I didn’t start watching 90DF until the pandemic and I binged it while I worked from home, so now I’m rewatching everything and noticing and remembering things I hadn’t before. For some reason, I thought it was impossible to bring kids over with you on the K1 since so many parents have left their kids on this show, but rewatching, I’m noticing that a few people did bring a kid over with them. Is it up to the US government whether or not they can bring their kids or what?
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You can bring kid at same time on k2 or within a yr of k1. It seems like her plan is to settle, confirm that she wants to stay and stay married to gino then bring the kid.
Makes sense that she’s unsure about uprooting her kid if she’s not 100% sure or wants to settle in first, get some stability before bringing her kid
It’s a K-2 visa applied for at the same time as the K-1 with the parent. Look it up if you need more info.
Maybe the mom wants to come first to make sure it’s a good environment but I didn’t know you could request K-2 at same time. That makes much more sense …but Gino can get a job anytime
A friend of mine’s mom left her older son in her home country because his dad didn’t consent to him moving to the US. It might be out of their hands to an extent.
I think it’s a production thing as well as a co-parenting thing. If my ex was going on reality TV and leaving the country, I think I’d want to keep the children with me.
I don’t understand leaving your small children to go spend weeks with a stranger in a foreign land. I get there are a lot of lonely people out there. I also get a lot of people want to be on TV. But leaving your children just seems so extreme. I’m mostly thinking of the recently widowed one with small children. Who leaves their children when they’ve just lost their father?
I did not even know there was a K2 visa available… So thank you for asking this question. Nor did I really know the visa process… So again… Thank you… I feel a bit more educated around the subject now… Kudos OP 👏 👏
The only difference is adding paperwork for the kid and the sponsor has to make slightly more money per kid on the affidavit of support (I think it’s actually pretty minimal). The only thing that might throw a kink into things is if the parent doesn’t have sole physical and legal custody of the child. Then they permission from the other parent. For example I needed a signed notarized letter from my ex stating he gave me permission to take him and he was willing to do it so it was simple for me but maybe other people have more complicated custody situations. But as for the forms and money qualifications I had to do the same thing when I brought my kid with me to Sweden when I moved.
People leave their children because it is very hard on a child to leave everything they know to come here and then having to learn English as well. Kids don’t get to just hang out at home (like adults) to get adjusted, they are basically forced into school and that in itself it’s hard to process. Sometimes the parent wants to be better adjusted in order to receive their child once they are able to come.
But it’s not hard to be abandoned by your mother and the kid’s life can be put on pause and then uprooted anyway depending on how it goes.
Have you ever lived that experience yourself? I’m speaking as a child that stayed behind a year in. Drive country before my mom brought me to this country. Taking me with her when she first left wasn’t a good decision. I appreciated staying behind as it gave me a time to process leaving the rest of my family. My mom was more stable by the time I made it here and made the transition a lot easier. Things like figuring out schools, health insurance, housing, community to rely on and other things that we take for granted when we live in a country we are used to navigating, are important before uprooting children.
You can bring any minor dependents with you. They must be background checked and it effects the formula for support
My bff’s brother met a girl in the Philippines on vacation they dated for a few years, last year she & her young daughter both moved here together, they were married several months later, very happy cute little family.
Ohhh this reminds me, did Sasha from Russia (Emily, season 7) ever get to bring his 2 sons over here? I’ve never kept up with those two. Hell, they might not even be together anymore…but idk. This topic about kids just reminded me of them
Heck, just wondered if Larissa (Coltee) ever brought her kids over, too.