Spontanious Wedding while K1-process??

[reeses16 8]

Stick with the K1. You already started, its easier, and you'll be together quicker. Maybe the new USCIS staff, restructuring etc will work in your favor. We got caught in the middle of everything, the K1 was processed via old system, EAD, AOS, AP under the new. But in all I think we made out pretty good. We filed the K1 in Jan. He was here in June, we married in July and his Green card was approved in Oct. 9 months start to finish. Plus we were able to visit during the process.

Just wait, if you have the "spontaneous" wedding that you two discussed, it will potential cause you MAJOR drama.

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Im going to slightly disagree with current theory on this. My mother married a German man about 2 years ago. He came to visit her on a tourist visa and basically what they did was after they married was file for an AOS. My mother talked to a border patrol agent she knew and he told her just to tell him to lie low and dont cross any borders while the AOS is being proccessed. ALso myself in my situation i HAD a fililpina fiance I talked to an Immigration Attorney and he said if I could get her to the States on any type of visa tourist, bussiness, just any that he could proccess a change of status for her as soon as we married. Like someone above said its frowned upon by the feds but its somewhat of a loophole in the law. As for me i just decided to get married in the Philippines and we are going through the K-3 process but i dunno i would give it a lil thought. It can be done my mothers example is proof.

That can be done but it wouldn't have worked if your mother had already filed a fiance visa petition for him prior to his entry to the US. Apples and oranges.

People do legitimately meet and marry while here on a tourist visa. As long immigrating wasn't their intent when they entered, it's fine. We're discussing a situation where immigrant intent is already crystal clear.