B1/B2 was denied will it affect my CR1

[SalishSea 17,804]

2 hours ago, carmel34 said:

I seem to remember quite a few similar cases here on VJ during the last year, they all sound very familiar.  In Jamaica or the DR, sometimes Nigeria, there's a man who is in a long distance relationship with an American woman and wants to go meet her, maybe even stay and marry her and try to adjust status, so on the B tourist visa application he makes "an honest mistake" and puts married to increase his chances for approval but it backfires as the immigration officers know the scheme so the B gets rightly denied.  Then the couple gets married and files for a spousal visa, or sometimes decide to try for a K-1, and in the petition process or at the visa interview, a document proving the dissolution of the prior common law "marriage" is requested but cannot be provided because it was never officially a marriage or even a legitimate common law marriage.  There's no easy way out of this mess, time to lawyer up and hope for the best.  Do more research and find a very experienced US immigration attorney who also knows the marriage laws of Jamaica.  It will likely be a long, expensive process with no guarantee of success at the end, so have a plan B ready.  Would you be okay with moving to Jamaica to live with your husband if it comes to that?

Yes, and the "inaccurate" marital status is often attributed to an "agent," who has completed the application somehow without the applicant's full knowledge of its contents.