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Crewman Visa and US Marriage

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minioreo Newbie

minioreo   0

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Hello,

My finace is an Australian citizen on a C1/D Crewman Visa. We are planning to get married in the US next March and live here. I have been on all the websites and not sure where we should start in reagards to the paperwork. It doesn't appear he has to file for a K1 visa because he can already get into the US with his Visa. I know we can't adjust his Crewman Visa, but can he file for a different one to allow him to become a permanent resident of the U.S. I want to do this the proper way, however it is unclear where to start.

Has anyone experienced the same situation? Any advice would greatly help!

Thanks!

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Harpa Timsah   13,258

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It is illegal to use a non-immigrant visa to immigrate to the US. The crewman's visa flat-out doesn't allow it, but to try to obtain another non-immigrant visa so he can immigrate is visa fraud. You should either apply for a fiance visa now or he can marry you in March and you can file for a spousal visa then. He can visit while the spousal visa is in process, but he cannot stay past the time he is allowed.

The fiance visa isn't for permission to marry in the US by itself, it's for permission to marry in the US and then apply for permanent residency. If you apply for it now you have a decent chance of having it in time for the March wedding, and then you can stay in the US together and file for his permanent residency. Good luck to you.

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bokbok Newbie

bokbok   1

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Hello,

My finace is an Australian citizen on a C1/D Crewman Visa. We are planning to get married in the US next March and live here. I have been on all the websites and not sure where we should start in reagards to the paperwork. It doesn't appear he has to file for a K1 visa because he can already get into the US with his Visa. I know we can't adjust his Crewman Visa, but can he file for a different one to allow him to become a permanent resident of the U.S. I want to do this the proper way, however it is unclear where to start.

Has anyone experienced the same situation? Any advice would greatly help!

Thanks!

bokbok Newbie

bokbok   1

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Dear Crewman, As far as I have been reading some articles regarding the crewman will never be given a chance to change their status here. Since he is Australian citizen why not do it in their country since their economy & the Australian dollar is much higher than here in US. If you are a US citizen for sure you can but you can have the web O ATTy. Michael Gurfinkel just open that site & probably could answer your question.thanks

Brother Hesekiel Mentor

Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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The Crewman visa is explicitly excluded from AOS. Either go the K-1 route or, better, get married and the apply for a CR-1. Much smoother and cheaper as well.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

 
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