Fiance Visa Process

there are 4 steps in this process.
we are currently between steps 1 and 2.

Step 1. US Citizen (ME) petitions homeland security on behalf of fiance for him to be able to apply for a K1 visa. (my petition was sent on March 15 and approved on June 13)

Step 2. Petition was approved and sent to the National Visa Center, where it is assigned a new case number and forwarded to the foreign consulate, Ankara is our Consulate.

Step 3. Petition is receiced by Consulate and then foreign fiance can apply for visa. (this is a lot of work, putting together documents, getting medicals, etc)

Step 4. Interview. Avat will go to the consulate for an interview. He will either be granted a visa within 10 days or be put on Administrative Processing (more in depth background checks)

Step 5. (if put on AP) Wait until background checks are cleared, visa issued. Can be a waiting period of 10-90-365 days...no certainty here.

So there it is in a nutshell. All the layers of a fiance visa.