Difficultly
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I would like to remain anonymous but I would like to inform others of the difficulty myself and my partner experienced. In early 2008, I met my then girlfriend on a social utility and we connected through it. We started to communicate daily and used an online internet chat daily to talk to one another and to get to know each other better. We both are on the Autistic Spectrum and we fell in love. Towards the end of last year, I met with my then girlfriend on a trip to the USA and we became engaged. We and our parents thought it would be so easy to get married and to live together and we worked on the American Fiancee Visa to see if this could be a way for us to be together. We were both very much in love and looking forward to the prospect of getting married. However, returning home to Australia the K1 Fiancee Visa her parents investigated this visa more and found itdid not work for both of us as my then Fiancee would have to sponsor me but having a low income, this was impossible. There was just no way of it happening and furthermore no one else could sponsor us. Also for me finding employment in the USA would be extremely difficult with my own disability. From then on up until a few weeks ago the whole process has been constant agony as far as visas and immigration have been concerned and we have now all given up. None of the Visas work for us for we both have a disability and can only work part time. We are also on part disability pensions also. It would be extremely difficult for me to live in the USA as my disability makes it hard for me to find employment and furthermore my then Fiancee could not have her help jeopardized. We have now both given up and maintain a friendship where we talk to each other on Voice Chat but know we will never be able to live together or get married. We want to do everything legally but there just doesn't seem to be a way. Sadly our relationship/engagement has ended and we both realise that our disabilities make the whole process and reality impossible. Our experience was just so sad and hopefully we can give warning of our bad experiences to others so that they too do not have to endure the same pain and humiliation that what we both went through. We thought the whole process was going to be easy of getting married but sadly fate has sealed it with no hope now in site. At least we have a friendship now and may or may not visit each other again.
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