| If your fiancé is not living in the US and is not a | | | | country, he must leave the country at the end of the |
| US citizen, he needs to have a fiancé Visa in | | | | 90-day period as stipulated by the fiancé Visa. |
| order to enter the country. In order to obtain this fiance | | | | Once you submit the petition and receive approval, you |
| Visa, you have to file a petition with the Bureau of | | | | will receive notification of the documentation required |
| Citizenship and Immigration on his behalf. After you | | | | for a fiancé Visa. You will also receive all the |
| receive approval, your fiancé can then receive | | | | necessary forms you need for applying for the |
| a KI fiancé Visa from a US embassy or | | | | fiancé Visa. Your fiancé needs to have |
| consulate office in his home country. This approval is | | | | a valid passport with an expiry date that will allow for |
| valid for four months, giving you plenty of time to | | | | at least six months in the US with a fiancé |
| complete the process for obtaining a fiancé | | | | Visa. Other documents required for a fiancé |
| Visa. | | | | Visa include a birth certificate, death or divorce |
| Once you do have the fiance Visa, you must become | | | | certificates if your fiancé was previously |
| married within 90 dates of the date the fiancé | | | | divorced or widowed, police certificates, a medical |
| Visa was issued. If the marriage does not take place | | | | exam, evidence of financial support and photographs. |
| or if your fiancé married someone else, the K1 | | | | In order to obtain a fiancé Visa, you and your |
| fiancé Visa will be revoked and he will have to | | | | fiancé must have met at least once in the past |
| leave the country. | | | | two years. However, this requirement for the |
| If your fiancé intends to live and work in the US | | | | fiancé Visa is sometimes waived in cases |
| after he receives the fiancé Visa, he has to | | | | where it would cause undue hardship to arrange this |
| wait until after you are married and apply for | | | | meeting or if such a meeting is not accepted in your |
| permanent residency. He can also apply for a work | | | | culture or religion. If your fiancé has unmarried |
| permit when he arrives or can even get such a permit | | | | children under the age of 21, these children can also |
| at the same time as the fiancé Visa. However, | | | | come to the US as part of the fiancé Visa as |
| if your fiancé does not intend to remain in the | | | | long as they are named in the original petition. |