Please help answer urgent question!

[David and Marina 0]

My fiancee (Caymanian) and myself (USC) submitted our paperwork on April 4th (they received it on this day). Our I129F case of course was transferred from NSC to CSC now.

Fiancee came for a visa on a waiver on May 28th. Figured we would be able to hang out and wait out the processing times. Well, in this short course, we found out we are pregnant a few weeks on June 20th.

My questions are these:

1) Can we go ahead and have a marriage cermony, without the legal paperwork, so as not to cause problems with our application?

2) Should we just go ahead and hire a lawyer, get married and then file other paperowork, since this would be considered "spur of the moment" marriage?

3) How much longer until this hell ends and we actually get moving on the paperwork in CSC? It is pushing 90 days.

Thank you.

[gwenneh 7]

1. Yes, but be careful with this-many places recognize "religious" ceremonies as marriage under some form of the law. I would not risk it.

2. No, because you've already filed the I-129F-there is going to be no way for you to prove that this is spur-of-the-moment. Remember, in your I-129F application package, you submitted letters of intent! This way will not work for you, sorry.

3. Who knows?

[Waiting in Vancouver 6]

1) You can have some sort of celebration but make sure that its by no means legal .... I gather it must be for personal reasons on why you want to have this ceremony now rather than wait till your K-1 approval ??

2) I think since you are like 3 months in that process already it would be counter productive to get married and have to start the whole process over again ... IMHO this would probably add even more delays to cancel the K-1 and then apply for a K-3 ...

3) Who knows but starting all over with a K-3 would be even longer ... Atleast your in the que right now .... Imagine if you were to refill and start at the bottom again ...

[David and Marina 0]

1) You can have some sort of celebration but make sure that its by no means legal .... I gather it must be for personal reasons on why you want to have this ceremony now rather than wait till your K-1 approval ??

2) I think since you are like 3 months in that process already it would be counter productive to get married and have to start the whole process over again ... IMHO this would probably add even more delays to cancel the K-1 and then apply for a K-3 ...

3) Who knows but starting all over with a K-3 would be even longer ... Atleast your in the que right now .... Imagine if you were to refill and start at the bottom again ...

1. Yes for personal reason, we are struggling with having it now (not legal, but a ceremony), versus waiting until after the baby is born.

2) Yes, I definatley don't wnat to start over, but in 2 months I think she will be showing quite well, we think it is twins (runs in her family).

Question: If we wait, and then go through the whole K1 process, I know we have to get married in 90 days, but would a civil ceremony suffice for that or will there be lots of questions?

-Dave

[UmmSqueakster 54]

Question: If we wait, and then go through the whole K1 process, I know we have to get married in 90 days, but would a civil ceremony suffice for that or will there be lots of questions?

-Dave

As long as you take pictures and have all the proper paperwork filled out, it shouldn't be a problem. We had a small ceremony at the local mosque with no family or friends in attendance, and while the no guests aside from witnesses raised an eyebrow, we were approved fine. If you have plans for a fancy reception later, that's always good to mention at the AOS interview.

[Yodrak 7]

David and Marina,

These are questions you should ask of an immigration attorney, who in turn will ask you a lot of questions to understand the specifics of your situation before offering advice.

Then, if you like what you hear, decide whether or not to hire the attorney to help you with your chosen course of action.

Yodrak

My fiancee (Caymanian) and myself (USC) submitted our paperwork on April 4th (they received it on this day). Our I129F case of course was transferred from NSC to CSC now.

Fiancee came for a visa on a waiver on May 28th. Figured we would be able to hang out and wait out the processing times. Well, in this short course, we found out we are pregnant a few weeks on June 20th.

My questions are these:

1) Can we go ahead and have a marriage cermony, without the legal paperwork, so as not to cause problems with our application?

2) Should we just go ahead and hire a lawyer, get married and then file other paperowork, since this would be considered "spur of the moment" marriage?

3) How much longer until this hell ends and we actually get moving on the paperwork in CSC? It is pushing 90 days.

Thank you.