I'm a retired old veteran in the U/S. I want to bring a young columbian woman and her son to the US this fall

[SalishSea 17,807]

42 minutes ago, sonnyc said:

suppose, guys, I was to go to Bogota, marry her there, live with her say, the 6 months that I can stay there on an extended tourist visa,  and then have her come to the US on a tourist visa? Does that change anything about her getting a change of status and staying here, at least, long enough to get her green card, so she can get the VA payment for college and loans/grants? I doubt that she'd bring her son. If she doesn't , her returning to Columbia is an assured thing. She's a fine mother.

You aren’t getting that that’s fraud.   She can’t come on a tourist visa and adjust status.

 

She has to wait her turn like everyone else, and you have to properly petition her for an immigrant visa like everyone else.   
 

Have you ever met this person?

Edited May 25 by SalishSea

[SalishSea 17,807]

Also:  there is no way to bring her as early as Fall 2024.   Immigration is time consuming and expensive.

[JeanneAdil 6,489]

31 minutes ago, sonnyc said:

suppose, guys, I was to go to Bogota, marry her there, live with her say, the 6 months that I can stay there on an extended tourist visa,  and then have her come to the US on a tourist visa? Does that change anything about her getting a change of status and staying here, at least, long enough to get her green card, so she can get the VA payment for college and loans/grants? I doubt that she'd bring her son. If she doesn't , her returning to Columbia is an assured thing. She's a fine mother.

she can not come on tourist visa and adjust to stay in US

and when she tries for tourist visa , it will be denied as u are married 

u can not avoid the 2 year wait

[Boiler 45,451]

I was also wondering if this is someone you have met.

[Crazy Cat 41,814]

4 hours ago, sonnyc said:

Does that change anything about her getting a change of status and staying here,

No. Tourist visas are non-immigrant visas. Entering with the intent to use a tourist visa to immigrate is fraud.  Misrepresentation is not taken lightly. 

[hplusj 135]

4 hours ago, sonnyc said:

she's ok with us staying in Columbia, at least while she gets her associate's degree (2 years). I should have made it clear that because I"m 100% VA disabled,  once we are married and she's got a green card, she gets paid $1600 per month, untaxed , to go to college, for four years.

If your motivations to marry this person are in any way deviating from the fact that you love this person and can’t live without them, you don’t have a case to prove you’re in a bona fide relationship deserving of a visa of this type.  
 

I will leave it there because as someone who has navigated this system with all the respect allowed for a discerning and tough immigration system, I have a few choice words for those who wish to undermine it.  And they probably won’t be well received.

Edited May 25 by hplusj

[Boiler 45,451]

It is moot

 

Nonimmigrant Visa Type	Appointment Wait Time
Interview Required Students/Exchange Visitors (F, M, J)	4 Calendar Days
Interview Required Petition-Based Temporary Workers (H, L, O, P, Q)	7 Calendar Days
Interview Required Crew and Transit (C, D, C1/D)	4 Calendar Days
Interview Required Visitors (B1/B2)	647 Calendar Days

[Carpe Vinum 2,327]

This sounds like someone you have not met yet.  You are opening yourself up to a world of trouble. Just go and live out your days there. At least visit and see what the real deal is. 

[sonnyc 0]

18 hours ago, SalishSea said:

Nope.   That’s immigration fraud.

how? I 'll have already married her? there's no intent to marry later?

[Boiler 45,451]

7 minutes ago, sonnyc said:

how? I 'll have already married her? there's no intent to marry later?

Have you met her?

[Crazy Cat 41,814]

43 minutes ago, sonnyc said:

how? I 'll have already married her? there's no intent to marry later?

If you reread the comments, you will see that marriage is totally irrelevant.  A person, married to a US citizen or not,  cannot enter the US as a visitor with the intent to stay and adjust status.  Her marriage to you gives her NO rights to stay in the US.  Marriage to you does not make her a legal resident....nor does it give her the right to enter the US with a tourist visa, then remain.  That would be fraudulent.  That would be misrepresenting her intent under a tourist visa.

Edited May 26 by Crazy Cat

[Crazy Cat 41,814]

By the way, @sonnyc, I am an old retired veteran, too.....

[JeanneAdil 6,489]

5 hours ago, sonnyc said:

how? I 'll have already married her? there's no intent to marry later?

Married and trying for tourist visa,  after waiting over 600 days for an interview,   she would be denied as she would have  have immigrant intent to stay on a B1/B2 visa /  that's the fraud part

 

You r trying to circumvent the process and u can't

 

[SalishSea 17,807]

7 hours ago, sonnyc said:

how? I 'll have already married her? there's no intent to marry later?

It’s fraud for someone to enter the U.S. on a B visa with the intention to adjust status.   
 

Marriage itself confers no immigration benefit.   You need to petition her for an immigrant visa. 

[sonnyc 0]

On 5/25/2024 at 5:36 PM, Carpe Vinum said:

This sounds like someone you have not met yet.  You are opening yourself up to a world of trouble. Just go and live out your days there. At least visit and see what the real deal is. 

she can[t get VA rule 35 money, or loans or grants until she gets her green card. guys. Apparently, she can't get her green card without having come here first?  I want her to have that $2000 per month and the ROTC National Guard  membership., as an officer.  I"m too old to get life insurance and I want her to be provided-for after I"m gone.