K1 Fiance visa and work visa

[Carin Lynne 0]

Hello,

Someone just told me that you as a Canadian can get a working visa for the U.S. at the border, as long as you have adequate proof of your job while the K-1 Fiance visa is still processing... can anyone provide me with information on this please?

Thank you so much!

Carin

[zenaxe 22]

Hello,

Someone just told me that you as a Canadian can get a working visa for the U.S. at the border, as long as you have adequate proof of your job while the K-1 Fiance visa is still processing... can anyone provide me with information on this please?

Thank you so much!

Carin

I'm not the last word on this but I believe you are referring to the advanced parole document allowing for travel and work.

you can find some information via this link

http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/Advance_Parole

Good luck ...

[zenaxe 22]

I'm not the last word on this but I believe you are referring to the advanced parole document allowing for travel and work.

you can find some information via this link

http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/Advance_Parole

Good luck ...

been a long time....there are two , advanced parole but also EAD which is employment authorization document. so look up both of those. i only sent a link for the advanced parole which allows travel. the EAD is the other authorization, for work.

[SapphireDreams 71]

Hello,

Someone just told me that you as a Canadian can get a working visa for the U.S. at the border, as long as you have adequate proof of your job while the K-1 Fiance visa is still processing... can anyone provide me with information on this please?

Thank you so much!

Carin

No you cannot. Canadians follow the same rules as everyone else. You must cross the border once you have the K1 visa, get married within 90 days of crossing and then apply for Adjustment of Status, which will give you an Advanced Parole and Employment Authorization Document you can use while you are waiting for your greencard.

[Udella&Wiz 325]

There is just a ton of misinformation out there and you will meet 20 people who will tell you how their Uncle Tom got a work VISA and could do such and such....blah blah blah. Those days are long gone and whatever happened before doesn't happen now. If we had a dime for everytime some Canadian friend told me that I could just 'move there' or 'get married and immediately become a US citizen'...I would be rich.

Most stories are hearsay and cannot be backed up with real details

[SF2007 48]

You are misinformed. Canadian have no special privileges when it comes to immigrating to the U.S. The rules are the same for everyone.

You need to obtain your K1, activate it (move to the U.S.) and marry within 90 days. Then only can you file for Adjustment of status (AOS) and Employment Authorization Document (EAD)/travel authorization (Advanced Parole=AP). The EAD/AP combo card is usually received 2-3 months after you filed. Delay to receive your Green Card is around 6 months depending whether you get a RFE, an interview and how backlogged your service center is.

If you want to be working right as you move to the U.S. on a family visa, you need a spouse visa.

[HeatDeath 430]

You may be thinking of the TN visa. A TN visa, as you say, is handed out at the border if you show up with a job offer letter and proof of a relevant university degree.

TN visas are only good for a very specific list of professional, university-degree REQUIRED, jobs listed in the NAFTA act, and anyways, you don't want to use a TN visa to enter for marriage because TN visas are strictly non-immigrant and temporary. They get you in for 3 years at a time, and can only be renewed once or twice. Moreover, if they find out you have an American fiance and that you intend to marry and adjust status, they simply won't give you a TN visa. TN visas are only for people who intend to work temporarily in the US and return to Canada when their work term is done.

And even if you do manage to get through the TN interview at the border without mentioning your existing K-1 application or impending marriage, USCIS may just consider that big an omission to be material misrepresentation when you go to file AOS after the wedding. So it's a bad idea.

Best just to wait for the fiance visa to finish processing. Trying to game the system by switching tracks to the TN midstream will enormously complicate things.