timing tourist marries a US citizen

[Yodrak 7]

lspowers,

Indeed, the credibility of your wife's family has been destroyed. Your wife was granted permission to visit the USA and she took advantage of the situation to immigrate. Her family now faces the task of overcoming the possibility that they would do the same. Remember, it's their obligation to overcome the presumption in law that they want to immigrate to the USA and your wife has 'raised the bar' by her actions.

Yodrak

You are right, and this is what happened to me. My wife (now) came to the US on a tourist visa and we got married a few weeks after her arrivial. I had met her in her country and we spoke everyday on the telephone for six minths. After that when we decided to get a visa so she could come visit me and see where I live and meet my family (all things I had done in her country). We knew we wanted to get married, but not sure when, especially for her not knowing anything about where I lived. So when she went for visa interview she was honest and said she was coming to visit her boyfriend and meet his family. The consulate required that I call and speak to her, and I told the same thing, that we were someday going to get married but this trip was to meet the family etc. Well, long story short, we got married (8/99) on her trip, we filed for AOS and had no problem, other than a long wait in getting that and later a greencard. Forward to 2/2005 and she is now a citizen, we have two kids and she is a pharmacists having completed lincensure equivilancy testing. WARNING****------BUT here is my warning for all who want to AOS. Forward to this month May 2006, we want her brother and sister to come visit for three weeks this summer. They apply and go for an interview and are flatly denied without even lookiong at their docs. The consular was only interested in my wife's situation. He told them to have her call, which she did and he went off on her. He said she broke the law and had no right to be in the USA. He really intimidated her and then denied her brother and sister because of this. This guy was a real jerk to us. What is interesting is that noone in the long process of AOS, greencard, citizenship etc.. ever spoke to us about breaking the law or not having the right to be in the USA, He was the first and only one. Now we fear her family will never get the chance to vist us here, and we do go back every year or so, but it is not easy with two kids. I spoke to my congressman and they inquired with the embassy only to be told that they were denied under status 214-B, but in thier passports the consular marked 221-G, but on a separate denial form he marked 214-B. We don't know what to do at this point. .......