There is a common misconception that the rate of a successful marriage is better from those that marry someone from another country under a K1 Visa. Marriage alone is hard enough, yet for those entering in the USA on a Visa K1 can be much more challenging.
What is the K1 Visa?
Before I move on, I'll describe what this kind of Visa is all about. The Visa K1 will let a U.S. resident the right to bring their potential spouse to the U.S.A for marriage. Once inside the U.S., the couple will have just ninety days to get married and confirm confirmation of the marriage through an interview process.
Since the time frame to get married is inside a 90 day window, the majority couples by-pass the traditional church wedding and choose the justice of the peace. Other couples will use the justice of the peace as their official obligation and then have the church wedding afterwards. In a nutshell this is what the Visa is all about.
The rate of success of an international marriage
There is a common misconception that the rate of a successful marriage is better from those that marry someone from another country under a K1 Visa. Marriage alone is hard enough, yet for those entering in the USA on a Visa K1 can be much more challenging. Add in cultural differences, language barriers, loss of friends, loss of family and the feeling of completely starting over and that can add up to a significant toll on the marriage and the relationship. Now add in the factor that you just don't really know each other very well and that may be the breaking point.
Yet there's a silver lining to this complex situation. A rate of success can greatly improve if both learn each others culture, try to learn a little of each others language. Maybe take an interest in the hobbies of one another. Above all remember patience is a virtue along with being understanding of each others concerns.
What I find is men tend to lose their patience easily with their new spouse. She may be slow to learn the language or depressed. Men often times feel that his new wife is not grateful for what he has given her. In reality she is very grateful. It is the drastic change in culture and loss of family and friends that can lead to an unhappy spouse.
Good News
Now for the good news. Your new wife will start to get use to her new home and life within 6 months to a year. She will start to work, drive and make new friends. This will all lead to her feeling independent again. Her use of the language will get better and the concerns of the past will be only a memory.
Based on my understanding of the success rate of marriages for those entering the USA on a K1 Visa, they are equivalent to those in the U.S. It all comes down to how well you communicate and how much patience you have with each other. If you have those two qualities nailed down, there is a very high probability that your international relationship and marriage will succeed.
Just like anything else in life, it takes work to make something great. In a marriage and especially in an international relationship, that work becomes a little bit harder. Don't full yourself in thinking that all you need to do is meet your potential spouse once in his or her country and then go off and live happily ever after. Those kinds of romances only happen in the movies.
I often traveled every 6 months to visit my wife in the Ukraine. We took trips together and really got to know each other before we start thinking about marriage. It is a learning process and the more you know the more successful your marriage will be.
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