Noorah101

I-129F, you mean. Yes, you are allowed to visit the USA while all that is pending. However, it seems you're already experiencing some difficulties on your US visits...just don't be surprised if one day you get bounced at the POE.

Rene

Noorah101

I don't know if that's an arrest or not. But either way, just be honest on all the immigration paperwork.

You asked about the police report...you will need to have that in hand before your medical exam. You need to take a copy of it with you to the exam.

Rene

Stribs

A couple of times I have come over and stayed for 88 days, things like that. They told me I was absuing the VWP. I dont work. I save and live here. We stay at her Mums (Thankfully she is away a lot of the time) and my Fiance pays for some things when im here, and I pay for some things when shes in England. It's just what we have to do.

This time coming in was a nightmare. They took my phone and looked through my messages. They got a more important man to come over and question me intensely (The meanest man i've ever met, he said "I cant see how I can let you in")

But the only reason I got in was I told them I was proposing and the 1st man said he had a girl who he loved and knew my situation. He's my hero.

When you say bounced you mean shipped back on a plane?

RICH

Don't know. My guess it is same as a speeding fine and won't count for anything, but does the gf know about it? Wouldn't like to have that sprung on her at the wrong moment.

Stribs

Yeah she's heard it, more as a funny anecdote than anything taken seriously.

Girls ran up to bouncers in a club and pointed at me saying I had harmed their friend.

I had not

The bouncers kicked me out, I thought fine, kebab and home.

Said girls then ran to the police standing outside and shouted the same offense (I did not commit). They then hand cuffed me and paraded me through the street like a common thug. Had a lovely sleep in a cell then let out in the morning.

Anyway I digress.

Not being able to work for another 2 months after applying for the AOS seems tough going.

I would come to the US on my K-1, get married then still not be able to work?

Noorah101

Yes, I mean turned around at the POE and sent back on the next plane out. From what happened to you on this entry, I'd leave it as long as possible before trying another VWP visit...more than 3 or 4 months for sure.

Rene

Noorah101

Correct. You enter on the K-1. You get married. You file AOS. As part of the AOS paperwork, you can apply for an Employment Authorization Document. It takes about 60 - 90 days to get the EAD in hand. Until you have the EAD in hand, you won't be able to get hired anywhere.

Rene

RICH

It may be different now but I was able to work for a while, then stop then start again. If I remember, I could get a 3 month work permit based on the K1 visa, then once AOS was applied for I could get a one year permit. 6 month gap between.
More from my time line:

1 July Applied EAD
15 july Applied SSN
;;;recieve SSN
6 August Wedding
7 August Reciept for EAD (dated 15? July)
16 Aug 2004 EAD received (valid 3 months from 15 July!!)
?May 2005 new 1 year ead can work again.

Stribs

I may have to go to a different forum (I saw someone get told off before) But just if you knew, If we got married in the US, as more family members were here, but then wanted to live in England. Would this be a wholllle different process?

RICH

Yes it is a different process- you would be looking to immigrate your US wife to UK. See this forum:
http://britishexpats.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=61

Michael

The UK recently tightened up on their requirement for a non-EU spouse to live in the UK. It now requires the sponsor (you) to have an annual income of about £18,500 or have £62,500 in a bank account for 6 months.

The US requires the sponsor (her) to have an annual income of about $18,500 or have about $52,000 in assets or have a joint sponsor that can fulfill the avadavat of support requirements (125% of the poverty level including you). The joint sponsor can be any US citizen or legal permanent resident over the age of 18. There is also a way to combine income with assets to fulfill the requirement.

ian-mstm

Congratulations! I don't really have anything to add to the excellent advice you've received so far - but I just wanted to say that I, personally, very much appreciate your attitude towards US immigration. You've demonstrated the requisite flexibility, you've done your homework, and you have a viable course of action. Well done!

My wife and I did the K-1 visa thingy many years ago - and although I was born in Scotland, I was living in Canada at the time. Regardless, the process was as much the same then as it is now. Everyone here has been through or is currently going through the process - so their information is invaluable.

You are about to learn a new language (with apologies to George Orwell): immigration-speak. Take your time and, as civilservant suggested: read, digest, read again, etc.

Ian

jeffreyhy

Some points of clarification to ensure that you understand correctly how the parts fit together:

You US fiancee does not apply for an I-129f form. She uses an I-129f form to petition the US government to recognize you as her fiance. This recognition qualifies you to apply for a K-1 visa. You will be applying for a non-immigrant visa in the K-1 category. The application will not be approved (or denied) until after you have completed steps 2 and 3. You need to have a medical exam as a part of your K-1 visa application. You must have the medical exam before you can have the interview. The medical exam is not something that is approved or denied, it provides the consular officer with the information they need to know to determine whether or not you are inadmissable to the USA for medical reasons. After you have submitted your visa application (form DS-160) and your medical exam report has been submitted to the consulate by the Panel Physician (the US approved doctor who performed your exam). Like the medical exam, the interview does not get approved or denied, it gives the consular officer information they need to determine whether or not your visa application can be approved. Yes. Ideally within 90 days of entry, but not necessarily. What this gives you is conditional status as a Permanent Resident of the USA for a period of two years. During the 90 day period prior to the expiration of your two-year conditional status you petition to have the conditions removed and your Permanent Resident status be made 'permanent'. Regards, JEff

Stribs

Thank you on your kind words. It's that realisation that there are only a few options that we have right now, we've accepted that, so planning the best route we have.

I'll get a timeline set up of our journey when this gets going, the ones I have read have been extremely helpful to gage what happens.

Thanks again.

civilservant

Following on from Ian's post, you ,may have noticed that we are far more welcoming of those that have clearly actually read something and digested it first, then those whose opening sentence is 'We're married, so now what'?'