I need all the help i can get. thank you!

[adamjan 1]

Hi Everyone, my fiance and I got engaged 4 months ago. He already filed for a k-1 visa on the 30th of October. Our plan is to get married in my country (not the U.S.) for many reasons. So once we get the visa (praying everything goes as planned), i will head over to the States, get married in court, file for all things necessary to be filed (SSN, Advanced Parole, AOS, etc) and then finish the wedding preps. Once we get approved for advanced parole, we will head back to my country and have the church wedding and honeymoon there. So, my question is, is this even possible and do we have enough time to do all this before we do the interview for the adjusment of status? we wanna be married in church before that. How long does it usually take to get the interview date for AOS from the time of filing. and is there a chance that advanced parole will get approved AFTER AOS interview? I'm a newbie here so I need all the help i can get. thanks a lot : )

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Not everyone who files for AOS has an interview. I filed for AOS in December and had my green card by June without an interview.

Is there a reason that you can't wait until you have your green card to go and get married in your home country?

AP would not get approved after the AOS interview, because AP is intended as something to use UNTIL you get your green card. Your green card replaces your AP and your employment authorization.

Edited February 7, 2013 by Evylin

[LIFE'SJOURNEY 970]

Hi Everyone, my fiance and I got engaged 4 months ago. He already filed for a k-1 visa on the 30th of October. Our plan is to get married in my country (not the U.S.) for many reasons. So once we get the visa (praying everything goes as planned), i will head over to the States, get married in court, file for all things necessary to be filed (SSN, Advanced Parole, AOS, etc) and then finish the wedding preps. Once we get approved for advanced parole, we will head back to my country and have the church wedding and honeymoon there. So, my question is, is this even possible and do we have enough time to do all this before we do the interview for the adjusment of status? we wanna be married in church before that. How long does it usually take to get the interview date for AOS from the time of filing. and is there a chance that advanced parole will get approved AFTER AOS interview? I'm a newbie here so I need all the help i can get. thanks a lot : )

If you really must have the church wedding before you feel married, han you'll should have proceeded as followa;

Had the church wedding in your country, than filed a CR1 for a spouse visa.

Filing the K1 will not give you'll the time and space to do what you have indicated above in a timely manner or fashion. You won't know when and if you will need an interview for the AOS until the interview letter arrive after filing for AOS.

[Cathi 5,771]

Just make sure you get married here in the states and get advanced parole before you travel back home for the church wedding. Good luck

Edited February 7, 2013 by mimolicious

[Penny Lane 8,159]

You cannot come to the US on a K-1 visa if your are already married. A K-1 is for you to travel to the US and be married HERE within 90 days of arrival in the US!!!!!!! Once you marry the K-1 is not an option, you must file an I-130 for CR1 visa. If you get married in you country with a K-1 pending the K-1 will be DENIED. Read the guides at the top of the page and STUDY them. Once again, you CANNOT marry in your country with a pending k-1, the K1 is a fiance visa,NOT a spouse visa, you MUST marry in the US, you cannot get married in your country with a K-1.

Read the OP. They want to get the K1 visa, get married, then use their AP (once approved and received) to travel to the beneficiary's country to get married again in a church. Nobody is talking about getting married before the K1.

If you really must have the church wedding before you feel married, han you'll should have proceeded as followa;

Had the church wedding in your country, than filed a CR1 for a spouse visa.

Filing the K1 will not give you'll the time and space to do what you have indicated above in a timely manner or fashion. You won't know when and if you will need an interview for the AOS until the interview letter arrive after filing for AOS.

Telling them what they should have done doesn't entirely help the situation now.

They've already filed for the K1, so they might as well see it through. Their plan will work, it just won't be nearly as fast as they want it to be.

Edited February 7, 2013 by Evylin

[Cathi 5,771]

Read the OP. They want to get the K1 visa, get married, then use their AP (once approved and received) to travel to the beneficiary's country to get married again in a church.

yeah I saw that and edited my post

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

The OP wants to marry in the US on K-1 via and then travel home later for another ceremony. The AP travel permission will be approved within 90 days after it is received by USCIS. You can only apply for that after marriage in the US, and after you have your marriage certificate in hand (which can take weeks in some states). So figure out how long it will take to get married and get the certificate, then count 90 days for your timeframe.

Edited February 7, 2013 by Harpa Timsah

[Penny Lane 8,159]

yeah I saw that and edited my post

I made the same mistake as well the first time I read it.

[LIFE'SJOURNEY 970]

Read the OP. They want to get the K1 visa, get married, then use their AP (once approved and received) to travel to the beneficiary's country to get married again in a church. Nobody is talking about getting married before the K1.

Telling them what they should have done doesn't entirely help the situation now.

They've already filed for the K1, so they might as well see it through. Their plan will work, it just won't be nearly as fast as they want it to be.

My advise and opinion is for the OP, if you don't like it, than don't read it. The next time you post I will make sure that I do not offer you any advise or opinion. I am not a child to be told how to respond.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

My advise and opinion is for the OP, if you don't like it, than don't read it. The next time you post I will make sure that I do not offer you any advise or opinion. I am not a child to be told how to respond.

If the OP could go back in time, then advice on what they SHOULD have done would be useful. Unfortunately nobody has invented time travel yet, so advice on what to do in the FUTURE is probably better.

No need to be so defensive. It's an internet forum where others will read and respond to your posts.

Edited February 7, 2013 by Evylin

[LIFE'SJOURNEY 970]

If the OP could go back in time, then advice on what they SHOULD have done would be useful. Unfortunately nobody has invented time travel yet, so advice on what to do in the FUTURE is probably better.

No need to be so defensive. It's an internet forum where others will read and respond to your posts.

I an not defensive, there was nothing incorrect in my responds, therefore there was no need for a responds from you.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

I an not defensive, there was nothing incorrect in my responds, therefore there was no need for a responds from you.

Yikes. I didn't say you were incorrect. The OP, however, was not asking about what you think they should have done in the past. They want to know if their plan for the future will work. And it will.

[LIFE'SJOURNEY 970]

Yikes. I didn't say you were incorrect. The OP, however, was not asking about what you think they should have done in the past. They want to know if their plan for the future will work. And it will.

So Please use your typing time to respond to the OP on how they can make it won't, not trying to tell me how to respond.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

So Please use your typing time to respond to the OP on how they can make it won't, not trying to tell me how to respond.

Bizarre.

Anyway, OP. I hope the other answers you received are helpful. Your plan will work, but it will take a bit of time. Once you're approved for the K1, come to the US and get married in a courthouse. File for AOS/EAD/AP as soon as possible and you should receive your EAD/AP combo card within 90 days. After that, you're free to travel back to your home country. If you DO have an AOS interview (like I said, not everyone does), it likely will not be until a few months after your EAD/AP approval so you have time.

[ndu26 114]

LOL.....

OP well you have seen how to proceed from where you are.I believe it does not feel good to be told what i should have done but hoefully it would help advice someone else if they need that info. This is a public forum and Evylin's post commenting on SHOULD have did not mean harm IMO(since I had the same reaction in mind).

If OP concludes they dnt have enough time after visa, court wedding, AP to plan their church wedding, they could decide to do church wedding now in their country, file a CR-1 and then request that USCIS stop K-1 pocessing but remember you have been waiting four months already since k-1 filing.