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Hi,

I'm not really sure what forum section to put this under.. so I hope this okay.

My partner and I want to get married, we were wondering if it would be okay if he entered the US on an ESTA and for us to get married, because we would not be seeking an adjustment of status. He would be going back to his home country, and then we would eventually be applying for me to move to his country rather than for him to come to the US. It s a lot of time, energy, and money involved to get a K1 visa, so I was wondering if since he wouldn t be staying it would be okay for us to get married on an ESTA?

Thank you

I have no intention of breaking the law so I would like the legal answer if it is known.

All going well, I should have my visa approved in the next week or so and I am planning to move to the US in mid September. (yes it is within the 6 months of the medical)

I talked to my boss about me moving to the US and he has asked if I would be interested in continuing working for him but remotely in the US. I would like to help them out if possible, but obviously I cannot get a green card until I have got married and completed AOS which I plan on doing ASAP.

Does my lack of green card stop me from legally working US based jobs only or does it stop me from working ANY jobs when I live in the USA?

If I cannot work ANY jobs then so be it, but I would like to help my boss out if I can, and if i can't, I'll probably help him out where I can for free to keep myself busy rather than be a lazy PoS sitting around and playing video games all day (as fun as that does sound, it's not very productive)

TIA

i dont know if anyone can help

so we went to the embassy 2 weeks ago my husbands l1a was approved and i was told that mine still needed to be procesed.

I received an email yesterday telling me to pay the reciprocity fee and to log onto the website and download the in courier receipt. Ive loged on and there is nothing there its then telling em to create an applicant which obviously i have done all this already. I attempted to do this and then added my DS-160 onto the form and it says that number is already in use im not sure what to do or if im going wrong somewhere. But theres nothing on there about an incourier receipt and i cant see my name or anything.

If anyone has had this issue or can help would be great

thanks

I hope someone can help me with this. I have read that the husband can be the financial sponsor but the application process still mentions a lot of stuff she doesn t have like tax returns, paystubs, property ownership. We are just married. She is 20 and has never had a job and her family doesn t have much money. I am 44, American, have a modest income and some savings and own a home. Realistically what are my chances of getting her a shengen visa to go to France for a week this summer for the Olympics? Thanks very much in advance.

Leaving a review of my experience to hopefully help others after me!

Medical Exam date: April 18, 2024 @ 9:00am

Cost: $355 for my age range, plus $50 for a TDAP booster & $47 for tracked courier delivery of some documents to my house

Booking the appointment:
I emailed the office directly after received my packet 4 email with all the documents they require, you can find this information on their website, make sure you ve received your packet 4 email first and that you ve booked an interview appointment as they will ask for confirmation for both. They responded to me immediately and I was able to book my appointment for about a month away from that day. They respond very quickly and if you have any questions they ll answer anything you need.

Appointment day:
I flew in from Calgary really early and landed at 6:30am at the Vancouver airport, rented a car and drove down to Surrey. It only took about 30 min to get to the office from the airport, it was really easy and there was no traffic. I arrived around 7:45am, and decided to go in to ask some questions about my vaccines as I only had one dose of the Varicella and they ask for two. Since I was already there they actually told me they would take all my documents and start the process right away. They asked for my 5 passport photos, my passport, my drivers license, my covid vaccination records, as well as my other vaccination records. My records are all in spanish and I translated them on a google doc and printed that to bring, I showed them the original plus the translation and they took both to double check everything matched and make copies of everything. They gave me a form to fill and then returned all my documents afterwards, then they let me know I was actually missing a TDAP booster since it had been more than 10 years since my last dose, and I chose to get it there so I paid $50 for that. I sat down and waited a bit longer, then I got called in to the room. Dr. Cheema was really nice and went through the short list of questions really quickly, he listened to my lungs, took my blood pressure, then palpated my stomach, and finally gave me the TDAP booster before sending me on my way. I was finished by 8:45am, 15 min before my official appointment time, and then had to wait 15min after the vaccine before I could leave. The blood test is by appointment only and the office will make it for you and give you the time, the lab is right next to the office so you can walk there. I headed to my blood test appointment and I had to wait a bit as it was busy but I was out by 9:45. Then I drove down the road to the x-ray lab which is walk-in only, and despite being busy I was seen basically right away. I missed my turn into the parking lot so I wasted some time turning around, but I was finished with the whole process a few minutes before 11am. All in all it was really quick and easy.

Total time: around 3 hours and 15min.

What I learned:

• Hepatitis A is not required.
• Tdap is required within the last 10 years (I got it at the office)
• Varicella requires two doses, if you do not have both or records of both, you can get your family physician to get bloodwork done to test for immunity. If it is reactive, you are immune. An additional dose if needed at the office would have been $95.00 CAD, but if you ve had chickenpox before you just need to tell them what year you had it, no proof necessary.
• They provide you with a CD (for border crossing) and vaccination record (for AOS) by mail - you can choose courier (free and not tracked), or tracked courier (depends on where you live but I paid $47), they told me both of these are not required for the interview.
• Once results are sent to the US embassy, you will receive an email stating so.