K-1 visa is a nonimmigrant visa that recognizes the beneficiary’s intent to immigrate based on his/her planned marriage to a U.S. citizen and allows the beneficiary to enter the United States to complete the marriage.To be qualified for a K-1 visa, the following requirements must be met:

1  The alien fiance must be outside the U.S.

2 Both the U.S. citizen and the fiance must remain unmarried until the arrival of the alien fiance in the U.S.

3 The alien fiance and U.S. citizen must have met personally at least once in the two years before the I-129F petition was filed.

The K-1 visa expires ninety days after the fiancée enters the United States. Within that period, the fiancée must marry the United States citizen petitioner, or face termination of her status and potential removal from the United States.

K-3 visa offers an opportunity for a spouse of a United States citizen to travel to the United States so that the family can be together in the United States during the commonly lengthy wait for the”immediate relative” immigrant visa petition. Once issued, the spouse would be able to travel to the United States to be with the United States citizen petitioner while awaiting approval of the immigrant visa petition.

To be qualified for applying K-3 visa, the following requirements must be met: 1 The alien spouse must be outside the U.S.

2 The U.S. citizen spouse must file an I-129F petition (K visa petition)

3 If the marriage occurred outside the U.S., the K visa must be issued by the U.S. consulate in the country where the marriage occurred.