ARose

What more would be required do you know?

Okay good to know. When should he stop working for his Irish company then? Before we even file for I-130 / I-485 etc or maybe when application for I-130 is approved?

Great to know that it’s possible to expedite EAD - as not having job for ~8 months would be the main stressor for going down this route! Hopefully he’d get an offer letter while waiting.

Could be, but not necessarily. Right now he’s working for a big pharmaceutical company. But he’s trained in a few different areas, one of them being research, so I suppose if he worked for university or government research program then yes. He’s willing to take anything in the field at this point.

Thanks so much for the replies everyone! Good to know about the work situation. So my fiancé works in pharmaceutical biotech and could qualify for the H1-B visa for work. I’m wondering if, during the 8ish months while waiting for EAD, he applied for and got a job that would sponsor H1-B, if he’d be able to work under that visa while waiting for AOS? Or would that not be allowed/would AOS then be forfeited?

Hi, I'm a US citizen and I've been with my partner who is from Ireland for 7+ years now. For the last 3 years we've been living together in Ireland, however I came home recently for family reasons and will now be staying here. My partner is here with me, he came on ESTA/VWP to visit for a couple months and work remotely while doing so. My partner (my fiance as of a couple months ago) and I are discussing our next steps and future. We've been researching into K-1, CR-1 visas and have seen that the current wait times are quite long. I have to stay in the states and now we really are getting nervous about being separated and having to do long distance again. After researching on this forum, I've noticed that some couples have opted to get married while their parter is visiting on tourist visa (change of plans etc) and then file for I-130 and I-485/Adjustment of Status which gives them legal authorization to stay past the 90 day visa and await permanent residency approval/interview/etc while here. We genuinely had no idea this was an option until now and definitely had no intentions on going this route. From what I've read, the intent is the main factor and this is determined at POE... And his intent at POE was just visiting my family. I also read on here that questionable intent is, alone, not enough reason to deny AOS at the interview anyway (?). Most of the posts I had read on this topic were from a couple of years ago. I'm just wondering if this is still legally an option, if people have had any recent experience with this, if there are risks of rejection of I-130/AOS (and if so what those might be). Any advice at all would be so so appreciated! Thank you 😊