I'm living in England on a voluntary workers VISA, but we are planning our wedding for September 2007 to be held in the US. We will then be staying in the US, living in Chicago. Can we skip the K-1 Fiance VISA and just apply for him to get a green card after we have our wedding? He will be entering the US 3 weeks before our wedding takes place. Is this legal? What are the chances of the US allowing him to enter as a visitor with no VISA?
2007-02-20 23:38:50 · 5 answers · asked by emay02 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
People actually do this all the time.
The only problem is that if the immigration officials at the airport suspect that he is coming here as a visitor, but really to get married, he will be deported immediately. Also, if at the marriage green card interview, if the interviewer suspects that he came as a visitor, but really had intent to be married all along, that can cause problems too. My husband is from the UK as well, and nowadays it is very hard to come to the US from the UK without a visa. It's quite simple to get a B visitor visa, so I would recommend he get one, so at least on paper it's all legitimate.
Also, I would prepare so that it looks like he is really just coming here for a visit and on the spur of the moment, you decided just to get married. I would suggest getting married in Las Vegas or something. And then start planning as if YOU are planning to get married in the UK in September and live there. Start calling places in the UK about wedding venues, etc. about living in the UK, so it looks like he is really just coming for a visit to help plan the wedding preparations, and not really to marry.
If he enters on a valid visitor visa, then get married asap and file the papers for an adjustment of status for a green card marriage before his visa runs out.
2007-02-21 02:15:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i assume whilst you're making plans on residing in the united kingdom you have that each and everyone worked out in regard to her status. yet to easily come to the U. S., get married and return to the united kingdom? No enormous deal. i'm a citizen of the two and fly lower back and forth approximately ten cases a year. the U. S. and uk have a deal worked out. You as a uk citizen do no longer ought to tutor the U. S. any evidence which you will return or something. it works a similar for a US citizen vacationing the united kingdom. on the airplane you will obtain an trouble-free little card that takes 3 minutes to fill out. Its in simple terms call, handle, passport kind, handle of the place you're staying and such. you in simple terms latest that as quickly as you flow via customs and additionally you gets an computerized vacationer visa. No fuss and no muss. i might think of nonetheless whilst asked approximately objective of flow to easily say vacationing or vacationer. in all hazard saying to get married might carry you up. lower back whilst you're vacationing for under ninety days a uk citizen has no concerns or might desire to do something specific.
2016-10-16 04:07:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to contact the embassy and ask them. As he will be married to a U.S. citizen, he is entitled to certian excemptions. But it does get complicated. If he choses to become a U.S. citizen there is a bunch of paper work to fill out, but that is really the best way to go if you are going to stay in the States.
2007-02-20 23:50:07 · answer #3 · answered by redhotboxsoxfan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
~None, I hope. For the most part, they seem angry and jealous of the US. Have you thought about moving there?
Good luck~
2007-02-20 23:44:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
duoak - fraud much?
2007-02-21 08:40:16 · answer #5 · answered by DAR 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋