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Thank you very much for the link! That looks promising.

OK. I just want to be sure in case I want the green card later there won't be a problem if I got married on a student visa.

By the way: We are both gonna go to Germany for that time. We definitely don't want to be separate!

I already got an internship position there and wanted to combine my stay with doing an internship for 5-6 months.

So are you all positive I can get married on a J1 visa (as an intern)? Do you have any reference for that?

The whole K1 process would seem a little pointless to me if you could just get married on a normal visa and do the CR1/IR1 process later.

I want to stay 3 months after the wedding. But I was planning on coming to the States a couple months before our wedding.

Thank you so much! That actually saves us a lot of stress with the whole K1 visa!

Thanks for the answers! I just read multiple times it is not wanted to get married without a K1 visa. But you say that's ok in case I don't want to stay longer?

That is great news! And makes it a little complicated as well. Because I was planning on staying 6 months and doing an internship ( I'm still a student) during that time. Do you think I can then apply for a student visa and get married while I am a student?

Hello everyone,

I am a German and my fiancée American. We plan to get married in May 2014 and start the whole K1 visa process right now.

Our plan is to stay in the US (after the wedding) for three more months and then move (at least for 6 months) back to Germany. We might want to have the option of moving back to America later. However we don't think it makes sense for me to apply for AOS and pay that much money if I'm not even gonna stay there yet. So my questions:

1) Can I legally stay in the US for this three more months after the wedding without applying for AOS or anything else?

2) Will I be able to travel back and forth the US on VWP after the wedding?

2.1) Can we leave the country for our honeymoon right after the wedding and come back to the states for 2.5 more months? I would travel as a tourist on VWP since without an AOS application I guess I can't apply for advance parole (plus the application takes up to 90 days).

3) Is it possible to apply for AOS maybe 1-2 years later from Germany?

Thank you so much for your help in advance!