I need your advice and i will appreciate it if you can help me .

[Rexie 0]

Hi Everyone,

I hope you can give me an advice i will appreciate it. I came in the US for a k1 visa and we live together with my fiance but after 1 week of staying with him things change he abused me he's fighting me yelling and screaming and i'm so scared to stay with him anymore so i to call my aunt that i need her help because i want to go but my fiance don't want me to go and he dont open the door so my aunt call the police and rescue me so i leave him and i live with my aunt and broke up with him. After 2 weeks i went online and i meet a guy on chat and after 2 weeks me meet and he feel pity of what had happen to me and we become gf and bf and he wants to marry me before my visa expired so we get marry after 10 days of the expiration of my visa. My problem is, Is this not against of the law in immigration that i didnt marry my petitioner and i marry with the other man? Do you think this will work in the immigration? What should we do? Thanks, Any advise would accepted and appreciated.:]

[canadian_wife 1,791]

No, it will not work. You can only marry your petitioner on a K-1 visa in order to adjust status.

You can marry your boyfriend whenever you like, you must, however, return to your home country to apply for a visa

Good luck

[ScottThuy 140]

No, it will not work. You can only marry your petitioner on a K-1 visa in order to adjust status.

You can marry your boyfriend whenever you like, you must, however, return to your home country to apply for a visa

Good luck

Agreed.. Daddy always said "dance with the one what brung ya or go home".. you must return to PI and start the visa process over with a CR1.. if you wait too long you will start acruing overstay which will count against you...

[Canadiandggal 49]

No, it will not work. You can only marry your petitioner on a K-1 visa in order to adjust status.

You can marry your boyfriend whenever you like, you must, however, return to your home country to apply for a visa

Good luck

Agreed You can marry whomever you would like but If it is not the petitioner then you will have to return to your home country and file a spousal visa.

[flustered 14]

Hi Everyone,

I hope you can give me an advice i will appreciate it. I came in the US for a k1 visa and we live together with my fiance but after 1 week of staying with him things change he abused me he's fighting me yelling and screaming and i'm so scared to stay with him anymore so i to call my aunt that i need her help because i want to go but my fiance don't want me to go and he dont open the door so my aunt call the police and rescue me so i leave him and i live with my aunt and broke up with him. After 2 weeks i went online and i meet a guy on chat and after 2 weeks me meet and he feel pity of what had happen to me and we become gf and bf and he wants to marry me before my visa expired so we get marry after 10 days of the expiration of my visa. My problem is, Is this not against of the law in immigration that i didnt marry my petitioner and i marry with the other man? Do you think this will work in the immigration? What should we do? Thanks, Any advise would accepted and appreciated.:]

Not to be taken the wrong way but did you not learn your leasson the first time..after 1 week you end your first relationship and within 2 weeks you have met someone else and are getting married...Can you say "red flag"

[VanessaTony 3,567]

As stated no, it will not work. The K1 visa ONLY allows your to adjust status with the person who petitioned you. You can marry your new bf if you want, but you will be unable to stay and adjust your status. You will have to leave the country and apply for a new visa. If you're married it will be a Cr-1 visa, if you're just engaged it's another K1. Be prepared for this new relationship to undergo a LOT of scrutiny given the circumstances surrounding your meeting.

It looks VERY suspicious that you happen to meet someone else while in the US on a K1 just DAYS after arriving, and then that in the span of 2 weeks of knowing you, you're both in love enough to marry? You also stated he felt "pity for you", that's not love so him offering to adjust your status is immigration fraud (not that it matters here but it's still fraud). Not to mention it's pretty obvious from your post that you went online with the explicit purpose of meeting someone else. It took you 2 weeks to move on from someone you APPARENTLY loved enough to apply for a K1... that alone looks suspicious.

** moved from "Adjustment of Status (Green Card) from Family Based Visas" to Effects of Major Family Changes on Immigration Benefits as this is a more appropriate location**

[KyleC 0]

As stated no, it will not work. The K1 visa ONLY allows your to adjust status with the person who petitioned you. You can marry your new bf if you want, but you will be unable to stay and adjust your status. You will have to leave the country and apply for a new visa. If you're married it will be a Cr-1 visa, if you're just engaged it's another K1. Be prepared for this new relationship to undergo a LOT of scrutiny given the circumstances surrounding your meeting.It looks VERY suspicious that you happen to meet someone else while in the US on a K1 just DAYS after arriving, and then that in the span of 2 weeks of knowing you, you're both in love enough to marry? You also stated he felt "pity for you", that's not love so him offering to adjust your status is immigration fraud (not that it matters here but it's still fraud). Not to mention it's pretty obvious from your post that you went online with the explicit purpose of meeting someone else. It took you 2 weeks to move on from someone you APPARENTLY loved enough to apply for a K1... that alone looks suspicious.** moved from "Adjustment of Status (Green Card) from Family Based Visas" to Effects of Major Family Changes on Immigration Benefits as this is a more appropriate location**

I completely agree. And it actually even is suspicious for me. I mean, if you want to get into the US so bad then try to find work or something, but don't go running into another guys arms between one full moon and another. I don't mean to be offensive but I seriously doubt that you thought the whole marriage thing through with the second guy. Plus, as stated earlier, the first case should have been a lesson to you NOT to trust other people too quickly to get into the whole bureaucracy #######. It's just gonna hurt you... (sorry this had nothing to do with the actual question itself, but I see this also as an opportunity to help one another out)

[Deputy Purple 1,294]

After 2 weeks i went online and i meet a guy on chat and after 2 weeks me meet and he feel pity of what had happen to me and we become gf and bf and he wants to marry me before my visa expired so we get marry after 10 days of the expiration of my visa.

Not trying to offend the OP but this smells fishy!

First, the new BF wants to marry her because he "feels pity of what had happened to her" so in essence he wants to marry her just so she can get an immigration benefit, that's fraud.

Also, in a real abuse situation wouldn't she still be recovering from the ordeal of moving to the US and being abused. I mean really after 2 weeks she's trolling the internet looking for another Kano?

Finally, what a coincidence that the first Kano lived so close to her kind Auntie who rescued her.

I mean it really sound slike somthing was going on from the get go here.

@OP, sorry with K-1 entry you can only adjust status based on marriage to the original K-1 petitioner. This is to protect him for situations like this. You must return the the Philippines and get the new BF to spend thousands of dollars to bring you back. FWIW, you visa was no longer valid once you used it to enter the US, now the I-94 validity is what allows you to stay for 90 days, if you overstay then you will complicate getting another visa of any kind.

Edited December 7, 2010 by Bob 4 Anna

[Rexie 0]

Thanks for your comments. It's offensive but it's okay you don't know my whole story coming here and you dont know about my situation..

[VanessaTony 3,567]

Thanks for your comments. It's offensive but it's okay you don't know my whole story coming here and you dont know about my situation..

We don't mean to be offensive.. I understand based on your post you've probably been through something hard. Maybe you did love your K1 petitioner but your post, and your willingness to move on so soon makes it appear there was no real love there.

If I were in your shoes, if that happened to me I would have been out of the US so fast. If I had family here to support me I'd go and visit them while I waited for my flight out of the US... maybe to help lick my wounds a bit... but I certainly wouldn't hop online 2 weeks later and start dating someone else.

As sad as it is, there's nothing you can say that will make it seem like you meeting someone online and becoming romantically involved with them 3 weeks after arriving in the US on a K1 visa to someone else, is part of some deeper story. You said we don't know the situation of you coming here, okay, that makes it sound like your union with your K1 wasn't a love union. Your situation... who knows what that means but no matter what you say, you either entered with a K1 for fraudulent reasons, or you plan on staying in the US for fraudulent reasons. I don't know anyone who is actually abused that can move on so quickly.. I assume kudos to you is in order.

You either knew this person beforehand and that makes it look like you used your K1 petitioner to get here to marry him (not knowing the rules stop you from AOSing via this person), or you met this random person online and after 2 weeks of knowing this new person plan on marrying him AND were able to convince him to sponsor you. No matter which way you look at it, it's immigration fraud.

No matter what, you have until your I-94 expires to leave the US. You can never adjust status to remain in the US legally without your K1 petitioner. That was your qn which has now been asked and answered. You must leave the US, you have no choice.

**Edit - I was wrong, you do have a choice. You can leave the US before your I-94 expires and maintain a good standing for visa eligibility, or you can try and stay in the US out of status, unable to leave, unable to work (legally) and roll the dice on whether ICE will catch you.

Good luck with your decision.

Edited December 8, 2010 by Vanessa&Tony

[George & Gina 29]

No, it will not work. You can only marry your petitioner on a K-1 visa in order to adjust status.

You can marry your boyfriend whenever you like, you must, however, return to your home country to apply for a visa

Good luck

+1

[ATPEACE 43]

Thanks for your comments. It's offensive but it's okay you don't know my whole story coming here and you don't know about my situation..

Oh but immigration does know your story, they see cases like this everyday, and it is called FRAUD. The only way out is to go back home before the 194 expires. Your situation is no different than anyone else from a 3rd world country. If you choose to stay, please remember these kind word, your life will never be your own, because you will always be looking over your shoulder to see if I.C.E. is behind you.

Good luck on whichever journey you chose.

[indian guy 13]

Thanks for your comments. It's offensive but it's okay you don't know my whole story coming here and you dont know about my situation..

Then tell your story truthfully. then seek advise and help. Marriage frauds are not that complicated to figureout.

[huuloimongcam 0]

Very nice everyone! For someone like her, who can change her mind so quickly on a serious relationship in 2 weeks, not only she is not deserve to be here in U.S but not to have a lover at all.

[belinda63 2,981]

1. You are out of status from the day your I-94 expired. You cannot adjust status, i.e. obtain a green card, in anyway right now except to marry the person who petitioned you. And if I am reading this correctly you have already married someone else. If you remain more than 180 days past the expiration of your I-94 you will receive a three year ban upon leaving the US. If you are found while you are out of status you will be deported and receive an even longer ban.

2. Your options right now for remaining legally in the US and adjusting status are ZERO. You need to return home and your husband start the CR-1 process, see the guides at the top.

3. Be prepared for a very, very difficult time obtaining the CR-1 visa. Given that you are from a high fraud country, you came to marry one man, left this man, met another on chat and married him a few weeks later is like an almost guaranteed denial of a visa. You will need a mountain of proof that this marriage is legitimate.