K1 visa help

[Smith1979]

I meant a girl online and we really like each other. I would like to bring her to the US on a K1 visa as fast as possible. I have never done anything like this before and really don't know what im doing. I do not want to travel to the Phillipines to meet her, i just want her to come here. I was reading over the paper work and it keeps talking about some face to face meeting with-in two years, how do i get around this BS? It only says something about it causeing a hardship or something like that. I don't want to spend money filing paper work for it to get denied, that would just be a waste of my time and money. Im not rich so i have to do this cheaply. Please help, thanks

[nichole]

You have a lot to learn about a K1 visa. I suggest you go to the USCIS website and read even more.

I meant a girl online and we really like each other. I would like to bring her to the US on a K1 visa as fast as possible.

You have to LOVE her and intend to marry her. Fast is 8-10 months.

I have never done anything like this before and really don't know what im doing. I do not want to travel to the Phillipines to meet her, i just want her to come here.

The chances of her getting approval in Manila, a very difficult consulate, for a K1 fiance visa are slim if you don't go to the Philippines. At the interview they expect to see photo albums of the places you took her, money you spent on an engagement ring, how you've sent her money if she is poor. You also have to meet the income requirements to support her and prove it with your tax returns, letter from employer, pay stubs, etc.

I was reading over the paper work and it keeps talking about some face to face meeting with-in two years, how do i get around this BS? It only says something about it causeing a hardship or something like that.

It's not BS. It's the law. You are expected to meet your soon to be wife. You can get around it on hardship if you are paralyzed or permanently on life support for example and it would be a difficult to leave your bed to get on a plane.

I don't want to spend money filing paper work for it to get denied, that would just be a waste of my time and money. Im not rich so i have to do this cheaply. Please help, thanks

There is basic cost involved besides the travel. I don't know the fees in her currency but here's a London example.

$340 (USCIS) I-129F
$350 (Embassy) Visa fee
£35 ACPO Police certificate ($55)
£210 (Knightsbridge Doctors) medical exam ($330ish)
£14.50 (DX Secure) Courier fee ($23)
$1070 (USCIS) Adjustment of Status/Work Authorization/Advance Parole

Other costs might be immunizations, her travel to Manila for interview, plane fare to US, sending monthly support to help out her family after you are married. (Yep, that's often expected.)

[js88699]

Nichole is absolutely correct. If you LOVE this girl and want to marry her, you need to go to the Philippines to spend some time with her and expect to met her family. I flew there last September and had a wonderful two weeks with my fiancee. My I129F forms were submitted in November and we're impatiently waiting for them to be approved.

Why not bring her here on a visitation visa if you don't want to go there? She can come here, spend some time together, then she goes back and THEN you fill in the forms for the fiancee/spouse visa. As Nichole said the embassy there may frown on you never going there to met her and her family.