{"id":665,"date":"2012-08-23T19:11:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T01:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=665"},"modified":"2026-08-15T23:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:19:03","slug":"six-month-waiting-period-before-fiance-can-remarry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Six Month Waiting Period Before Fiance Can Remarry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I had a question about getting a fiance visa.\u00a0I recently got divorced from my exwife.\u00a0My ex and I have been separated for quite some, but for financial reasons we just finalized the divorce on August 31st.\u00a0I live in the state of Oklahoma.\u00a0I did not realize that in this state there is a six month waiting period after the divorce is granted that they do not allow you to marry someone else.\u00a0Will this stop me from filing for a finace visa until the six month period is up, since she would not even be here for me to marry until after the six month period was complete or can I go ahead and file it?\u00a0 My fiance lives in Thailand and yes we have met. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You must be \u201cfree to marry\u201d at the time you file the petition so in your case, you will need to wait until the six months are up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a question about getting a fiance visa.\u00a0I recently got divorced from my exwife.\u00a0My ex and I have been separated for quite some, but for financial reasons we just finalized the divorce on August 31st.\u00a0I live in the state of Oklahoma.\u00a0I did not realize that in this state there is a six month waiting &#8230; <a title=\"Six Month Waiting Period Before Fiance Can Remarry\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=665\" aria-label=\"Read more about Six Month Waiting Period Before Fiance Can Remarry\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35,33],"tags":[185,186,184],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiance-visa","category-fiancee-visa","category-k-1-visa","tag-fiance-visa","tag-fiancee-visa","tag-k-1-visa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Six Month Waiting Period Before Fiance Can Remarry - US Immigration Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=665\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Six Month Waiting Period Before Fiance Can Remarry - US Immigration Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I had a question about getting a fiance visa.\u00a0I recently got divorced from my exwife.\u00a0My ex and I have been separated for quite some, but for financial reasons we just finalized the divorce on August 31st.\u00a0I live in the state of Oklahoma.\u00a0I did not realize that in this state there is a six month waiting ... 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