Today’s topic is, what is a VisaCoach Front Loaded Fiance Visa Petition?

I’m Fred Wall, the VisaCoach.

I’m known for the personal one-on-one relationship that we share,
you, me, and your partner, as we work together as a team to overcome
the many challenges of immigration.

Please pick up the phone, speak with me directly, so that you and I
can get to know each other.

That’s the free introductory consultation I offer to prospective clients.

If we are compatible, well, that will be the beginning of our
relationship working together to get you the immigration approvals
you need.

Now, let’s talk about VisaCoach’s Signature Front Loaded Fiance Visa Petition.

At the very end of the K-1 Fiance Visa process, your fiance is
required to visit a U.S. Embassy or consulate for an interview
conducted by an American Consulor Officer.

The officer’s job is to enforce immigration rules and determine
whether your relationship is genuine and whether your fiance
qualifies for the visa.

The Counsulor Officer has a lot of responsibility.

He’s interviewing one applicant after another and often has very
little time to deep dive into any individual case.

Most applicants, both the genuine and the fraudulent, are basically
telling him the same story.

“We love each other. We want to get married and spend our lives together.”

His job is to figure out who is telling the truth.

And OUR objective, when you and I work together as a team, is to
make the Counselor Officer’s job easier

by placing at his fingertips the information and evidence he needs
to quickly understand your situation and realize you and your
fiance are the good guys.

We work help him understand that you are a bona fide couple and
that he can feel comfortable making the decision to approve the visa.

Let’s think about what happens immediately before the interview starts.

Before your fiance walks up to the interview window, the Consulor
Officer already has the case in front of him.

But, He doesn’t know you. He doesn’t know your fiance.

He’s going to review the case and he’s going to try to figure things out.

Naturally, some things might catch his attention.

Maybe there’s a significant age difference.

Maybe you’ve only met in person once.

Maybe there were multiple marriage, a previous visa denial. Or
simply something about your relationship that is looks off and
might need explanation.

Every case is different. For each one, different issues might pop up.

Normally, you the American Citizen won’t be at the interview.
It will be your fiancee on their own.

But it is critical that the officer gets to know you, and your situation.

This is because the officer actually is reviewing this application
for you. the US Citizen.

This is your application. You applied, you are the one who is
seeking a visa in order to bring you, your happiness.

The officers initial review, when he quietly reads the file, is our
golden opportunity for you and me to speak to him directly.
You won’t be there,

We will have to do this in writing and photos and presentation.
But your story that will be in your own voice, written in your
words, showing your sincere feelings, will be.

We know the officer may have questions, maybe even doubts, we
anticipate what his questions might be, before he even has a
chance to ask them.

And we answer up-fron inside your petition paperwork.

That’s the basic idea behind a visa coach front-loaded petition.

Our process you, me and your fiancee starts long before the
interview ever takes place.

It starts at the very beginning when we are putting together your
initial petition to submitto USCIS.

First I work with you to get to know your individual history and
actual situation.

We complete the basic application with the required forms and
properly fill them in and we’ll identify what the required
evidence documents are.

But now let’s go further.

As I get to know you and your fiance, I begin thinking about what
questions a Consulor Officer might have when he eventually touches
your case.

Then together we address them.

We identify and add solid logical evidence that helps demonstrate
your bona fides and helps tell the story of your relationship.

If I see a potential weakness, let’s talk about it.

Sometimes I make suggestions about things that you might do to
improve appearances and how to document them before we file.

For example, perhaps you’ve never met your prospective in-laws.
That doesn’t automatically mean there’s anything wrong with your
relationship. There’s probably a perfectly good reason.

But if you’re planning another trip soon, I’ll probably suggest,
“How about arranging to have dinner with Mom and Dad and bring
your camera? Spend some time together. Take some photos.

You’re only doing something that’s perfectly natural for any
couple to do.

And remember to document it.

It’s not just good enough to do the right thing, but we must also
document doing the right thing.

Whenever possible, we want to include this evidence of what was
done and include it as part of the original application we are
preparing to submit. That’s front-loading.

In crafting a Visa Coach front-loaded petition, I’m going to start
with the forms, information, civil documents, and what the
government requires. Those are the usual suspects.

Those things are enough to get your foot in the door.

But getting the foot in the door is not enough. Our final objective
is that we want the Consulor Officer to feel comfortable saying,

“yes, this makes sense. I believe this couple is sincere.
Welcome to USA”

We’re not going to ONLY give him nicely filled in forms.
We’re also going to tell your story.

And we try to anticipate and answer reasonable questions before
they come up and before they become problems.

Now, some people will say, “Hey, this is too much work, no need to
add complete evidence now, I’ll just give my fiance a bunch of
evidence to bring to the interview”

Well, you could try that. My advice is that your fiancé should
absolutely continue documenting your relationship after we file
and should bring the updated relationship evidence to the interview.

BUT, and this is important,

Do not depend on these updates brought to the interview to fix
something we could have taken care of at the time we originally filed.

A busy Consulor Officer rarely has the time or interest to look at
or even touch a pile of unvetted evidence or a scrapbook brought
by your fiancé.

Do not count on the new evidence brought on the day to make any
difference, it probably won’t even be looked at.

Instead, the Visa Coach philosophy is simple.

Do what we can before we file. Document it fully.

And put truly important evidence into the original application so
that during the interview, it’s already in the hands of the officer
where it can

make that all important “First Impression”, and helps tell your
story fully and convincingly.

More is not necessarily better. Some couples think that more
evidence automatically means a stronger case. It doesn’t.

Don’t try to bury the Consulor Officer under a mountain of paper.
We need to select and present the RIGHT evidence. It should be
quality, demonstrative evidence.

And this is where my personal involvement to your case becomes
most important. I’m going to carefully review and curate your
evidence. When your materials arrive, I go through them.

I look at each photo. I look at each correspondence. I look at
the affidavits and the documents.

I pick and choose what I believe will most effectively tell your story.

Sometimes I’m going to look at what you’ve given me and say,
“Great, we got just what is needed here”

But sometimes I’ve just got to pick up the phone give you a call
and say,

“You know what, you’re some valuable items.We really could do better”

Every case is different. There is no single magic checklist that
works for everybody.

That’s why I need to first, get to know you, then based upon
knowing your situation, I provide you a detailed personalized
evidence checklist for you to follow.

The Visa Coach front-loaded application is really a case of art
over science.

Filling in the forms properly, attaching the required civil
documents that’s the science.

But telling a clear story of two real people and their bona fide
relationship is different. Well, that’s the art.

Crafting your story is where I spend a lot of my personal time
when I’m working on your case.

I want the counselor officer to be able to look through what we’ve
prepared and be able to understand you.

Who you are

How you got together

Why your relationship make sense

How the evidence backs up the story

By the time he finishes reviewing your case, I want him to be
comfortable with your story. And I want all this to take place
before the interview begins.

When that all goes to plan, your fiancé can then walk into the
interview with the advantage that the officer already has a good
understanding of who the two of you are.

That’s the objective.

How long does preparing a front-loaded petition take?

Well, frankly, I don’t believe in rushing to file an application
just because we have the minimum amount of evidence and documents
to technically submit it.

If I think your case needs more, I’ll let you know.
If I think there’s something we should do first, let’s talk about it.

If I think something needs to be explained, let’s explain it.

We should not submit until, you, me, and your partner have done
our best to tell your story.

Now, does that guarantee approval? Of course not.

Nobody can guarantee what the U.S. government will decide.

But we can certainly do everything reasonable to prepare your
strong, understandable case, and then, by doing so, put your
fiancé in the best position we can for that interview. And that’s
what the Visa Coach front-loaded petition is all about.

This is Fred Wahl, the VisaCoach. If you’re planning to bring your
fiancé to the United States, don’t go through this alone.
Pick up the phone.

Speak with me directly. This introductory consultation is free.
Tell me about you and your fiancé, and I will explain how I would
approach your particular case, and you can decide whether the
VisaCoach method is right for you.

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