Feisty1 - questions on banking and name change
Mar 24th 2019, 4:17 pm
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Feisty1 - questions on banking and name change
If I spend say 80 days in usa then I head back to uk for minimum of 81 as I've been told this is ok. I always carry proof of uk residence and bills, should I change things like my uk/usa bank accounts to new married name. Or should I wait until I've got green card to do all these things, as I intend keeping my uk bank account open for when I decide to start drawing a pension, which I don't intend doing for a few more years. I'm slightly confused that I will be married with a new surname, but all my documents will still be in my maiden name.
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Mar 24th 2019, 4:19 pm
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Re: Advice on k1 visa
High risk, general advice is to stay out twice as long as you are on and less than 90 days.
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Mar 24th 2019, 4:45 pm
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Re: Feisty1 - questions on banking and name change
If I spend say 80 days in usa then I head back to uk for minimum of 81 as I've been told this is ok. I always carry proof of uk residence and bills.
question. Once married, then CR1 forms downloaded, completed and sent off, it's then just a waiting game, should I change things like my uk/usa bank accounts to new married name. Or should I wait until I've got green card to do all these things, as I intend keeping my uk bank account open for when I decide to start drawing a pension, which I don't intend doing for a few more years. I'm slightly confused that I will be married with a new surname, but all my documents will still be in my maiden name.
question. Once married, then CR1 forms downloaded, completed and sent off, it's then just a waiting game, should I change things like my uk/usa bank accounts to new married name. Or should I wait until I've got green card to do all these things, as I intend keeping my uk bank account open for when I decide to start drawing a pension, which I don't intend doing for a few more years. I'm slightly confused that I will be married with a new surname, but all my documents will still be in my maiden name.
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Mar 25th 2019, 12:45 am
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Re: Advice on k1 visa
Personally I never agreed with the flat "more time out than in" advice, and I suspect that the jump to "more than twice as out than in" is spurious. Factors on being turned away for being in the US too long include age - young people (i) have a habit of trying to flout the rules, and (ii) are less likely to have accumulated assets/ savings to be able to support themselves without working and/or to be able to spend prolonged periods away from their place of work, and I don't see that either of these two factors apply to Feisty1.
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Mar 25th 2019, 1:18 am
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Re: Feisty1 - questions on banking and name change
You are visiting, 90 days in 90 days out is going to raise eyebrows.
Mar 25th 2019, 1:00 pm
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Re: Feisty1 - questions on banking and name change
Says who? I already said I knew someone who abused the system for several years.
Merely parroting the same thing doesn't prove it to be true, nor do reported problems for people in their 20's or 30's necessarily apply to people in their 50's or 60's.
Merely parroting the same thing doesn't prove it to be true, nor do reported problems for people in their 20's or 30's necessarily apply to people in their 50's or 60's.
Mar 25th 2019, 2:12 pm
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Re: Feisty1 - questions on banking and name change
I have seen all age groups bounced, does seem to happen less to those retired.
