If i start paper work for fiance visa, for my fiance from Thailand, can she apply, and be approved, for tourist visa while waiting to be approved for fiance visa?

Unlikely that she would get the tourist visa.

In the fiance visa application she would be saying she intends to live indefinitely in the UK, while in the visit application she would be saying she intends to return to Thailand.

Which should the ECO believe?

If i start paper work for fiance visa, for my fiance from Thailand, can she apply, and be approved, for tourist visa while waiting to be approved for fiance visa?

Same with the U.S. if that's your intent. Very unlikely, the ConOff would just figure you're trying to beat the Q.

Mac

I would not apply for any other visas while awaiting completion of the Fiance visa. I forget the exact details but I have heard this can come in conflict with the Fiance visa and make it appear you are trying to circumvent the process which involves waiting in line for your turn. I'm not at all implying that's what you wish to do, only that the government may see it that way.

On top of the obvious conflict pointed out by others, how on earth would you get this to work? You have an application in for a fiance visa, which requires the applicants passport in the application. Then you start another application, with what? Another passport? Unless your fiance has multiple passports, how would you have 2 applications in and then possibly an application and a visit...

If it is a US K1 Fiancee Visa then it is technically possible, but highly unlikely. For all tourist visas there is the immigrant intent issue, but also something that should be noted is the fact that simultaneous filing could lead to a B2 visa denial and no one wants a denial on their record when interviewing for a subsequent visa (in this case K1). It is not going to preclude a later approval under another category, but it will likely provoke increased scrutiny.

Colleagues I know have dealt with clients who had CR-1 marriage visa applications pending approval and entered the USA on a tourist visa only to return to Bangkok in order to go through the visa interview, but in those cases they even needed to be careful to show, at the point of entry into the USA, that they were returning to Thailand and not going to the USA to sidestep the normal channels by adjusting status stateside. In these cases, the tourist visa was granted sometime before relationship began so the applications for the visas were not submitted simultaneously.

I hope this was some help.

Best of Luck

Ben Hart

US Immigration Attorney

Integrity Legal

1-877-231-7533

Stick with one application at a time and be patient.