If you are a foreign national and are engaged to a United States citizen, you probably have questions about how to get a fiancee visa so that you can get married in the United States. If you are successful in getting a fiancee visa, you will be able to travel to the United States in order to get married.
The first step in getting a fiancee visa is for your United States citizen partner to file an I129F petition with USCIS to request that you be given a fiancee visa. The requirements for your partner to be able to file this type of petition include:
- Your partner must be a United States citizen to be eligible for file and I129F.
- Your intent to marry must be because you want to form a joint life together as husband and wife. You cannot use a fiancee visa as a way to circumvent immigration regulations by claiming to plan to marry when you don’t have a bona fide relationship.
- In the past two years, you must have met in person at least once. There are very few exceptions to this requirement.
- If you are given a fiancee visa, you must plan to marry within 90 days of entering the United States.
You should also make sure that you are admissible to the United States. There are many grounds of inadmissibility, and if any of them apply to you then you will need to get a waiver before you are able to get a fiancee visa.
Once the I129F petition is approved, you will be able to move on to the next stage of the application process. This stage will begin when the application package will be forwarded to the US embassy in your country. You will need to submit to the embassy additional forms such as the State Department’s visa application forms, a medical exam report and police certificates. After submitting everything to the embassy, you will be scheduled for a visa interview. If all goes well at the interview, you will be issued your visa and will have six months in which to travel to the United States.
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