CraneHaven

Hi Kei! So where I live, I had to apply for us to get a marriage license at a minimum of 3 days before the wedding. When my husband was crossing the border for the weekend for the ceremony, he did not mention that he was going to get married. But the officer was really pushing like "ARE YOU SURRREEEE youre not doing anything else this weekend...?" and he sheepishly finally said "Im also getting married". They pulled him inside just to explain to him that crossing in the future may be a little more difficult. Not because he didn't willingly tell them he was planning on getting married (although they did scold him a little), but because of the whole intent of return thing. The border people feel like "big brother" lol. They are all knowingly. Don't lie to them. As long as you arent planning on coming over, getting married, and staying for like.. 3 weeks or months then I think they will be fine with you crossing with intent of marriage. My husband jsut said he was staying the weekend and that wasn't an issue. I'm thinking that they knew we were going to get married very soon because of the license I applied for us. I was shocked they knew though still. If you don't have to apply for a license, I still recommend just telling the truth... it's not illegal to get married as long as you intend to return, but you really don't wanna look fishy hiding things.

Hey everyone! I just got married last weekend (hurray!) to my Canadian husband. We are able to drive to see eachother (we both live close to the border) and he came over via car. We got married in the US, and the border officer told him on the way here that now that we are married.. it will be a bit more difficult to cross because we will be needing to have proof of intention of returning. For my husband, that's easy because he can show his apartment lease and job schedule. The issue is for when I visit him, because I still live at home with my parents AND I also have a work-from-home job. I am unsure of what I can provide to the border officers as proof that I DO want to return to the US after a week or 2 of visiting every month or so. I have a paid off car, and a couple bank accounts but i'm not sure if that is sufficient. We plan to apply for the I-30 spousal visa, so I wonder if that will count as proof as well. I also have seen some stuff about needing a visitor visa (b-1/b-2) but I don't quite understand if we would need that or not since we don't plan to stay more than a couple weeks at a time during visits ( we are aware of the 6 month max thing). Does anyone have any advice for what I can show as proof for intent of return for US?