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The answer is a little more complicated than a yes or no. Please use the search function do some research.

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Mike-eeh and Odie   193

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Hi I hope this is the right place to post this question which am sure has been answered 100 times but nevertheless - Can you get married on a tourist visa?

Marrying on a tourist visa with the intent to stay in the USA and adjust your status, constitutes as visa fraud. That said, yes, you can marry in the USA on a tourist visa. After which, you must return home and have your US spouse file a CR-1.

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NikLR   13,232

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No they dont. You cannot intent to enter the USA marry and stay on a tourist visa. However once you've arrived you are allowed to change your mind due to circumstances changing. Also you are always allowed to get married here, it's the staying that may be the issue.

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greengoose   5

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Yes you can get married on a tourist visa.

Thank you Belinda63

The answer is a little more complicated than a yes or no. Please use the search function do some research.

What is so complicated? It's a simple yes you can get or no you can't

Marrying on a tourist visa with the intent to stay in the USA and adjust your status, constitutes as visa fraud. That said, yes, you can marry in the USA on a tourist visa. After which, you must return home and have your US spouse file a CR-1.

Thank you

No they dont. You cannot intent to enter the USA marry and stay on a tourist visa. However once you've arrived you are allowed to change your mind due to circumstances changing. Also you are always allowed to get married here, it's the staying that may be the issue.

Not planning on staying I just want to know of getting married on a tourist visa is allowed

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NikLR   13,232

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Thank you Belinda63

What is so complicated? It's a simple yes you can get or no you can't

Thank you

Not planning on staying I just want to know of getting married on a tourist visa is allowed

Yup sure is. Have a nice wedding!

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aaron2020 Grand Master

aaron2020   11,651

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Jeez a simple yes or no would have been kind enough!!!

It's not simple. In another thread, you asked what's an I-864. You think it's simple, but it's not.

If you think it's simple, then tell the CBP that you plan to enter the US on your visitor visa to marry a USC. You will find yourself simply put on a plane back home without being allowed in the US.

Have patience because immigration is not intuitive. There is much you need to learn.

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greengoose   5

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It's not simple. In another thread, you asked what's an I-864. You think it's simple, but it's not.

If you think it's simple, then tell the CBP that you plan to enter the US on your visitor visa to marry a USC. You will find yourself simply put on a plane back home without being allowed in the US.

Have patience because immigration is not intuitive. There is much you need to learn.

Firstly why do you care what I asked in another thread??? Secondly it a simple yes or no answer I was looking for, I don't recall asking any other advise on THIS thread. Why is so hard for people to just say yes or no without giving their 5 cents worth when it wasn't asked for???? You already making a judgement before you even know anything. Dont assume anything until you know the facts okay

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HFM181818   750

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To the OP: if you are about to apply for a B2 visa, be sure and tell the CO what your true plans are....then let us know how it worked out. If instead, you 'forgot' to mention this to the CO and then 'forget' to mention your plans to CBP, well, what might that say about you?

B2s are not supposed to be the visa to be used to circumvent other visa categories or as a portable green card with which to work...

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greengoose   5

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To the OP: if you are about to apply for a B2 visa, be sure and tell the CO what your true plans are....then let us know how it worked out. If instead, you 'forgot' to mention this to the CO and then 'forget' to mention your plans to CBP, well, what might that say about you?

B2s are not supposed to be the visa to be used to circumvent other visa categories or as a portable green card with which to work...

Helloooooooo what part of Can you get married on a tourist visa did you not understand?????????? Did I ask you for your opinion on me??????? No.I asked a simple yes or no. Omg!!!

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