Getting married on April 11th in Indonesia, will we have time for her to return with me?

[victorious 0]

Hi does the religious wedding your going to have, don't include any paper signing and passing it to the Indonesian government? You said its for the sake of your fiancees family and religious belief, right? If that's the case when you two proceed to the religious wedding make sure that there is no signing papers and passing it. ^^ Then during your fiancees interview just don't let her state that you had the religious wedding but without no papers coz for sure it will complicate. And that religious wedding doesn't make it legal anyway as long as there is no such thing as paper works. It happens to my friends in the Philippines that kind of ceremony but we called it a Blessing.

[Indy&Benji 0]

If your fiancee insists that she still wants to have a grand wedding ceremony in cathedral in Jakarta, then you have to abandon your K1 application and then you have to endure some months of separation while filing for CR1 visa.

But if you still want to pursue the K1 visa which is already approved and just a half way to go before the interview, explain to your fiancee to not expect to get married in Indonesia instead in the US.

Listen to the other members's advices, your fiancee can not enter the US with K1 visa if you get married in Indonesia.

Good Luck!

[mrs. wife! 3]

You have got very good advices here. Especially from 'heat death'.

Don't screw things up now! You are sooo close!!

Why don't you push the religious wedding for a few months, go to the US, get married and when she receives GC/AP you guys can fly back to Indonesia and have the religious wedding?

I have a brazilian friend who got married in the US (J1 visa) and applied for AOS. Unfortunately her GC (neither AP) didn't arrive by the time of her religious wedding in Brazil. She had paid everything for the party already and couldn't cancel it.

So they decided to abandon the AOS, fly to Brazil, have the ceremony and apply for CR1. I know it's hard, but some times you gotta make though decisions.

I don't know if she already has the visa (not sure if by "approved" you mean the interview or the 129F petition - please fill in your timeline), so if she has the visa in hand, book her a flight to America ASAP, get married, apply for AOS, make a infopass and ask for an emergency 'advance parole', and in April 11th she will be able to go to her country with you and have the ceremony.

Good luck!

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I know in Morocco, you can have a religious wedding, which is not reported to the governemnt. It is not seen as legal until you do report it.

It's also not a religious wedding. Islam doesn't condone fake marriages for the purpose of cohabitation. It requires legality and the ability to enforce one's obligations.