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All this replies are, are accusations 🤦‍♂️ I was just looking for the most simple help because I thought there may have been a way to expedite if she joined but instead I got people pretending they were looking out for me without knowing me or her. It's nice to hear your concerns but trust me, it's fine. If she wasn't enlisting she would come over here anyway but she's wanted since before she met me and she wanted the benefits when it came to the GI bill.

I can guarantee if I wasn't 19, the posts replies would just be. "Oh yeah you don't know anything about immigration even though im sure this is a simple question because someone in the military would only be able to answer it"

come on guys 

4 hours ago, JFH said:

Have I read that right? She wants to join the military just to get you into the country quicker? I’ve hever heard anything so crazy before. Being in the military is a massive personal commitment and sacrifice for the benefit of the nation - some even sacrifice their own lives. It doesn’t sound like she’s right for the military if this is one of her reasons for joining. She’s missed the bigger picture here. 

 

And at 19 what’s the rush? It’s not as if it takes years anyway. The whole process is about a year for a spousal visa. It’s not like it takes 20 years. But it sounds like you’re not ready for marriage anyway. Sounds like you just want to achieve your “dream” of living in the US and there are no visas for those who are just bored of where they are and think the US will be an exciting place to live. When you are ready for marriage, the process is very straightforward and there is a clear path to immigration for bona fide spouses. But the key is to be ready for marriage first. 

Yo chill. She doesn't want to join the military for that reason she's wanted that most her life. We were gonna file for a k1 previously but we honestly don't know what we're gonna do because obviously we're both pretty young and the wait stuff is pretty frustrating, especially visiting each other continously. We also don't have a way to provide. She doesn't like her current surroundings and she's always wanted to enlist but she only decided a year or so ago to join the air force, she was waiting to get the necessary college credits for the role she wants to enlist in. I literally specified that in my post and said that a secondary reason was the possible expedition.

What's the rush? Nothing really. I'm not bored of where I live whatsoever and that's a pretty big accusation to pin upon me and it's also like, incredibly rude, lmfao. I don't even know what idea I gave you that I'm not ready for marriage either or atleast made you come off as so rude considering I was so friendly in my initial post. The US doesn't sound like an exciting place to live either (or atleast where she is, it's too warm, we were already talking about moving somewhere cooler) and we were considering bringing her over here originally but she had her commitments with college and she wanted to join the military. I couldn't have possibly put all these personal things in the original post because it was uncalled for and really doesn't matter but I can guarantee that it's bona fide, lol. I thank you for your concerns but don't worry it's my life and I can live it as I want, I'm sure I'm not making a mistake.

5 hours ago, NikLR said:

Where is the beneficary currently? 

We're not married yet but the plan is to get married in the US and then I (the beneficiary) return to the UK and we file for the process.

I keep reading online that the marriage needs to be done outside the US. The marriage still applies if I get married in the USA though right and the only difference is that my interview would be at an embassy in the USA and so would my medical?

Hello all! 

I'm a 19 year old British citizen and my fiancee is joining the US military. She was originally going to wait until she finished university but she's wanted this for a while, this has kind of tossed our plans up because we were going to get married in March but we read online that there's a good chance they'll think we're frauding the system and her father (Who is a navy veteran) said that people do this regularly. I guess I'm asking another question in that if it's bad or not that we're mentioning that we're intending to get married cause maybe they don't want to take married people right now? She's joining the Air Force btw. If not we'd just get married following BMT.

Anyway, a big reason for her joining is that aside from her own aspirations and the benefits is the possible expedition we've read about online (but haven't been explained to us.) I can't find much on it aside from the UCSIS London website saying you're allowed to file it directly to the Department of State but that didn't make much sense. Sorry I'm still learning this visa stuff 😂 I've read that the military will help you with the process and make it a lot faster as well as try to get your spouse into the USA and this seems really appealing considering the process, from what I've read, can take from 6 to a year and a half considering where you're from (The UK isn't a high fraud country, I'd imagine), is this true and what is the process?

Thanks for all your responses 😄