Getting married need some help were to start.

[jrod78 0]

Hello my name is Joe and i found this site a few days ago i did some searching and i would like some info please. Im a U.S. citizen born here in the U.S. My fiancee of 6 years is from Mexico. I live in ths U.S and she lives in Mexico just 30min away. She has a B1/B2 visa and we have made all the arangements for our wedding for this Oct 2011. We dont know which visa she would need. Her B1/B2 visa expires this August 2011 and she plans to renew it. She still lives with her parents, her dad is a Dr and so is she so she thinks she should not have any problems renewing her B1/B2 visa. A few weeks after our wedding date she recieves notice if she is accepted for a 3 yr medical internship in Mexico. She is worried that while processing her legal status she will not be able to go back and forth into Mexico and the U.S. Where should we start? Thank you

[belinda63 3,047]

The proper way to have started would have been to file either the K-1 fiance petition or to get married and file the CR-1 spouse petition. For her to travel here on a tourist visa with the intent to marry and remain is immigration fraud since she is coming as a TOURIST which is a temporary visitor.

What I would recommend, since the wedding is already planned, is that she come on the tourist visa then return to Mexico and you file the petition for the CR-1 after the wedding.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

After wedding, file for a spousal visa. Once it is approved (8 months-ish) then she will enter and trigger her permanent resident status. Then she won't have travel problems and could leave the same day. She can continue to use her tourist visa while the spouse visa is processing. Good luck.

[Penguin_ie 5,996]

If she is planning a internship in Mexico, the best thing is for her to keep visiting you on her tourist visa, then about a year before her internship ends and she is ready to live permanently in the USA, you should petition her for a IR-1 spousal visa.

[Boiler 46,025]

Yep

Exactly what are your plans?

[jrod78 0]

Yep

Exactly what are your plans?

Well we are getting married, just the whole visa thing can be confusing and we didnt know were to start. Thanks for the replies we just have to wait and see if she gets her internship and we can go from there. Thanks again

[Harsh_77 718]

Well we are getting married, just the whole visa thing can be confusing and we didnt know were to start. Thanks for the replies we just have to wait and see if she gets her internship and we can go from there. Thanks again

You are getting married is cool, but as Boiler asked what are your plans where you guys planning to get married in US or Mexico?

When you guys planning to marry, immediately or after she completes her internship etc.

All that would change what visa she would need.

As most mentioned, if you just want to get married then apply for K1 she can enter as fiancee and you guys can get married here in US and file for AOS.

If you guys decide you wanna marry in Mexico then you will have to file for CR1 and once that is processed she will be able to enter US. Normal CR1 takes 6-8 months to process.

If her internship is complete by then its good, if not then she can do back and forth, but she will have to maintain her residence in US for major portion of the year.