rrtvisa

I understand your concern. The good thing is i have been dating my girlfriend for 2 years and know she would be okay with not being able to leave the country(she's done it before) or work as I am able to fully support her. Again, thank you for your concern, but I would not put her in a situation that I knew she did not want.

To specify, it is not her intent to come to the U.S. to marry because she does not know I plan to propose. She would then adjust status, but If that is still considered illegal or not possible please let me know. I plan to do things the correct and legal way. Unfortunately, its looking like our option is K1 with the ESTA more likely to be denied and CR1 having longer processing times compared to K1.

Sorry, should have specified that she would not enter with the intention to try to apply for AOS, because she does not know yet that I would propose in the U.S. She would be using the ESTA to visit me.

I(US Citizen) met my girlfriend(Spain Citizen) while she was on a J1(Au Pair Visa) Visa. She left the U.S. and applied for a Student F1 Visa but was denied under 214b in December 2023. We believe it was due to her Au Pair host family being her visa sponsor and the Visa interviewer thought she would be going back to work with the host family even though she already payed her tuition. She did not put me as a sponsor because we heard that having a boyfriend as a sponsor would be reason for her to want to stay in the US. We are planning on her to come visit me with an ESTA(visa waiver program), but have seen conflicting statements online if it is possible for it to be approved or an automatic denial. If so, what can we do to improve the likelihood of the ESTA approved? I have also seen conflicting statements if I would then be able to ask my girlfriend to marry and get married once she is in the U.S. and do an adjustment of status to legal permanent residency during her ESTA stay. Is this possible? or is our best bet to do a k1 visa? Our main goal is to be together and to start living together in the U.S. The help is greatly appreciated as we both had so many plans to start our lives together and the timeline of a k1 visa is not helping our mindset.