want to marry after visa issue

[Shah Ali 0]

Hey every one

I want to know is that possible if i can marry in my home country after getting the visa ?

I appreciate for your help!!!

[JohnR! 5,495]

If you marry, your K-1 visa will be void and you'll have to begin the IR1 process which will take approximately another year or so. Bad call, IMHO.

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

Agree with the first poster. K1 means you are not married when you enter the US. Marring before you arrive means you have committed immigration fraud and are not eligible to use a K1 to enter the US and there for you can't adjust status. When the lie comes light all immigration benefits that were derived as a result of the lie are voidable , including in theory citizenship.

[aleful 1,905]

hi

the purpose of the K1 is to enter the country and marry within 90 days, if you wanted to marry in your country, you should have gone in a different direction

[Dave&Roza 748]

^^^^^^^Agree with all three posts above.

Hey every one

I want to know is that possible if i can marry in my home country after getting the visa ?

I appreciate for your help!!!

You have a FIANCE(E) visa. You must be a FIANC(E) when you enter the US using the visa. THEN you get married. If you wanted to get married in your home country, you should have gotten married and then filed for a SPOUSAL visa if the first place. To do so now will result in wasted time and money. Do not do anything that looks like a marriage in your home country as the USCIS may catch wind of it and deny your petition at some point during the remaining parts of this process because they will think you are married and have a K-1 visa.

Dave

Edited September 16, 2014 by Dave&Roza

[Ryan H 3,812]

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I want to know is that possible if i can marry in my home country after getting the visa ?

Doing so will invalidate a K1 visa.

[Shah Ali 0]

Thank you all to guide me ... Now i know what to do..

[Ian H. 207]

Also remember that you have only 90 days after you enter the country with your K1 visa to get married. As long as you don't get married before you enter the US or after the 90 days, you will be fine.

[Ana88 6]

Hey every one

I want to know is that possible if i can marry in my home country after getting the visa ?

I appreciate for your help!!!

as stated by other members, the visa you are applying for is purely to get permission to get married in USA. mean you can not get married anywhere before getting married in the USA.

if you wanted to get married in your home country the only way you could do this is either do that first then apply for a completely different Visa which you make your K1 Void OR get married in USA once Visa is approved, go through all your adjustment of status etc and then once you have completed all those step needed to be able to leave the US on Vacations etc you could take a vacation to your home country then have a ceremony in your but this could be couple of years.

[clairegie 265]

Doing that will undo everything you worked for.

[jxn 86]

Just have a celebratory ceremony in your country that isn't in any way considered a "legal" marriage. If your country has a strong relationship between religion and state, having a religious ceremony may somehow trigger a marriage registration with the government, no?

Use your K1 visa and get married in the U.S. Other than that, celebrate with a ceremony.

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

2 posts removed. one for tos violation and one for quoting. please do not advocate misrepresentation of facts.

[GrayL 47]

Hey every one

I want to know is that possible if i can marry in my home country after getting the visa ?

I appreciate for your help!!!

You could also have a non-legal, non-binding 'celebration' in Pakistan and then legally marry here in the US (Legally marrying can be as simple as you both going to your local courthouse one afternoon).

The issue here is you must be legally engaged and free to marry at POE, you must legally marry within 90 days of POE.

Anything non-legally binding is okay, and I think it's acceptable to have a celebration in your home country considering you'll be moving to the US with your forever love

Either way, good luck to you both, but no-no on the legal marry before you come here

[kehills 217]

You could also have a non-legal, non-binding 'celebration' in Pakistan and then legally marry here in the US (Legally marrying can be as simple as you both going to your local courthouse one afternoon).

I'd recommend against this. There have been issues reported here on VJ of people having a celebration in their home country and finding out later that it was "married enough" for the USA (even if not actually a legal marriage).

Celebrate after the legal marriage.

[jxn 86]

I'd recommend against this. There have been issues reported here on VJ of people having a celebration in their home country and finding out later that it was "married enough" for the USA (even if not actually a legal marriage).

Celebrate after the legal marriage.

I don't have much experience in this so I can't say what would happen. I do remember reading earlier VJ threads where the issue was relatively cultural--a man paid a dowry in a country where customs dictate that the dowry payment is indeed the stage that makes the marriage official, even though this man was rather Western culturally and did this simply to follow tradition. When applying for a fiance visa, the U.S. embassy told him that they were following local standards by considering him married, even though it was never registered anywhere. If anyone remembers this, it's a very interesting read and worth checking out.