Have tourist visa and intend to marry in US while visiting

[Mike_0123 0]

I am in search for an answer to this situation:

My future wife lives in Israel. After I met her she got a tourist visa.

As I learned from the statistics, completing fiance visa takes about 8 months; and as of now fiance visa is out of the question as a very long process.

Can you please tell me if it is going to be a problem to get marriage certificate in US and apply to change her status from tourist to resident once she comes to USA?

How soon can she get documents as a permanent resident?

She has no intent to go back in the near future.

Thank you in advance!

Michael

[jundp 191]

What you are suggesting is wrong. If your intent when she enters this country on a VISITOR'S visa is to marry and adjust status....that's fraud. You might get away with it, but you might not. And if you don't...that's a lifetime ban.

Better to file for the fiance visa or bring her here and marry her but she returns to her home country and you apply for a spousal visa.

[TayRivers 4]

Tell her to make sure she tells the CBP officer at her point of entry into the US that she is here on a visitors visa but she will be getting married and then filing for adjustment of status and remain in the USA, see what response she gets from the officer....

Oh and don't bother to go to the airport to pick her up, as you will be wasting your gas.

OR

You apply for a K1 visa and get married when she gets her visa.

OR

You go to her home country and get married there and then file for a CR-1 visa and she gets a greencard the day she enters the US on her CR-1 visa.

Edited June 27, 2009 by TayRivers

[Mike_0123 0]

What you are suggesting is wrong. If your intent when she enters this country on a VISITOR'S visa is to marry and adjust status....that's fraud. You might get away with it, but you might not. And if you don't...that's a lifetime ban.

Better to file for the fiance visa or bring her here and marry her but she returns to her home country and you apply for a spousal visa.

Do you think the statistics is right - 7 to 8 month to complete the fiance visa?

The problem is - we will get married in Israel in January and I want to take her to US right after marriage.

[TayRivers 4]

What you are suggesting is wrong. If your intent when she enters this country on a VISITOR'S visa is to marry and adjust status....that's fraud. You might get away with it, but you might not. And if you don't...that's a lifetime ban.

Better to file for the fiance visa or bring her here and marry her but she returns to her home country and you apply for a spousal visa.

Do you think the statistics is right - 7 to 8 month to complete the fiance visa?

The problem is - we will get married in Israel in January and I want to take her to US right after marriage.

There is no way you can get married in Israel and bring her to the US right after the marriage.You are looking at 6 -8 months for a K1 or 8 - 12 months for a CR-1

Edited June 27, 2009 by TayRivers

[Mike_0123 0]

Thanks all for this info.

I appreciate it

[TayRivers 4]

Thanks all for this info.

I appreciate it

Have a read of the guide for people who want to do AOS from a tourist visa, make sure you read the warning at the top...

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...page=i130guide2

[milimelo 4,552]

Red Flag.

The OP seriously needs to read the guides.

[Ana Paula 2]

If you are going to Israel in january, why dont you apply for the fiance visa, as you are going to wait until january anyways, and then bring her here and get married? You can not legally get maarried while on the K1 visa, but it might work out to you better than go there - get married - apply for K3.

If you will wait until then, it might be easier to send the paperwork for the K1 now and when you go there, you already have things lined up to bring her here and get married here...

I hope you can find the best solution for yall!!!

Hug,

Do you think the statistics is right - 7 to 8 month to complete the fiance visa?

The problem is - we will get married in Israel in January and I want to take her to US right after marriage.

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

What you are suggesting is wrong. If your intent when she enters this country on a VISITOR'S visa is to marry and adjust status....that's fraud. You might get away with it, but you might not. And if you don't...that's a lifetime ban.

Better to file for the fiance visa or bring her here and marry her but she returns to her home country and you apply for a spousal visa.

Do you think the statistics is right - 7 to 8 month to complete the fiance visa?

The problem is - we will get married in Israel in January and I want to take her to US right after marriage.

If you marry in Israel then the only basis she will have to apply for adjustment of status (the green card) is in conjunction with an immigrant visa, so the I-485 (Application to Adjust Status) would be filed at the same time as the I-130 (Application for Immigrant Visa). You CAN file these forms while she's in the US on a visitors visa, but you will have to prove that she did NOT enter the US with the intention to stay. This will be virtually impossible if you are already married. USCIS is never going to believe that your WIFE entered the US with no intention to immigrate. That's why nobody attempts this route unless their fiancee arrives on a tourist visa and they get married in the US. Even then, you still have to prove that she didn't enter the US with the intention to immigrate. This has the best chance of working if you didn't even know her when she arrived on the tourist visa, and you met while she was visiting, and subsequently got married. If USCIS doesn't believe your proof then she will be deported, and could face a ban from the United States.

Marrying in the US and applying for AOS is definitely the fastest route, and there is no period of separation. It is also one of the riskiest because if it fails she could be banned from the US for life, with no chance of appeal.

7 to 8 months is a very reasonable amount of time to obtain a K-1 visa, but you should understand that you CANNOT be married, either when you apply or when she enters the US on her visa. The K-1 requires you to marry in the US within 90 days of her arrival. If you want to get married in Israel then get married, and then file for a CR1 visa. It takes a few months longer, but she'll be a conditional resident when she arrives in the US, and will get her green card shortly after.

Your fiancee/wife can also visit the US with her tourist visa while waiting for the K-1 or CR1, provided she can convince the CBP that she will leave before her I-94 expires. Be thankful for that - some of us have fiancee's who haven't got a snowball's chance in hell of ever getting a tourist visa to the US.

[Ed+Cindy 1]

Do you think the statistics is right - 7 to 8 month to complete the fiance visa?

The problem is - we will get married in Israel in January and I want to take her to US right after marriage.

7-8 months is probably average, assuming no additional checks. I've seen shorter terms here, but they are rare.

My fiance entered the US 7 1/2 months after we filed.

[D&R 0]

I am in search for an answer to this situation:

My future wife lives in Israel. After I met her she got a tourist visa.

As I learned from the statistics, completing fiance visa takes about 8 months; and as of now fiance visa is out of the question as a very long process.

Can you please tell me if it is going to be a problem to get marriage certificate in US and apply to change her status from tourist to resident once she comes to USA?

How soon can she get documents as a permanent resident?

She has no intent to go back in the near future.

Thank you in advance!

Michael

I'm interested in what makes you so special that you think you deserve to get through the process quicker than everyone else on here?? What you intend to do is fraud and illegal and I for one, hope that if you try to defraud the system (and in the process take the piss out of every single honest person on here) you get caught and receive a ban

. Sorry... but that's how I feel.

(actually, I take back that 'sorry')

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

I am in search for an answer to this situation:

My future wife lives in Israel. After I met her she got a tourist visa.

As I learned from the statistics, completing fiance visa takes about 8 months; and as of now fiance visa is out of the question as a very long process.

Can you please tell me if it is going to be a problem to get marriage certificate in US and apply to change her status from tourist to resident once she comes to USA?

How soon can she get documents as a permanent resident?

She has no intent to go back in the near future.

Thank you in advance!

Michael

I'm interested in what makes you so special that you think you deserve to get through the process quicker than everyone else on here?? What you intend to do is fraud and illegal and I for one, hope that if you try to defraud the system (and in the process take the piss out of every single honest person on here) you get caught and receive a ban

. Sorry... but that's how I feel.

(actually, I take back that 'sorry')

Meh. Old thread is old. I doubt OP will ever even come back and read your response.

Besides, I'll bet most of us went through the same sort of "sticker shock" when we first begin investigating what it was going to take to bring our fiancee's/wives to the US.

"#######!!! Eight months!!! But, I'm a law abiding US citizen! I pay my taxes! Why the he!! should I have to wait so long to get married? Don't I have RIGHTS?!?!? Surely, this ####### is only for those OTHER people who use marriage illegally to shuttle their families to the US. There MUST be a 'fast track' method for us GOOD and DECENT Americans! I'm in LOVE, dammit!"

Five minutes on Google, and they discover you CAN marry in the US and apply to adjust status, and your new wife doesn't even have to leave the country.

"Now THAT'S what I'm talking about! THAT is the path they provide for us GOOD and DECENT Americans to bring our beloved fiancee's to the US! I'll ask on that immigration forum, and find out what paperwork I need to submit!"

That's when they find out the light at the end of the tunnel is a fast moving train!

Gotta admit, though... OP's post does read like "How to get your wive permanently banned from the US in five easy steps!".

[Krikit 1,165]

I'm interested in what makes you so special that you think you deserve to get through the process quicker than everyone else on here?? What you intend to do is fraud and illegal and I for one, hope that if you try to defraud the system (and in the process take the piss out of every single honest person on here) you get caught and receive a ban

. Sorry... but that's how I feel.

(actually, I take back that 'sorry')

D&R,

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[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

I have a question. I know another woman who is planning on having her Nigerian SO get a visitors visa and then "marry as soon as the plane lands" and try to adjust status. There is a 20 year difference between their ages. What do you think the chances of success are . I told her I thought it was a very bad idea.