Today I want to discuss travel on a K1 fiancé visa.
We've been receiving questions about whether or not you can travel domestically on a K1 fiancé visa.
Whether or not you can leave the United States after you receive the fiancé visa.
Some people seem to believe, as we've seen in our Facebook group and on our YouTube channel,
that there's some rumor that you have to leave the country after you receive a fiancé visa.
Please, if you have questions about this, stay tuned because I will be going over those
commonly asked questions about K1 fiancé visas and travel.
Very important information if you're going through the K1 fiancé visa process.
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A K1 fiancé visa.
For those of you who have already done a lot of research or are in the middle of your immigration
journey for your fiancé visa, you've probably heard K1 and you're familiar with these terms.
For those of you who are new or just starting out on your immigration journey, the K1
fiancé visa is available to individuals who are engaged to United States citizens.
I could talk for a very long time about fiancé visas but I'm going to focus on what happens
in regards to travel when a person receives their fiancé visa.
Again, for those of you who are new to your immigration journey or those of you who haven't
received their fiancé visa, the fiancé visa is a document that will be put in your passport.
It's a one-page document that will go in your passport.
And it is the document that you will use to enter the United States and you will
have 90 days to get married and to file your application for your green card.
What I would like to discuss with regards to travel is when you receive that visa and
your passport and once you've entered the United States on your fiancé visa, what are
you able to do as it relates to travel?
I want to go over the fiancé visa itself and what it allows you to do.
The fiancé visa on that document that will be in your passport, that will be placed right
in there, it will say entries and it says "one".
That seems self-explanatory enough but there is a lot of other information and some people overlook that.
That fiancé visa gives you one entry to the United States.
That visa is a one-entry visa for you to come to the United States and get married.
So, when you enter the United States, you'll have 90 days to get married and you'll be
in status during those 90 days.
It's very important you get married and file your green card application to be in compliance.
But you can, in regards to domestic travel, that means within the United States, you can
travel throughout the United States with your K1 visa.
There's nothing that prevents you from being able to travel domestically within the United States.
Now, with regards to international travel, as I mentioned, the visa will say "one entry".
Do not leave the United States once you enter on your K1 fiancé visa.
If you do, you are essentially abandoning the process, and you would have to start over.
Do not leave the United States if you've received your K1 fiancé visa.
International travel is not allowed.
However, once you've filed your green card application, part of that application will include a travel permit.
That, once approved, will give you the ability to travel internationally if you needed to.
Before traveling though with that travel permit, you want to make sure that you seek
legal advice from an attorney to make sure that it would be safe for you to travel.
In general, we tell our clients, "Yes, we apply for these travel permits because life
happens and emergencies could happen that would require you to travel.
But we recommend you don't travel until you receive your green card. However, if you need to, please talk to us first.
Those are the main tips that I wanted to go over, the main things I wanted to clarify as it relates to travel on a K1 fianceé visa.
I hope all of you have found that helpful.
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