Get a K1 visa for your Filipina Future wife

The Immigration and Nationality Act provides a non-immigrant visa categorization "K-1 VISA" for foreigners coming to the United States of America to become married to American citizens and live here. A Fiancee Visa allows a foreign national entry into a country for the purpose of marrying a citizen of the host country. There are usually conditions attached to the class of visa that require you to prove that you genuinely intend to marry your fiancée within a specified time limit from the date you are granted a visa, and that you intend to then live with your partner as their spouse. Once you marry your spouse will probably have a 1 or 2 year probationary period before permanent residency is granted.

Approval of this K1 visa application in the United States may take 120 days from which it will then be forwarded to the National Visa Center for approval. In each step of the K-1 visa processing, the petitioner will receive a Notice of Action to inform him of the standing of the petition.

Once approved, your Fiancee will have 180 days to enter the United States and once in the United States will have 90 days to marry you or return home. There are no known exceptions to this policy unless extreme situations occurred, and United States those are dealt with after the woman has gone back home- unmarried.

   INCREASE IN VISA FEES

1. The United States of America raised the filing fees for K-1 fiancee visa Applications (I-129F) on July 30, 2007. The cost of the petition is now $455.00

2. Effective January 1, 2008, the immigrant visa application fee will increase. For "Fiancee Visa Philippines or K-1 Visa" the application fee will increase from US$100 to US$131.

3. Please note that the fees for the medical examination have gone up to provide applicants with better service. The cost of the medical examination is U.S. $145 for adults (15 years and older) and U.S. $117 for children under 15 years of age.

4. Applicants whose visa eligibility is dependent upon their marital status (i.e. K-1, K-3, CR-1, IR-1, F-1 and F2-B categories) will normally need to have their documents verified through the National Statistics Office (NSO) before the U.S. Embassy in Manila can issue the visa. Those with a delayed birth or death certificate or only local civil registrar copies of such documents may need to have their documents verified.

5. In order to avoid unnecessary delay in the visa issuance process, the U.S. Embassy in Manila strongly encourages applicants in the categories mentioned above, including applicants for a fiancee visa, to pay the document verification fee prior to their immigrant visa interview.

The Importance of Becoming "Documentarily Qualified"

All case processing for Manila, including appointment scheduling, is generally done at the National Visa Center (NVC) in the U.S. An applicant's case number does not determine his or her position in the scheduling queue. Once a case is current, the applicant's place in the scheduling queue will be determined by the date all the necessary, completed documents are received at NVC. Then the case becomes "documentarily qualified."

We believe the waiting time for an appointment date is approximately three (3) to five (5) months from the date the case is "documentarily qualified." As soon as an appointment date does become available, NVC will forward the case to Embassy Manila. NVC will also send the petitioner and/or the authorized agent/representative an appointment package.