APPLYING FOR SPOUSAL VISA FOR VIETNAM CITIZEN TO LIVE IN USA

[JONODOLPHIN 0]

Aloha

My Fiance is a Vietnamese Citizen and I am a resident alien (green card holder) living in the USA.  We met in Hanoi and we are wanting to get married within the next three to six months

and we want to live in the USA together.     I have heard stories of Vietnam citizens waiting for three to five years or more for a spousal visa , when married to a resident alien as it is treated as a low priority visa application and there is a huge waiting list for processing.    A friend suggested that we become married in a country other than Vietnam (such as Singapore, Nepal, Malaysia, or Cambodia) and that the whole process might be faster making the initial application for the US Spousal visa from one of those countries other than Vietnam.   Getting married and then not seeing each other for three to five years time does not seem practical or doable and we are seeking a way to make things work as we want to live together.  I think that I can't be out of the US for more than five months each year, in order to maintain my residence in the US, which means that being with her in another country until she receives her spousal visa is impossible, unless I only am with her for short periods of time with her spending 6.5 months living on her own each year for the next three to five years. Getting her a tourist visa for the US seems impossible as she has insufficient assets in Vietnam to prove that she would return to Vietnam after a tourist visit.   Her getting a student visa would be good (as she currently is a college student) however that also might be impossible as she does not have sufficient assets or sufficient ties in Vietnam-- has her mom , her dad and her little brother and sister but little funds and the two homes of her mother are not documented by her mom.  We are thinking of going to Singapore to get married and also making the spousal visa application from there.  Though she doesn't live in Singapore so we are unsure if making the visa application from there would be okay. If any of you have had experiences that we can learn from of marrying a Vietnam citizen and getting her a spousal visa for the US, how long it actually takes and what are the best ways to get the visa sooner, and where it is best to make the application from, that would be really appreciated and would help us in this process!

 

[cyclone27 710]

Marrying in another country will not speed up the immigration process do you might as well marry in Vietnam.

 

 

[Tracy-->NY 40]

At present visa application for spouses of LPR is taking approximately two years.  As previous poster mentioned the country you are married in won't make a difference in speeding up application process.  You can check the visa bulletin for the current PDs being processed.