Tourist visa being married to an American

[Isabelle Araujo 0]

Hello!!

I have a question and I hope someone can help me..

 

I'm from Brazil and I'm engaged to an American, we plan to get married but we're not going to apply for a visa now. My question is if I can get the tourist visa, but together with my family, and if there is no danger that they will deny my visa and the visa of my family members because in that case I would be married.

A while ago I tried to get the visa by myself, but they denied it claiming that I didn't have enough reasons to prove that I wouldn't stay there illegally, but that I could try again the next day, but with different claims, that's why now I would try together with my family.

 

Thanks

[Chancy 6,243]

7 minutes ago, Isabelle Araujo said:

if there is no danger that they will deny my visa and the visa of my family members because in that case I would be married.

 

There is always the risk of denial when you apply for a tourist visa.  Applying for a visa alone vs applying with your family does not count as a change in circumstances because they were already your family when you were denied.

 

Try again after you have stronger ties to your home country, like maybe a higher paying job.  Or maybe a more extensive travel history to other countries requiring a visa.  Note that even with those, you can still be denied a US tourist visa.

 

[Boiler 45,907]

How can you try  the next day when there is such a long wait for an appointment?

 

Not sure how your family applying changes things

[Isabelle Araujo 0]

23 minutes ago, Chancy said:

 

There is always the risk of denial when you apply for a tourist visa.  Applying for a visa alone vs applying with your family does not count as a change in circumstances because they were already your family when you were denied.

 

Try again after you have stronger ties to your home country, like maybe a higher paying job.  Or maybe a more extensive travel history to other countries requiring a visa.  Note that even with those, you can still be denied a US tourist visa.

 

Thanks 

[Isabelle Araujo 0]

15 minutes ago, Boiler said:

How can you try  the next day when there is such a long wait for an appointment?

 

Not sure how your family applying changes things

That I could pay the fee the next day and set a new date, I didn't say I would do a new interview the next day 

 

And I'm not saying that taking it with my family will guarantee our visa, I just said that now I would try with my family, and my fear is that I'm married and this ends up getting in the way of accepting the visa for them 

[SalishSea 18,072]

1 hour ago, Isabelle Araujo said:

That I could pay the fee the next day and set a new date, I didn't say I would do a new interview the next day 

 

And I'm not saying that taking it with my family will guarantee our visa, I just said that now I would try with my family, and my fear is that I'm married and this ends up getting in the way of accepting the visa for them 

All applicants for US  tourist visas must show strong ties to their home countries.  Being married to a USC has the opposite effect.  

[Mike E 11,742]

The only time I’ve heard of a non visa waiver spouse of a U.S. citizen getting a visa was if

 

* the U.S. citizen was also a citizen of a country that has a visa waiver / exemption with the U.S.
 

* the spouse then visited that country and didn’t over stay 

 

* this evidence was provided to the U.S. embassy.  

[MMDG 106]

I got multiple tourist visas while being married to my American husband and had American kids. No issues at all at any airport I entered from either.

 

my visas was issued solely on my tie to him and I had no tie to my country or a job.

they always asked me why I’m going to USA at the interview and I stated to visit his family and explore USA.

[Mike E 11,742]

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2021-12/CBP - FY 2020 Entry Exit Overstay Report_0.pdf
 

Overstay rate of 0.71 percent for citizens of Kuwait (an ally of the U.S.)  Just under France’s rate.  Versus 2.35 percent for Brazil.  
 

https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Non-Immigrant-Statistics/RefusalRates/FY20.pdf

 

5 percent visa denial rate for Kuwait versus 23 percent for Brazil. 
 

IMHO your anecdotal evidence experience is not applicable to OP. Still, next time this question comes I will note that citizens of low population countries with low refusal and overstay rates are possible exceptions.  

 

 

[Holly&Andreas 38]

My husband was denied a tourism visa from his country a few years ago. It was the first and only time we ever applied for it. It was just easier and less hassle for me to go visit him there since that visa rejection sort of crushed us emotionally for a time. We were not married at the time and had just been engaged for about 6 months. At the interview for the visa they told him to apply for a K1 instead and told him he was being denied because he was not able to demonstrate sufficient ties to his home country. 

[MMDG 106]

7 hours ago, Mike E said:

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2021-12/CBP - FY 2020 Entry Exit Overstay Report_0.pdf
 

Overstay rate of 0.71 percent for citizens of Kuwait (an ally of the U.S.)  Just under France’s rate.  Versus 2.35 percent for Brazil.  
 

https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Non-Immigrant-Statistics/RefusalRates/FY20.pdf

 

5 percent visa denial rate for Kuwait versus 23 percent for Brazil. 
 

IMHO your anecdotal evidence experience is not applicable to OP. Still, next time this question comes I will note that citizens of low population countries with low refusal and overstay rates are possible exceptions.  

 

 

I’m a Kuwait resident not a Kuwaiti citizen.my original country (in North Africa) usually considered “high fraud” .

 

but I understand it all depends and nothing is guaranteed.

[jm1409 4]

On 5/10/2022 at 10:35 AM, MMDG said:

I got multiple tourist visas while being married to my American husband and had American kids. No issues at all at any airport I entered from either.

 

my visas was issued solely on my tie to him and I had no tie to my country or a job.

they always asked me why I’m going to USA at the interview and I stated to visit his family and explore USA.

whoa, nice! this seems pretty unheard of. no tie to your country or a job and you still landed a tourist visa? do you know why/how that is possible?

[MMDG 106]

3 hours ago, jm1409 said:

whoa, nice! this seems pretty unheard of. no tie to your country or a job and you still landed a tourist visa? do you know why/how that is possible?

if I wasn’t married to him I would have been denied.

papers I took with me to the interview was

 

•pictures of us and our multiple countries we visited together Maldives,Lebanon,Turkey,Malaysia,Thailand but they did not bother to look at them.

•our marriage certificate.(asked to see it right away)

•HIS proof of income.(asked to see it) 

The person who interviewed me for the first time asked me to see my Syrian passport but I only had a copy of it with me at that time but also he didn’t ask me to submit it or reschedule the interview.

I was put on AP for a week after then I received  my passport.

Other times after that I was issued the visa faster within 3 working days.

my North African mother also was granted a US visa,she was given the visa on the same bases,also listed my husband as the sponsor and had all supporting documents to prove his income and marriage to me but they did not ask her to see those documents and was granted a visa right away.

 

my UNMARRIED sister who lives in SYRIA has a North African and a Syrian passport was interviewed in Lebanon (since the U.S. embassy in Damascus has shot down due to our civil war)  was granted a visa solely because of my marriage to my US husband! 

she also listed him as a sponsor and submitted HIS papers and strangely they asked her for passport photos of MY kids as well.she works with a big organisation in Syria though but they seemed interested more in asking about my husband and our relationship.

 

my other unmarried sister with no job got denied visa after ONE question at the embassy in Lebanon 

 

CO: who will you be travelling with 

sister: with my sister and her kids and husband.

CO:does your sister have a valid US visa?

sister:Yes 

 

she showed him the wrong expired old visa of mine!!  The officer mentioned it was expired and after that denied her visa.

 

she never applied again she is not interested her feelings are hurt 😬

 

 

Sorry my English is not so good I tried to explain as much as possible.

hope it helps someone and gives hope.

Edited May 14, 2022 by MMDG

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

4 hours ago, jm1409 said:

whoa, nice! this seems pretty unheard of. no tie to your country or a job and you still landed a tourist visa? do you know why/how that is possible?

Not really unheard of,  I got my first US tourist visa with no job or ties (brand new college graduate) , admittedly they only gave me a year validity on the visa to start with. Country with a very low overstay/refusal rate (at that stage).

[jm1409 4]

13 hours ago, SusieQQQ said:

Not really unheard of,  I got my first US tourist visa with no job or ties (brand new college graduate) , admittedly they only gave me a year validity on the visa to start with. Country with a very low overstay/refusal rate (at that stage).

interesting, i thought that not having job/school/ties was usually reason enough to deny the visa.