Visa approval and booking your flights - one way ticket or return?

[wallflowers 4]

Hi everyone, we’re in the very last stages of our CR1 process now and are awaiting our interview date.
 

I’ve been looking at flight prices to get an idea of prices and one way tickets are around £1,400, but return tickets are only £850. You can book the return portion for up to 11 months in advance, so I was thinking of doing this and simply using the return to visit my family in around a years time. 
 

My spouse is concerned that this may raise red flags at customs though, and that they’d be suspicious that I have a return ticket, and not a one-way. 
 

Do you think this would be a problem? I mean, ideally I’d like to save £500+ if I can, but if it means I’d possibly get denied entry then I’ll spend the extra money 😅 We’re just of course concerned about something going wrong, so close to the finish line.

 

Thank you for your insight.

[JeanneAdil 6,489]

Not an issue 

Many of us do the cheapest ticket

just don't buy till that visa is in hand

and there is no problem planning to return home for a visit or to settle things

[pushbrk 12,870]

The foreign spouse is coming to live in the USA. Of course, it's ok to use a one way ticket.

[Benny1337 18]

I used a two way ticket to immigrate too, as that indeed was significantly cheaper.

I canceled the return flight a few days after I landed.

Not a single person from either CBP or the airline asked anything about it. 

 

No need to worry