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[buildingabridge 0]

Hi everyone

 

So I'm a teacher in New Zealand, I have a guy that's also in the states and thought rather than go through the headache of getting him to sponsor me etc. it would be great to get work, bring my kids with me(they under 10) and eventually get married there and settle. I'm reading online and the easiest way to get in is as a teacher on a J1 visa but these visas after a few years require you to go back to the country you from, if we get married in that time can I then apply under another visa to settle there without having to leave...

 

help

 

thanks

[Georgia16 2,858]

What headache with sponsoring you guys?

 

If you get married later on and apply then he will also have to sponsor you.

[Penguin_ie 5,994]

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Unless you are a specialised teacher (say, extremee special needs) you are unlikely to get a visa to the USA.  If you are sure you want to get married, then that is the easiest way to get a visa and move.  It takes some time (K1- the fiance visa where you get married inside the USA takes about 6 months, but you cannot work right away CR-1, the spousal visa where you apply after the wedding, takes about a year but you can work right away and it is cheapter), but it is not that difficult to get from your country.

[Dutchster 1,107]

Whatever visa you intend to enter the US on and marry/adjust on; he has to be your main sponsor until you are a US citizen.

[buildingabridge 0]

18 minutes ago, Georgia16 said:

1 minute ago, Penguin_ie said:

***** Moving from What Visa do I need ******

 

 

Unless you are a specialised teacher (say, extremee special needs) you are unlikely to get a visa to the USA.  If you are sure you want to get married, then that is the easiest way to get a visa and move.  It takes some time (K1- the fiance visa where you get married inside the USA takes about 6 months, but you cannot work right away CR-1, the spousal visa where you apply after the wedding, takes about a year but you can work right away and it is cheapter), but it is not that difficult to get from your country.

What a crock of rubbish...teachers can get work any where in the world...I have already looked into it and there are positions for my subject so getting work not the issue New Zealand teachers are employable most places in the world

 

don't quite get why you say it's a headache ultimately we wanting to be together... I'm well qualified and just want to work as opposed to go there on a spouse visa and not be able to work a few months... your response isn't informative.

[buildingabridge 0]

Just now, buildingabridge said:

Thank you for the people responding...don't think people quite get what I'm asking...may just try an actual immigration lawyer online...I'm asking about moving from a J1 visa to the marriage visa and if I'd need to leave the country to do that if I'm working there and then get married would just be easier...wanting to know issues around J1 visas

 

 

[Dutchster 1,107]

You can't avoid the two year residency requirement on a J-1 visa, even if you are married to a USC. You can get a waiver but you have to qualify for it.

Exceptional hardship to your U.S. citizen or permanent resident spouse or child. If your spouse or any of your children are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and you can show that your departure from the U.S. would cause them exceptional hardship, you may be granted a waiver. However, USCIS will demand a greater showing of hardship than the “mere” emotional pain of separation or economic or language difficulties that your family would suffer. The classic exceptional hardship case is one in which your family member has a medical problem that would be worsened by your departure or by traveling with you to your home country; or where the family member would be persecuted if he or she returned home with you.

Edited April 5, 2017 by Dutchster

[Penguin_ie 5,994]

You may not use the J1 visa with the intent of getitng married and adjusting status.

If you use the spousal visa, you can work immediately.

Do not use bad language and denigrate advice given, that is against the TOS.  There is a difference between being able to find work, and being able to get an employer to sponsor a visa.

 

[buildingabridge 0]

My intention was not to use bad language penguin- you have jumped ship and have just assumed i would not get work..this was not the information I was asking for " you won't get work unless you are specialised" 

[buildingabridge 0]

and from what I read Penguin including from immigration USA when you get the spouse visa there is a wait period you can't just start work immediately till it's approved anywhere from 2-6 months

[buildingabridge 0]

thanks Dutchester that makes sense.

[geowrian 22,337]

1 minute ago, buildingabridge said:

My intention was not to use bad language penguin- you have jumped ship and have just assumed i would not get work..this was not the information I was asking for " you won't get work unless you are specialised" 

The actual quote was "Unless you are a specialised teacher (say, extremee special needs) you are unlikely to get a visa to the USA ".

 

There's a huge difference there. Yes, you can get work. No, you are extremely unlikely to get a visa to perform that work in the US

[geowrian 22,337]

2 minutes ago, buildingabridge said:

and from what I read Penguin including from immigration USA when you get the spouse visa there is a wait period you can't just start work immediately till it's approved anywhere from 2-6 months

Not sure what you read, but that's wrong. That applies to the K-1 (fiance) visa. For a CR-1 (spousal) visa, you can work immediately after entry because you will have LPR status already.

 

And to reiterate the above - entering on any non-immigrant visa with the intent to immigrate is visa fraud. This includes a J-1.

[buildingabridge 0]

thanks Geowrian...I'm quite happy with my New zealand citizenship and just ultimately want to work, get married and have residency status I'm not wanting to become and American citizen just want to live and stay legally so finding out what the easiest way to do this is.

[KierenHby 899]

There's a thing in US immigration that says you ought to use the visa you're entering on for that visa's specific purpose. If you enter on a J1 or whatever, working on that J1 should be your primary objective. Now if you later decide to get married while on a visa, that's a different story. 

 

Whether in NZ or in the US, your guy.. or US employer.. has to petition\sponsor you for permanent residence.