fernanda

hi

I have a student visa F1 and I am planning to get married in the end of the year. My fiance is not from Usa but he already applied to be a citizen.(right now he has a green card) His process already started and he already did the fingerprints. I just want to know what is the best thing that we have to do when we get married. I want to know if I can stay with my student visa or if I can start the process of green card because my fiance already have it.

Ingo Pakleppa

I would recommend that you wait until he is a US citizen. At that point,
he can sponsor you immediately.

You can get married now, but immigration-wise, it won't change anything
and could interfere with you travelling or extending your F-1 status.

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:00:29 +0000, fernanda wrote:


    > hi
    >
    > I have a student visa F1 and I am planning to get married in the end of
    > the year. My fiance is not from Usa but he already applied to be a
    > citizen.(right now he has a green card) His process already started and
    > he already did the fingerprints. I just want to know what is the best
    > thing that we have to do when we get married. I want to know if I can
    > stay with my student visa or if I can start the process of green card
    > because my fiance already have it.

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factorus

Question, how long does the process of citizenship take ingo? And at what point can a non immigrant alien benefit from marrying a citizen? While the process is going on or a stage after the process has started ie like year into the process etc? Or is it once the person has goes in for swearing in etc?

Ingo Pakleppa

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:59:51 +0000, factorus wrote:


    > Originally posted by Ingo Pakleppa
    >
    >> I would recommend that you wait until he is a US citizen. At that
    >> point, he can sponsor you immediately.
    >> You can get married now, but immigration-wise, it won't change anything
    >> and could interfere with you travelling or extending your F-1 status.
    >
    > Question, how long does the process of citizenship take ingo? And at
    > what point can a non immigrant alien benefit from marrying a citizen?
    > While the process is going on or a stage after the process has started
    > ie like year into the process etc? Or is it once the person has goes in
    > for swearing in etc?

The non-immigrant would benefit only after the naturalization oath. The
process of citizenship can take anything from a couple months to about two
years or so; it depends on where you apply. You can look up processing
times on several lawyer's Web sites. See my FAQ page for links.

By the way, this may change in the future; H.R. 539 is a bill currently
pending in Congress that would allow Green Card holders to sponsor you the
same way. Please see my lobbying page (see link below) and be sure to
write your Congressperson to support this and H.R. 832!

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