K1 Fiance Visa/ K3 Spousal Visa Preparation
If your fiance/ fiance is not a citizen of the United States
and you plan to get married in the United States, then you must
file a petition with USCIS on behalf of your fiance/ fiance .
After the petition is approved, your fiance/ fiance must obtain
a visa issued at a U.S. Embassy or consulate abroad. The marriage
must take place within 90 days of your fiance/ fiance entering
the United States. If the marriage does not take place within 90
days or your fiance/ fiance marries someone other than you (the
U.S. citizen filing USCIS Form I-129F - Petition for Alien Fiance/
fiance), your fiance/ fiance will be required to leave the United
States. Until the marriage takes place, your fiance/ fiance is
considered a nonimmigrant. A nonimmigrant is a foreign national
seeking to temporarily enter the United States for a specific purpose.
A fiance/ fiance may not obtain an extension of the 90-day original
nonimmigrant admission. Read about, how to get a K-1
fiance visa approval?
Work Permit
Applicants for adjustment to permanent resident status are eligible
to apply for a work permit while their immigation cases are pending.
You should use USCIS Form
I-765 to apply for a work permit. You do not need to apply
for a work permit once you adjust to permanent resident status.
As a lawful permanent resident, you should receive a permanent
resident card that will prove that you have a right to live and
work in the USA permanently. Please see How
Do I Get a Work Permit? for more information.
Permanent Resident Status
If you are applying for adjustment to permanent resident
status, you must receive advance permission to return to the United
States if you are traveling outside the USA. This advance
permission is called Advance Parole. For more information,
please see How
Do I Get a Travel Document?.
USCIS
Please contact the USCIS office that received your
application. You should be prepared to provide USCIS staff with
specific information about your immigration application. Please
click here for complete instructions on checking the status
of your application. Please click here for more information
on USCIS offices.
Permanent Residency
The only applications for
permanent residency (Form I-485) which
can be appealed to USCIS are those based on a marriage which
took place while the alien's application was in process or those
based on Section 586 of Public Law 106-429, adjustment of status
for certain nationals of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. These appeals
must be made to the Administrative Appeals Unit (AAU).
visit the www.uscis.gov web site for more details about obtaining
a K1 fiance Visa:
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Visa Backlog in USAK-
Read
the full story at Newsweek.com
The State Dept.'s Tony Edson explains how Uncle Sam aims to ease
the visa bottleneck without compromising security.
Since 9-11, the U.S. has shored up its borders. But because some
of those well-intentioned security restrictions have been indiscriminately
applied, tens of thousands of foreign students and skilled workers
have been prevented or scared away from entering the country. In
2004, the U.S. admitted 613,221 foreign students, down from 637,954
in 2002, according to the most recent data available from the Office
of Immigration Statistics.
What else are you doing in India to reduce wait times?
We've added people. Since 2001 we've added 25 officers in India,
which is significant. We added some windows to interview people.
We have a new building planned to come onto line in Mumbai in
2008. And we will open a consulate in Hyderabad. We've broken
the back of the problem now. We also do an extended work day. |