Butterfly307

Thank you for the reassurement. I just get so worried sometimes, this journey is so long and I wish I could already be with my fiancé.

Thanks for the answer. Yeah it makes more sense that they care more about his income and that he is employed full time in a stable position. A 27K annual salary is not something to worry about, when there are tons of people getting away with co-sponsors, no jobs, no income.

I try not to worry. Before I saw this topic I was never even thinking about whether this could be a problem.

Thanks for the answer. I have saved up a good sum of money during the past years so living after we file for AOS won't be a problem. And then again, most people get EAD in 70 days (~2 months) so I'll be able to work after not. Plus we are not gonna have a big wedding, only a courthouse ceremony with the close family and a few friends.
My question is, should I tell my fiancée to send another I-134 with the bank savings not included or should I just leave everything as it is and go to interview with the one that states his few hundred dollar savings? I'm so confused.

True, but from what I have read is that not only W2 is needed but Form 1040 too.
I am very worried about this.

Thank you so much for your answer. Very interesting!

I ask this question simply out of curiosity. The K3 visa always seemed a mystery to me. Why do people say "The K3 has been declared dead as of Feb 1, 2010."? Is it no longer available? I just don't understand the point of the K3 visa. Why would any married couple choose it over the CR-1 which includes AOS too and therefore is a lot cheaper?

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Exactly!!! Those people who believe it is perfectly fine to adjust from a tourist visa most likely adjusted from tourist visas themselves too lol.

Agree 100%. I hate it when people wanna cut in line.

2. Unfortunately.3. Why did the B1 AOSers "forgot to go home" when their original visa expired and overstayed years? Who forced them to stay? They could have gone back home and start a K1 or spousal visa process? I know it would be heartless to seperate them from them family and give them a ban, but it is still not fair letting them AOS. Some people get married in the 90 days of the K1 visa but file a few weeks after their I-94 expires... if they get caught by CBP they would be kicked out of the country in a heartbeat.. whereas people who get "lucky" can hide for years.
4. In my opinion that is not a question of love. When I was here on ESTA before, it was really hard to go home. Only my husband knows how many times I cried on skype. But K1 was the right thing and I don't regret it.. Plus, I had to go back home to finish my education because then it would have been all wasted time and money that I did put in it. I had stuff to do, I wasn't ready. Because I DEFINITELY did come to the US as a TOURIST, and not an intending immigrant.
5. AOS from K1 nowadays takes a year (with the Interview Waiver Letter). Only a small percentage gets lucky and gets an interview date and gets approved within like 4 months. Whereas every tourist visa adjuster gets their green card within a few months. K1 AOS really shouldn't take that long, so of course we are frustrated. If something, tourist visa AOS should be that long. So, the system is not fair, and it is just plain annoying coming here and reading "pleasant interview experiences" of people who came into the country on a tourist visa, got married to a USC after a few months and adjusted that way. Does USCIS really give a hard time to tourist visa adjusters at the AOS interview? If not, then why does the K1 and spousal visa even exist? I will never understand this.

Seriously. You are hiding behind a blank avatar and trying to insult me? Just because me and some other people point out facts.

you experienced ZERO hardship in the process. Really, immigration was a piece of cake for you. You just hopped on a plane "changed your mind" and lived happily ever after. Who are you to tell how people to feel when they are separated from their loved ones for close to or more than a year in some cases? The VWP and visitor's visas are not intended for marrying. Just because something is permitted/excused doesn't make it right either. I can go on and on about standards of behavior throughout history that were legal yet wrong in a moral sense.

Do you feel better about yourself now? Of course all I can do is whining on an online forum. You got what you wanted, you got your green card, be more humble.

People being allowed to adjust from tourist visa IS a loophole.
When someone on a tourist visa enters the US, he will obviously say at POE that he has no intent to immigrate because if he said otherwise, he wouldn't even be let into the country. All the tourist visa adjusters claim to "have changed their mind" while being in the US.
But who exactly checks what their REAL intent was? Based on the AOS interview experiences I have read on this site, the only thing that can happen to them is the immigration officer asking "what was your intent when you entered the country" and they just have to say "no intent to say" and bamm they get their green card.
I came to visit my then-fiance/now-husband on ESTA but it never even crossed my mind that I should stay. Boy, we love each other madly and it was so hard to say our "see you laters" at the airport. But we knew that the K1 visa is the right thing to do. And by the way I don't get how can one simply "change his mind" and stay? Don't they have a job, school, family, pets, etc in their home country?!

those that get married ona B1 are overstaying their original visa. The #1 reason B1/B2 visas are denied is because the applicant is presumed to have immigrant intent.

Why do you call people who do it the RIGHT way and speak up against ABUSING that immigration law loophole haters?
Oh wait, you are adjusting from a tourist visa too.

how do you feel about some of your colombian friends and/or family that are denied tourist visas everyday because they are assumed to "not have ties" and will commit fraud? As long as you have your B1/B2 visa, those that struggle because some CO officer assumes they will do exactly what you did doesn't matter. It is their problem. Am I correct?

it is not about the difference, it is about the abuse. Hopefully in my lifetime this loophole is seriously curtailed or eliminated. At minimum, the standards for staying and adjusting status should be subject to the same strict requirements as most expedite requests. Unless there is a compelling reason for the beneficiary to have to stay, there is no justification for allowing this to happen.

"I would rather not have her apply outside of usa because not to sound too disney but we love each other very much and really dont want to be apart. And even if they let her visit while in application i doubt they will her stay for very long at a time and she would have to find a place to live back in canada. What will they look at more the time she entered and got married back in September or her last enterance recently?"
so the people that have to wait overseas while their applications are pending don't love each other and don't want to be apart? What type of sympathy are you trying to drum up here?

Exactly. It is gaming the system and punishes those that choose not to abuse it! It makes no sense. What I believe is worse, is that there are those whom have no intention of abusing a tourist visa and need one to visit their families/friends, yet an CO officer will deny them because of people that continually misuse their visas. Such BS.

The loopholes.... Why is it that someone who came to the US (I'm not referring to the OP or his wife in any way, this is just personal experience) on a B1/B2 visa waits 3 months, gets engaged (October). I receive my K-1, fly into the US, this person gets married December 27th, I get married Jan 2nd, I file for AOS a week before this person and.... they already received a notice for interview for next month and i'm sitting here, just wondering why didn't I take that route considering i'll probably be receiving an Interview waiver and not be able to join the military for quite some time....
I knew their intentions, i advised to go the K-1 and they said no, that they were going to do it that way. AAAAaaaaand, they're probably gonna get away with it while I sit here, and read all of the threads where people go head to head on this subject.
Oh well, it is what it is.
OP, i'm sorry I needed to vent, this doesn't go towards you, it's your decision to do whatever you want to do and I just wish the best for you and your spouse.
Good luck,
Adrian

"Not loving the attack as I try and help people just like you are doing. He made it sound as though they planned to have her enter with intent to stay (which as you agreed is fraud)."
for every honest person that asks and is clueless about coming to the US and doing a AOS from a tourist visa there are probably 9 dishonest people that know exactly what they are doing and want to bypass the waiting process.

yah, all the people with VWP and tourist should just AOS inside US, instead of waiting outside especially those with TSC.