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My wife and I got married last winter in the states on the fly with a tourist visa and we both returned back to her home country shortly after for employment reasons. Now the job is done and we have decided it's the right time for us to move to the states but she doesn't have citizenship. I'm not sure where to go from here. Should she come here again on a tourist visa and then go for AOS, which would I believe keep her here until the whole process is complete or should she stay put and go through another unknown process that could take longer and keep us apart?

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I am not sure of all the legal issues of coming to live in the USA on a non-immigrant visa. Someone else will have to speak to that.

However, since you are married....it would seem that you should take the CR1/IR1 route. This process should take between 8-14 months depending on how lucky you are.

There are plenty of guides/forums on here that you can read to figure out how submit the petition/application.

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http://www.visajourney.com/content/i130guide1

Here you are plenty to read.


I am not sure of all the legal issues of coming to live in the USA on a non-immigrant visa. Someone else will have to speak to that.

Visitor visas are for visiting.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

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But if she is already in the states couldn't we just file an adjustment of status off her tourist visa? That way she would still be able to stay in the states while the process is on-going?

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She is not in the US.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

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This thread is locked, and is not to be restarted, because the OP is seeking coaching on an issue that treads on this item from the VJ Terms of Service:

Condone or instruct, either directly or indirectly, others on how to commit fraudulent or illegal immigration activities in any way, shape, manner or method.

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06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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