switching from employer-based to marriage based immigration?

[SoundsLikeBailey 0]

I'm currently on an employment-based green card application process. I have an H-1B visa expires April 2009 and i'm currently employed at a university in california (and i love my job). My boyfriend and I are discussing marriage but now I'm worried about my application. IF I switch over from employment-based green card to a marriage-based one, which one is faster and easier? I've already spent thousands of dollars for the employment-based green card application and it looks like its going fast. I just received my I-512L, Authorization of Parole of an Alien Into the US.

So, should we switch over to marriage-based application then?

thanks!

[payxibka 10,047]

I'm currently on an employment-based green card application process. I have an H-1B visa expires April 2009 and i'm currently employed at a university in california (and i love my job). My boyfriend and I are discussing marriage but now I'm worried about my application. IF I switch over from employment-based green card to a marriage-based one, which one is faster and easier? I've already spent thousands of dollars for the employment-based green card application and it looks like its going fast. I just received my I-512L, Authorization of Parole of an Alien Into the US.

So, should we switch over to marriage-based application then?

thanks!

If your application is in process why switch? Having this in process certainly does not prevent you from getting married....

[YuAndDan 153]

If you have a green-card application being processed, let it continue. Getting married will not halt the current pending application.

[SoundsLikeBailey 0]

If you have a green-card application being processed, let it continue. Getting married will not halt the current pending application.

I guess my worry is that my H-1B visa will expire early next year. and my AOS won't be done yet. so I'd have to go home to Canada (if they can't renew my H-1B) or we get married right away. And we don't want to rush it.

[Erin and Muraari 0]

I thought if you have a pending AOS application, you can continue your work status on the H1-B for your petitioning employer? If this were not the case a majority of Indian people (who file and then wait for 6 years for their priority date) would have never been able to go through the process.

If you have a green-card application being processed, let it continue. Getting married will not halt the current pending application.

I guess my worry is that my H-1B visa will expire early next year. and my AOS won't be done yet. so I'd have to go home to Canada (if they can't renew my H-1B) or we get married right away. And we don't want to rush it.