**NEED ADVICE**on fiancé visa
Aug 24th 2013, 4:06 pm
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Re: **NEED ADVICE**on fiancé visa
Aug 24th 2013, 10:13 pm
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Re: **NEED ADVICE**on fiancé visa
Ian
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Aug 25th 2013, 3:07 am
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Re: **NEED ADVICE**on fiancé visa
Please don't stress.
I already stated that my situation didn't apply. In addition I've also seen posts by you that were irrelevant to the OP's original question on other threads.
In discussing matters in general one may uncover a nugget of helpful information that hadn't been considered previously. I've watched this process unfold in that manner many times.
(Be aware that I have found your contributions helpful on many occasions and I'm grateful. I take no offense.)
I already stated that my situation didn't apply. In addition I've also seen posts by you that were irrelevant to the OP's original question on other threads.
In discussing matters in general one may uncover a nugget of helpful information that hadn't been considered previously. I've watched this process unfold in that manner many times.
(Be aware that I have found your contributions helpful on many occasions and I'm grateful. I take no offense.)
Last edited by Hotscot; Aug 25th 2013 at 3:15 am. Reason: To use more courteous language.
Aug 26th 2013, 4:36 pm
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Re: **NEED ADVICE**on fiancé visa
When I was in practice, it was not uncommon for a client [or potential client] to tell me "But another lawyer told me ..." I would obtain the client's permission to speak with the other lawyer and then speak with the other lawyer. Quite often it would turn out that we had received a slightly different version of the facts or there was a fact that one us was not aware of.
And sometimes, it was just a difference of opinion on a matter which was what I call a "judgement call."
And sometimes, it was just a difference of opinion on a matter which was what I call a "judgement call."
Aug 27th 2013, 2:34 am
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Re: **NEED ADVICE**on fiancé visa
I am a US citizen currently engaged to a UK citizen I met two years ago while in England. He flew here in July and proposed and we started planning our wedding and set our date knowing in the back of our minds that we had some things to get straight for him to legally live but not knowing what a huge process it was going to be. I have talked to several lawyers who have all given me different advice so I figured it would be best to talk to people who have already gone through the process....our wedding is set and booked for March 14th next year with no wiggle room because if we cancel now we lose $6,000 we have already put into the wedding venue and photographers. I have been told that a fiancé visa could potentially take 4 months to a year (which is a HUGE difference!) which could completely mess up our wedding if he isn't approved on time. Another lawyer told me that we could go ahead and get married now (through a justice of the peace) because we didn't have the intention of getting married when he flew here (he's here until October 4th visiting and helping me plan for march) and then we could keep our planned wedding date and do a ceremony and reception on march 14th as planned and start the process of applying for a change of status. Another lawyer told me that would be against the law and that we should stick with a fiancé visa.....all in all we are even more confused than we were when we started researching AND extremely stressed out. All we want to do is get married in march and live a normal life and now it's sounding more and more impossible. HELP PLEASE!
The only problem he would face is if he got married on the VWP, and then attempted to adjust status from within the US. If you do intend to live in the US, after the wedding you could then file for a spouse visa, but your husband would have to leave the US within 90 days of arriving under the VWP, and the spouse visa would take around 8 months to process, so putting you together around November 2014.
Aug 27th 2013, 8:34 am
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Re: **NEED ADVICE**on fiancé visa
With respect, no she's not - the wedding in March can still go ahead - they just need to decide whether to apply for a K1 before that and risk abandoning that process if it doesn't come through in time, or waiting until after the wedding and going down the I130 route.
OR, as others have said, get married now, file the I130 and then still have the ceremony in March. $6k saved
OR, as others have said, get married now, file the I130 and then still have the ceremony in March. $6k saved
Aug 27th 2013, 10:49 pm
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Re: **NEED ADVICE**on fiancé visa
You didn't actually read the rest of that post, did you?
Having set the date with "no wiggle room", no matter which route they take, there is an element of risk. Whether they pursue the K-1 visa, or the I-130 afterwards, the wedding is dependent on the fiancé actually being allowed to enter the US in time for the wedding! The long-term members have seen cases where that didn't happen - $6,000 lost! Once you've been around a bit longer, you'll begin to understand!
Ian
$6k saved
Ian
Aug 27th 2013, 11:04 pm
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Re: **NEED ADVICE**on fiancé visa
You didn't actually read the rest of that post, did you?
Having set the date with "no wiggle room", no matter which route they take, there is an element of risk. Whether they pursue the K-1 visa, or the I-130 afterwards, the wedding is dependent on the fiancé actually being allowed to enter the US in time for the wedding! The long-term members have seen cases where that didn't happen - $6,000 lost!
Ian
Having set the date with "no wiggle room", no matter which route they take, there is an element of risk. Whether they pursue the K-1 visa, or the I-130 afterwards, the wedding is dependent on the fiancé actually being allowed to enter the US in time for the wedding! The long-term members have seen cases where that didn't happen - $6,000 lost!
Ian
But thanks for patronising me...
