His princess

I actually feel of use today to the group......

Here is some information to anyone who has overstayed in the us ....

I overstayed by 6 weeks over 2 years ago in the us. My fiance is
ready to post the I129F and G325A for the K-1 visa. I was worried
about the overstay i.e. when to admit to it as I didnt want to hide
it. I called the embassy here in London England and asked. Ok it was
£1.50 per minute but needed to know.

I explained to the operator what had happened and the fact that I have
a hospital report to back me up although I was not admitted to
hospital I did attend accident and emergency. I also told the
operator that this was already into my overstay. I then told her that
we did not wish to lie or try to cover anything up and asked when do
we tell the appropriate department of this. I told her we looked on
the I-129F and it only asked if your fiance has ever visited the us
and we ticked yes to that.

She told me that it is not the time yet to bring this to light. She
told me that when the documentation comes over to London and I am send
forms to fill in there is a part there which asks have you ever
overstayed or been deported. she said until then it is not needed.
She just said to fill in the parts when the time comes and not to
worry just to bring my hospital report with me or send it to them when
I fill in the forms they will send me. I think its packet 3 or 4 but
she said its one of the forms that comes to me here in england from
the embassy.

Now i feel a little bit useful as I am always sitting here panicking
and asking questions. I have a little smile on my face.

Hope this is of some help to someone out there

CharlieS

I actually overstayed in the US for about 18 months which automatically invokes the '10 year ban'.
This was the only thing that caused a problem at my original K1 interview. I had to file a waiver which took a couple of weeks to be approved.

There seems to be 2 things thaat they look for when issuing visas:

Honesty and legitimacy.

If the relationship is legitimate and you are 100% honest, there is always a way of getting around 'problems'.
If you overstayed, it really doesn't matter why, you should expect to file a waiver and I would recommend having it already filled in and ready to file at the time of your interview. It saved me a lot of time in the long run.

Good luck with your journey.

hockeykid

I heard from my friend that her ex overstayed in the US for about a year then police found it and asked him to go back his country within 24 hours. When he was there he worked so many odd jobs.