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LizaG   0

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I'm freaking out right now. This is my situation:

Currently I'm in the US on a student visa and just about to leave as I just graduated from college.

My fiancé is American and our wedding is set to a date in May next year. I talked to the american embassy in my country and they said that the waiting time is approximately 1 year!

So basically I won't be able to enter the country in time for my own wedding?!

Usually it takes about 7-8 months apparently, according to their website.

Can someone shine some light on the situation and if there's anything I can do at all.

Thank you.

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Harpa Timsah
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Your fiance can file right now, but you still won't make it for your wedding. Unfortunately you have made impossible plans, based on misinformation, so something needs to give. You can get married i

Alaska2012
Alaska2012

How angry will you be if you don't change the date and you miss your own wedding...??

Anna Grant
Anna Grant

I probably wouldn't recommend this. Currently, if they marry now they are not breaking any immigration law. She entered the US on a student visa with no intent to marry. If she leaves and then re

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Freelibrary   9

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Oh dear, it is really hard to guess how long would it take to get a visa! That's why it is not suggested to plot a wedding on a specific day/ time! For me it is ok to plan but make sure you have room for adjustments in case... ;)

Try to read more and see other members timeline... you will get an idea somehow...

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littlej   23

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if you entered the country as a student, and not with the intent to marry, can you get married and apply for AOS instead of leaving?

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LizaG Apprentice

LizaG   0

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if you entered the country as a student, and not with the intent to marry, can you get married and apply for AOS instead of leaving?

I thought of that too and no, arrangements have been made for a wedding date already.

I never expected it to take so long.

Can my fiancé file the I-129F while I'm still in the country on my student visa?

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Harpa Timsah   13,258

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I thought of that too and no, arrangements have been made for a wedding date already.

I never expected it to take so long.

Can my fiancé file the I-129F while I'm still in the country on my student visa?

Your fiance can file right now, but you still won't make it for your wedding.

Unfortunately you have made impossible plans, based on misinformation, so something needs to give. You can get married in a court house now and start the AOS paperwork, knowing you can't travel for a few months. Then have your big party next May.

Or you can leave, come for your wedding on the VWP, then leave again and file for a spousal visa. That also takes about a year, so you could move here in 2015.

Or, you can change your wedding date.

AOS for my husband
8/17/10: INTERVIEW DAY (day 123) APPROVED!!

ROC:
5/23/12: Sent out package
2/06/13: APPROVED!

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baron555   934

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I'm freaking out right now. This is my situation:

Currently I'm in the US on a student visa and just about to leave as I just graduated from college.

My fiancé is American and our wedding is set to a date in May next year. I talked to the american embassy in my country and they said that the waiting time is approximately 1 year!

So basically I won't be able to enter the country in time for my own wedding?!

Usually it takes about 7-8 months apparently, according to their website.

Can someone shine some light on the situation and if there's anything I can do at all.

Thank you.

Never make any wedding plans until you have your visa in hand. Change the date if you need to. Figure about 10 months for the process.

Phil (Lockport, near Chicago) and Alla (Lobnya, near Moscow)

As of Dec 7, 2009, now Zero miles apart (literally)!

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Alaska2012   462

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Hopefully you can reschedule your wedding plans. Even if you make it you will worry about it every day until that visa is in your hand and believe me, this wait is stressful enough! You don't need a timeline to worry about too.

Why don't you just do a small wedding now, courthouse style, adjust status and then still do the planned wedding in may? The wedding would only be symbolical then but you could still keep your plans.

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LizaG Apprentice

LizaG   0

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Can't make an AOS because my student visa has expired and I'm on my last few 30-days-to-leave time. So right now I have nothing.

If I change the wedding date and it ends up taking a few months to get the fiancé visa, I'll be a little angry..

Keep the dream alive...

LizaG Apprentice

LizaG   0

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Sure you can do an AOS.

But you won't be able to leave before having a GC in your hands.

Are you sure? From what I have heard, you can't adjust a status that is expired (my student visa), but if I would have done it before it expired it would have been ok. Maybe that is incorrect.

Keep the dream alive...

Harpa Timsah Grand Master

Harpa Timsah   13,258

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Are you sure? From what I have heard, you can't adjust a status that is expired (my student visa),

That is incorrect. You can still AOS based on marriage to a USC.

AOS for my husband
8/17/10: INTERVIEW DAY (day 123) APPROVED!!

ROC:
5/23/12: Sent out package
2/06/13: APPROVED!

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Alaska2012   462

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Are you sure? From what I have heard, you can't adjust a status that is expired (my student visa), but if I would have done it before it expired it would have been ok. Maybe that is incorrect.

You gotta get married to adjust.

And like I wrote earlier, do a small courthouse wedding now if u want and then in May do it as you planned but since u will already be married it will all be symbolic or a renewal of ur vows...

Noa 1 August 15th 2011
Noa 2 March 2nd

NVC case numbers March 22nd
My sons AOS and IV bill paid March 23rd (status in progress)
My sons AOS and IV bill shows as paid March 26
My IV bill paid March 26
Both packages sent on March 26
My IV bill shows as paid on March 27th
CC on both cases March 30

Current record holder of fastest through the NVC :D

Medical exam in Stockholm April 13th
Interview on May 16th !!!
POE Anchorage July 12th!! 2012

July 2015 n-400 in the mail

September 2015, interview

October 23rd 2015, Oath ceremony!!!!!​​

Alaska2012 Proficient

Alaska2012   462

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If I change the wedding date and it ends up taking a few months to get the fiancé visa, I'll be a little angry..

How angry will you be if you don't change the date and you miss your own wedding...??

Noa 1 August 15th 2011
Noa 2 March 2nd

NVC case numbers March 22nd
My sons AOS and IV bill paid March 23rd (status in progress)
My sons AOS and IV bill shows as paid March 26
My IV bill paid March 26
Both packages sent on March 26
My IV bill shows as paid on March 27th
CC on both cases March 30

Current record holder of fastest through the NVC :D

Medical exam in Stockholm April 13th
Interview on May 16th !!!
POE Anchorage July 12th!! 2012

July 2015 n-400 in the mail

September 2015, interview

October 23rd 2015, Oath ceremony!!!!!​​

LizaG Apprentice

LizaG   0

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Of course I'd be mad. I'm mad that I have to stress about my wedding in the first place! And leave it up to some immigration people.

It's just hard for me to grasp that applying in July is too late when the wedding is in May.. It's over 10 months. That's not so different from a year.

Keep the dream alive...

 
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