Any one thinking of K1 visa DO NOT DO IT!!!

It is now coming on our year and a half point of this K1 visa. Things I've found out it is slow, people are rude, you can get bad lawyers, and you will miss your love one a lot. I recommend marrying who ever you want to do the k1 for in the country they are from. Then come home and do a CR1 visa.

After the Embassy cancled out first interview, and pushed our interview back 9 months for TB treatment, they now have changed rules of no co sponsors for i134 stage. I would be fine but I Stayed home the past year to help care for my niece Brook who has had her 2nd Heart Transplant.
My mother who agreeed to do the cosponsor ship, is a nurse and has custody of my niece and asked me to stay home becasue she can earn more an hour and get medical insurance. I agreed but that puts me well below the amoutn of 125% of poverty wage that the Embassy will ask that you make.
I've done all they asked me to do, I've proven our realationship above and beyond the proff they ask. Now the over 4 thousand dollars spent on lawyers medicen, mailing things, fee's they ask for. Well it is going to be Denyed. As a last stance I have mailed and emailed my Senator, but when I called they claim to have not found my letter yet and for me to call back in a week, I called in a week now they say call in 2 weeks. I've done all I can and now I must wait for the Embassy in Bangkok to deny the visa, so I can fly back over Marry Ning and come back to file for a new CR1 visa and wait a year on that process to happen for her to go do another medical exam, and get another interview, so I can use a cosponsor. Yes you can use a co sponsor on CR1 but not K1. The diffrance i864 form. I would argue that the first lawyer made my mother and I fill out the i864 form and it does not aply to the k1 visa. The embassy I'm sure will say it does not aply to your case and you can not use it.
I think the Whole system sucks I find it un bealiveable that our government would make a department that has no oversight, no way to complain about unfair treatment, and your case can be decided by one person. I'm just angry and sick at the thought of the time lost because a lawyer does not know her job. I even asked her before I left Thailand if it is better to marry her there or come back and do the k1 and she said and I quote I Don't know, do not marry her, I don't know Thai laws or how long she will have to wait before she can come. We will find out what happens on Sept 25th what happens.
I love Ning and I'm not going to not Marry her and come back and do the visa but I think it is stupid they will make me spend the money to do it when it is the same thing minus 1 form.
My advise is don't do K1. Hope I help in some insight.
Rick