Visit and marry tourist visa

[no name 1]

I was married 7 weeks after my arrival on a VWP and I had 124 people at my wedding.... I was never asked about that at my interview and no comments were made about our wedding album showing us and all our family on our special day.... I was not asked to prove anything about my intent on entry at our interview...

Kez

WOW. Was it luck, I wonder?

[Dr_LHA 3]

WOW. Was it luck, I wonder?

No, I think people underestimate how much USCIS officers let things slide in adjudicating AOS, especially if you're a white European marrying a white American.

[Singers 0]

WOW. That was really lucky! Sometimes I wonder how this crazy process really works... I would love to get inside the head of an adjudicator..

[Kez/JWolf 6]

I was married 7 weeks after my arrival on a VWP and I had 124 people at my wedding.... I was never asked about that at my interview and no comments were made about our wedding album showing us and all our family on our special day.... I was not asked to prove anything about my intent on entry at our interview...

Kez

WOW. Was it luck, I wonder?

What makes you think it was luck????

Kez

[andi598d 0]

Having come here on VWP and ended up marrying and applying for a green card, I can but recommend against this course of action in the strongest possible terms. Don't. Just /don't./ It's not worth sweating bullets over whether your proof of intend is sufficiently airtight, what the CIS folks are going to think, worrying about what to do in the case of a denial, or even better, being taken from the interview to the airport... It might seem easier to do it that way, but the truth is, it isn't.

[Dr_LHA 3]

Did you actually have any issues at the interview proving the lack of "intent" then, or did you just stress about it before hand?

[andi598d 0]

Considering where in the file my proofs of ties to Germany were (right on top and heavily worked on), I would say that I provided sufficient evidence that it didn't come up. I don't want to even think about what that interview would've been like if I /hadn't/ had evidence of having dropped out of college and walked out of a well-paid job /after/ the marriage took place and we went about deciding whether to move back to Germany or stay in the US.

[Dr_LHA 3]

So in other words, they never asked you about it at the interview?

It would seem that your comment that it's "not worth doing it" in relation to filing AOS from VWP is more to do with the unnecessary stress and worry you caused yourself, rather than anything USCIS inflicted on you.

[andi598d 0]

*shrugs* Believe what you will.

[Kez/JWolf 6]

I did it and I would say to anyone thinking of doing it that as long as you did not have intent on entry and you talk over your situation with a good immigration lawyer and they dont see any red flags then why go down the road of being apart and having to file for a K3/CR1....

The only evidence I had included with my AOS packet was my return flight ticket... and I was not asked about my entry at interview...

Kez

[Dr_LHA 3]

*shrugs* Believe what you will.

What happened then? Did you include the evidence of your non "intent" with your AOS package? That's pretty unusual. I assumed from your earlier post you just meant that you collected it all and took it to your interview with you, and they didn't ask for it.

Edited May 9, 2007 by Dr_LHA

[Yodrak 7]

Kez,

A point that most VJers tend to ignore.

Yodrak

.... as long as .... you talk over your situation with a good immigration lawyer and they dont see any red flags .....

Kez

Edited May 9, 2007 by Yodrak

[no name 1]

I was married 7 weeks after my arrival on a VWP and I had 124 people at my wedding.... I was never asked about that at my interview and no comments were made about our wedding album showing us and all our family on our special day.... I was not asked to prove anything about my intent on entry at our interview...

Kez

WOW. Was it luck, I wonder?

What makes you think it was luck????

Kez

well, you had 124 people who were not booked up 7 weeks out (since you had no intent) or you planned it ahead of time & got lucky....esp. with what DrLHA said about white/white Euro marriages....

[Killer_Clown_2009 0]

Having come here on VWP and ended up marrying and applying for a green card, I can but recommend against this course of action in the strongest possible terms. Don't. Just /don't./ It's not worth sweating bullets over whether your proof of intend is sufficiently airtight, what the CIS folks are going to think, worrying about what to do in the case of a denial, or even better, being taken from the interview to the airport... It might seem easier to do it that way, but the truth is, it isn't.

Did they ask to see proof of your intentions at the interview? There are many people here who have never adjusted status from a tourist visa with all these doom and gloom predictions about proving intent, yet it seems to rarely be an issue at anyone's interview.

[kitkat1 5]

Having come here on VWP and ended up marrying and applying for a green card, I can but recommend against this course of action in the strongest possible terms. Don't. Just /don't./ It's not worth sweating bullets over whether your proof of intend is sufficiently airtight, what the CIS folks are going to think, worrying about what to do in the case of a denial, or even better, being taken from the interview to the airport... It might seem easier to do it that way, but the truth is, it isn't.

Did they ask to see proof of your intentions at the interview? There are many people here who have never adjusted status from a tourist visa with all these doom and gloom predictions about proving intent, yet it seems to rarely be an issue at anyone's interview.

I know of one person (who has posted his story here and on other immigration boards) who did not understand or was not aware of the difference between tourist visas and spousal visas. His wife came on a tourist visa, they married and she was subsequently denied at her AOS interview (and I believe given voluntary departure rather than officially deported). She spent about 12 months outside of the US waiting for her 601 waiver to be adjudicated and approved. So it does happen - it's just not clear how often.