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[canadian_wife 1,827]

I am certainly not an expert but I'd take pushbrk's advice over any lawyer. Plus, your lawyer will not be in the interview while you defend your immigration intentions. If you lie to them and you get caught a lawyer will not be able to help you with your ban from the U.S. You entered the U.S. and tried to get a work sponsor and failed, so you decided to get married to remain in the US.

Just be careful.

[Beefy 0]

It's not actually illegal to marry within your VWP is it? I'm told one can't marry in the first 60 days. Is this just one big grey area? I appreciate immigration will try and nail you for anything and I don't intend to lie. The impression I get though from the responses is just by the nature of doing what I'm doing, I'm lying.

[pushbrk 13,067]

It's not actually illegal to marry within your VWP is it? I'm told one can't marry in the first 60 days. Is this just one big grey area? I appreciate immigration will try and nail you for anything and I don't intend to lie. The impression I get though from the responses is just by the nature of doing what I'm doing, I'm lying.

Of course it isn't illegal to marry on the VWP and you can marry the day you arrive. What is not legal is to enter the US on the VWP, with the intention of "immigrating" (staying). Yes, if you enter on the VWP with the intention of remaining in the USA permanently, you lied. If you later try to adjust status, saying your intention to immigrate originated after your entry, you lied again.

The 60 day thing is an old wives tale. Essentially, the tale is that if you wait 60 days to marry, USCIS will just assume you didn't enter with the intention to immigrate based on marriage. No such "rule" or common practice actually exists.