Why delays in filing for AOS after K-1 marriage?
Jul 21st 2004, 2:58 pm
#16
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Re: Why delays in filing for AOS after K-1 marriage?
In our situation, it was:
1) we had to wait for our justice of the peace to submit our completed
marriage license to the city hall, then wait for city hall to process
it and to send it out.
2) lack of time: filling everything, reading the latest information
about fees, documents that need to be included or not, etc. is very
time consuming. back from our honeymoon, it took us roughly 3 evening
& nights (going to bed after 1am) in order to get everything together,
since we were both working at that time. We would have prepared
everything earlier if we had known that it was so long...and if we had
not been way too busy moving in, assembling furniture, looking for
jobs / working, preparing our wedding day, ceremony and reception,
preparing for my family that came for our wedding, despite the
extremely short notice, ...
J
On 19 Jul 2004 07:24:55 -0700, [email protected] (Margaret)
wrote:
>psychobabbler1 <member21586@british_expats.com> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>> I was wondering why some K-1 people don't file for AOS ASAP after
>> getting married. It seems it would be in the best interests of the
>> foreign spouse, esp. in some cases like the recent post by
>> marriagefailing. I've read other posts before where people have said
>> they hadn't filed AOS yet, despite being married for some time. For
>> some reason, I thought that one had to get married *and* file for AOS
>> before the 90 days on the K-1 expired (we filed one week after getting
>> married, though it was about 11 months till we had the interview).
>> Maybe I read something wrong or am not remembering things correctly?
>> Why wouldn't you file immediately after getting married? I don't
>> understand.
>For some people, it's lack of money. We filed ours within 2 months
>after we married.
1) we had to wait for our justice of the peace to submit our completed
marriage license to the city hall, then wait for city hall to process
it and to send it out.
2) lack of time: filling everything, reading the latest information
about fees, documents that need to be included or not, etc. is very
time consuming. back from our honeymoon, it took us roughly 3 evening
& nights (going to bed after 1am) in order to get everything together,
since we were both working at that time. We would have prepared
everything earlier if we had known that it was so long...and if we had
not been way too busy moving in, assembling furniture, looking for
jobs / working, preparing our wedding day, ceremony and reception,
preparing for my family that came for our wedding, despite the
extremely short notice, ...
J
On 19 Jul 2004 07:24:55 -0700, [email protected] (Margaret)
wrote:
>psychobabbler1 <member21586@british_expats.com> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>> I was wondering why some K-1 people don't file for AOS ASAP after
>> getting married. It seems it would be in the best interests of the
>> foreign spouse, esp. in some cases like the recent post by
>> marriagefailing. I've read other posts before where people have said
>> they hadn't filed AOS yet, despite being married for some time. For
>> some reason, I thought that one had to get married *and* file for AOS
>> before the 90 days on the K-1 expired (we filed one week after getting
>> married, though it was about 11 months till we had the interview).
>> Maybe I read something wrong or am not remembering things correctly?
>> Why wouldn't you file immediately after getting married? I don't
>> understand.
>For some people, it's lack of money. We filed ours within 2 months
>after we married.
Jul 22nd 2004, 12:46 am
#17
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Joined: Mar 2004
Location: Massachusetts & formerly Turkey
Posts: 221
Re: Why delays in filing for AOS after K-1 marriage?
we would have filed that same day if we could but it takes several days to get the marriage certificate from city hall...everyone has reasons for waiting to file for AOS but i think everyone files when they're able to financially, physically, etc.
