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Thank you all so much! Simon & Kimberly- great advice to get the ball rolling regarding the spouse visa- going to try find a lawyer now to help with that bit...and will take as much evidence with me as possible to prove to immigration that I'll leave the country once we're married. Thank you!!!

Thank you all so much! Simon & Kimberly- great advice to get the ball rolling regarding the spouse visa- going to try find a lawyer now to help with that bit...and will take as much evidence with me as possible to prove to immigration that I'll leave the country once we're married. Thank you!!!

Thank you Dohan! Yes, that's a good summary of what I've found till now too- think you're completely right. I just want to know whether I'm allowed to also get married on that tourist visa in the USA. If they stop me at immigration and they see that I am there to get married, can they send me back? Or is it legal/allowed to get married on a tourist visa (with the intention to get married)?

Hi Cody & Daisy, yeah- I realise that- but my question is related to the America bit- about getting married there. I will deal with the spouse visa for the UK once we're married, but my questions relate to getting married in America.

Thanks aaron2020- I want to be honest though and my intent IS to get married...just not to stay. I literally want to go there for a week or maybe two, get married, get my family to spend time with his...then leave. But from what I've read, it seems this is not allowed on a tourist visa...

Please can someone help advise me as I find the whole visa procedure is so confusing!

Basically, my fiancée and I are looking to get married in America, after which we want to both move to London (UK) together to build our lives together there.

In short, the situation is this. I am a Dutch national living in London. I have a job here and have lived here for two years now. My fiancée is an American citizen currently living in Atlanta. Although I've know him for over 15 years, we only got together as a couple a year and a half ago and we got engaged in November (he was here in London on a tourist visa for 4.5 months before having to go back). We now really want to get married soon and be together in the same country.

Our plan is to get married in America (most likely in Atlanta, Georgia or Asheville, South Carolina) as that will mean his parents, who are in their 70s, can also attend our special day. After then, we plan to apply for a spouse visa to enable him to move to London so that we can finally live together and both work- i.e. a normal life together here.

The whole process sounds so complicated and confusing... some sites say I can just go to America on a tourist visa and get married, others say I need a fiancée visa. And then the whole spouse visa process is still way more complicated.

Can anyone give me a clear breakdown of the process I should follow? Is it a problem that I was born in Botswana (though I only lived there for a year and my nationality is Dutch)? Also, what are the kinds of expenses this whole procedure will cost?

Will be very grateful for any advice/help- thank you in advance!