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Yes you can enter and marry as long as you do go back home and do not over stay your visa.

My husband and I did this and when I went home he filed an I-130.

I also meant to add that the two year rule does not apply any longer.

Read up on a "Widows" petition an I-130 when the primary petitioner dies can be converted to a widows petition. This information can be found on th USCIS website and also here by typing in Widow. Hopefully you can find the information to assist you.

I myself found myself in this position when my husband died. Our approval came after his death making the petition in valid. If it was approved before his death it is my understanding that she can continue with the petition.

Good luck and my condolences to your family.

Congratulations! Its a wonderful feeling to get past the long delays before interview and approval and then wow it snowballs quick and we get reunite with our loved ones again!

After 6 months and 2 weeks and contact to senators and multiple emails to congressman (who was so patient with me) we finally got our NOA-2!! Just got the email!!! Ahhhh i still can't believe it but there...

Good luck to the rest of my jan filers still waiting, hope u can be in disbelief very soon with a great news of that NOA2!!

Congratulations!

Thank you its a wonderful feeling after all the stress and wait...Happy Tears and Happy Dance!

OMG, we have our approval YAY! 28th July 2014...Good luck everyone still waiting, yours is coming too.

We are Jan filers with an noa1 date of 7th, still waiting for Noa2. Congratulations everyone that have theirs now...shouldnt be too long for the rest of us now

me...I am still waiting...my NOA1 was on Jan 7th....

I am afraid I will be that person who gets approved for last....

it's ok...as long as we get approved...better late than never..

An additional 5 months?! do they mean from now until interview?!

There was an Australian who filed in February and is at TSC, she got her NOA2 last week. She had sent a letter to her senator. Have you contacted Congressmen/Senators yet?

I am not entirely sure Sweets, the answer was unclear...my partner relayed the info but I can assure what we heard back is a very reliable source...we are very frustrated as we like many others here have planed etc for our special day!

I also seen the one you mentioned...it also goes to show what I said about the random way in which flies are dealt with...my feeling is its easier to deal with the files that land on your desk than to get off your ### and grab a box that needs seeing too....there is no reasonable way to see otherwise from what we see here from other members!

It's all crazy at TSC right now, we were actually advised it could take us an additional 5 months with where they are right now with applications...I see all the time here where the USCIS have such a random approach to files and nothing like the order they are received...to believe so flies in the face of the evidence provided by members that do up date.

We are early Jan filers with the NOA1...with what we have been told could be Sept/Oct by the time its done! Good luck certainly seems a lucky dip draw for approval!

By preparation do you mean having Wills and Life Assurance?

Yes is exactly what I mean and should be done as soon as possible after marriage. I didn't see the need straight away as far as my thinking was we had plenty of time to do those things when I returned to the USA after our I-130 was approved.

The need for people to do a will at the very least, is very important so that your spouse is protected and your wishes followed in the event of Death.

Deeply sorry to hear this has happened to you. This journey is the worst in the best of times; I can't imagine what you must be feeling. I hope your renewed application will see its end.

Thank you

Thank you Super Elite...My case for an I-130 didn't make it past approval...I never made it back before it was approved, was part of my point. Wasn't anything my husband would have ever dreamed of happening let alone ,myself...he knew what I was giving up to be with him. I had left it from the approval and my first letter notifying me of the next stage and me not acting on it.

It was approved and in writing that the I-130 was approved to my petition husband...nothing past that...I didn't act on anything I recieved for many months after...just didn't mean anything to me for many many months after.

After reading a post here just yesterday about a woman who had moved over on a K1 and her fiance that died two weeks before the wedding with two kids...it was like wow and her visa was a K1....even less of a chance than I was faced with...she carnt stay without breaking laws from what I have learnt yet she gave up her life for that man as she knew it.

A real loving couple with hopes and dreams like so many of us never think of these things whilst we are going through a process...hell we have the rest of our lives to face things together...real bad does happen and it has consequences which is the reason I posted

I guess the post just got to me given my own feelings and experience that I wanted to share...life happens and we are not in control of those kind of events...I just wanted others to reflect.

My husband wanted nothing but my happiness and it was me that created his and his for me in return...turns a person upside down and more so having to go thru this process.

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share my own personal story so others may take time to think of things for themselves.

In Feb 2010 I met my husband on the internet, met him in person and spent 6 wonderful weeks with him over xmas 2010 returning back to Australia in Jan 2011. We knew we loved each other online, but the meeting for real in person was far beyond what we had both expected...it was wonderful.

In 2011, our relationship even more than before if that was possible but it was, he mentioned many times how much he wanted me as his wife and I felt the same way.

July 2012, I arrived back to visit with him again, was perfect and he asked me to marry him. I had met his friends and family that were part of his everyday life and they embraced me with friendship love and acceptance. As his eldest sister and her husband lived in Florida they had only head about me...they were up visiting under bad circumstance themselves as she had lost her youngest son the year before...so my husband and I got married on the spur of the moment and in the time frame that he had all his family there.

I went back to Australia in Sept 2012 and he posted the I-130 when I left...we were so excited....But then tragedy...My husband become ill with Legionaries pneumonia a little over 3 weeks of me getting back home...it was bad and he was admitted and placed on life support on 2nd October 2012...his family contacted me and it took me a few days to get everything in order to fly back and be with him...I arrived the evening of the 8th Oct to be with my critically ill husband....he had already died that morning whilst I was in flight for the 30 hours it takes for me to get there!

I flew back with my dad as I was a mess and stayed on in the USA till Dec 2012 to attend his funeral and attend to other matters.

Feb 2013 My sister inlaw emailed a scanned copy of our I-130 that had arrived...it was a mix of feelings yay cause thats all we wanted and a sadness because I felt there was nothing left for me in the USA without him. His sister one in particular I grew very close to...come back live we will help you, we want you here etc....I get my letter from the NVC asking for a Registered agent to be appointed in response to my husbands approval in the March 2013. I did not act on this information.

I have family, children and a life back in Australia...was more than I believed was still in the USA for me. Wasn't nothing if my husband wasn't going to be part of it. I had to return back to the USA in June 2013 to deal with my husbands estate...wasn't easy. He had wanted me to be added to his bank account etc before I returned to Australia...I had said to him NO RUSH...when I get back we will get everything in order.

Was a bad mistake on my behalf because it caused so much more drama...

Anyways getting back to the I-130. When back in June 2013 I of course was catching up with friends and loved ones of my husbands that were also an important part of my life....One friend in particular become very important and was always there for me, I wasn't driving and was dependent on others pretty much to make appointments, shop etc.

In this time I was back in the USA... A very good friend of my husbands for over 30 years, who had become a friend to me also since 2010 spent a lot of time together, we did always get along...well we ended up finding our own Love story. so before I was set to go back to Australia, I finally acted on the letter from the NVC and my husbands approval for the I-130.

Eddy became my registered agent and we set about finalizing what My husband had started...as it turns out My husband died October 2012, the approval came in Feb 2013...the approval happened after the death of my husband and what Eddy and I discovered was that as the APPROVAL HAPPENED AFTER MY HUSBANDS DEATH...it would be revoked by the NVC. The NVC had reverted my application to a Widows but the law was very clear from what we had seen...I hadn't returned or finished the process and been in the USA when he died.

Eddy and I discussed this and although we knew it would set us back with our on plans...he submitted a withdrawal of my late husbands I-130 as my agent and we set about our own I-129 application with the NOA1 arriving Jan 7th 2014.

So basically all this post is meant to be about is to warn other loving couples that are going through this process, with any visa...PLEASE think of the Worst case scenario...it happens!

My heart goes out to other members who have had or going through a similar scenario, regardless of visa type.

We Are Jan 7th Noa1 still awaiting approval for the NOA2 also...does get depressing when you see other applications being approved in very short time frames as it appears its a random approach to processing at the Service Centres.

Does anyone know the reason for the slow down at TSC?

Fingers crossed that they start processing faster and in a more logical fairer way, such as received dates.

Congratulations!

The annulment notes to the side of a marriage contract document, seems to be insufficient. I would say they are looking for the court decree of annulment.

You mention "previous" Marriages, both ending in annulments? I am far from an expert in this topic but I see this as a red flag for your case. Good luck.

Hi am sorry to hear of your friends problems, I hope information I found in the Australian embassy info today helps somewhat.

I married my US Citizen husband whilst on a visit only using my E-passport for entry with no problems at all. I left the country as planned well before the expiration of the 90 day requirement. I left on the Saturday and he sent off paperwork for our I-130 on the Monday. We married on impulse on that visit and I had visited him previously in the USA and simply just using My e-pass on my passport with no problems at all. No SSN required and was easy to marry in the USA as stated by other members above.

I was only back in Australia a mater of about 3 weeks before I got the nightmare news...my husband had taken ill with Legionaries Pneumonia he was critical and on life support...so when I left Australia to be with him again only weeks after returning home after we married...he died the morning of the evening I arrived back...I never had any issues with immigration coming back in so soon and again entered using my e-passport and was asked the reason for my visit as they usually do...told him about m husband being in hospital etc...I really believe that its a case by case basis and I've never had any problems with US Customs. When I had to return last year to deal with my late husbands estate, it was taking longer with issues arising that were unforeseen... I needed to stay beyond the 90 days but very aware of not over staying my visit...so I took a bus trip to Canada so as I left the country etc....wasn't till I was coming back into the USA from Canada it was pointed out to me that I should have gone back to Australia and not Canada...but Customs again were brilliant with me...gave me the waiver and I had plenty of documents to show why I had done what I had done....they gave me a further 90 Days.

But anyways...to go with the question asked..No problem at all Marrying in the USA whilst on Tourist Visa.