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2 hours ago, carmel34 said:

If you and your US citizen boyfriend decide on a spousal visa, it is complicated to get married the regular way in Brazil.  I have done it, and the marriage application documents (requiring apostilles/legalization of documents, certified translation of documents by a government-approved translation service, apostilled power of attorney to sign forms in Brazil on my behalf), plus required 30 day waiting time after applying for marriage, make it difficult. He can't just show up in Brazil to visit and get married within a week or two.  For a CR-1, I recommend the Utah Zoom marriage option while he visits you in Brazil next year (assuming that his mother approves after meeting you and the paternity test confirms that he is the father).  Do more research on the Utah Zoom marriage.  The CR-1 process will take 1-2 years.  K-1 has disadvantages but some couples choose it anyway.  Good luck!

Thanks for your answer, i searched and people are commenting that their online marriage by utah was disapproved. I thought marrying in Brazil would be faste, because after applying for the intention of marrying i have to wait 15 days for then be able to marry and this process was going to take 20 days till getting the marriage certificate, but I'm not sure anymore if the information i got is trustable. Can you share more about the marriage process?

1 minute ago, Mike E said:

1. Is he over age 18?

 

2. After she meets you, is it assured she will let him marry you?

He is 29yo and I'm 21yo.

I'm not sure if she's going to approve me but he told me not to worry about that because he will still be with me and marry me even without her approval.

5 minutes ago, Boiler said:

You do not file, that would be down to your BF/ Mother.

 

CR1 all the time.

Yes, he's the one that will be doing that, im asking for him because he doesn't know what to do as well, if we do k1 now or wait till next year to do cr1

Hello everyone!

I've been struggling in deciding between k1 and cr1, most of the comments are saying that cr1 is the best option. My problem is that to start cr1 process i have to marry my american boyfriend and his mom only allows him to marry me after meeting me, she also thinks the baby isn't his, we will do paternity test in November. I'm brazilian and I'm pregnant, my boyfriend's mom will be coming with him next year to visit me when the baby born, we decided to have the baby here in Brazil. 

All i want is to be with him as a family, since we're having a baby together, I'm scared of taking too long to be together as a family, is important for my boyfriend and the baby to have a connection and having to take care of the baby all by myself would probably be tiring as well. I saw that both process are kinda equal in terms of time. My question is, should i apply now for K1 or wait till next year to marry and apply for cr1?