uk to usa

[AVALAUNCH 0]

Hi I know this must come up quite a lot and im hopeing im in the right forum , if not please advise and move to corrent forum

Ok so 4 month ago I met a girl online in the USA.im 36 shes 48 and looks much younger than me age is just a number x

we chatted every day and well into the early hours each morning , I was going to work shatterd but felt so good and happy. ( not good abseiling on little sleep )

very soon and now I know this can happen , we have said our love for each other , something just feels so right and so perfect. Even without us actually meeting , only talked via telephone and Skype yet our feelings are so strong. We have logged all calls and emails , sms etc to each other.

Any how we have talked at length and she realy wants me to go stay with her , she has even proposed over the internet .

Can I / we get married in the usa without any problems on a tourist visa. I am looking at travelling over there in the next 3 week .

We realy want to see each other and be together and she realy doesn't want to wait 6 month plus while a fiancé visa is arranged and I suppose neither do I

We want to get married when im over there , yer some may say its a little to soon but we don't , were happy and will make our minds up when we are there.

also I applied for a ESTA .. it cost me over £30 and now found them cheaper I got this from visaservice.org.uk are these legitimate ?

What are the chances of us getting married then applying for a change of status while in Reno being succesfull ?

she was born and raised in L.A and now living in Reno to where id be flying to from Manchester.

I have very strong conections in the UK as my daughter is here aswell as a large family

any advice would be great

Also she has found me possible work for rope access. well she has been told if everything ok then they would be interested in me working for them.

thanks

dave

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Entering the US on a tourist visa with the intent to immigrate is visa fraud. ESTA costs something like $14 if you do it from the source, not an agency. Too late for you, though.

You are proposing to travel to the US to a place you have never been to meet a women you have never met and get married sight unseen and immigrate illegally and abandon your daughter in the UK for this person you have never met.

With a 4 month courtship and marrying each other sight unseen, not to mention the illegal use of a tourist visa, you will have trouble with immigration.

Why don't you slow it down a bit, visit a few times and make sure everything on the internet is real in person? What if you two don't like each other's odor or eating habits or lifestyle?

Edited February 21, 2013 by Harpa Timsah

[Newbie608 103]

Coming here on a visitors visa with immigrant intent is fraudulent..

Edited February 21, 2013 by Newbie608

[Alonso&Sheryl 10]

Maaaaaaaaaaan what's sup with all this people coming, or wanting to come, with a tourist visas just to get married? Whatever happened to "I'll do my time and just apply for the fiancee visa"?

Here's an advice regarding the relationship, not the paperwork. Come visit her, see if you feel the same way when the two of you are together, not online, but in real life. Spend some time with her, and then if you still want to marry her, go back to the UK and file the right paperwork.

You don't want to come here, get married after a couple days, and then when you start living together find out that you guys are not really meant to be. Four months of talking to someone online doesn't seem like strong bases for a relationship.

[His karma 20]

Unfortunately I have to agree with the other posters. Take some time and get to know her in person. I too met my now fiance online. We chatted in the game we met, then skype and texts. But In this day and age, there is no way I would have agreed to marry Him without first meeting in person, and he agreed with that. Meeting in person lets you see the little things, quirks that might drive you crazy if you have any pet peeves and they don't always show online. As well, leaving your child behind for a woman you have never met in person could be very damaging to the child. I know that love is love, but to a child they may look at that as abandonment. Take your time with it. The cost of a few trips to meet in person, is miniscule compared to the cost of moving, and later finding out that it just didn't work only to have to move back.

And as the others have said, a tourist visa with the intent to marry and adjust status is Fraud.

[Owen_London 65]

OK, first a bit of personal advice: don't get married until you've actually met. There are all sorts of things that you won't know about each other until you've physically time together. It's a nice story, though.

With that out of the way:

- Anyone can marry in the US, you do not require a special marriage visa, like you would in the UK. You do need to get a marriage license though, the details of which vary from state to state.

- Entering the US as a visitor with intent to marry and then remain in the US counts as visa fraud. You can enter the US on any visa, marry, and then decide to remain, but only if your intent when you entered the country was to return to your home country. You need to be able to prove that lack of intent, and if USCIS decide that you did intend to marry then there is no chance to appeal for people who enter on the visa waiver program (VWP), and you will have a ban from the US.

- You can apply for a K1 visa before you arrive in the US. This allows you to get married within 30 days of your arrival, and then adjust status to that of a legal permanent resident.

- Marry in the US on your visit, then return to the UK. Have your new wife sponsor you to come to the US as her relative, using a CR-1 visa.

The K1 and CR-1 visas will both take months (most of a year) to be approved and for you to re-enter the US. The K1 will probably get you to the US slightly quicker, but the CR1 will allow you to work straight away. Read the guides linked at the top of this forum for lots more information.

[akihon 129]

besides visa fraud, you will have a tough time with the AOS interviews, "proof of bona fide marriage documentation" in particular

[AnotherLostSoul 167]

I have to agree with the posters who responded to you. Both for USCIS, and for your sake, marrying like this to someone is a very bold move. I have a hard time believing that you are 36 as I can only imagine teenagers doing this. Seriously! USCIS will give you a hard time on this, for sure. Also, if it doesn't work out, not only you can be deported (if it ends before you are totally settled legally) but you'll jeopardize any future travels that you may want to pursue, maybe even with your child later on in life. Life is too short to risk things. I would forget about any marriage. Just go, visit her, get to know each other in person. Do some more visits, she can also go and see UK, your daughter, your parents (if they are still around). Just by meeting online, is not the same as living with someone for the rest of your life. You should know that...if you have a daughter, it sounds you've already gone through a marriage before (unless she was born out of wedlock) and that will also be something USCIS will really deeply want to investigate. If this lady in the US is 48 chances are 99% that she was married previously...also a biggie for USCIS. Just not long ago someone got denied...both partners were married before. I'm not trying to say it is a complete denial, but USCIS might pick on that and give you a hard time...then why make it worse just by jumping into a relationship as meeting online and flying over to get married without ever meeting with the partner. I met my husband online, and for one year we were just meeting up online. After one year, we decided to be friends. We met up a couple times, he helped me when I had to move to a new apartment, he was truly a great friend for 2 years. Then we decided to date as girlfriend, boyfriend, and again, we did that for 2 years. And then we just got married last summer. I know, maybe we took it slow, but marriage is supposed to be for a lifetime...not a result of a temporary spark. Think about this! Also, as one noted, getting here on tourist visa (or ESTA- same thing basically) with the intent to get married is an immigration fraud and you'll get denied.