We've been keeping track of your immigration process for quiet some time now, because we filed the I-130 one month after you did and are waiting for the next step for almost the same reasons as you do.
My husband is a dual citizen and applied for a graduate program in the US. I'm a student myself, but planed on not completing my master in Germany and looking for a Job in the US instead, so we can be together.
The first get together, campus tour for new graduates and so on is going to be in the middle of August (not in September, as we though some months ago),
so obviously , I won't be able to move to the US together with my husband because of the delay in Frankfurt.
I am reconsidering my plans too and would be allowed to write my master's thesis next summer, if I stayed in Germany for on more term (November - Feburary).
Like USS_Voyager says, its no a bad idea, that the petitioner moves to the US a bit earlier in order to satisfy the domicile requirement.
But I don't agree with the last line - I'm definitly going to try to get to the US in September or October (depending on the visa process) for a month or so as a tourist, because I don't have any courses right now and we want to see each other.
There will always be the risk of being refused at the immigration of your destinated airport, if you are suspected of wanting to immigrate illegaly, which means having to pay the flight forth and back for nothing.
But - as Germans, we don't have to apply for a "real" tourist visa because of the visa waiver program, which makes things a bit easier (according to what I read in other forums -
you and us are not the first, who want to visit each other while the visa is still being processed) and on top of that you are enrolled at a german university.
I'll print out a confirmation from my university, that I'm a student right now to show to any officer who cares to see it and I don't think its suspicious, wanting to spend your holidays between courses together.
The safer way is of course for the petitionier to visit the beneficary and not vice versa, but he's just not going to have as much free time as I will. He even won't come back for the interview, I'll need to do it on my own.
All the best and good luck for whole the visa process,
Alina (and Patrick)
P.S.: I'm sorry for any grammatical errors or misspellings. I'm obviously not the native speaker between the two of us.
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Hello you two,
We've been keeping track of your immigration process for quiet some time now, because we filed the I-130 one month after you did and are waiting for the next step for almost the same reasons as you do.
My husband is a dual citizen and applied for a graduate program in the US. I'm a student myself, but planed on not completing my master in Germany and looking for a Job in the US instead, so we can be together.
The first get together, campus tour for new graduates and so on is going to be in the middle of August (not in September, as we though some months ago),
so obviously , I won't be able to move to the US together with my husband because of the delay in Frankfurt.
I am reconsidering my plans too and would be allowed to write my master's thesis next summer, if I stayed in Germany for on more term (November - Feburary).
Like USS_Voyager says, its no a bad idea, that the petitioner moves to the US a bit earlier in order to satisfy the domicile requirement.
But I don't agree with the last line - I'm definitly going to try to get to the US in September or October (depending on the visa process) for a month or so as a tourist, because I don't have any courses right now and we want to see each other.
There will always be the risk of being refused at the immigration of your destinated airport, if you are suspected of wanting to immigrate illegaly, which means having to pay the flight forth and back for nothing.
But - as Germans, we don't have to apply for a "real" tourist visa because of the visa waiver program, which makes things a bit easier (according to what I read in other forums -
you and us are not the first, who want to visit each other while the visa is still being processed) and on top of that you are enrolled at a german university.
I'll print out a confirmation from my university, that I'm a student right now to show to any officer who cares to see it and I don't think its suspicious, wanting to spend your holidays between courses together.
The safer way is of course for the petitionier to visit the beneficary and not vice versa, but he's just not going to have as much free time as I will. He even won't come back for the interview, I'll need to do it on my own.
All the best and good luck for whole the visa process,
Alina (and Patrick)
P.S.: I'm sorry for any grammatical errors or misspellings. I'm obviously not the native speaker between the two of us.