K-1 Question

[Beth and Greg 0]

So Greg and I have been toying with the idea of getting married in Australia and then filing the k-3. It's looking like it will take a long time. Too long. All of these options are. It sucks. He's suggested getting married over Christmas when I get to go see him and just not tell anybody and not tell the government so we can keep using the k-1 and then get married again here in the States. We're just getting frustrated because we are on the fourth time he has sent me copies of things we need for our I-129F and it's the fourth time they have gotten lost in the mail and/or sent back to him. Can we do that? Just get married and not tell anyone? I would feel kinda bad doing it, and that alone should tell me not to, but I just want this nightmare to be over. I just want to be his wife. I want him to be my husband. If I had the money readily available, I would study abroad in Australia again, but I don't have that kind of money and neither does he. I know everyone here is going through something similar.

[pushbrk 12,903]

So Greg and I have been toying with the idea of getting married in Australia and then filing the k-3. It's looking like it will take a long time. Too long. All of these options are. It sucks. He's suggested getting married over Christmas when I get to go see him and just not tell anybody and not tell the government so we can keep using the k-1 and then get married again here in the States. We're just getting frustrated because we are on the fourth time he has sent me copies of things we need for our I-129F and it's the fourth time they have gotten lost in the mail and/or sent back to him. Can we do that? Just get married and not tell anyone? I would feel kinda bad doing it, and that alone should tell me not to, but I just want this nightmare to be over. I just want to be his wife. I want him to be my husband. If I had the money readily available, I would study abroad in Australia again, but I don't have that kind of money and neither does he. I know everyone here is going through something similar.

What you are suggesting is called visa fraud. It carries with it the potential penalty of a lifetime ban from entering the USA. Married is married. If you marry during the K1 process, you withdraw the I-129F petition and start over with an I-130 for a spouse.

[Beth and Greg 0]

Damn. I was afraid of that.