Marrying on a visit visa

[samy + janet aly 8]

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

Why go thru all of that.

just have her file 129F (K1 VISA)for you to come and marry her.

like everyone says, you apply for the tourist visa based on your own merits and ties to your place of residence now which is in Italy. You have to show reason for returning to where you came from and not stay here to get a tourist visa.

even though you will marry her, you will have to go back to where you came from and then she can file the proper paperwork for you to come here again. then her family can sponsor you on the I130 paperwork.

Good luck! keep it real!

[joseportorreal 0]

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

Is Very Difficult To Prove your Intention. So get Married do Extensions on your tourist visa and stay as long possible legally.

[Love's JAA 100]

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

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

They said in the post content Indian, not Italian.

[Gosia & Tito 199]

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

That is incorrect. What would be considered fraud is to come in with intent of getting marry and stay

[Hazel Ickes 0]

Hello ,

It's an illegal to get married in a visitor visa. There are some specific information you can find in the web.

If you have a intention to marry in a visitor visa, kindly drop it. Instead you can a file, Form I-129F.

If you plan to marry a foreign national outside the United States or your fiancé(e) is already residing legally in the United States, you do not need to file for a fiancé(e) visa

[Ryan H 3,810]

It's an illegal to get married in a visitor visa. There are some specific information you can find in the web.

No it is not illegal to get married using a visitor visa. As I and others have previously stated, as long as the holder of the visitor visa departs the US before their authorized stay expires, it is prefectly LEGAL to get married.

What is illegal is come with intent to marry, and then stay and adjust status - that is fraud.

If you can provide the exact wording in the Immigration and Nationalality act, any other text from the United States Code, or applicable law of ALL 50 states that prohibit the act of getting married on tourist visa, I'll eat my words.

Edited April 9, 2013 by Ryan H