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. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

Your U.S. citizen Fiancé(e) must file a Form I-129F (Petition for Alien Fiancé(e)) by mail at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Service Center in the United States with jurisdiction over your fiancé(e)’s place of residence. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

If you wish to marry in the U. S. and live there after marriage, you need a fiancé(e) visa. If you wish to marry outside the United States and travel to the United States to take up residence, you will require an immigrant visa. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

After arriving in the United States, your fiancé(e) will be eligible to apply for a work permit. (You should note that USCIS might not be able to process the work permit within the 90-day time limit for your marriage to take place.) Your fiancé(e) should use Form I-765 to apply for a work permit. Please see How Do I Get a Work Permit? for more information. See similar questions...