Brendenstn

I have been thinking about K3 myself, since I read about other people doing it and it working out for them alongside not seeing anyone talking about it hurting them. I feel like I've already decided to submit K3, but not sure if it would be too soon? It's very difficult for us emotionally having to live apart and especially tough on her where she is living now without going into too much detail. I just want this to be over with as soon as possible for our mental states, though I'm sure it's a struggle that we all have to go through. Timeline: Filed 8/16/22 NOA1 8/16/22 (Nebraska)

Me and my wife are about to submit our I-130 online and have taken pictures to use as passport style photos. They seem to be fine based on the criteria and on some online website tools, but I am worried about an RFE because I do not wish for our case to take any longer than it has to. I don't know where to ask but I would like some extra confirmation these would be accepted given we took them ourselves individually (currently apart) I'm concerned if my wife's eye is being covered too much by her hair, and as for mine I have some concerns about the lighting. I also have another one that has better lighting but my shoulders are more angled instead of being front facing. I would just like to know if anyone with some type of experience or better knowledge could help us know if these would be accepted or not before we submit, or if we should retake them, and just how strict they would be,

It was technically a "long visit" but we lived in the exact same house in the exact same room 24/7 for 4-5 months. She is in her home country and I am in US but we have spent a good amount of time in person living in the same location and wish to include that information on our application. For all intents and purposes we were living together and treated it like such, and I am going to include for our evidence of a bona fide marriage, I am just unsure if it would be bad to list it here or not.

Filling out form I-130 online for my foreign spouse. Me and my wife have visited irl and lived together in the same house (her father's house) for 4 months while I was visiting her home country visa-free, is it ok to list this address as an answer for where we last lived together or will USCIS not accept that as living together? I intend to list it for our support of a bonafide marriage as well, so is it ok to list it as an answer to this question or is it better to put "Never Lived Together"?

"Where were you and your current spouse married?" We got married yesterday while we were (and still are) on vacation together in Denmark, physically together in the same location, but it was done via Utah County online marriage ceremony. We are filing out I-130 online today and are unsure what to put for this question, should it be Utah or Denmark?

What specific services/guides can people recommend for getting married online? My girlfriend (UK) and I (Texas) have looked at our options and decided that we want to get married and file for a Spousal Visa. Looking it up online I see a few different websites but want to know if anyone on these forums can vouch for their validity / say which online services or guide they used for their confirmed immigration case. Has anyone used MarryFromHome? I apologize if this goes against some advertising or promoting policy that I am unaware of. We are going to meet up together in some third country for our honeymoon as soon as we can after our marriage to file as soon as possible, which would just mean we need our marriage certificate correct? Since we are going to meet up so soon after getting married, would it be better to / could we even get married via zoom whilst we were both outside the US on our honeymoon? Online marriage seems fine (Utah or zoom or however it is done) as long as you meet up afterwards which are going to, but the process and legality is a tad intimidating and would appreciate if there was someone that could help push us in the right direction.

Thank you everyone very much that has responded, it is nice to get some outside opinions on things. Naturally we have both been rather stressed and worried about our ability to be together From how things look it seems like CR1 is our best option, since it seems that our marriage will hopefully be recognized as legitimate given the time we have already had together alongside the rest of the evidence that we can provide. The only thing to do now is gather the evidence and actually plan the wedding itself. The most convenient,fast, and cheapest way would be an online marriage since as long as it is consummated we can file I-130, and since other people have mentioned it here I do hope that it wouldn't make our case look worse. The mater then is just finding a proper legal legitimate service.

I'm glad that nothing seems to be bad on an immigration standpoint; I do wonder how much of this is paranoia given the large time investment and potential risk vs a healthy dose of caution. As for a B1/B2 visa, from our understanding and research on the matter it seems like it would be hard to achieve and we don't want to have too many "attempts" at entering the US since we have read that it is a red flag to seem desperate at entering the US. I accompanied her while she was attempting to make it into the US, at port of entry they pulled her aside and dug into our relationship and her own "ties to home" for many hours of questioning and basically invasions of privacy, ultimately having her denied under INA 217 and being told that she was being labeled as an immigrant without an immigrant visa, and that it would be hard to be accepted for any type of visa that was not one with immigration intent. We would be more than pleased to hear that we could still apply for a different type of visa and have her visit me that way to make the wait that much more bearable, but it doesn't seem like that is an option for us given the reason for her denial, plus it seems difficult for visiting while I-130/I-129F is processing anyway and we do want to have her permanently live with me so we want to have that in motion asap so we are waiting as short as possible.

Yeah we are well aware, but we don't have any other option for us since we would rather live in US than UK for both personal reasons and that it would be easier for us and me to find work and sponsor her here and have a place to stay than for her the other way around. It's a hell that they make you go through but it's one that is weather-able as long as love is on your side. Despite her ESTA denial we plan to meet up as often and for as long as we can wherever we can during the long processing times.

The things we don't think are "normal" are basically just the fact that we don't get along with normal people in general, that knew that we both wanted to be married at some point in our lives before meeting one another, and some of our shared interests that made us fall for one another in the first place. The fact that you feel this is concerning on a personal level is the reason we are wondering if it is concerning on an immigration level and feeling like we aren't the most typically understood couple, though that is our own views that could be amidst a sea of bias. Rest assured our relationship began while she was 18, and she will be turning 19 next month as well. We are not in a rush to get married (though we do want to be married together, it doesn't matter if we are or aren't since our love is true all the same), just a rush to be permanently physically together since we cannot bear spending a single second apart. Her family issues were from before we met, but I was living at her place with her father during my 4 month stay. Neither of us simply got along with him well enough to want to take photos together with him feeling uncomfortable, but he is supposedly in support of our relationship since he never objected to my stay. We haven't talked about marriage to her father since we have trouble talking to him in general, but both my mother and father are in support of our relationship and marriage whether that is K1 or CR1 as I have discussed it with them since both me and my gf get along with my side o the family. I hope this wasn't too lengthy of a reply, just trying to cover all of our bases and details and such.

Me and my girlfriend feel that our relationship isn't the most "normal" and we worry about how strong our proof of relationship/marriage will be for either K1 or CR1 respectively (we are unsure about whether to do K1 or CR1 but leaning towards CR1) We already know that we want to get married and will do either K1 visa or CR1 visa depending on whichever one is most likely to be accepted for our case. We have known each other for 6 months, 2 online and 4 months in person living in the same house together 24/7 and never being separated once. Since I was in the UK without a visa, I left before it got too close to the 6 month deadline, worried about my ability for future UK visits given her ESTA was denied at Port of Entry when trying to visit me in the US (treated as immigrant without visa, no strong ties to UK) We always had marriage in mind as an end goal for our relationship when we got into it in the first place, always kind of treated one another like a husband and wife, and after 6 months of our relationship together none of that has changed in the slightest. Due to this amongst other factors of only knowing each other for a short time, not having many pictures together, not going out on dates much mainly staying at home, not getting along with her family for pictures and not being able to meet my family for pictures due to her ESTA denial , her being 18 me being 25, not wanting to go into much detail about how and why we met (personal reasons), etc. we worry how our relationship would look like for a K1 visa, thinking that CR1 visa might look stronger. If we did marry online then met up for consummation purposes basically right now and submitted the CR1 visa asap, would our case be strong enough to be approved, or would it be stronger to not marry and submit the evidence we have (some pictures together, spending money on one another, living together for 4 month despite not having easy legal ways to prove that, letters from family recognizing relationship, call logs, chat history on discord, and whatever else evidence we can put together) for K1 visa?