Getting visa with no immediate intention to move to US?

[nicole21843 0]

What potential problems could arise when applying for a CR-1 visa with no immediate intentions to move to the U.S.? Would immigration authorities really care? Would it cause problems when visiting the U.S.?

[Georgia16 2,858]

Why apply, pay and go through the process if it's not needed yet?

After the visa is approved you have a certain timeline to enter the US so yeah they do care.

If you only want to visit you have the VWP

[kzielu 1,144]

What potential problems could arise when applying for a CR-1 visa with no immediate intentions to move to the U.S.? Would immigration authorities really care? Would it cause problems when visiting the U.S.?

Yes, it will. First, if you don't use it within 6 months, it will expire and will no longer be valid. If you end up just visiting, it'll get revoked eventually.

[dwheels76 5,459]

What potential problems could arise when applying for a CR-1 visa with no immediate intentions to move to the U.S.? Would immigration authorities really care? Would it cause problems when visiting the U.S.?

When you say no immediate intention do you mean weeks , months years? You have 6 months from medical to enter or you will go all the way back to beginning and start again.

[nicole21843 0]

To clarify, I mean if the applicant intends to enter the U.S. within 6 months of the medical but would return to their home country afterward to live indefinitely with occasional visits to the U.S.

We're nearing the end of the visa process but no longer sure we want to return to the U.S. to live in the near future.

[Georgia16 2,858]

To clarify, I mean if the applicant intends to enter the U.S. within 6 months of the medical but would return to their home country afterward to live indefinitely with occasional visits to the U.S.

We're nearing the end of the visa process but no longer sure we want to return to the U.S. to live in the near future.

Then the visa isn't needed meaning the GC permanent resident since the person wouldn't be a resident of the us. The VWP would be enough to do those visits.

[nicole21843 0]

I understand that. I'm asking from the point of view of someone who already has an interview date and may want to live in the U.S. in the future, just not immediately,

[Georgia16 2,858]

I understand that. I'm asking from the point of view of someone who already has an interview date and may want to live in the U.S. in the future, just not immediately,

But why go to the interview and all that if your aren't going to use the visa?

[nicole21843 0]

Because we've invested a great deal of time and money in the visa and want the option to live in the US within the next few years. I said no immediate intention to move, not no intention to ever move.

[Georgia16 2,858]

Because we've invested a great deal of time and money in the visa and want the option to live in the US within the next few years. I said no immediate intention to move, not no intention to ever move.

I get that but you won't be able to save the visa for when you won't to move. You'll have to start over at that point anyway you can't get it now and then have it on hold till then time come for you guys to move...

[Jack2107 46]

Wouldn't you struggle to remove the conditions if you can't show strong marital ties together? Co mingling of finances? Co ownership of car/home etc etc

[nicole21843 0]

Wouldn't you struggle to remove the conditions if you can't show strong marital ties together? Co mingling of finances? Co ownership of car/home etc etc

This is the kind of response I was looking for, thanks. We live together and have co-mingled finances, etc - but all in Spain.

[dwheels76 5,459]

This is the kind of response I was looking for, thanks. We live together and have co-mingled finances, etc - but all in Spain.

Co-mingling in Spain would not matter not at Removal time. ave you been married over 2 years?

The bottom line is there may come a time that the CBP deems o are not immigrating and you are living more outside the country than on and you would have to surrender your green card.

[Unlockable 7,306]

The other posters are correct that based on the info you have given you are almost guaranteed to lose your GC. The living together and comingling of finances must be within US borders for ROC.

Even living 6 months in the US and 6 months out is risky.

[mallafri76 1,012]

First of all, the CR/IR-1 visa is for families to live together in the US, so the point of the visa is for the foreign spouse to immigrate to the US to live there with their spouse.

You got married August 2015, which means you will have been married less than two years when getting your green card and hence you'll get a conditional green card. That means you'll have to remove conditions on residence a few months before your "two year anniversary" in the US. According to INA, the only exception to the US residency requirement when removing conditions of residence is for those on active military or government assignments overseas. So while you can enter the US and activate the green card and then return abroad, once it's time to remove conditions on the residency, it will most likely be cancelled since there has been no residency in the US.