DHLP

First of all, I'm sorry if this is the wrong subforum. This is my first attempt to figure anything out, and there's an overwhelming pile of Visa Spaghetti on my screen right now.

I -- a US citizen -- am in a roughly 1.5-year long distance relationship with a Dane. I've made several trips there, stayed for up to a month. She's made several trips here, staying for up to three months. At this point, I think it's probably time to figure out how to get her into the US permanently.

Reading over the comparison (http://www.visajourney.com/content/compare) it sounds like the fastest and cheapest way to do this is with an IR-1/CR-1 via the "direct consular filing" method. I'll be in Denmark later this year, so I could conceivably stop by the consulate in person... however, I'm not a Danish resident myself, so this might not work.

Spoke with a lawyer and he suggested some kind of "get spontaneously married, then ask forgiveness afterward" approach, since it would result in her staying here in the US with me while paperwork is resolved. That sounds fishy to me, but I like that it's fast. Unfortunately he wants to be paid several thousand dollars for his help in navigating said paperwork. Ouch.

I really have no clue where to start. I'm going to do more reading on this site, so please tell me if I'm wasting everyone's time, but I hoped to just throw a question out there. Is DCF an option? Is it the best option?

K1 would be best for you. Just make a checklist of the full instructions of the process to make sure you won't miss any information. Ours got approved in less than 3 months. As long as you fill out everything correctly. We also didnt have to get a lawyer. Just ask here and you will get a lot of help that's for sure!

I think you could still apply for the removal of condition that will give you 10 years of permanent residency here using hardships as your reason. And as long as you still have your papers showing you are still married to your husband. I'm just assuming you two still are since youdidn't mentioned "divorced". When he petitioned for you to come here the first time, he signed the papers saying he is responsible for you.

I never did. I guess I got too excited when I received it. Anybody here had the same situation who got approved anyway?

I have the same situation as the topic here. I was just assuming my green card expiration was when I received my green card. I was just stupid to not think that they have approved it before I received it and that that would've been the start date of my conditional status and same as for the expiration but 2 years after. I'm about 2 months late for my application. I'm hoping "lubangtam" will respond on this because I would really like to know if she got denied of her application, which, I'm hoping not. I'm hoping you can give me some advise as to what you wrote as an excuse and what else you had to do to get it approved.

Thanks so much!