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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing K-1 Fiancé visas. These are Fiancé Visas for fiancés of American citizens looking to travel to the United States. For those who are unaware, we have made a number of videos on this channel. Please feel free to go to our search function and look up just K-1 Visa, you will find a lot of information.

Long story short and the reason for this video, there are a number of things that have to occur after one arrives in K-1 status if one wants to keep their fiancé in status in the United States. We have done a number of videos on this but most notably you are looking at having to deal with what is called Adjustment of Status. That means upon arrival you need to go ahead and a) get married if you are so inclined and after getting married you need to go ahead and file for Adjustment of Status to Lawful Permanent Residence. This allows one's fiancé to remain in America on a more permanent basis. Now if you fail to do this the fiancé needs to go ahead and leave the country within a 90-day period. If they overstay the Visa that is a real problem because you can end up with overstay, a bar to returning, and that can be a legal ground in admissibility to getting a Visa in the future. 

Now the thing to also understand, a lot of people ask this: "Well when I file for the adjustment to get her lawful permanent residence, what happens during the interim?" Well as long as it is pending she is in status or he or she are in status but the Visa is still pending; you are still pending the process. Other things some folks look into is possibly advanced parole so that person can go abroad while the case is processing and also things like employment authorization. 

But long story short, a K-1 Visa is really kind of a limited visa. Now it is a benefit to many because it moves in my opinion far more quickly through the overall system to get the fiancé in but on the back end you have got to deal with all this stuff in order to regularize and make that status more permanent.