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Fiance or Marriage Visa in 2025 ? Pros and cons?
KandB posted a topic in What Visa Do I Need - Family Based Immigration,
I'm 23F 🇨🇿, my partner is 29M 🇺🇲
We want to get our visa going sometime this year and want to be together as soon as possible but we are still unsure which visa would serve us better. I'd like to get married in my home country but on the other side i wouldn't mind getting married paperwise in the US and waiting for my work permit and etc if it would allow us to be together faster and then save up for and have our dream wedding in my home country.
What do you think ? All of this is so overwhelming and confusing and we just want to do the right thing.
I asked the same question on reddit, so many people recommended me to go with fiance visa, two suggested marriage visa. I need more input and advice from experienced people. Thank you
Ps: is it possible to have dual citizenship so i don't lose one from my home country? How does that work ?-
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Supporting evidence for AOS following K1 marriage?
smilingstone posted a topic in Adjustment of Status (Green Card) from K1 and K3 Family Based Visas,
I entered the US on my K1 last week and we'll be planning to get married over the next few weeks. Throughout the whole K1 process I had in my head that we will need further supporting evidence of our relationship/marriage for the AOS process, such as co-mingling finances, opening joint accounts, health insurance, etc. However, now that I'm revisiting guidance on our next steps, there isn't any mention of this.
I am wondering if I misread something early on and it just stuck in my mind, and that we actually don't need to provide anything like this. VJs AOS guide doesn't make any mention of it, and nor does any other immigration-based sites. Is this something needed for the potential interview (from what I understand not all people get called for AOS interview)?
Can anyone confirm or clarify what we need? A run down of the docs you provided, when filing and/or for interview, would be really helpful.
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Tourist visa denied.. worried this will impact future family visa
mnelove97 posted a topic in Tourist Visas,
Hi, I’ve been thinking about this for a few days and feeling a bit worried. I wanted to have my husband visit me while we await our I-130 as I’ve heard some people have been approved while waiting. However he applied for a tourist visa in Jan 2024 and was denied as he said he was planning on visiting with his brother and had no family members here (true we were just snapping/texting).
We got married in July 2024 and he went in Sept 2024 at his 2nd attempt at a tourist visa - this time mentioning our marriage. The embassy worker didn’t give him a chance to speak and just said he’s “lying” because he mentioned last time he didnt have any family members in US (which he didnt). I’m worried this was written down as fraud and he will never get any visa. I’m not sure what the embassy would have written down for his denial?-
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Wife was denied entry into her interview due to Copy vs Original Doc
Rollie New New posted a topic in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures,
My wife was denied entry into her interview on Dec 20th 2024 because she had a copy of my divorce papers and not the original. Our lawyer tried to argue that the original was not required. But the embassy sent us a link that clearly showed the rule has been in place since 2022. Her new interview date is now Jan 23, 2025-
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Can I Travel to the USA with a Pending I-130 Petition?
Rayman2025 posted a topic in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures,
I have been invited to speak at a conference in the USA. My partner, who is a U.S. citizen, has filed an I-130 petition for me as we plan to move there eventually. I also have a job offer, and the employer is in the process of sponsoring an O-1 visa for me.
1. Can I apply for an ESTA to attend the conference, and am I likely to be admitted?
2. Will traveling to the USA on an ESTA impact my I-130 petition or future O-1 visa application?
Thank you!
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DV Lottery of K1 Visa - Can I file for both?
Petrisaint Mpaka posted a topic in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures,
I applied for the DV lottery 2025 and hope to be selected this year. My fiancé and I discovered that there is a fiancé visa for the USA. Do you think if we apply for the K1 visa but are selected for the DV lottery that we can stop the fiancé visa process? What are the timelines and options here :)?-
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Recent Immigration Discussions5 years enter ban and green card filling 
2:25 pm today
Maya1234
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2 RepliesHello,
I have a pretty awkward situation, I am helping my husband s uncle. All his family is in the USA ! So basically mom ( 88 years old ) on welfare wants to fill the green card aplication for his son which is in Spain to come to the USA !
He s been into the USA once with turist visa and he got 5 years banned! The ban expired last year ! Now he s divorced in Spain and he would like to come to the USA but his EFTA got denied , so he can t even visit ! Now he wants to apply for green card ! Does form 130 is enough or needs to fill up form i660 to apologize for his mistake for which he got banned? Thanks much for whoever has any idea how to start !
Visiting on a B2 with USC wife 2:24 pm today
Fernando R
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4 RepliesI am from Germany, and me and my fiance are getting married mid march in Germany. Can I enter the US with my B2 visa right after that? The wedding is the 15th, our idea is traveling the 16th to visit her family and have a sort of honeymoon there, but I'm afraid they won't let me in since they might think I will stay there.
Our intention is do a long distance marriage for some time and then come live to Germany, we don't want to stay in the US. I have ties to my country, but are they going to raise any suspicion on me when trying to enter? And should we go together or separate ways through immigrations in the airport?
Does an international marriage license need to be translated and notarized for USCIS? 2:04 pm today
mnelove97
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1 RepliesI only have an international marriage license as i was married in Montenegro
Two trips in the last year with each trip 5 month 2:02 pm today
Jingjing520
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1 RepliesDear friend,
I received my green card on October 8, 2020. As of June 2024, I have lived in the U.S. for over 30 months within the first 4 years, However, in the last year of the 5-year period, I took two business trips, each lasting 5 months, totaling 10 months abroad within a single year. While I meet the 5-year green card requirement, the 30-month residency threshold, and each individual trip during the 5 years was less than 6 months, I am concerned because the combined duration of the last two trips exceeds 10 months in A YEAR. I ve heard that there may be a rule about not exceeding 6 months abroad within a year, but I m unsure.
Since I haven t taken the second trip yet, I still have the opportunity to adjust my plans to avoid potential issues. Can I still apply for naturalization under these circumstances, or should I reconsider my travel plans to ensure compliance?
I meet the general residency requirement for naturalization.
5 years+30 months+ each trip less than 6 month
my problem is :
I took two trips with each one is 5 month in the last 12 month. ( still not take the second trip yet )
Thank you for your guidance!
Best regards,
Who has been approved with minimal evidence of bonafide marriage? 1:42 pm today
lanc3r30000
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4 RepliesI am filing right now and all we have are photos, communication, flight/hotel itineraries and gift exchanges. I just had a consultation with a lawyer and she said I need more evidence. So next step now is to add my spouse to my credit card account.
Has anyone been approved with even less than what I currently have? or if you did not get approved, what happened? How long did it take?
My spouse is from Thailand.
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I had my interview at the US Montreal Consulate on the 15th of December 2022n. At the interview, I was told that I didn’t have a current visa available for my category since I had outgrown it from child of a permanent resident to adult child of a permanent residence and I was told that another option for me was that I must have "sought to acquire lawful permanent resident status within 1 year of a visa becoming available to Me." According to the Consular officer I was then told the only option was to wait till a visa is available for that category and gave me a paper. I checked the visa availability on the visa bulletin it’s just on January 2017 and my priority date is 09/feburary/2017 I tried tracking my visa application and and I noticed it wrote expired when initially it used to refused and that it was undergoing administrative processing and now when I check it says “ you have been notified your immigrant visa has been cancelled, and any petition approved on your behalf was also cancelled. We informed you that your application might be reinstated within one year if you could establish that your failure to pursue your immigrant visa application was due to circumstances beyond your control” I was never informed of this I didn’t even get an email. “ “Since you have failed to do so, the record of your registration and any petition approved on your behalf and all supporting documents have been destroyed. Any Department of labour certification has been returned to your prospective employer.· 0 replies
I literally logged into my CEAC.state.iv and it showed that my case was still at the US consulate in Montreal with all of my documents that was initially submitted.
does that means it’s truly expired or what do I do in this situation
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Permission to post admin. Thank you.· 0 replies
We are still waiting for a case number but I want to make sure I am prepared and knowledgeable about the forms 😊
I have a question about the tax information for the past 3 years, since my fiance is young he has had part time jobs before and didn't last. In 2022 is when he's got a full time, quit it and did 3 other part time jobs. Until 2023 when he worked on his current job, now fulltime. He earns a minimum of $16 per hour. Works 8 hours or more in a day with 2 days off.
He's an office admin there and it's a fulltime, papers are good too. I just want to know if this is sufficient? Or do we need a co-sponsor? We're both single and no kids, so it's only the two of us. But he only plans to get an apartment when Im there, since he's the only child helping his mom with the rent.
Will there not be any issues with his tax for the past 3 years too considering his previous work both part time and fulltime.
Thanks very much!
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afternoon, hope everyone is well. does anyone know how the recent stoppage of visas being processed through the Colombian embassy will affect my Colombian Wifes I-130 application that is still waiting for approval? any info would be appreciated thanks· 0 replies
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Hello, I submitted my wife work permit application I-765 on the Dec 30th. I haven’t gotten any letter saying they have received it, and I don’t have my receipt number to track it. Can anyone help me? I want to know if they got it or not. How do I check other than receipt number?· 1 reply
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Be careful when marrying an immigrant most of them just want a visa and a Green card and almost all end in divorce· 7 replies
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