Evening y'all - marriage visa to USA
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Evening y'all - marriage visa to USA
First day on site, been educated by admin.
So my history, born in UK on US Base have US passport and social security and engaged with a child. My father grandparents live in the US. Am I likely to encounter problems moving my household to south carolina? I've applied for a management role there and is progressing, what are your experiences of relocation package's and what would ones first jobs be to sort out
So my history, born in UK on US Base have US passport and social security and engaged with a child. My father grandparents live in the US. Am I likely to encounter problems moving my household to south carolina? I've applied for a management role there and is progressing, what are your experiences of relocation package's and what would ones first jobs be to sort out
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Re: Evening y'all
Welcome! Have you been filing US taxes? If not, you probably want to take a look at that first.
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Re: Evening y'all
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Your fiancée and child will need immigrant visas in order to move to the US. If your child is under 18, s/he will become a US citizen the moment s/he clears immigration. Your fiancée will become a US permanent resident (= green card) the moment she clears immigration. The visa process will take about 6 months.
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All things considered, getting married soon, pre-immigration, and applying for a spouse (CR-1) visa is easier, cheaper, beginning to end (obtaining PR status) quicker, and his wife will be able to work immediately she clears immigration, literally right there in the airport of she had a job to go to.
Last edited by Pulaski; Aug 11th 2017 at 9:01 pm.
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Re: Evening y'all
You will need to file at least the last three years' tax returns to be able to sponsor your family, but be reassured it is very unlikely you'll actually owe any tax to the US. There is an article in this site's wiki about how to do so.
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Re: Evening y'all
If he is the biological father of the child, is the child not a US citizen since the father is a US citizen?
If so, the child would not need a visa.
If so, the child would not need a visa.
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Re: Evening y'all
It's a "by descent" thing - the child's father was born in the UK, to (at least) one US citizen parent, but appears to have never lived in the US, therefore doesn't meet the "five years residence" test to be able to pass on US citizenship to his children.
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Aaah, yes....... forgot about the residency requirement. duh ....
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Re: Evening y'all - marriage visa to USA
First day on site, been educated by admin.
So my history, born in UK on US Base have US passport and social security and engaged with a child. My father grandparents live in the US. Am I likely to encounter problems moving my household to south carolina? I've applied for a management role there and is progressing, what are your experiences of relocation package's and what would ones first jobs be to sort out
So my history, born in UK on US Base have US passport and social security and engaged with a child. My father grandparents live in the US. Am I likely to encounter problems moving my household to south carolina? I've applied for a management role there and is progressing, what are your experiences of relocation package's and what would ones first jobs be to sort out
Rene
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Re: Evening y'all - marriage visa to USA
He has two open threads, and it is clear by inference. .... He specifies that he is a USC, and that he lives in the UK and has a "partner" and child. Given how specific he is, it would be peculiar for him to omit material facts about his family.
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Re: Evening y'all
Sorry, what I didn't put was I was born on USAF Base, lived in the US for 3 years as a child and then a couple of years as a teenager. Does that change anything?
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Re: Evening y'all - marriage visa to USA
If you lived in the USA for 5 years, 2 of which were over the age of 14, then you can pass your citizenship to your child.
Your child would then need a US passport to enter the USA.
Rene
Your child would then need a US passport to enter the USA.
Rene