Help me, help her....help me, help her..

[garfield529 47]

Hey Guys,

My fiancee is from China...so this post is for a follow coworker who needs help, she is from Vietnam. She is here on a student visa and has been dating her boyfriend (recently turned fiance) who is a chinese-born naturalized USC. I want to give her advice, but I prefer to defer to my knowledgeable VJ friends. At first she was planning to get married in Vietnam when she goes back to renew her student visa, but I think she could lose status doing this as it could signal intent to immigrate. My thinking is that she needs to get married here and start AOS stateside before she considers returning home for any type of ceremony for her parents. What are your thoughts? Options? Thanks!

[leith@Ievgeniia 8]

i am not sure but i think if she falls in love to usc and marries on student visa. she may not have to go throught the same process as we do here. she may can just get married and file change of status

like if somebody travels on long b2 visa and falls in love and marries. her intetion was not to marry to to travel and see.

others please chime in!! i can be wrong

[daboyz 36]

She can adjust status. She will need to prove there was no immigrant intent when she files. Its a good case for an interview though.

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

Let's see...

On the one hand, she can marry her USC fiance in the US, file for AOS, get her green card, and then go to Vietnam with him for the formal wedding ceremony. If she met her fiance in the US, and didn't know him before coming here, then her chances of a successful AOS are very good.

On the other hand, they can both go to Vietnam. They can stay for several weeks (months???) jumping through the ridiculous hoops that the Vietnamese government makes you jump through in order to get a license to marry a foreigner. After a lot of running around, and a bit of "coffee money" paid to the VN government officials, they'll have their license, and can then have their formal wedding ceremony. Likely, her student visa renewal will be shot down because she's now married to a USC, so they'll have to file for a CR1. Unless her new husband stays with her in Vietnam, they'll be separated for many months while she waits for the interview. After months of preparation, she'll drag a few boxes full of evidence to the interview, where her chances of success are probably around 50%. If she's lucky, she'll get out of the interview without being thoroughly humiliated by the VN consulate staff, and grilled like a sirloin steak by the CO.

Now, which would I choose?

Seriously, this is the dream scenario for most VN who want to marry a USC and live in the US. She'd be crazy not to take advantage of it.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Please confine your comments to useful information that answers the OP's question rather than issuing judgmental comments against any nation or culture. Racist comments are a violation of TOS for VJ and targeting a whole culture with derogatory comments is racist.

Information from a removed post returned to the thread below as it is important for the history:

Garfield529: BTW, they plan to look for work in Singapore, not the US, in the future. She simply does not want to lose her ability to return to the US to complete her PhD thesis work by losing status from marriage

Edited January 5, 2010 by Kathryn41

[Ban Hammer 13,110]

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