is it possible to get married in the US under a tourist visa?

[azelle 0]

Me and my bf's been together for more than 3years now. Im currently in the US on a tourist visa. Stayed here over a year now due to a pending application. Unfortunately, I got denied and now our last option is to get married so we can be together permanently. Is that possible?

[lost_at_sea 995]

Your profile says you filed for a K1 - is that the case?

What "pending application" did you have that got denied?

[Mike Bowman 8]

My coworker just went through this...sort of. His , now wife, had a tourist visa before she met him. She met him while she was over here. She went back to her country and came back over again. Her reasoning to get in was to say shes visiting her "friend". She came and they got married. They filed the AOS paperwork. They got to the interview and USCIS chewed her a new ####### for violating her visa. USCIS reasoning was saying that people who do their paperwork correctly and have to wait to get into the US, you basically bypassed all that and jumped to the front of the line. The case went onto further review (took less than a week) and they were approved. I IN NO WAY AM TELLING YOU TO DO THIS! This is only an experience of my coworker. If she hadn't of left and came back they would have found her guilty of visa fraud. Her leaving proved she didn't have intentions of committing visa fraud because if she was trying to commit fraud she would have stayed and got married the first time they met. You need to have your eggs in a basket before you decide anything. If you did a k1, got denied for any reason, whatever whatever and then got a tourist visa and get married...I'm sorry but if I was an USCIS officer I'd deny you.

Edited December 28, 2013 by Mike Bowman

[lost_at_sea 995]

My coworker just went through this...sort of. His , now wife, had a tourist visa before she met him. She met him while she was over here. She went back to her country and came back over again. Her reasoning to get in was to say shes visiting her "friend". She came and they got married. They filed the AOS paperwork. They got to the interview and USCIS chewed her a new ####### for violating her visa. USCIS reasoning was saying that people who do their paperwork correctly and have to wait to get into the US, you basically bypassed all that and jumped to the front of the line. The case went onto further review (took less than a week) and they were approved. I IN NO WAY AM TELLING YOU TO DO THIS! This is only an experience of my coworker. If she hadn't of left and came back they would have found her guilty of visa fraud. Her leaving proved she didn't have intentions of committing visa fraud because if she was trying to commit fraud she would have stayed and got married the first time they met. You need to have your eggs in a basket before you decide anything. If you did a k1, got denied for any reason, whatever whatever and then got a tourist visa and get married...I'm sorry but if I was an USCIS officer I'd deny you.

Sounds like that case the person wasn't in the US out-of-status though? The OP sounds like they entered the US on a tourist visa a year ago, with a pending I-129f petition, and are still here when they should have left whenever the stamp in the passport said to leave by - definitely going to be out of status by now.

OP - can you confirm what you petitioned for and why you were denied? Can you also confirm when you entered the US and when your stay expired?