AP question

[WaitingForK1 0]

I am a more frequent user who wanted to ask a question anonymously so made this account. 

 

My fiance had her her interview for K1 visa visa about four months ago and she was given AP status. We have been patient and emailing the consulate regularly for an update. We finally got an update that our visa has NOT been returned to the US and is still going through processing in her country "to determine her eligibility " there is nothing about either of us that should make her ineligible. 

 

We are willing to be patient but if its still a long time we want to get married and file CR1 instead of waiting indefinitely. If we get married and haven't filed our CR1 yet, and get notice of approval for the K1 could we just....pretend we never got married? Have her come here and we get married in the US? Would the US automatically know about a marriage overseas? 

 

Not trying to commit visa fraud by lying to anyone of course, just curious if when she immigrated with a K1 if they would know we had gotten married. 

Edited March 20, 2017 by WaitingForK1

[KULtoATL 1,551]

11 minutes ago, WaitingForK1 said:

I am a more frequent user who wanted to ask a question anonymously so made this account. 

 

My fiance had her her interview for K1 visa visa about four months ago and she was given AP status. We have been patient and emailing the consulate regularly for an update. We finally got an update that our visa has NOT been returned to the US and is still going through processing in her country "to determine her eligibility " there is nothing about either of us that should make her ineligible. 

 

We are willing to be patient but if its still a long time we want to get married and file CR1 instead of waiting indefinitely. If we get married and haven't filed our CR1 yet, and get notice of approval for the K1 could we just....pretend we never got married? Have her come here and we get married in the US? Would the US automatically know about a marriage overseas? 

 

Not trying to commit visa fraud by lying to anyone of course, just curious if when she immigrated with a K1 if they would know we had gotten married. 

The thing is, if you do CR-1 now, you have to wait all over again. Just give it a bit more time.

 

Doesn't sound like a good idea to get married and then enter using the K-1 because the marriage date won't match up with her entry date. Obviously if she comes in with the K-1, the marriage date should be after.

Edited March 20, 2017 by KULtoATL

[geowrian 22,337]

That would be clear visa fraud. Entering on a K-1 is solely for the purpose of getting married in the US, and she must maintain visa eligibility (being free to marry) to use the visa. Any future immigration benefit (GC or even citizenship) she obtained in the future could be stripped from her.

 

CBP will likely ask her if she is married, when she plans to marry, etc. It would come out there as well. This all around is a very, very bad idea and nobody here can condone it as it violates the VJ TOS.

[p-ana 933]

Also, you don't know why she's in AP. If you go for the cr1, she most likely be in AP for the same reason. 

It's a waste of time and money to give up right now. I won't even comment on the pretend thing cause that's just absurd.