Need your help with making the least risky chioce

[G&A 1]

Actually getting married and filing for spouse visa is not risky at all.

We did f. Fraud only occurs if the spouse stays and then tries to adjust status.

Please see this post http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...st&p=900359

looks like the officer (in 2 occasions) did not explain that you can get married but have to leave the US after. I can see why they will never say this... but i want to really be sure that is not illegal or a visa violation of some sort if a canadian visitor (no visa required) gets married to an american in the US and goes back home in a few days.

Also, if what if they tell her to promise she is not going to get married after she tells them she is going to visit her fiance.. This is so stressful.

[Caladan 19]

The purpose of the K-1 is so you can come to the U.S. and get married and have an automatic route to adjust status. So if she wanted to come here, marry, and stay, you'd have to get a K-1 so you'd have the paperwork in place to file for the green card. (There's some exceptions, of course: if she were here on a work visa, or met you while here as a student, or married on a whim. Let's just set those aside, since they don't seem to apply to you.)

But if she's here for a visit, you two get married, and she *leaves* the U.S. afterwards, she won't have violated anything at all. The important part is that she follows the Canadian visitor requirements: and that doesn't say "By entering you promise not to marry", it says "By entering as a tourist, you're promising to leave within a set time period." Lots of people here have married and then, after the person's gone home, filed for a spousal visa. Nothing illegal about it at all.

That said.. it's possible that your fiancée could get turned back at the border if they suspect she's intending to immigrate (not MARRY, but STAY), and having an American fiancé is a pretty good reason to immigrate. So your fiancée should have proof of ties to Canada (lease, employment letter, that sort of thing) with her. She should be honest when she clears immigration, but she needn't (and shouldn't) volunteer her plans to marry you.

But route f) is perfectly legal.

[G&A 1]

The purpose of the K-1 is so you can come to the U.S. and get married and have an automatic route to adjust status. So if she wanted to come here, marry, and stay, you'd have to get a K-1 so you'd have the paperwork in place to file for the green card. (There's some exceptions, of course: if she were here on a work visa, or met you while here as a student, or married on a whim. Let's just set those aside, since they don't seem to apply to you.)

But if she's here for a visit, you two get married, and she *leaves* the U.S. afterwards, she won't have violated anything at all. The important part is that she follows the Canadian visitor requirements: and that doesn't say "By entering you promise not to marry", it says "By entering as a tourist, you're promising to leave within a set time period." Lots of people here have married and then, after the person's gone home, filed for a spousal visa. Nothing illegal about it at all.

That said.. it's possible that your fiancée could get turned back at the border if they suspect she's intending to immigrate (not MARRY, but STAY), and having an American fiancé is a pretty good reason to immigrate. So your fiancée should have proof of ties to Canada (lease, employment letter, that sort of thing) with her. She should be honest when she clears immigration, but she needn't (and shouldn't) volunteer her plans to marry you.

But route f) is perfectly legal.

You make a lot of sense. Thank you.