For petitioners with a criminal history, what must be disclosed?
Recent changes in U.S. law require that U.S. citizen fiancé petitioners disclose criminal convictions and criminal attempts involving the following crimes to the USCIS at the time of filing the fiancée petition: domestic violence, elder abuse, dating violence, child abuse and neglect, sexual assault, stalking, false imprisonment, unlawful criminal restraint, abduction, kidnapping, slave trade, involuntary servitude, holding hostage, peonage, trafficking, torture, incest, sexual exploitation, abusive sexual contact, rape, manslaughter, murder, homicide, and crimes relating to a controlled substance or alcohol where the petitioner has been convicted on at least three occasions and where such crimes did not arise from a single act. In turn, the Dept. of State is required to disclose such criminal history to the foreign national fiancée prior to and at the time of the fiancée visa interview.
