F-1 visa adjusting status?

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Hi Everyone,

Thanks for any help in advance. I posted this on the Regional board for South America but I thought I´d give it a try here, too.

My boyfriend and I have been together for 1.5 years and we live in Ecuador. I am an American citizen and he is an Ecuadorian citizen. I have to return to the US in August 2008 to start grad school and we want to see how he can come, too. For a variety of reasons (financial, seeing if he likes the US, etc.) we would like to hold off on marriage.

We found a program that he really likes for studying and they offer visas for international students. It is a 1 year program and we were thinking that he could come to the US on an F-1 visa and then we can marry before that visa expires and that way he can stay in the country and we can file for AOS. However, the other board members have said that this is fraud and that we could be denied and he could be deported.

What is the likelyhood that this will be seen as fraud? We are not engaged though we will be living together. Sorry if this is a silly question but I´m new and everything just seems so hopeless...

[YuAndDan 153]

This came up yesterday.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...=102927&hl=

The answer has not changed.

Consider this, using a visa for a purpose other than what it is intended for is considered to be visa fraud, you are talking marriage, so file for a K-1 visa it is for exactly what you propose. A student visa is for study, not immigrations.