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[Habanera 5]

Hello Everyone,

 

I am aware that we have 90 days from the day of POE (Port of Entry) to get married. We decided to to a short civil ceremony in Atlanta within that time frame. Nothing big--just my daughter as a witness and a good friend of his as a 2nd witness. Being that I am a 3rd generation Cuban-American--so alot (not all) of my family in the US have never been to Cuba.... we are thinking about doing a more formal ceremony after the AOS in order to give my family time to save for a wedding in Cuba

Regarding the deadline for AOS:
Is it 3 months after the wedding (or in our case the civil ceremony) to file AOS....or 6 months after the wedding to file?

Is a formal wedding necessary?? 
Would us telling AOS Interviewers we want to defer formal ceremony until my fiance can travel back to Cuba to have the formal wedding with both families present, have a negative impact on their decision?

 

Unlike the majority of people on this site, my fiance and I are older (47/53) and we each have 1 grown child. We are at a point in our lives where....well....we just want to plan for retirement and travel. Our families have known each other for years....so this is like a 2nd chance at love for the both of us. (I'm a widow/he lived with his son's mother years ago but never married).

 

Thanks for reading and offering insight/advise....

[payxibka 10,044]

5 minutes ago, Habanera said:

Hello Everyone,

 

I am aware that we have 90 days from the day of POE (Port of Entry) to get married. We decided to to a short civil ceremony in Atlanta within that time frame. Nothing big--just my daughter as a witness and a good friend of his as a 2nd witness. Being that I am a 3rd generation Cuban-American--so alot (not all) of my family in the US have never been to Cuba.... we are thinking about doing a more formal ceremony after the AOS in order to give my family time to save for a wedding in Cuba

Regarding the deadline for AOS:
Is it 3 months after the wedding (or in our case the civil ceremony) to file AOS....or 6 months after the wedding to file?

Is a formal wedding necessary?? 
Would us telling AOS Interviewers we want to defer formal ceremony until my fiance can travel back to Cuba to have the formal wedding with both families present, have a negative impact on their decision?

 

Unlike the majority of people on this site, my fiance and I are older (47/53) and we each have 1 grown child. We are at a point in our lives where....well....we just want to plan for retirement and travel. Our families have known each other for years....so this is like a 2nd chance at love for the both of us. (I'm a widow/he lived with his son's mother years ago but never married).

 

Thanks for reading and offering insight/advise....

In the strictest sense, the deadline for filing for  AOS is 90 days after entry as well 

[Ben&Zian 4,397]

Upon entry, the K-1 visa is dead. You have 90 days on the I-94 to be legally present in the US. The main thing is to be married within the 90 days, that's the rules. 

Upon entry you could marry the next day and file AOS as soon as possible. There is no definitive timeline on when you have to or how soon you can, but after the 90 days, regardless of the marriage, the beneficiary will be out of status until they have the NOA1 for the I-485 AOS packet.

 

And court house marriages are perfectly fine, it's still a legal marriage, that's all we did.