US Immigration from Japan

I'll try to keep this brief.

My girlfriend and I have been dating for a while and we want to get married. She is on an F-1 Visa which I believe should be valid for another 3ish years or so (I should ask her to clarify). We both feel we want to get married, but we are not engaged or married yet. Originally we wanted to get get engaged early next year, then get married and do a reception in her home country, and do a reception in the US after that, but after researching a while and reading this forum, I've concluded that this is a bad idea.

So here's my plan, please let me know of any potential flaws you see based on your own experience:

1. She says she has to go back to her home country next spring, so I can go meet her family but we'll wait until AFTER she returns to the US in the spring to be engaged. As long as we are not engaged or married her only reason to be in the US is to study, so I don't see any issues of intent here as far as USCIS is concerned. I'm not sure how long is necessary to wait to be engaged after she returns (I don't want to wait at all, ideally it would only be a few weeks). We want to get married at the end of next summer if possible so we can avoid the hassle of trying to move in together during the middle of a semester.
2. After getting married in August, wait until the end of the year to apply for the AOS. I don't want to mess with the 90-day rule or whatever it is.
3. When we apply for the AOS, also apply for the I-131. If lucky, we'll get that in time to do something in her home country next year and do the original honeymoon abroad we wanted to do.

Are there any potential problems here? I don't want to do anything to jeopardize her status and cause us to be separated for a long time and disrupt her studies, so I feel that we should wait to decide to be engaged until she knows she can be in the US through the length of the AOS process (with the hope we can do something with the approved parole). Additionally, I met her after she had already been in the US for a few semesters, so her intent was originally to study (which she made so painfully clear to me when I was trying to date her after I met her and was interested).

Also I have another question. I'd like to avoid using a lawyer as it is expensive and we have some time before she graduates. If we meticulously fill out the forms ourselves will that be okay? If there happens to be an error, does UCSIS send it back, or do they simply reject it? Would we have to pay the fees again?

got DQ last month Sept 23 just waiting for my interview date, Non expedite case... roughly waiting time from DQ to Interview Date any idea??

I'm just trying to figure out for my medical....

should i proceed for my medical exam without my interview letter yet? or should i wait for it?

I found the below link which seems to indicate that this form is no longer required for the K1 Visa (or other) interviews:

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/update-on-public-charge.html

Can anyone else confirm? I cannot find any discussion of this on VisaJourney. The current DS-5540 form seems to have expired on 08/31/2020. If this still needs to be completed, does anyone have the current form?

Hi, thank you for your time in advance.

I'm a Japanese female and I'm getting married my American girlfriend.

We were thinking to apply K-1 visa so I was researching about it online including here then many people suggested me about CR-1 as I'm in the US with her 3 more weeks.

*I can't change my departure date as I already booked my flight and quarantine place in Japan. Also I have a sick aunty...

So we just started researching and preparing for CR-1 visa.

We can get marriage certificate but I don't know about Evidence of a Bonafide Marriage.

I'm here with tourist visa so I don't have SSN.

Which bank can we make joint account without SSN??

Or do you have any suggestions what I can get as Evidence of a Bonafide Marriage ??

*My partner lives in VA and we will get marriage certificate there but we are in AZ for my partner's work at the moment. So I hope we can find a bank here to make a joint account.

If you need any more information of me and my partner, please ask me!!

Also I'm always welcome any tips for the visa as I am really newbie for this visa and I don't have much time left here in the US...

Thank you again.

Hi,

I'm a Japanese girl and I got engaged with my American girlfriend.

Now I am in the US with Visitor visa to work on the document together with my partner.

My partner is not good at paper work and full-time job so I research while she's at work.

I was checking many topics here.

However, I haven't seen any same-sex couple information so I just wanted to know if there's any or not.

I just want to be connected with people in the same situation and if anyone can give me some tips about it, I feel great and I really appreciate it.

I'm looking forward to hear from you.

Thank you!!