L1 visa use while awaiting K3

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Hi All -

Seems this is the place to go for realistic experiences and expectations for this process, so here goes a newbie post. (I'm going to apologize in advance in case this topic was discussed somewhere)

My wife and I met in India but she worked in the US before before and has used an L1 visa during the past years. The most recent project, allowed for us to be together here in Florida, where we were married and followed the I-130 flow... (though at this point I'm still confused) As luck would have it her project was canceled. So we both returned to India for a spell to do the marriage ceremonies there etc and I returned to work here in the states and filed the K3 upon my return in May.

She has an opportunity to possibly use her L1 and come back for work and obviously be back to her home here, but the more I read about the timelines and issues, we're concerned now that it might cause problems with our official K3/I-130 filing...???

At this point, I have to admit we are starting to get real nervous at the thought of some procedural move that could make things worse...

Thanks for any insight

[sjoy81 0]

Hi All -

Seems this is the place to go for realistic experiences and expectations for this process, so here goes a newbie post. (I'm going to apologize in advance in case this topic was discussed somewhere)

My wife and I met in India but she worked in the US before before and has used an L1 visa during the past years. The most recent project, allowed for us to be together here in Florida, where we were married and followed the I-130 flow... (though at this point I'm still confused) As luck would have it her project was canceled. So we both returned to India for a spell to do the marriage ceremonies there etc and I returned to work here in the states and filed the K3 upon my return in May.

She has an opportunity to possibly use her L1 and come back for work and obviously be back to her home here, but the more I read about the timelines and issues, we're concerned now that it might cause problems with our official K3/I-130 filing...???

At this point, I have to admit we are starting to get real nervous at the thought of some procedural move that could make things worse...

Thanks for any insight

hi,

I travelled on a B1 from work after filing my K3 but did not have any issues. They asked me standard questions at the POE which they do when you travel on a B1. It did not affect/delay my K3 approval. I got my approval in June. Now my take is (and I am not an expert on all this:-)) if you are able to explain and show that it is purely a work trip and that you will be coming back for your K3 processing there should not be an issue.

Besides L1 is a dual intent visa that allows adjustment of status to a permanent resident. You should have just done a Adjust Status right in the beginning when you got married in Feb.