K1 visa. Coronavirus. Extension 90-day period?

[payxibka 10,047]

How different is it from risking your life to get groceries?  

[geowrian 22,338]

1 hour ago, MiltonWaddams said:

The lack of extensions in these cases are an absolute travesty. They expect you to risk your lives by going out in public to get married within your 90 days and then the local courthouse to file even as stay at home orders are in place? How hypocritical and pathetic.

The issue is USCIS does not have the ability to make extensions on the timeframe to marry on a K-1. The 90 days is in the law. USCIS cannot change laws, only rules & policies. They do not have the flexibility to do so here.

Congress + the POTUS would have to get involved to change it.

Edited April 5, 2020 by geowrian

[Jared&Roxy 20]

Find your state senator and state delegates by inputting your location here and then email them for marriage license assistance: https://openstates.org/find_your_legislator/ 

 

I believe California is state which allows notaries to issue confidential marriage licenses (https://www.nationalnotary.org/knowledge-center/news/law-updates/ca-assembly-bill-1102) which is another avenue you can look into, such as this guy (first Google result for "notary marriage license california"): https://www.jacobmarries.com/license.html

[MarioBG 0]

On 4/7/2020 at 4:41 PM, Jared&Roxy said:

Find your state senator and state delegates by inputting your location here and then email them for marriage license assistance: https://openstates.org/find_your_legislator/ 

 

I believe California is state which allows notaries to issue confidential marriage licenses (https://www.nationalnotary.org/knowledge-center/news/law-updates/ca-assembly-bill-1102) which is another avenue you can look into, such as this guy (first Google result for "notary marriage license california"): https://www.jacobmarries.com/license.html

Thanks a lot for this information, this is very useful! However, I have concerns that the USCIS may suspect on our decision to have a confidential marriage license (in this case, the only motive would merely to accelerate the process and avoid hitting the K1 visa limit period). I've been researching a bit further on this but I can't find any evidence or requirement from the USCIS that the marriage needs to be done through a Public (and not Confidential) marriage license.

Do you know if this would be accepted or rejected by the USCIS? The latest thing we want is an unexpected delay of the visa process or even a denial when submitting the AOS later on.

[Jared&Roxy 20]

1 hour ago, MarioBG said:

Thanks a lot for this information, this is very useful! However, I have concerns that the USCIS may suspect on our decision to have a confidential marriage license (in this case, the only motive would merely to accelerate the process and avoid hitting the K1 visa limit period). I've been researching a bit further on this but I can't find any evidence or requirement from the USCIS that the marriage needs to be done through a Public (and not Confidential) marriage license.

Do you know if this would be accepted or rejected by the USCIS? The latest thing we want is an unexpected delay of the visa process or even a denial when submitting the AOS later on.

I'm sorry, I'm not sure as I only saw people on Facebook saying that they went that route. We went the email legislators route and it worked out for us so I recommend that.

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[uncle-sam 1]

I'm in the similar situation, also live in Texas and have been calling counties.

My fiancee is scheduled to be here in first week of May, which will begin the 90 days.

 

Couple ideas:

• https://communityimpact.com/houston/bay-area/coronavirus/2020/04/07/galveston-county-clerks-office-processing-influx-of-out-of-county-marriage-licenses/
  • LuckyCat post in my post here: 
• Drive to Vegas. I plan to do this. I called today (the chapel) and they said the plan is to re-open in May 1. That may change though. But their website will have more updates.
  • The chapel and county clerk are normally open from 8am to 12pm. Marriage is like Vegas business. There's no wait time between getting license and marriage (Texas has wait time). It may not be ideal for your case, but it will get the paperwork done.
  • Chapel (at least the one I called) re-open depends on county clerk. They said they will open when the county clerk open.
  • https://www.clarkcountynv.gov/clerk/Pages/covid19info.aspx
  • https://www.alittlewhitechapel.com/shop/packages/drive-thru-50-5

Edited April 13, 2020 by uncle-sam

[uncle-sam 1]

Also, this is list of Texas counties, if it helps:

https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/voter/cclerks.shtml#D

[payxibka 10,047]

Mn is open for marriage licenses

[sl1pstream 551]

On 4/5/2020 at 9:35 PM, MiltonWaddams said:

The lack of extensions in these cases are an absolute travesty. They expect you to risk your lives by going out in public to get married within your 90 days and then the local courthouse to file even as stay at home orders are in place? How hypocritical and pathetic.

When did you get to the US? Your interview date was in November?

Edited April 14, 2020 by sl1pstream

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