Couples Information Needed

[Gooni 0]

Hi all,

My name is Paul(31/M/Montreal), i'd greatly appreciate any help and/or advice on my situation.

Last year i met a special woman over the internet. She lives in Michigan. I had an arrangement with work where i can work over the internet for 2 weeks while in Michigan then drive back to Montreal for 2 weeks, then Michigan rinse repeat. Last week while trying to cross into the U.S. via BlueWater Bride border in Sarnia/Port Huron i was denied entry. I had been doing this for 3 months. They told me i need a couple of things to prove i have ties to Canada. So i spent the night in Sarnia Canada at the Holiday Inn and got 3 documents proving my ties. I went back the next day and they denied me entry again. Long story short the documents are just suggestions the CBP agent told me and they have the right to refuse entry to anyone.

Later in the week i called the American consulate in Montreal and they said that CBP do have the right. Ok great, so now i'm in a bind. The CBP agent told me a K1-Visa would be my best bet.

Is there anyway for us two to be together without getting married? I do not want to enter the country illegally, even though it is the easiest way. I want to do this the proper way.

If you need any more information please ask me to post it and i will. Thank you very much.

Edited January 17, 2009 by Gooni

[pushbrk 12,569]

Hi all,

My name is Paul(31/M/Montreal), i'd greatly appreciate any help and/or advice on my situation.

Last year i met a special woman over the internet. She lives in Michigan. I had an arrangement with work where i can work over the internet for 2 weeks while in Michigan then drive back to Montreal for 2 weeks, then Michigan rinse repeat. Last week while trying to cross into the U.S. via BlueWater Bride border in Sarnia/Port Huron i was denied entry. I had been doing this for 3 months. They told me i need a couple of things to prove i have ties to Canada. So i spent the night in Sarnia Canada at the Holiday Inn and got 3 documents proving my ties. I went back the next day and they denied me entry again. Long story short the documents are just suggestions the CBP agent told me and they have the right to refuse entry to anyone.

Later in the week i called the American consulate in Montreal and they said that CBP do have the right. Ok great, so now i'm in a bind. The CBP agent told me a K1-Visa would be my best bet.

Is there anyway for us two to be together without getting married? I do not want to enter the country illegally, even though it is the easiest way. I want to do this the proper way.

If you need any more information please ask me to post it and i will. Thank you very much.

If you can't cross the border without a visa, that leaves her crossing the border. If you eventually wish to marry and live together, you make your decisions and obtain the applicable immigration benefits from the country in which you intend to live.

[Mags 112]

Is there anyway for us two to be together without getting married? I do not want to enter the country illegally, even though it is the easiest way. I want to do this the proper way.

Nope. Unfortunately, USCIS do not have a "boyfriend/girlfriend" visa, so you have the option of getting married, returning to Canada and filing a K-3 or proposing and filing a K-1.

Perhaps you could have a word with your work and get them to sort out additional paperwork for your work in the USA which would enable you to to continue to cross the border for the duration? I would have thought you'd have a work type visa already?

If that can be arranged then I would have thought you could continue to travel back and forth for your work.

[jundp 191]

Well, you can try for an employment based visa, as the VWP is not working so well at this time. If you want to be with this woman, though, it looks like either she moves to Canada or you move to the USA.

This was the (main) reason my husband and I got married - so we could live in the same country together. Had we been living both in the US, probably wouldn't have gotten married for a while.

[Jesse and Hema 2]

Perhaps you could have a word with your work and get them to sort out additional paperwork for your work in the USA which would enable you to to continue to cross the border for the duration?

I'd say this is your best bet. Get "official" documents stating that you have valid work arrangements.

That, and having her visit you, of course.

Good luck to you

[msu17 0]

Either do something through work to get a work based visa, get her to visit you or get married. Every 2 weeks is definitely going to raise eyebrows. Probs should have done it a little less often.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

It doesn't sound like a work visa is an option. It sounds like he works in Canada for a company that doesn't make him come into the office but two weeks out of four. So he spends the other two weeks working "from home" (but actually at his GFs in the US) just by choice, not because the company sends him to the US. They just allow him that flexibility.