L1

[anne2012 0]

Hi 
I was wondering if anyone can help me, my boyfriend and I are UK citizens and he got transferred to the US on a L1 visa from his employers at the time of him completing his visa application we didn't include myself and my son on his application as the time was not right for us to get married and move. He then went to stay in the US in October 2018 alone, We have since realised the time is now right for me and my son to move over and we are making our plans to get married. We think we have to apply for a L2 visa for myself and my son to move to the US but we are not sure. He also is under the impression he has to approach his employer for them to change his visa for us to move, my main questions if anyone can help are;, he is in the US now and I am in the UK

Does his employer have to change his visa?
if there is a way to do it ourselves does he have to inform his employers ?
Do we have to get married before we apply?
would we have to get married in the US or the UK (he is over here for holidays some of the time)
how much does it cost?
how long does it take?
What documents would we have to submit?

any help would be very much appreciated .

Anne 

[NikLR 13,227]

~~moved to work visas from UK regional forum.  Topic is not regionally specific ~~

 

https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/l-1a-intracompany-transferee-executive-or-manager

 

https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/l-1b-intracompany-transferee-specialized-knowledge

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

You have to get married first to apply for L2. Everything else should be handled by their company lawyer. L visas are company sponsored, you can’t apply for it yourself.

Edited February 3, 2019 by SusieQQQ