One Mistake

We had to file for the K-1 visa twice. It’s been a total of over 4 years now, and the second is still suspended due to the pandemic.

The first K-1 application was delayed five months from processing because President Trump froze the flow of immigration.

When it finally came due to be approved after my fiance’s embassy interview, he had already been put through too much duress by personal trials and how the embassy representative discriminated against him while slandering his good intentions and character.

The embassy then sent me a request for more proofs of my information. I did not understand this final step’s protocol, the embassy would not clarify, and I was confused by what I learned from the lawyer I consulted.

I was also in distress for our relationship, because my fiance at that point did not believe he would be approved, and he didn’t want to keep investing in something impossible to achieve for him.

It is a testament of his love, courage, and commitment that he kept trying to walk the journey with me.

But, I said the wrong keywords to leverage the embassy into helping me, enlisting advocacy from my local governor’s office. The embassy dropped our petition like a hot potato and returned it to the US immediatley.

They marked it as “denied due to suspected fraud,” which killed it, irrevocably.

We had to begin over again, investing more time and money, and it’s only been now with further experience that I understand what happened, and why it did.

I do not know if my beloved and I could have made it together. What has transpired from then to now has destroyed my trust in the situation.

This is what happens when outside influences such as friends, family, and governments are allowed to have power, interfering with a couple’s relationship.

I cannot blame my fiance for leaving, and yet, this is another thing about me: I stick with love so we win the bet!