HELP PLEASE

[shan2013 0]

Hello visa journeyers

I live in the US and my fiance lives in the UK on a student visa from Nigeria. We are planning to get married and would like to do so in the easiest place. It seems that the US is the easiest. We were planning to get him here on a visitors visa but I'm not sure if we can get married with that visa. Does anyone have any experience or knowledge about this? Please help... thanks

[apple21 953]

What you need is a K1 (fiancee) visa.

[Canerican 242]

Some options are to get married in the US and then your then, husband would go back to UK or Nigeria and you would file I-130 petition or you could go the K-1 (fiance) petition route which you would file an I-129F. With the K-1 you would get approved, do a consulate interview, then within 90 days your fiance would enter and you would get married then file AOS. If you are looking for ease of working right away and cost I would go the I-130 route as you would have a GC about a month or two after entry and it is cheaper than the K-1.

[Pitaya 2,577]

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[lost_at_sea 995]

You can marry on a visitor visa. He'd then return to the UK and you'd file the I-130 for a CR-1 visa, so he can return to the US as an immigrant.

Or, you can file the I-129f ASAP (assuming you have met in the last 2 years + meet the other requirements) and then he can marry and immigrate once he has his K1.

Click "guides" from the menu above and check out the comparison sheet for the two options under "What visa do I need?".

Note: Obtaining a visitor visa can be difficult with an immigration petition pending.

[NikLR 13,227]

Where do you two plan on living? That's the question, not where can we get married. Everything depends on where you want to live after marriage.

[shan2013 0]

Thanks so much for all of your help! So now we have decided that the easiest may be to get married in Nigeria since they don't require as much, then we will go back to the UK until he finishes school since I cannot stay longer than 6 months without a visa in the UK, and HOPEFULLY move to the US to live. He will be done with school by June so that will be about 6 months of marriage if we can get things done by January. So I guess we would only have the i130 option... coreect??? What do you all think??

[NikLR 13,227]

okay a CR1 visa will likely take over a year to accomplish. Your 6 month timeline doesn't allow for this. You would have a green card immediately upon arrival to the USA however.

Faster would be a K1 visa which is about 6-9 months. But it's also about twice the cost.

[shan2013 0]

Hello all

So we are married now! Yaaaay! Got married in Nigeria now the hard part really starts. He's still in the UK schooling and we have to apply for the spouse visa but does anyone know if we can apply for US visitors visa first? Also, has anyone ever used rapidvisa to file their forms?

Thanks a mill!