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Hello All,

I would like to know if I can marry on a tourist visa. my fiance is in Chicago and she will be applying for a tourist visa for me since I am an Indian. If we tie a knot in Chicago while I am visiting her on the visit visa sponsored by her family, but I don't over stay but come back is it considered as a visa fraud?

~Walter

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Hello All,

I would like to know if I can marry on a tourist visa. my fiance is in Chicago and she will be applying for a tourist visa for me since I am an Indian. If we tie a knot in Chicago while I am visiting her on the visit visa sponsored by her family, but I don't over stay but come back is it considered as a visa fraud?

~Walter

coming to the states on a visitor visa with the intent to get married is fraud


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coming to the states on a visitor visa with the intent to get married is fraud

No it is not. Coming to the states on a visitor's visa with the intent to get married and STAY HERE is fraud. OP stated he would go back home when his visa was up. Perfectly legal.

OP - as long as you go back home and don't overstay, all will be well. But they might not even let you in if you state that you are coming to get married. Just be prepared.

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coming to the states on a visitor visa with the intent to get married is fraud

No it's not!!!! But marrying and adjusting status is!

If you get married and then go back and wait out the visa process back home you have nothing to worry about!

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coming to the states on a visitor visa with the intent to get married is fraud

no coming to the US on a visitor visa and adjusting status is fraud, that was not the question.

To the OP, if you come on a visitor visa and marry you must return home to wait out the process, that is perfectly fine. If you come with the intent to marry and adjust status is fraud

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coming to the states on a visitor visa with the intent to get married is fraud

Wrong. It's perfectly legal to get married in the US, provided you don't enter with the intention of adjusting status after marriage. You can definitely enter on a turist visa, get married, and leave before your visa expires.

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Moved from K1 Process & Procedures to Tourist Visas forum; OP is not inquiring about the K1 process itself.

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I would like to know if I can marry on a tourist visa. my fiance is in Chicago and she will be applying for a tourist visa for me since I am an Indian. If we tie a knot in Chicago while I am visiting her on the visit visa sponsored by her family, but I don't over stay but come back is it considered as a visa fraud?

You can get married in the US on a tourist visa. You would just need to return to your country before your authorized stay expires. It is not fraud.

coming to the states on a visitor visa with the intent to get married is fraud

Incorrect and grossly inaccurate; coming to the US intending to get married on a tourist visa is perfectly legal and it is done many times over each day. What is fraudulent is coming to the US on a tourist visa with the intent to immigrate (e.g. intending to get married and then stay and file for AOS).

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Hello All,

I would like to know if I can marry on a tourist visa. my fiance is in Chicago and she will be applying for a tourist visa for me since I am an Indian. If we tie a knot in Chicago while I am visiting her on the visit visa sponsored by her family, but I don't over stay but come back is it considered as a visa fraud?

~Walter

I will hit on the other part of your post that people have missed. She does not apply for YOUR tourist visa YOU do and YOU must be accepted based on YOUR own ties to your home country. For some countries that is not possible and others it is fairly easy. I have heard that India is one of the more difficult countries to optain a tourist visa from for some and for others not so. The only way to know is apply and see what happens.

Good luck,

Dave

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I will hit on the other part of your post that people have missed. She does not apply for YOUR tourist visa YOU do and YOU must be accepted based on YOUR own ties to your home country. For some countries that is not possible and others it is fairly easy. I have heard that India is one of the more difficult countries to optain a tourist visa from for some and for others not so. The only way to know is apply and see what happens.

Good luck,

Dave

The OP is from Italy, not India. Italy is on the VWP

Your first problem is getting a tourist visa. Your fiancee or her family cannot apply for you. You have to apply for yourself with your own merits and show that you will not be overstaying.

Italy is on the visa waiver program, they don;t need to apply for a visitor visa


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I will hit on the other part of your post that people have missed. She does not apply for YOUR tourist visa YOU do and YOU must be accepted based on YOUR own ties to your home country. For some countries that is not possible and others it is fairly easy. I have heard that India is one of the more difficult countries to optain a tourist visa from for some and for others not so. The only way to know is apply and see what happens.

This is correct. If she has traveled to the US before and returned, she will probably get another tourist visa. However, it sounds like she hasn't visited the US previously. In this case she would need to prove solid ties to her home country (longtime employment in a solid company, property ownership, business ownership, etc). If she does not have these, she could get denied.

OP is Indian. Don't know why she identifies as Italian on her membership summary.

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This is correct. If she has traveled to the US before and returned, she will probably get another tourist visa. However, it sounds like she hasn't visited the US previously. In this case she would need to prove solid ties to her home country (longtime employment in a solid company, property ownership, business ownership, etc). If she does not have these, she could get denied.

OP is Indian. Don't know why she identifies as Italian on her membership summary.

The OP lives in Rome, Italy according to the OPs presentation....

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The OP lives in Rome, Italy according to the OPs presentation....

That's what's confusing. OP identifies as Indian in post, and Italian in profile. My guess is its an autocorrect thing.

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That's what's confusing. OP identifies as Indian in post, and Italian in profile. My guess is its an autocorrect thing.

To clarify, OP is Indian by nationality but is currently living in Italy.

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