Help please, regarding marriage outside usa

[Jeffrodina 0]

Hi everyone,

My name is Jeff and I am so confused on immigration. Can someone please help me on this visa pro. Here is my situation please point me in the right Direction.

My Fiancee and I are meeting in person for the first time in June, we will be getting married in her country the Philippines. What do I have to file and how do I file, so that she can come back with me to the USA in July. Please help me I am so confused on everything

[HK12 273]

If you will be married before she enters the U.S., you will have to apply for a CR1 spousal visa, not a K1 visa (just pointing this out because you are posting in the K1 forum). Please see the guides on the top of this page for more information. You are currently looking at a wait time of up to a year for a spousal visa, so she will most likely not be able to come back to the U.S. with you in July.

Edited November 3, 2015 by HK12

[Jo Së 200]

If you marry in June in the Philippines she will not be able to come with you in July, these are the guides if you married abroad: http://www.visajourney.com/content/i130guide1

It will take some time before you she can enter the US.

If you want to get a fiancee visa (K-1) she would enter the US and you would have to marry in the US: http://www.visajourney.com/content/k1guide

Edited November 3, 2015 by Jose&Eli

[Anh map 2,098]

Not a chance she would have a visa by July.

You cannot get a fiancee visa without meeting face to face before sending in the K1 petition. You cannot send the CR1 spouse petition until after you are married.

Once you send in the petition, it will likely be a year or so until she would get her visa to enter the US

[aaron2020 11,652]

There is zero options for her to come back with you in July.

Since you have not met, you can not file for a K-1 fiancée visa. You can only file after meeting. You would also be require to marry in the US. The entire process takes about a year.

Once married, you can file for a spousal visa. That will take about a year.

The immigration game takes time. There is no such thing as meeting for the first time, marry, and shortly immigrate to the US. It doesn't happen this way.

[Pennycat 880]

Hi everyone,

My name is Jeff and I am so confused on immigration. Can someone please help me on this visa pro. Here is my situation please point me in the right Direction.

My Fiancee and I are meeting in person for the first time in June, we will be getting married in her country the Philippines. What do I have to file and how do I file, so that she can come back with me to the USA in July. Please help me I am so confused on everything

Like others said you have two choices: fiance visa or spouse visa.

Fiance visa: must NOT already be married, must have seen each other in person in the past 2 years, these days takes under 6 months (as fast as 3 but you'd have to move very quickly and get lucky).

Spouse visa: must already be married, takes a year or more, depending on what USCIS office you are assigned to.

If the first time you will be seeing her is June, there is no way for her to immigrate in July.

[milimelo 4,852]

Maybe he was thinking July 2017 - now that's a possibility for a spousal visa if they're getting married in June 2016.

[TBoneTX 48,056]

*** Thread moved from K-1 Process forum to the CR-1 Process forum. ***

[Jeffrodina 0]

Thank you everyone for your help, I will tell my fiancee and I think I will go for the CR1 thanks again everyone

[Mike-eeh and Odie 193]

Hi everyone,

My name is Jeff and I am so confused on immigration. Can someone please help me on this visa pro. Here is my situation please point me in the right Direction.

My Fiancee and I are meeting in person for the first time in June, we will be getting married in her country the Philippines. What do I have to file and how do I file, so that she can come back with me to the USA in July. Please help me I am so confused on everything

Come back with you in July? not possible. If you marry in June, in the Philippines, you will not be taking your new wife back with you a month later. If you marry overseas you would have to come back to America and file for a spousal visa. It takes about 1-1.5 years before your new wife will receive her visa.

Now you can always go the K-1 route, in which case she marries you in the USA. Then once you file for AOS, your wife will receive a EAD/AP card 3 months later. With AP, you can then go back to the Philippines and "re-marry" in front of her family. K-1 visas take 6 months to 1 year.

Good Luck.

[Cathi 5,886]

Come back with you in July? not possible. If you marry in June, in the Philippines, you will not be taking your new wife back with you a month later. If you marry overseas you would have to come back to America and file for a spousal visa. It takes about 1-1.5 years before your new wife will receive her visa.

Now you can always go the K-1 route, in which case she marries you in the USA. Then once you file for AOS, your wife will receive a EAD/AP card 3 months later. With AP, you can then go back to the Philippines and "re-marry" in front of her family. K-1 visas take 6 months to 1 year.

Good Luck.

he cannot file for a k-1 now, they have not met

[Mike-eeh and Odie 193]

he cannot file for a k-1 now, they have not met

Ah yes, my bad. They must meet first in June, then file K-1, if that is the route they wish to take.