Have tourist visa and intend to marry in US while visiting

[Kathryn41 3,205]

It is a bad idea - also illegal. You can tell her it is a quick way to get her significant other banned from the US for life.

[Y's_habibitk 2]

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,

Your post violates the Terms of Service and is not tolerated outside the Off Topic forum. Please read the following thread for clarification and do not post in this manner again. Thank you.

Off Topic Attitudes..... Open Letter to the Community

the link does not work, I guess it was removed?

edit: I see it now pinned in OT

Edited July 16, 2009 by Y's_habibitk

[Krikit 1,165]

the link does not work, I guess it was removed?

edit: I see it now pinned in OT

Whoops! Wrong url. I'll try again. Thanks Y's_habibitk.

Off Topic Attitudes.... Open Letter to the Community

Edited July 16, 2009 by Krikit

[Chica Yeyé 41]

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.

Illegal, that's what it is.

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

I tried to tell her she was risking way to much but she was insisting that she wasn't going to play the same waiting game I am. I know Nigeria is a tough embassy even going by the books I can't imagine this short cut would lead to an easier interview and a better chance of getting approved.

[DeaDea 0]

Illegal, not illegal, we like it or not, that's how the Immigration system works:USCIS DOES allow that! Otherwise nobody will even try that path. They try it because it works. While someother people stay in line and wait months/years, others have the nerve to risk and choose another path. And, in most cases, their applications get approved.

I guess it is a personal decision for each one.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Illegal, not illegal, we like it or not, that's how the Immigration system works:USCIS DOES allow that! Otherwise nobody will even try that path. They try it because it works. While someother people stay in line and wait months/years, others have the nerve to risk and choose another path. And, in most cases, their applications get approved.

I guess it is a personal decision for each one.

I have told you before Dea --- it is against the Terms of Service to even suggest illegal "paths". Reported as such. It is not called "risk it", it is called breaking the law. wth.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

It is legal to enter the US as visitor with no intent to marry and then marry and adjust status from within the US from visitor to immigrant. It is illegal to enter the US with the intent to marry and remain in the US to adjust status from visitor to immigrant. The difference in the two positions is significant. What the friend of the OP proposes is illegal - it is knowingly using one visa for another purpose in order to bypass the immigration process to gain an immigration benefit. It is illegal. The fact that people have gotten away doing so does not make it any less illegal.

To support and condone illegal immigrant activities is a violation of TOS. Repetition of such support for illegal immigrant activity in this forum will not be tolerated.

Edited July 16, 2009 by Kathryn41

[DeaDea 0]

Under no circumstances I suggested to the OP , an illegal path. If you guys understood that, than "mia culpa".

Of course, always the best/safest way is to follow the rules and the law.

Good luck.

[Deryck and Miho 0]

To the OP,

Do us all a favor and get in line like everyone else here. It is because of the people that constantly try to short-circuit or outright break the immigration laws of the US, that the 'right way' takes so damn long. Waiting sucks, but cutting the line makes you a sucker. Just my 2 cents...

Regards,

[Chica Yeyé 41]

To the OP,

Do us all a favor and get in line like everyone else here. It is because of the people that constantly try to short-circuit or outright break the immigration laws of the US, that the 'right way' takes so damn long. Waiting sucks, but cutting the line makes you a sucker. Just my 2 cents...

Regards,

Your post is out of line. please read Ewok's letter to the VJ community. If you don't have immigration advise to add, do not respond. Reported.

[Old Dominion 26]

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.

Not only a bad idea, but he quite probably won't be given a visitors' visa.

[meowmeowmeow 1]

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

What gives you the right to assume you can do this? It's so annoying and so unfair to hear of things like this, when others go through the process legally and suffer through it....too bad my husband didn't get a tourist visa and just slide by everything huh? Maybe I wouldn't have to spend $$$$ to go to him nor would we have to deal with this separation...yeah.

I hope that your plans don't go through. Sorry to sound like a jackass. But I hope they give you a lot of #######.

[meowmeowmeow 1]

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

What gives you the right to assume you can do this? It's so annoying and so unfair to hear of things like this, when others go through the process legally and suffer through it....too bad my husband didn't get a tourist visa and just slide by everything huh? Maybe I wouldn't have to spend $$ to go to him nor would we have to deal with this separation...yeah.

I hope that your plans don't go through. Sorry to sound like a jackass. But I hope they give you a lot of #######.

I apologize for the last part of my reply here, but not for the rest. Totally wrong. I know someone who's going through the same thing right now, and coincidentially the guy is from ISR too. Not going very nicely, honestly. They married 3 weeks after he arrived...would've maybe made more sense if they got wasted in Vegas and got hitched at a drive-thru chapel maybe. Nowadays Israelis are not having easy times getting tourist visas either so good luck. But I still think what you're doing is unfair.

[scandal 951]

Nowadays Israelis are not having easy times getting tourist visas either so good luck. But I still think what you're doing is unfair.

Why do you say that? Any evidence to support this position?

In my experience Israelis who demonstrate sufficient ties to home are issued tourist visas fairly routinely.

Please note that this thread was stale (from June), and then revived today. The OP is likely not monitoring it. Anyway, he didn't do anything "unfair". He asked a question, got some responses, and even posted some followup that indicated he got the message that intentionally entering the US with intent to marry and adjust was not fair game. We don't know what path he'll actually pursue, but he didn't state that he intends to violate any law, or that he has done so.