quick question about getting married in usa as a vistor

[cateyes221981 0]

just curiosu if we were in the usa as a vistor and last minute we decided to get married in vegas would we get in trouble for not waiting 90 days before getting married?

Does anyone know what would happen if someone did something like this? Not saying i am going to just something i almost did in the summer i had only been in a merica a short while and was going to marry my partner in vegas i jsut want to know what would of happend after had we done such a thing?

[trailmix 77]

Hi and welcome!

I read your other posts and understand that you are now in Canada and your fiance is in the U.S.

You can go to the U.S. and get married - there is nothing wrong with that.

I think what you are really asking is - can you go to the U.S., marry your fiance and stay there and adjust status?

[Sam and Ben 2]

If you do a quick search of the Canada forums (by using the search bar at the bottom of the page, not the top), you will find very good advice in regards to this question. If you visited the US and on a spur of the moment decision married your partner/someone you met there, it would be on you to prove to US Immigration that it was not your intent to marry when you crossed the border, nor to circumvent their immigration laws by doing so. Proof is heavily placed on you at this point. Especially, as stated, that you were only in the US a short while when you almost married... this would seem very suspicious to an Immigration Officer and could be hard to prove that it wasn't simply your intent to do so all along.

Either way, you seem to be at least semi-aware of the immigration protocol for marrying your sweetheart, as you mentioned 90 days (in accordance to the K-1 visa entry rules), and would be best advised to go about marrying your fiance(e) the way that USCIS deems appropriate to immigration law - either marrying first wherever you choose and applying for a spousal visa or applying for a fiance(e) visa and, once approved, moving to the US and marrying then.

[Flames9_RN 358]

I see you have found VJ (from canuckabroad) welcome!!!