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A Caribbean cruise you say? You can travel on a cruise with an approved AP. If you are a Canadian citizen, then check each country's (cruise port stops) visa and visa waivers requirements. AP gets you back in US only. Most Caribbean countries allow automatic visas and waivers with your U.S. or Canadian passport. Also, most of these same countries grant automatic visas and/or visa waivers to U.S. permanenat Green Card holders.

What's wrong with being desperate? I like being desperate...hehe I couldn't wait to get my younger wife over here. My motto is, and I'm a man: "Why go older, when you can go younger?" I like younger better.

The obvious answer is simple. Go online and change your forwarding address with the U.S. Postal Service. Go to https://www.usps.com/ ; then click on "Manage Your Mail": On drop down list, choose "Forward Mail". Then follow the steps. Do this online and it will take affect on your next delivery date which will be on Tuesday (Monday is national holiday. MLK Day).

Your green card and all mail with your name on it will be forwarded to your new address. Next, apply for address change at USCIS. Sorry to hear about your sad situation. My heart bleeds for you. I went through a painful separation/divorce 15 yrs ago.

Everyone is weighing in. Kathryn41 has inserted herself as the immigration expert, but she not right either on every point! Canadian cititzens (some exceptions)don't need a nonimmigrant visa per the U.S. State Department. It says in part: "Citizens of Canada traveling to the U.S. do not require a nonimmigrant visa, except for the travel purposes described below." Some of the purposes that require a visa includes, K-1,K-2,K-3. Not visitors! So as a visitor, you do "GET A WAIVER" under "The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative".

Don't be lazy and go directly to the source and get your hard information. Your Sources include: The USCIS site, the NVC site, the U.S. Canandian Embassy site and the State Department site (websites that is). The State Department site is listed below. You will need to travel back to Canada and get processed. Then you can visit but not legally stay permanently and work.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1260.html

I always go to the source and do my homework. That's why my visa was approved in 78 days and my fiance had her visa in hand in exactly 5 mos from the date I mailed the I-129F packet to USCIS. My fiance is from the Philippines where lots of visas are approved, but lots are denied too! Do it by the book. No short cuts unless it's LEGAL.

GOOD LUCK and I'm sure you'll be fine!

Do it the right way! Since you're a Canadian citizen, you have a visa wavier (meaning you don't have to get processed for visa) for entry into the U.S. that's why you were able to come over in the first place. But you have to leave when the time is up. I would stay as long as i could (not up to the last day though). Then I would come back say, 2 weeks later or a month later and stay again. I don't think they stamp your passport if you live in Canada. It will cost you money if you do it this way, but you get the benefit that many others don't. I think every re-entry allows you to stay up to the maximum time allowed unless they put a limit on the number of entries into the U.S. per year or so. For example. I went to Philippines and I was given a 21 day visa on the spot. I was there for 5 days and then my fiancee and I went to Hong Kong for 5 days vacation. When I came back, I was given another 21 days because I left the country (stamped out) and was re-entering all over. That might work for you in the meantime. Learn the LEGAL TEMPORARY WORK AROUNDS since you're from Canada, but don't lie and don't commit visa fraud. That's BAD! Talk to an immigration attorney for FREE. Even if it cost you a few bucks, get good legal advice.

I think you should read the instructions & other USCIS info for filing AOS late and the time frame penalties for filing late. It could cost you up to another $1,000 for filing late, depending upon how long! Do your research. Try to get this done immediately if you can. Apply for credit card and borrow against it so you can work legally becuse you'll have to meet minimum income requirements too!

Good luck and be SMART!

I think you made a BIG MISTAKE by planning your wedding date before his visa is approved. That's being over anxious and unwise. Sorry, it's the truth. I got everything done exactly 5 months flat. I mailed my package March 10, and it was received by USCIS on March 15th. It took 78 days exactly for me to get the NOA2 approval. Then off to Manila Embassy and I was calling and trying to push but the process is the PROCESS. I even scheduled my fiancee's embassy appointment myself online and she had her interview and approval on August 10th. She will be here in U.S. on September 8th. However, I was processed thru the California Service Center. Yours is being processed by Vermont Service center which seems like it's about 4-6 weeks behind the speed of California's processing. I think that in and of itself should give you great pause. I would postpone your date. I really don't think you'll make it. I hope you do! But you can't rush the process and they don't care. There are thousand of applications of all types and everyone of them have a time-pressed story. I think you should concentrate on getting everything approved first, then focus on the marriage. You're doing it backwards and causing yourself undue stress and anxiety. Take the lid off and concentrate on one thing at a time. If you get a RFE then it's a guarantee you won't make that date.

Hoping you and your fiance much happiness and success! I really really do. Just be patient, and take the pressure off yourself and relax.

Take care and Godspeed to the both of you!

Your first mistake was arriving at the airport at 11:30pm. I've been to the Philippines 3 times, and I always arrive during the day. And since it was your first time, why arrive so late in a strange country? I had the same situation as you the first time I arrived in Manila. My fiancee was there on the next level in the waiting area of the terminal. I didn't think about using my cell phone but I did have her cell# with me. I was about to use the pay phone to call her and the security guard came up and asked me the same questions. He offered to let me use his cellphone and I contacted my fiancee and she told me where she was. I was going to tip him anyway, and he asked me for some money. I reached in and gave him about 30 php. The second trip, the same thing. He asked me for american money this time. I gave him $1.00. He was happy. That was about 45 php at the time.

So really what happened to you was that you didn't know the customs of international traveling to foreign countries. People all the world will try to "roll" you especially since you are perceived as a rich American or foreigner. Learn from it and don't blame the people. Be wise in your traveling. 500 php is about $11.62 U.S. Dollar (43 php conversion). Taxi drivers are the same. Just ask for the meter to be turned on. If they don't comply, then just get out (unless you're in a dangerous place and need to escape....hehehe).