fatbrit

No fiancee visa available for permenant residents.

She may petition but will have to wait for number to become available, currently around 5 years.

Common scenario is that the permanent resident naturalizes before the wait is up and then upgrades petition.

chicagojlo

As others have said your plan of just travelling around after his J1 expires may not be that simple. And there are limits to how much time you can be outside the US if you want to retain your green card. Being a green card holder does not make you a citizen, and only citizens can sponsor people to live here.
I'm thinking that you need to do a lot more research and sharpish.

penguinsix

Oops. Had it in my head she was a citizen when I said that.

Here is a good link about Green Cards the OP might want to examine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_..._Resident_Card

meauxna

What if her visa is an unmarried child class? Perhaps that is why she can't marry before arrival---she is not a PR yet. Probably why they didn't marry beforehand and get him a GC too.
After arrival will be a different story.

fatbrit

Yep -- that's what I assumed. But after arrival if she marries, it doesn't move him much further forward in being here, does it? Still got the five year wait presumably.

meauxna

Nope, and he's selling the flat to come over for three months? yikes.

fatbrit

Just doesn't add up.

Bob

Ditch the belongings, ditch the boyfriend...problems solved.