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maxibon1   0

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Hi,

I have been in the states for a month on a travel visa. My girlfriend is an american citizen and i came over here to visit her. We have been dating for 1 year and I decided to pop the question and ask her to marry me. She said 'Yes' and we both thought it would be a good idea to go and tie the knot. I am now married. But, i'm still on a tourist visa. I was just wondering if it is possible to change my visa to a spouse visa without returning home? I have 2 months left on my tourist visa.

Thanks,

Max

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Ning25   620

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Hi,

I have been in the states for a month on a travel visa. My girlfriend is an american citizen and i came over here to visit her. We have been dating for 1 year and I decided to pop the question and ask her to marry me. She said 'Yes' and we both thought it would be a good idea to go and tie the knot. I am now married. But, i'm still on a tourist visa. I was just wondering if it is possible to change my visa to a spouse visa without returning home? I have 2 months left on my tourist visa.

Thanks,

Max

Yes this can be done. See the forums here on V J to find the info. Read down the list & you will find the AOS area.

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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No, you cannot change your visa.

What you can do is apply for adjustment of status from visitor to lawful permanent resident, based on having become the immediate relative of a U.S. citizen.

You guys file the following forms concurrently (at the same time): I-130, I-485, I-864, I-765 (optional), I-131(optional) concurrently, accompanied by a medical from an approved civil surgeon. The cost is $1,490 plus whatever the good doctor charges, which is anywhere from $180 to $450, so shop around.

Go to the top of this page, go to Guides, and have a very close look at the AOS Guide. Ask questions whenever you feel you don't understand something.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

 
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