have failed, including business visas, educational visas, medical visas and a host of others.

To begin the Fiancee Visa process, the Petitioner must first submit an application to the INSBCIS. The petitioner and fiancée will need to file numerous forms and documents with the BCIS in order to prove that the petitioner and fiancée qualify for the K-1 Fiancee Visa. A correctly prepared Petition will be approved by the BCIS in within two to six weeks. Once approval has been received, the petitioner and fiancee must send a minimum of six additional forms to the U.S.

The good news is that the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the US Consulates rarely turn down a fiancée visa petition request if the requirements mentioned above are met. The general feeling toward fiancée visas inside the INS is however, quite negative.

You may have heard that the normal length of time from the filing of the fiancée visa petition with the INS, until the issuance of the visa by the US Consulate, is six months to one year. This is true, however, our normal processing time from date of filing until receipt of visa is 40 to 90 days.

The time it takes to process a visa application various with each individual case. However, in general, a fiancé(e) visa application may be slightly quicker than an application for an immigrant visa, as immigrant visa petitions are taking longer to be processed and approved by the USCIS in the United States.

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