Next question comes from Brian I'm disabled and cannot travel to meet my
fiance what are my options you know we see this from time to time and basically
it comes down to you must have an extreme hardship to the
US citizen to get a waiver you know not to meet or it must be against strict
laws and against the alien beneficiary's country or something like their culture
traditions yeah traditions but what we found from our experience be honest well
we've probably submitted you know a few hundred waiver requests and I believe
we've only seen one maybe two approved in all the time that I've been doing
this and out of the 30,000 petitions that we've processed successfully so
it's it's it's extremely rare that a waiver gets approved you can submit it
your waiver request with your petition here's the here's the negative part is
that the USCIS doesn't usually tell you whether you are approved or not
basically you'll go for a period of time without hearing anything and you either
get approved or denied or you receive a request for evidence and rfe letter but
generally I can tell you from experience that that we just usually don't see
those get approved and what are some of your options maybe it's a b1 b2 tourist
visa you know try to have the alien beneficiary the alien fiancee come to
the United States and visit if you can't travel by error maybe you can travel by
bus or train maybe you can meet in a neutral country you know a place where
the alien beneficiary can travel to and you can travel to because what usually
comes down to is that they'll say okay you can't travel but what's preventing
the alien beneficiary from traveling so basically you have to exhaust all
resources all means and you know if you have any questions on
that you can always give us a call we can discuss your case and maybe find out
you know an alternate way of meeting but from our experience you do have to meet
one way right you know what I would add to that is if your only option is a
waiver then of course if that's your only option try it but it is the
absolute worst option it's going to take a lot longer you can expect a double or
triple the time estimates meaning so meaning a year and a half two years
because you're gonna go through this whole waiver process and and back and
forth it's gonna cost a lot more money because you're probably denied and have
to appeal and try and the couple that we've seen approved they had to do
exactly that they got denied they appealed it and
they finally won after spending a lot of money so examine your real motivations
and and and I don't know you I don't mean to imply your motivations aren't
intent and you're not legitimately disabled but we do get a lot of people
who are not that you know maybe they're disabled but doesn't necessarily mean
they can't travel it just means it's extremely uncomfortable that's not gonna
fly you to even attempt to get the waiver for instance for medical
condition like disability they generally going to want to separate doctors to say
that you're completely unable to travel not not that you could travel with
certain a layover halfway and spend some time you know what I mean I mean it has
to be they're gonna look at it not gonna take your word for it they're gonna
scrutinize it heavily and then you're they're gonna ask you why can't your
fiance or wife come here so you're gonna have to show she's gonna have to apply
for a tourist visa or some kind of visa and get denied and you're gonna have to
have that denial with you I mean you they are not gonna take your word for
anything you're gonna have a long expensive process of trying everything
first and then try the waiver as a last resort so I would look that as the last
Hail Mary pass a resort to try and get your spouse here if you start right in
with that you're going to be very disappointed because you're almost
certainly going to be denied you're going to appeal probably an end up one
of the two we saw proved that he ended up getting a lawyer and spent somewhere
near ten thousand dollars because he was he had to get a couple of
different doctors to do a full workup and it's just it's not a path you want
to go down unless it's your only option I mean that's our advice and we're not
trying to discourage anybody we you know we want to do visas that's our business
but realistically after seeing a lot of people spend a lot of time and a lot of
heartache our advice is don't try it if there's any way that you can meet meet
in a third country have her travel to Mexico and you go to drive down there
something that's going to be way less expensive and be much quicker than
trying this wave around that just almost never works.