Visiting the USA

[mrs_sdp]

Hi All

I need some advice. My fiance is a USC and I live in Scotland. We have been together for almost two years and have visited each other several times.

I read a couple of posts saying that people had been sent home from POE because they had visited the USA too much - the post said that they were told to get a visa or apply for a K1. I'm concerned that when I go back to the USA with my fiance at the end of July (for four weeks), after his week long visit to Scotland, that I won't be allowed into the country.

This will be my LAST visit to the USA on the VWP, as my divorce should be granted mid September and we'll be applying for a K1 visa as soon as this becomes final. As I will be doing all the paperwork for the petition, I will be bringing the "almost" completed K1 to the USA with me - all that will need to be added are his documents. I will leave the package in the USA and when I return home and after my divorce papers come through I am going to send them to him so that he can enclose them with the rest of the petition and then send it off. Once he has sent the papers off to the lock box, it means that we're not going to be able to see each other for months as he can't come over to Scotland to visit me because of his work. Plus, he's a brilliant guy but he's not very organised .. .. so I would rather make sure that his docs are all in order so that I can relax!!

So ... what do you think my chances are? Should I just be upfront and explain the situation, show POE the K1, tell them it's my last visit and that I'm going to miss my fiance like hell once the K1 is filed and hope to appeal to their better nature? Or should I just forget about the visit altogether?

Has anyone else been refused? Or have had a history of several visits to the USA and still been allowed in?

Any help would be appreciated .. thanks

[Anjelika]

I have also flown to the USA several times over last 2 years and have never been questioned at POE.
Besides, we read many stories here of people not being able to enter USA while K1 is pending....Dunno .... 2 friends of mine did so without much hassel (just some basic questions at POE). I am planning to visit my fiance in the USA in a couple of months, it will be the first time since k1 was filed, and I am very optimistic about it. In any case, I am not fooling anyone, and will enter USA permenantly only after k1 is granted. If they send me back at the POE - oh, well, it won't be the end of the world - I will go back to my interesting work back at my home country and wait patiently

Good luck

Hi All

I need some advice. My fiance is a USC and I live in Scotland. We have been together for almost two years and have visited each other several times.

I read a couple of posts saying that people had been sent home from POE because they had visited the USA too much - the post said that they were told to get a visa or apply for a K1. I'm concerned that when I go back to the USA with my fiance at the end of July (for four weeks), after his week long visit to Scotland, that I won't be allowed into the country.

This will be my LAST visit to the USA on the VWP, as my divorce should be granted mid September and we'll be applying for a K1 visa as soon as this becomes final. As I will be doing all the paperwork for the petition, I will be bringing the "almost" completed K1 to the USA with me - all that will need to be added are his documents. I will leave the package in the USA and when I return home and after my divorce papers come through I am going to send them to him so that he can enclose them with the rest of the petition and then send it off. Once he has sent the papers off to the lock box, it means that we're not going to be able to see each other for months as he can't come over to Scotland to visit me because of his work. Plus, he's a brilliant guy but he's not very organised .. .. so I would rather make sure that his docs are all in order so that I can relax!!

So ... what do you think my chances are? Should I just be upfront and explain the situation, show POE the K1, tell them it's my last visit and that I'm going to miss my fiance like hell once the K1 is filed and hope to appeal to their better nature? Or should I just forget about the visit altogether?

Has anyone else been refused? Or have had a history of several visits to the USA and still been allowed in?

Any help would be appreciated .. thanks

[mrs_sdp]

Thanks!

Thanks Anjelika

That makes me feel a whole lot better. I have decided that I am going to take the chance - as you say, what's the worse that can happen? If they send me home, I will just need to sit and wait - it would be a shame about the money spent on the flight though AND I would need to play for my additional flight home!

I don't have any proof of a mortgage or a job in this country as I live with my son and am a college student. I can't even give them any utility bills as they are all in his name!

I will take a letter from my college confirming that I am in the middle of a Diploma course with them, that they have agreed my holiday and that they are expecting me back at the beginning of September to finish my Diploma. I will also take a couple of current bank statement with my rent, mobile phone, car insurance and gas maintenance payments coming off by Direct Debit every month! Hopefully that will be enough to prove that I intend going home ..

I don't usually have any problems getting through POE - I just say I'm visiting friends and that seems to satisfy them and most of officers have been pretty nice.

I'm panicking about this visit because I've already been over there for 89 days this year and there will only be a break of six weeks between that journey and my next one ...

Thanks again .. I appreciate your reply ...





We'll see ..

[Anjelika]

Yeah, a letter from your college should be fine. They basically need to believe your trip to the USA is a temporal one. Since you have never overstayed on your previous trips, I don't se any problems at all....

Thanks Anjelika

That makes me feel a whole lot better. I have decided that I am going to take the chance - as you say, what's the worse that can happen? If they send me home, I will just need to sit and wait - it would be a shame about the money spent on the flight though AND I would need to play for my additional flight home!

I don't have any proof of a mortgage or a job in this country as I live with my son and am a college student. I can't even give them any utility bills as they are all in his name!

I will take a letter from my college confirming that I am in the middle of a Diploma course with them, that they have agreed my holiday and that they are expecting me back at the beginning of September to finish my Diploma. I will also take a couple of current bank statement with my rent, mobile phone, car insurance and gas maintenance payments coming off by Direct Debit every month! Hopefully that will be enough to prove that I intend going home ..

I don't usually have any problems getting through POE - I just say I'm visiting friends and that seems to satisfy them and most of officers have been pretty nice.

I'm panicking about this visit because I've already been over there for 89 days this year and there will only be a break of six weeks between that journey and my next one ...

Thanks again .. I appreciate your reply ...





We'll see ..