Last week, my fiancee received her K-1 visa from the US Embassy. It took just under 6 months. I filed the application through the Laguna Nigel, Calif., USCIS Service Center at the end of April 2009. It took them 3 months to review it, the US Embassy got the file in month 4, I took one month to complete the package 3, and we filed the paperwork with the US Embassy on Fri, Oct 9 (via EMS mail in Bangkok) while I was in Bangkok for vacation. On Mon, Oct 12, she rec'd an email saying she had an interview scheduled on Oct 20th at 730am. They only asked 4 generic questions and told her to come back on the 22nd to pick up her visa! They started the interview in Thai and then switched to English midway through. She was out of the Embassy by 930am (which is when she text me) Wow that was fast!

It pays to over document the relationship, organize the paperwork, and add footnotes/additional explanations to the questions on the forms.

This winter I'll have someone to keep me warm

Thank you USCIS/US Embassy/State Dept. for being efficient in reviewing my case

Last week, my fiancee received her K-1 visa from the US Embassy. It took just under 6 months. I filed the application through the Laguna Nigel, Calif., USCIS Service Center at the end of April 2009. It took them 3 months to review it, the US Embassy got the file in month 4, I took one month to complete the package 3, and we filed the paperwork with the US Embassy on Fri, Oct 9 (via EMS mail in Bangkok) while I was in Bangkok for vacation. On Mon, Oct 12, she rec'd an email saying she had an interview scheduled on Oct 20th at 730am. They only asked 4 generic questions and told her to come back on the 22nd to pick up her visa! They started the interview in Thai and then switched to English midway through. She was out of the Embassy by 930am (which is when she text me) Wow that was fast!

It pays to over document the relationship, organize the paperwork, and add footnotes/additional explanations to the questions on the forms.

This winter I'll have someone to keep me warm

Thank you USCIS/US Embassy/State Dept. for being efficient in reviewing my case

Glad to hear you have a happy ending and good luck in the future.

Perhaps sometime you can post step by step all the document numbers and details for anyone else wanting to do this

Good luck

Congrad.. thats great news. I just filed my K1-visa app on Sept 22nd, got notice on Oct 16th the visa has been approved and everything was sent to the Consultant in Bangkok. I guess it's only the US part that has been approved ans she still needs to interview and everything in BKK. The letter I got from the USCIS say everything was sent to BKK.

I hope Bangkok parts goes as fast as yours. Really I was not expecting the US part to be so fast and thinking Feb or March before she will go to the US. Now it's looking like end of the year, early Jan. I will be returning to Thailand end of November and stay until end of Jan. I do own a company in Thailand and sent all these documents so maybe that helped.

Again Congrad!!!