If your foreign fiancé lives abroad and you want to bring them to the United States for the wedding, you need a fiancé visa attorney, also known as a K-1 visa lawyer.
It’s important to choose a fiancé visa attorney that can help you through your spouse’s entire immigration journey, ensuring mistakes aren’t made preparing their K-1 visa that could harm your fiancé’s future immigrant visa.
Jorge Munoz Law Firm has extensive experience with U.S. family immigration law, including preparing K-1 nonimmigrant visa petitions our clients need to plan their weddings without jeopardizing their future immigrant visas.
A K-1 fiancé visa is a special temporary visa that lets a U.S. citizen bring their foreign fiancé to the U.S. to plan for a U.S. wedding and ultimately get married in the United States.
This K-1 lawyer guide explains this special nonimmigrant visa.
When you hire a fiancé visa attorney, it’s important that they consider all K-1 visa requirements while keeping in mind the likelihood that your fiancé will soon need to file an immigrant visa petition after the wedding is over.
K-1 visas are an important way to start a life together, but they are just the first step on a long, complicated immigration journey. You both deserve a K-1 visa lawyer who can stand beside you for the long journey ahead. Understanding the K-1 visa requirements is just the start.
There aren’t many major requirements to file a K-1 visa petition. The requirements are that:
The K-1 visa petition is Form I-129F, Petition for Alien Fiancé(e). This is the form your K-1 visa lawyer must file for you with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) so that your foreign fiancé can get a K-1 nonimmigrant visa.
This visa is only a temporary visa, and they will have 90 days in the United States to prepare for the wedding and marry you. If your marriage doesn’t happen, they will be required to leave the United States.
Your fiancé visa attorney may need to file a waiver for the in-person meeting requirement if your meeting would violate long-established customs in their culture or strict social practices forbidding a man and woman from meeting prior to the wedding.
Your fiancé visa attorney may also need to file a waiver for this requirement if meeting in person would create an extreme hardship for you as a U.S. citizen, but your intention to marry is sincere.
Your K-1 visa lawyer should understand the processes of the National Visa Center (NVC). Your visa petition, once approved by USCIS will be forwarded to the NVC. From there, the NVC will forward it to the U.S. consulate or embassy near your fiancé.
Your fiancé visa attorney should also be experienced with assisting your fiancé abroad, because if the petition submitted by your fiancé visa attorney is approved, your future spouse will need to apply at a U.S. embassy or consulate in their country.
The officials at the U.S. consulates and embassies abroad work on behalf of the U.S. government.
They decide whether to grant the visa after examining supportive documentation submitted by your fiancé visa attorney with your visa petition, viewing documentation provided by your fiancé, and interviewing your fiancé.
Your K-1 visa lawyer should advise your fiancé of all the required documentation needed to bring to the interview. You will be notified when the interview is scheduled. Your fiancé visa attorney should prepare your loved one for the medical exam that will be required for visa approval and explain how it will be documented.
Your K-1 visa lawyer should also prepare them for the K-1 visa interview questions. Understanding the possible K-1 visa interview questions and the general theme of the K-1 visa interview questions will help your loved one feel more confident during the interview.
Your fiancé visa attorney should make sure you are fully aware of the fees for K-1 visa processing, including:
Achieving a K-1 visa is just the beginning of a long immigration journey. Make sure your K-1 visa lawyer has comprehensive experience with U.S. immigration law, including how to file successful marriage-based visa petitions and how to complete the Adjustment of Status process.
Jorge Munoz Law Firm can guide you through every step of the process.
