Please help!

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Met my wife while working on a cruise ship and we married in St. Thomas. She's Peruvian. We lived in Peru for a year and I returned to US for a better job. I need my wife to be here as soon as possible. Can she come on a tourist visa and adjust status? Is there anything she needs to take care of (medical, police history, etc.) before coming? And what should she tell the officials during her interview at the US embassy in Lima? Thanks for your help, this is a vastly confusing issue for me, and although I read many forum posts I didn't find any that answered my questions.

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Entering the US on a tourist visa with immigrant intent is visa fraud. Lying to a consular officer in Lima isn't advised.

Here is the VJ Guide for a spouse visa petition >>> http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...page=i130guide1

You will have to be patient and let the process unfold. We all are/were impatient to have our loved ones with us.

Follow the guides and consult with other VJ members in the Latin America regional forum with experience in Peru.

Best of luck. Welcome to VJ.

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Entering the US on a tourist visa with immigrant intent is visa fraud. Lying to a consular officer in Lima isn't advised.

Here is the VJ Guide for a spouse visa petition >>> http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...page=i130guide1

You will have to be patient and let the process unfold. We all are/were impatient to have our loved ones with us.

Follow the guides and consult with other VJ members in the Latin America regional forum with experience in Peru.

Best of luck. Welcome to VJ.

Thank you very much for the advice. What a confusing process. I mean, how many British Columbian forests have to be destroyed in order to produce all the paper required for just my case? I think I'm going to hire a lawyer.

I feel that I have a right to be with my wife. Besides, she doesn't even know if she wants to live here or not. She basically just wants to come here to meet her in-laws. Then we might both go back together to Peru. Anyway, thanks for the help. It's a great suggestion to consult with other people who've had experience in South America. I actually didn't consider that one, so I'll give it a shot.

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There is a lot of paperwork, you are correct! They haven't heard of a paperless office yet

You have a right to be with your wife, but you don't have the right to be with her IN THE USA. Since you mention possibly going back to Peru anyways, consider DCF; this is where the US spouse lives abroad with his foreign spouse legally for at least 6 months before filing for a visa. Then you can apply directly via the embassy, which tends to be much quicker (see my timeline) than applying while being in the USA (which takes 6-8 months for an easy case), and has the advantage you can move back to the USA together.

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There is a lot of paperwork, you are correct! They haven't heard of a paperless office yet

You have a right to be with your wife, but you don't have the right to be with her IN THE USA. Since you mention possibly going back to Peru anyways, consider DCF; this is where the US spouse lives abroad with his foreign spouse legally for at least 6 months before filing for a visa. Then you can apply directly via the embassy, which tends to be much quicker (see my timeline) than applying while being in the USA (which takes 6-8 months for an easy case), and has the advantage you can move back to the USA together.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to give me some badly-needed tips, although I disagree with you (respectfully, of course) about having the right to be with my wife in the USA. Sure, I might not have a legal right--I just don't know about that. But I am speaking from the heart and my heart feels that I have this right. Unfortunately, my heart doesn't have much clout in the political machinery of the USA.

I actually have some experience with DCF, as I visited the embassy in Lima once about three months into my stay there and asked about petitioning for my wife. A Peruvian worker rather smugly told me that I'd have to be in the country for six months before I could do that, which profoundly confused me. I was ignorant of it at the time, but I realize now that I was asking about a DCF petition.

Again, thank you very much for taking the trouble to help me out.

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As soon as I got married in Peru, my hubby went to the Embassy thinking that they will just give me the Visa but Oh surprise!, they gave us a bunch of forms to start the CR1 process, it took me 6 months, but is all worth it.

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As soon as I got married in Peru, my hubby went to the Embassy thinking that they will just give me the Visa but Oh surprise!, they gave us a bunch of forms to start the CR1 process, it took me 6 months, but is all worth it.

Yes, it's going to take time unfortunately, and I just have to get used to that. But here's the thing...everyone is so against an Adjustment of Status, but what confuses me is that I got the idea from the USCIS! They were the ones who said, "Sure, just bring her over on a tourist visa and change her status!" Until that time I'd never heard of an AOS. It's strange.