AOS Interview Question

[cristian 0]

Me and my wife meet online 3 years ago.I 2005 i came in US with H2-B visa.At the embassey when they ask me if i know anyone in the US or have any friends i said NO because i was afraid i wont get the VISA.We are now married about 1 year and a half and we have a new born baby 2 months old.We live toghether since i came in US and we share bank accounts and have lots of pics and evidence that we are a real couple.Soon we have to go to the AOS interview and i dont know what to tell them how we meet.Because if i say i lied when i got my VISA , they would say i came here with H-2B non-immigrant visa with the intend to emmigrate.Or should i say we meet here in US??? Technicaly we meet for the first time when i came here.Do they consider that knowing someone in the US id only talking online.Do they put alot of questions about how we meet at the interview? Thnak you!!!

[Dr_LHA 3]

This one might be a bit dodgy, yes. However I can recommend lying, that's for sure.

Question: When you moved here did you do so knowing that you were going to marry your wife and file for AOS? If not then you should fine. If you were intending to do those things its clear intent and violation of an H-2B visa. Good luck with that.

BTW - just to head this one off at the pass: H-2B isn't dual intent like H-1B is.

Edited March 4, 2007 by dr_lha

[Kez/JWolf 6]

If when you had your interview for the H-2B you already knew you were going to be moving in with your now wife and getting married and going to file for AOS so you could remain here, then you have committed visa fraud and I have no advice to offer...

If on the other hand you did not plan to Marry and remain in the USA and file for AOS, the fact that you knew your now wife should not stop you from being approved at interview...

What concerns me if the fact that you openly admit that you lied at your H-2B interview by saying you did not know anybody here in the US... a simple statement saying "I have a few friends I know from the internet, but I have never met them" would have covered that question...

The question is ether you are going to continue your journey with a lie or you are going to be honest and truthful and hope for the best.... the consequences of continuing with a lie are great... if at anytime the lie is found out USCIS can revoke your status right up to and including Citizenship... They would say that your H-2B was invalid because you lied and therefore your AOS was based on entry using an invalid visa and you are not eligible for AOS, so it would be revoked and Citizenship would be denied because you would then not be eligible...

Think very carefully about the way you want this to go....

Kez

[cristian 0]

If when you had your interview for the H-2B you already knew you were going to be moving in with your now wife and getting married and going to file for AOS so you could remain here, then you have committed visa fraud and I have no advice to offer...

If on the other hand you did not plan to Marry and remain in the USA and file for AOS, the fact that you knew your now wife should not stop you from being approved at interview...

What concerns me if the fact that you openly admit that you lied at your H-2B interview by saying you did not know anybody here in the US... a simple statement saying "I have a few friends I know from the internet, but I have never met them" would have covered that question...

The question is ether you are going to continue your journey with a lie or you are going to be honest and truthful and hope for the best.... the consequences of continuing with a lie are great... if at anytime the lie is found out USCIS can revoke your status right up to and including Citizenship... They would say that your H-2B was invalid because you lied and therefore your AOS was based on entry using an invalid visa and you are not eligible for AOS, so it would be revoked and Citizenship would be denied because you would then not be eligible...

Think very carefully about the way you want this to go....

Kez

[Nancy2015 2]

What concerns me if the fact that you openly admit that you lied at your H-2B interview by saying you did not know anybody here in the US... a simple statement saying "I have a few friends I know from the internet, but I have never met them" would have covered that question...

I agree 100%. Knowing somebody in the U.S. is not a crime. Nothing would have happened to you, had you told them that at the interview.

All I can say is that if you fulfilled your H2-B visa requirements and if you marriage is genuine, your IO probably won't even care - their primary concern is to be convinced that your marriage is valid, so most of the time they don't even ask about intent. Also, if you were not romantically involved with your now wife at the time of your last entry, I just totally do not see any fraud here at all. Moreover, in my opinion, knowing somebody online without meeting her in person, is not *really* knowing somebody. But this is my opinion, USCIS may think differently.

[Dr_LHA 3]

This one might be a bit dodgy, yes. However I can recommend lying, that's for sure.

I would like to point out this is a typo on my part. I meant to say "I cannot recommend lying".

Oops.

[mawilson 2,133]

Because if i say i lied when i got my VISA , they would say i came here with H-2B non-immigrant visa with the intend to emmigrate. Or should i say we meet here in US???

You lied once and it worked -- I don't understand why you suddenly feel the urge

to tell the truth which you *know* will get you in trouble.

The problem with lies is that they beget more lies. I suggest you stick with your

story. Tell the same story to all your friends, and believe it actually happened.

A lie is not really a lie if you believe it's not. Keep telling the story and eventually

you will get to the point where you remember the lie happening. When asked

about it years later, you will repeat the lie because that's how you remember it.

After so many lies and so many years, you won't even remember the difference.

You will have created your own reality with embellishments.

[Kez/JWolf 6]

Are we now saying to people that its ok to lie as long as you believe it????

Not a good idea....

Kez

[mawilson 2,133]

Are we now saying to people that its ok to lie as long as you believe it????

Who's "we"?

I only expressed my own opinion:

Lie to the USCIS once and you're pretty much stuck with it for the rest of your life,

unless you want to throw the last N years of your life away, and start from scratch

back home.

[Alex+R 0]

Mark is a moral relativist. Don't worry about it. Anyway, OP, if I were you, I'd probably say that I'd met someone online while still in my home country who was American, (most people don't really consider that "knowing" someone anyway) so you met up with them when you got to the US and fell in love. Isn't that pretty much the truth? You didn't know her, you came to the US and met her, and suddenly you changed from online pals to a bonafide relationship? This one is pretty easy to "lie" your way out of--you can just use the truth.

[mawilson 2,133]

Mark is a moral relativist. Don't worry about it.

[cristian 0]

Mark is a moral relativist. Don't worry about it.

MY HUSBAND HAD POSTED THE MESSAGE ON THIS SITE.yES WE HAD TALKED ONLINE AND WERE ONLINE FRIENDS FOR ABOUT 2 YEARS,BUT WE HAD NO INTENT OF MARRIAGE WHEN HE CAME HERE.hE CAME HERE TO WORK AND INFACT i HAD BEEN DATING SOMEONE A MONTH OR TWO BEFORE HE CAME TO AMERICA.sO WHAT INTENT IF ANY DID MY HUSBAND OR i HAVE OF MARRIAGE?NONE.aS FAR AS MY DATING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OTHER GUY THE RELATIONSHIP WAS NOT WORKING SO i STOPPED DATING HIM.wHEN MY HUSBAND DID COME HERE TO WORK ,hE HAD CALLED ME AND i HAD WENT TO SEE HIM AND TO HANGOUT,i HAD GONE BACK AND FORTH AND VISTED HIM A FEW WEEKENDS AND IN THE SHORT TIME WE HAD SPENT TOGETHER,WE HAD REALLY BONDED.i FELT IN MY HEART THAT I COULD SPEND THE REST OF MY LIFE WITH HIM,AND I ASKED HIM TO MARRY ME ABOUT 2 MONTHS AFTER HE ARRIVED IN AMERICA.SOME PEOPLE MAY SAY ITS CRAZY TO MARRY SOMEONE YOU JUST MET,BUT I WENT BY MY FEELINGS,pLUS i KNEW A GIRL WHO MARRIED A GUY AFTER ONE WEEK OF KNOWING EACH OTHER AND THEY ARE 5 YEARS LATER STILL HAPPILY MARRIED AND WITH KIDS.aLSO,AS FAR AS MY HUSBANDS H2B VISA,WE DIDN'T KNOW EACH OTHER IN PERSON, I CAN SEE IF IT WAS A FRIEND HE HAD GROWN UP WITH OR A FAMILY MEMBER,BUT THATS NOT THE CASE.

[Kez/JWolf 6]

Thank you for giving us some more information.... you husband implied that he moved in with you on arrival and that he felt he had to lie at his interview to get the visa again indicating that there was more planned than you say there was....

If as you say you had no intentions of getting married and him filing for AOS when he got his H-2B then you have nothing to worry about...

Good Luck with your AOS interview

Kez