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workaholic   0

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Hello VJrs:

I am being transferred by my company to Dubai and will be working there permenanly. I am also planning to marry in Dubai. However, what is the procedure of applying and having my wifey a US citizen... as per my understanding, I apply for I-130 at the Dubai consulate and she gets approved there.

However, when she gets her green card, does she have to go back n forth to US every 6 months to maintain her status...or is there any other option available to waive the 6 months or entering US within a year to maintain the green card. It will be hard and expensive for us to go back and forth to the US, just to maintain her gc...

Secondly, I assume that she wont be a US citizen, unless she lives continious for 3 yrs in the US..?

Just want to let know that the company i am working is not a US company...

Please help and guide me.... thanks

Anh map Grand Master

Anh map   2,098

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Until you are planning to live in the US you don't need to go through the spouse visa process. Once you are planning to live in the US then petition for a spouse visa.

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Penguin_ie   5,996

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Greencard is to be a legal resident of the USA- why would she need one if not wanting to live in the USA?

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Me: Irish/ Swiss citizen, and now naturalised US citizen. Husband: USC; twin babies born Feb 08 in Ireland and a daughter in Feb 2010 in Arkansas who are all joint Irish/ USC. Did DCF (IR1) in 6 weeks via the Dublin, Ireland embassy and now living in Arkansas.

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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I am confused as well.

A Green Card outside the U.S. is totally worthless. A Green Card is the one document that somebody who permanently lives in the U.S. -- like you live permanently in the UAE -- needs to proof her status. Foreigners who do not permanently live in the U.S. anymore usually surrender their card and apply for a new one once they are ready to live here permanently again.

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.

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workaholic   0

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in short , i just want her to be with me if for any chance i lose my jon in dubai and have to go back to US...!! thats why... secondly, the other option what i feel i for her to have a tourist visa, until our plans are definite of moving back to states....

Can she apply and travel with a tourist visa to the US while her petition is under process (considering the i move back to the US and I apply for IR-1), obviosuly she would not violate her tourist visa and return back within the validity of the visa..>

I hope i am not confusing you....

belinda63 Experienced

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Planning for the future is a good thing. She has no need for a green card and if she is not planning on residing inside the US she will not be able to maintain one. Simply visiting the US for a month or two each year is not sufficient to maintain residency. Why spend the money for a green card she won't need, won't be able to keep?

When or if you return to the US you could file for a spousal visa. Currently they take about one year to process but things could change in the future. I know one year sounds like a lifetime and if anyone on this board could legally avoid the separation we would. She could apply for a tourist visa if needed but with a spouse living in the US it would be unlikely to be granted.

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If you have already planned to move to Dubai permanently and reside there when you get married, you do not have a case to file through Direct Consular Filing since you will not fit the criteria. I have seen cases being delayed and in one case it was even rejected since the wife (US citizen) was settled in Pakistan and had no plan/job/assets in the US and hence nothing to go back to so the Consular Office politely refused the case and said that the purpose of issuing an immigrant visa (in this case Green card or PR) is to help unite the US citizen or Green card holder with their family and since she is living with her spouse, there is no need for a visa. I understand your situation but in cases like yours, it does not make much sense for the CO to issue a visa or even accept a case. You can try filing if you want to waste your money. Like Belinda63 said, even if you are somehow successful at getting your wife a green card while she resides with you in Dubai, she might lose it and you'd have to refile for her once/if you move back to the USA.

Hello VJrs:

I am being transferred by my company to Dubai and will be working there permenanly. I am also planning to marry in Dubai. However, what is the procedure of applying and having my wifey a US citizen... as per my understanding, I apply for I-130 at the Dubai consulate and she gets approved there.

However, when she gets her green card, does she have to go back n forth to US every 6 months to maintain her status...or is there any other option available to waive the 6 months or entering US within a year to maintain the green card. It will be hard and expensive for us to go back and forth to the US, just to maintain her gc...

Secondly, I assume that she wont be a US citizen, unless she lives continious for 3 yrs in the US..?

Just want to let know that the company i am working is not a US company...

Please help and guide me.... thanks

My Timeline

I-130:

Sent: May 19th 2008

NOA2: July 21st 2008

NVC

Received: July 24th 2008

Case completed: August 13th 2008

Interview: October 7th 2008

Green card received: January 20th 2009

I-751

Sent: October 6th 2010

Approval: January 28th 2011

Green Card received: February 3rd 2011

 
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