{"id":681,"date":"2012-08-25T13:22:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2012-08-25T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:22:41","slug":"waiving-the-meeting-requirement-for-an-k1-visa-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Waiving the Meeting Requirement for an K1 Visa Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am trying to secure a fiancee visa. The problem I have is that I can not obtain a passport due to owing child support. The question I have is there any other way I can get her here without traveling to her country? She lives in Uzbekistan. Is there another type of visa we can get so that she may travel here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The law allows USCIS to waive the meeting requirement where there is extreme hardship or a long established custom.\u00a0To put this in perspective, in 2003 the USCIS Office of Administrative Appeals (AAO) ruled that there was no extreme hardship in a case where the US sponsor refused to meet his fiance during the Afghanistan war because they could have met in a third country.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think your failure to pay child support would make you eligible for a waiver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to secure a fiancee visa. The problem I have is that I can not obtain a passport due to owing child support. The question I have is there any other way I can get her here without traveling to her country? She lives in Uzbekistan. Is there another type of visa we &#8230; <a title=\"Waiving the Meeting Requirement for an K1 Visa Application\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=681\" aria-label=\"Read more about Waiving the Meeting Requirement for an K1 Visa Application\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,34,35],"tags":[276,185,186],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aao","category-fiance-visa","category-fiancee-visa","tag-aao","tag-fiance-visa","tag-fiancee-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}