If you are submitting Your K1 Fiance Visa without an attorney, then there are few things you need to know.
Here is an important requirement for the applicant, before submitting the K1 Fiance Visa Application. You must have met your fiance within two years of submitting your K1 Visa Application. Say you met your fiance three years ago and decided to send in the application. You will be denied and will have to start over again. The best thing to do would be to take another trip out to see her. Then come back to the USA with updated travel docs and submit your application.
The USCIS officers are reviewing your application and looking for certain things. The trips ensure your relationship is current. These officers tend to not trust a long distance relationship. As they see it, most normal relationships have personal face to face contact and that contact is most acceptable when documented within two years of the submittal. To the USCIS officers, if you have not seen your fiance in two years, then something is not right. Not satisfying this requirement will keep your application from being approved.
In the past two years you would have had to have some documented contact with your fiance. Once is ok, but if you want to prove your worth to the USCIS officers, then see her at least twice within the last two years. Just once will not show your true intent. Now this is my opinion, but a lot can happen in a long period of not seeing each other. A bond can grow weak. It is best to work on that bond by seeing each other every 6 months or at the least once in a year. But that is something you will have to work out with your fiance.
There are K1 Fiance couples that I have been in contact with that were really not compatible. They found this out after they were finally together in the USA. They were so uncomfortable with each other that even sleeping in the same bed was not an option.
I met my fiance every four to six months and spent a total of three weeks each time I flew out to see her. The first time was very uncomfortable. The second time it was better. The third time I knew she was the right one for me. It is tough to make these trips, but well worth it once your fiance is in the USA with you.
Take a trip to see your fiance regularly. Spend time with her. Here are a few things you must consider when on your trips. Keep all plane ticket stubs, hotel receipts and currency exchange receipts.
Plane ticket stubs, hotel receipts, currency exchange receipts, and retail shop receipts were items I always brought back with me. Retail receipts were a great source of proof. They would always contain the name of the store, address and date that I bought the items.
I always took a lot of pictures of all our travels together. I would always take a few pictures of us together with a date and time stamp. I had two pictures of both of us from every trip and I submitted all those pictures as proof.