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Best way to bring a wife or girlfriend in the US

By wilfred83 in What Visa Do I Need - Family Based Immigration

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TBoneTX Grand Master

TBoneTX   45,309

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Thread is moved from Off Topic to the "What Visa Do I Need" forum, to be among similar threads.  Read read read the relevant topics and the Guides.

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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payxibka Grand Master

payxibka   10,045

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13 hours ago, wilfred83 said:

I immigrated here in the US last May of this year 2019. My mother petitioned me. I have a girlfriend back home. I am planning to migrate her here in US. What would be the quickest  way to do it? Is it quicker to marry her or not? Please advice. Thanks

No such thing as a  girlfriend visas for LPRs 

YMMV

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Canerican Rising Star

Canerican   242

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More information is at this link, Family of Green Card Holders (Permanent Residents): https://www.uscis.gov/family/family-green-card-holders-permanent-residents. You will have to get married as fiance(e)s can only be petitioned by US Citizens.

 

 

N400 - Naturalization                                                                                                        U.S. Passport

Aug 05, 2018 (Day 1): Applied for Naturalization online                                                  Oct 01, 2019 (Day 1): Sent US Passport Application

Aug 06, 2018 (Day 2): Check Cashed, NOA1 received online                                         Oct 08, 2019 (Day 8 ) : Passport trackable 

Aug 11, 2018 (Day 6): Recvd notification that Biometrics appointment scheduled       Oct 17, 2019 (Day 17) : Received Passport

Aug 13, 2018 (Day 8): Received biometrics appt letter online                                        Oct 21, 2019 (Day 21) : Received Naturalization Cert. back

Aug 28, 2018 (Day 23): Biometrics Appt

May 06, 2019 (Day 274): In Line For Interview

Jun 11, 2019 (Day 311): Interview Date

July 01, 2019 (Day 327) : Oath Ceremony I AM NOW A US CITIZEN!!!!

 

FROM K-1 PETITION SENT TO OATH CEREMONY WAS ABOUT 7 YEARS 4 MONTHS

 

After 8 years of marriage divorced October 4, 2021

 

TO SEE MY FULL TIMELINE GO HERE: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/user/125109-cdnon-usavt/

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17 hours ago, wilfred83 said:

What would be the quickest  way to do it? Is it quicker to marry her or not?

As an LPR, your only option is to marry her and then petition for her.  It is not quick, at least two years if all goes well from the time of filing the petition, maybe longer if there are bumps in the road.  Do more research, this is a DIY site.  Educate yourself on the process, documents required, how to collect evidence that the relationship is bona fide, etc.  If you're not sure whether you want to marry her or not, go and visit her a few times, find out if you really want to be together in the US and if you are both okay with a 2+ year process of being married and living in two different countries.  It's not for the faint of heart, the process is very expensive and frustrating.  You can visit each other during the process but that can be expensive too.  Weigh all the factors before going down this road.  Good luck!

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