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Is it ok to get married while filing the I-129F???

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luvaLimey   0

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We all have to wait. Why are you so special?

What makes your love soooo much more important than ours that you've got to do it without jumping through the hoops we have to go through?

I understand the wanting to have a big ceremony for her family, etc... why not do something like others have done here, have an engagement ceremony, an excuse for a big party, but not something that's legally binding like a marriage would be.

That way, when she enters the US, you wouldn't have to lie when you said you were only engaged. Then, you could have your big wedding here, get lots of toasters, and live happily ever after, without the fear that USCIS was going to deport her, or ban her from ever entering the US.

I mean jeeeze! If you're that anxious to bone her, it IS possible to have sex without being married :rolleyes:

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I mean jeeeze! If you're that anxious to bone her, it IS possible to have sex without being married :rolleyes:

Thank you. I now have to clean the diet Coke off of my computer! :lol:

... it seems sticky keyboards are my specialty ;)

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I mean jeeeze! If you're that anxious to bone her, it IS possible to have sex without being married :rolleyes:

Thank you. I now have to clean the diet Coke off of my computer! :lol:

... it seems sticky keyboards are my specialty ;)

:lol: that's pretty funny, uhhmmm the boneing part hmmm... that's been done. Sorry to have to share my sex life with you'all. So that's not the case here. Man you guys just don't understand. So another way of thinking is that I'm just trying to save some money for the plane ticket back and forth for a million freakin trips. Just wanted to find out if it's possible that's all or to get a refference if anyone have gone through this situation before. You'all don't have to be immature about it.

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Well, it does seem to me that you don't have a very good understanding of the visas at all!

If you are getting married in the US ONLY, you can file for the K-1, bring your fiancee HERE, and get married HERE. This allows you to get married immediately upon her arrival. After that, you could in theory be granted advanced parole to go back and have your ceremony in Cambodia. I wouldn't, if I were you, plan on any kind of timeline before you had the visa or your advanced parole IN HAND. That's what the rest of uf have had to do, that is how it works.

If you are getting married in Cambodia, you can go and do that and THEN file for the K-3 for your spouse. Yes, it necessitates her remaining in Cambodia while you file. Yes, it means that if you cannot stay with her there you will be separated. Yes, it sucks. But that is the way it is.

Your options are limited because you are marrying a non USC. USCIS is not Burger King, you cannot have it your way. This is unfortunate and a big headache to everyone who has been through this-none of us will call the process easy. It entails separation from our partners and long waits, hassles with paperwork, and sometimes ends in heartbreak. It sucks, but this isn't an easy process for anyone, and people around here tend to get touchy when it looks like people want to find ways around the process-yes, it hits a nerve with people who have been through all of this heartache before you.

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Like the previous Poster have mentioned

You have to be really careful with uscis, you don't want to put your life and your spouse in Jeapordy by lying to them.

Best Option

Get your us citizenship 1st

As a requirement of the I-129F fiancee K1 visa application you need to provide your citizenship number so right away without it you'll have problems.

In Asia, it's difficult for the parents to let their daughter leaving home without being married, but once you get closed to family and let them know the situation, they will understand. It's very common to Have a BIG ENGAGEMENT, that way her family, friends, everybody can come to send her off, but like i said ENGAGEMENT, one of the VJ member here had sign a paper there while being engaged but it turns out it was a marriage certificate, he only f ound out about it, when the marriage went sour and going through a divorce process. So the catch is Be careful what you are signing, No papers for engagement.

Then, you would have done everything LEGAL

you'll get all the engagement pictures, proof needed for uscis and her family and friends will all be happpy

Good luck

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^ hey thanx for the inputs. Sorry for all the troubles guys.

Guess we'll have to postpone our wedding till she gets over here. I just don't wanna have to take times off and travel back and forth. It would be nice if I could do it all at once. Obtain her a visa, get married and bring her back home in just one trip.

<07-05-06> sent out K-1 application

<07-12-06> K-1 recieved (transferred to CSC from Nebraska)

<07-17-06> 1st NOA1 recieved

<07-25-06> Touched

<09-18-06> Touched and approved

<10-20-06> Case sent to Bangkok embassy (NOA 2 Recieved)

<10-23-06> Case arrived at Bangkok Embassy (9:53 a.m)

<11-01-06> Packet 3 shipped from BKK

<11-15-06> Packet 3 sent to embassy via express mail (still waiting for packet 3 from embassy)

<12-12-06> Medical exam + Vaccination Done

<12-??-06> Packet 4 Still waiting

<12-28-06> Interview date

<12-29-06> Visa in hand

<01-30-07> POE Seattle, WA

<02-14-07> Applied for SS

<02-17-07> Recieved Packet 3 <----Almost 5 months later (LOL)

<02-24-07> Recieved SS

<02-27-07> Applied for ID

<03-01-07> Officially married<----Wohooo

<03-02-07> Name change @ SSA

<03-12-07> Recieved new SS

<05-02-07> Sent out AOS forms and fee

<06-01-07> Fingerprints done

<08-01-07> Interview date (AOS approved)

<09-15-07> My wife is pregnant

<04-29-09> Our son is born

<05-05-09> I-751 sent

<05-15-09> I-751 Receipt of Notice

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I am assuming you are an LPR, Evolution.

Can you file the I-129F now and then have it upgraded once you gain your citizenship? That way you would already be in the process and it may decrease your waiting time.

Alternatively, get married now in Cambodia, do the big ceremony thing, and file the I-130 as an LPR. I believe that could also be upgraded once you get citizenship.

I don't know which is quicker through Cambodia, K1 or K3 - or if DCF is an option for you - so I can't be much more help than that, but it's worth checking if you can file either petition now and then move them up the priority list once you become a USC.

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Let's just say that by january our case is already approve. If you were us whould you start from scratch with the I-130 after all that time you just wasted on the I-129F? I wouldn't think so. And beside don't I have to wait atleast two years to get her Green Card? If we have to wait that long I guess there won't be a wedding ceremony back at home then.

The main thing is that I wanna have a wedding for her family and friends over there before she come and reside with me in the state. In a way it's kinda like saying thanx to her parents for letting us be together. So when she gets over here I wanna do one for my parents and my side of the family.

We are just trying to help, and no, most of the people here have waited months/years to bring the person they love to the US legally.

I'm going to assume that you are talking of a Buddhist ceremony? Sure, what you are proposing can and has been done before by others. You need to do some research, especially concerning is a religious (unregistered) Buddhist ceremony is recognized as legal in the US.

Even if you are not legally married, any slipup such as wearing rings or mentioning "wife" or Husband" at the point of entry and you are sunk.

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I am assuming you are an LPR, Evolution.

Can you file the I-129F now and then have it upgraded once you gain your citizenship? That way you would already be in the process and it may decrease your waiting time.

He needs to be a citizen before he can file the I-129F. There is no "upgrade" for the I-129F. Either you qualify as a citizen or you don't.

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I don't know which is quicker through Cambodia, K1 or K3 - or if DCF is an option for you - so I can't be much more help than that, but it's worth checking if you can file either petition now and then move them up the priority list once you become a USC.

As his gf is Combodian, she will be processing through the consulate in Bangkok, Thailand and a K-1 is definatly faster there.

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But he can file the I-130 for his wife as an LPR, am I correct? Which would then be shifted up the priority list once Evolution became a citizen?

I'm not telling, I'm asking ;)

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I am assuming you are an LPR, Evolution.

Can you file the I-129F now and then have it upgraded once you gain your citizenship? That way you would already be in the process and it may decrease your waiting time.

Alternatively, get married now in Cambodia, do the big ceremony thing, and file the I-130 as an LPR. I believe that could also be upgraded once you get citizenship.

I don't know which is quicker through Cambodia, K1 or K3 - or if DCF is an option for you - so I can't be much more help than that, but it's worth checking if you can file either petition now and then move them up the priority list once you become a USC.

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I was thinking about filing I-129F before while I'm only a LPR. But I heard the process wouldn't go anywhere until I upgraded my status to a USC. That's why I was looking for another option. I could file a K3 as a LPR, but we're not married yet. If I were to get married it would have to be sometime next year. Just don't have enought vacation hours to hit another trip back home for another month. Trust me it's better to take a whole month off rather than just take 2 weeks off for a vacation like this, just not worth it.

<07-05-06> sent out K-1 application

<07-12-06> K-1 recieved (transferred to CSC from Nebraska)

<07-17-06> 1st NOA1 recieved

<07-25-06> Touched

<09-18-06> Touched and approved

<10-20-06> Case sent to Bangkok embassy (NOA 2 Recieved)

<10-23-06> Case arrived at Bangkok Embassy (9:53 a.m)

<11-01-06> Packet 3 shipped from BKK

<11-15-06> Packet 3 sent to embassy via express mail (still waiting for packet 3 from embassy)

<12-12-06> Medical exam + Vaccination Done

<12-??-06> Packet 4 Still waiting

<12-28-06> Interview date

<12-29-06> Visa in hand

<01-30-07> POE Seattle, WA

<02-14-07> Applied for SS

<02-17-07> Recieved Packet 3 <----Almost 5 months later (LOL)

<02-24-07> Recieved SS

<02-27-07> Applied for ID

<03-01-07> Officially married<----Wohooo

<03-02-07> Name change @ SSA

<03-12-07> Recieved new SS

<05-02-07> Sent out AOS forms and fee

<06-01-07> Fingerprints done

<08-01-07> Interview date (AOS approved)

<09-15-07> My wife is pregnant

<04-29-09> Our son is born

<05-05-09> I-751 sent

<05-15-09> I-751 Receipt of Notice

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Try focusing on the first part, and that is becoming a USC. then stress over the rest once you have your citizenship.

Sorry if i sound pissy, but it aggrivates me when people try to take shortcuts when the rest of us have to sit here and wait.

and lets keep in mind, we basically dont plan our weddings the exact time we want it, USCIS does that for us, we have to plan around them, because there is NO given time on when you will get an approval or not.

If you want to marry her in your country, get your citizenship (will go smoother with it), then go there and marry her and file the K3

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Makes sense, Evolution. I was just trying to throw some ideas your way to get around your problem a little quicker, but I guess you're stuck waiting.

Patience (F)

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