Christmas is California!

[mrs.jayb 0]

Hello all!

Sorry its been awhile but we had many thing occupying our minds! The wedding was a beautiful success and thank you all for the wonderful wishes! Here comes another milestone in our life and we're excited!!

Anyways back to business! We have decided that we are going to spend Christmas with my family in California. For those of you who don't know My husband and I live together in Cote d'Ivoire, his home country, after being together for 2 years in Senegal. We moved here and had our wedding here! We absolutely love our life here! We both have wonderful jobs that we don't want to loose, etc. So we are going to try and shoot for the tourist visa for my husband. We went to the embassy and they were very helpful here in Abidjan (unlike Dakar). They told us exactly what we needed and how long it took, etc. So now we are gathering the paperwork for the tourist visa.

I have a question....

Because we are married, and we share everything (bank accounts, home, bills, life...etc) can my husband use my reasons for return also as his. Because I think we have a point in saying, "why would I have moved all the way over to West Africa (and leave everything: my family, sold my stuff, etc) for him to move to America without me? Due to my work, I am OBLIGATED!!! to return to the Ivory Coast. So could he use the reason that I would be returning because of my work (since it is my only source of income and I could never get a job like this and get paid this well in the US) .

We both have health insurance, house bills, car and insurance, bank accounts, etc. I also have a bank account in the US, would help us or hinder us if we used that too as source of income while we are on vacation? ( to pay for transportation, etc).

I say "we" because we are married and everything that is mine is his too. That is the law here in the Ivory Coast (which is pretty normal). Although I am very aware that it is HE who is applying.

Thanks for your help!!