Ethiopia K-1 or Fiancee Visas
Ethiopian Fiance Visa help
Your Ethiopian Fiancee will be requested to bring the following documents to
the consulate interview.
Passport
Birth Certificate
Marriage Certificate (for K3) / Divorce Certificates
Police Certificate
Medical Exam Envelope
I-134 plus 3 recent years tax transcripts
Evidence of Relationship
2 Passport photos required for police certificate (can be b/w)
K3 filing / interview may be done on a walk-in basis if the petitioner appears at the Consulate in person and pleads his/her case. Otherwise, the Consulate will schedule the interview within 6-10 weeks of receiving the file from the NVC.
Upon receiving packet 3, the applicant should complete all documents requested on the checklist and obtain both the medical and police certificate. Medical takes appr. 3 days total to complete. Police Certificate takes 2 weeks but can be expedited upon request.
The problem in terms of total processing time appears to be that the Consulate will take time to actually send out packet 3 (word is that this may take 1-2 months easily). If the USC petitioner is in Addis, the petitioner can pick-up packet 3 at the Consulate by showing the NVC letter. This speeds things up dramatically.
A complete and accurate filing along with good relationship evidence is the key to a speedy processing of the visa. Also, for all couples that are mixed, the Ethiopian K3 visa applicant will very likely have to go through the interview in English unless it can be established that the petitioning USC spouse speaks Amharic.
The US embassy in Addis Ababa Ethiopia
PO Box 1014
Entoto Street
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Telephone:
251-11-1242424
Fax:
251-11-1242435
Below is a short youtube video that describes how to get your Fiancee Visa
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In a time of great controversy over foreign residents, the legal immigration process is considered slow
nd underfunded. A review of 1,899 K1 Visas showed that the average wait from initial filing to a Consular
interview is 181 days[3], with more delays possible after the interview. However, this is considered an
improvement over the old-style spousal visas.
A foreigner may enter the US on a different type of visa, and then get married. However, the laws on temporary
visitation are clear that the purpose of the visit must be honest. If someone has this intention to marry a US
citizen when they first enter the US as a visitor (e.g. on a tourist or student visa) and then plan to remain
in the US to live and work, they can be denied admission if immigration finds out that they had concealed this
intention at the time of admission. This requires the tourist to be quite covert about their intentions,
hiding things like engagement rings, photos of the couple together, and large amounts of personal belongings
that might signify an interest in moving permanently to the US. It is important for the applicant to keep a
clear intention when entering the US on any visa: are they entering to work, to study, to visit as a tourist,
to do missionary work, or to immigrate (which is the only status that seems to include everything). Behavior
that mixes these codified intents is, at best, frowned upon by immigration, and at worst might ultimately result
in denial of visa, entry, adjustment of status, and possible deportation of the foreign national, even after
a couple is legally married. They must maintain good records of their relationship and eligibility and show
the government no cause whatsoever to believe that the fiancee is not eligible for permanent residency.
Expert Tip # 6
Request the consulate to open a “Provisional File”. Once USCIS completes its review of your I-129F, it will send you a notice, I-797C advising the application is approved, then hand off the file to the U.S. State Department to be sent to the overseas consulate that handles the region where your Fiancee is. Typically about a month will go by before the consulate receives the file, and can take action to contact your Fiancee and send her Packet 3. The I-797C that you receive will confirm which consulate the file is being sent to. Contact the consulate immediately via phone or fax and ask if they can open a “Provisional File”. If that consulate allows them to open such a file, then send them a fax requesting this, along with a copy of the I-797C that you received. The consulate will not schedule an interview with your Fiancee until the actual file has arrived, but can send the Packet 3 to your Fiancee for her to respond to.
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