can you go on a cruise on your honeymoon

[jagjef4 0]

My fiance will be in US in the next month.  We are talking and planning our wedding and honeymoon.  We would like to go on a cruise.  I had thought about going to Alaska but all of the cruises i have found to Alaska also stop in Canada.

At what point and time can your fiance/wife go on a cruise?  Is going on a cruise really considered leaving the country?  

 

thanks in advance

[T_P 872]

3 minutes ago, jagjef4 said:

My fiance will be in US in the next month.  We are talking and planning our wedding and honeymoon.  We would like to go on a cruise.  I had thought about going to Alaska but all of the cruises i have found to Alaska also stop in Canada.

At what point and time can your fiance/wife go on a cruise?  Is going on a cruise really considered leaving the country?  

 

thanks in advance

You cant leave US unless you have your Advance Perole during your AOS process.

 

Better be safe than sorry my friend. Here is your answer: 

 

[jagjef4 0]

Thank you both for your quick ANSWERS.  Not the answer i was hoping for but it was the answer i expected.  

[payxibka 10,047]

2 hours ago, jagjef4 said:

My fiance will be in US in the next month.  We are talking and planning our wedding and honeymoon.  We would like to go on a cruise.  I had thought about going to Alaska but all of the cruises i have found to Alaska also stop in Canada.

At what point and time can your fiance/wife go on a cruise?  Is going on a cruise really considered leaving the country?  

 

thanks in advance

Yes it is considered leaving the country because you go into international water

[Chris Duffy 1,257]

13 hours ago, jagjef4 said:

My fiance will be in US in the next month.  We are talking and planning our wedding and honeymoon.  We would like to go on a cruise.  I had thought about going to Alaska but all of the cruises i have found to Alaska also stop in Canada.

At what point and time can your fiance/wife go on a cruise?  Is going on a cruise really considered leaving the country?  

 

thanks in advance

For a US Citizen you don't need a passport since most cruises are considered a loop tour.  Which means you start in the USA and end in the USA, just like all the one that leave from FLorida or Texas and travel to other countries.

 

But for a person on a K1 I don't think it would work, but I haven't ever read of someone trying it.  Sounds risky to me.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

1 hour ago, Chris Duffy said:

For a US Citizen you don't need a passport since most cruises are considered a loop tour.  Which means you start in the USA and end in the USA, just like all the one that leave from FLorida or Texas and travel to other countries.

 

But for a person on a K1 I don't think it would work, but I haven't ever read of someone trying it.  Sounds risky to me.

 

14 hours ago, jagjef4 said:

Thank you both for your quick ANSWERS.  Not the answer i was hoping for but it was the answer i expected.  

This is actually a pretty regular question here on VJ and hopefully you didn't already put money down for a cruise. Some people come on here only AFTER they have paid for the cruise only come to find out that their SO can not go on the cruise.

[C-ma'am 684]

**Post moved from K1 to Working & Traveling During US Immigration where similar posts are discussed.

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

  There are river cruises  that do the Mississippi or Columbia rivers.   They are totally US

[NYCruiser 423]

17 hours ago, jagjef4 said:

My fiance will be in US in the next month.  We are talking and planning our wedding and honeymoon.  We would like to go on a cruise.  I had thought about going to Alaska but all of the cruises i have found to Alaska also stop in Canada.

At what point and time can your fiance/wife go on a cruise?  Is going on a cruise really considered leaving the country?  

 

thanks in advance

No you do not want to do this Cruise at all. I did it with a USC SO in 2009 as well. On the way going, you get off in Vancouver, BC and go through Canada Immigration. On the way back, even for USC, it was complicated. We had a return flight to New York City, from Anchorage, AK via Vancouver.

 

They had us going round in circles, checking back into Canada, then out of Canada, then US Immigration in Vancouver. Better safe than sorry

 

PS: Not the scenery you want but what about the area in Seattle? The San Juan Islands have great scenery then take a Cruise down past Oregon, and end up in LA? Look at this site which might help.

 

vacationstogo.com

(I am not affiliated with this company). I just use it for their search engine

[shadowfox7569 14]

Something about the Jones act of the early 1900 where they have to stop in a foreign port before going to a US port. 

[Michelle13 39]

18 hours ago, jagjef4 said:

Thank you both for your quick ANSWERS.  Not the answer i was hoping for but it was the answer i expected.  

There are some Hawaiian cruises that don't leave the US.  My husband and I looked into it for our honeymoon.  

 

That and the river cruise mentioned above are the only ones I could find that didn't leave the US. 

[kris&me 572]

The K1 visa is for one time entry / going out of any port in the US is considered international waters  3 miles out

you need that AP card to get back in the US / without that, you are looking at starting the whole process over and this time it would be a CR1

my brother-in-law wanted to do the same from florida with his in laws as they were coming for the weding / the new wife was not allowed on the ship in Miami as she had no visa to return

[Illiria 980]

4 hours ago, NigeriaorBust said:

  There are river cruises  that do the Mississippi or Columbia rivers.   They are totally US

I had never thought of doing a river cruise in the USA

[jagjef4 0]

Someone suggested a Hawaiian cruise.  Someone else said if you enter international waters (3 miles out)you would be leaving the country.  So that would mean the Hawaiian cruise is out as well.  Is that correct. 

No i didnt purchase the cruise tickets.  The K1 process has taken so long and been so frustrating I would not want to go through it again.  So do not want to jeopardize there status.

 

How long does it take go from K1 status to green card status.

 

Thank you all who have given your advice.  It is much appreciated  

[AK_2014 113]

We wanted to do exactly that, an Alaska cruise out of Vancouver, but ended up realizing that wouldn't work and cancelling the reservation (and got back full deposit -- not sure why, but no complaining there!). Instead, we chose to take a long-distance train trip across the USA. Kind of like a cruise... seeing the scenery roll by the window... Just throwing that out as an option in case you're interested. We had a blast!