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Honey Moon travel before green card?

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lfheferton   0

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Hello everyone!

I am currently living and working in the US under an O-1 visa. It won't expire until March/April of 2015. However, I am getting married in August 2014.

My question to you is, my American fiancee and I want to travel abroad for our honeymoon immediately after the wedding, but I have heard that you can't/shouldn't leave the country once you have started the application for your Green Card.

Is it possible for us to be married, not apply for green card yet, travel for the honeymoon, and then apply for the Green Card once we have returned, since I'll still be on my valid O-1 visa?

Thank you and kind regards!

Hypnos Grand Master

Hypnos   6,577

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O visas are generally believed to have dual intent, so you should be fine to do what you're considering.

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NickD Grand Master

NickD   203

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I really don't know the answer to this question, but our immigration attorney in our situation said we had to apply for what I think was an I-131 travel document first. Then I got a 13 year old stepdaughter in the process we just didn't want to dump someplace and leave her. She was new here and scared. So we elected to spend our honeymoon filling out immigration forms, we knew we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together and wanted to get that out of the way.

We postponed our honeymoon until later and was a stress less honeymoon as well, as we had all this immigration stuff behind us.

Just suggesting you check into this or may end up being a hell of a way start off a marriage. Of course, you are both free to travel domestically, even Hawaii. Recall those days, wife and stepdaughter could not get use to drinking water from the tap, America is such a wonderful place and we traveled quite a bit during those early days.

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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The O-1 is the most desirable visa to the United States anybody can hope for. It puts you in one boat with celebrities like Justin Bieber. One of the O-1's perks is that it is a dual-intent visa. Filing for AoS does not invalidate it. Thus, you can travel freely and return on that visa, even with AoS pending.

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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