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This is super useful, thank you!

I don't think anyone at the airport cares about anyone's immigration status for internal flights. Following this reasoning "don't fly, it's not safe", flying to Vegas to get married would be unsafe as well. I fly frequently (once/twice a month) in the US and abroad, have audible foreign accent, but never, ever in my 25 years here had my immigration status checked before or after flying. My fiancee is a scholar/researcher, she's been to the US many times before (about 20 times), on B1 initially, and then later on ESTA, flew internally across the country (CA to MA and back) and never had a single problem either. But let's not focus on the risks, we will manage these just fine. The risks are not the reason I started this thread. All I want to know is -- is going to US VI directly (for example, flying from CLT to STT) treated as exiting the US and then re-entering for the immigration purposes? If yes, then we obviously can't do it on her K-1 visa.

To be clear, the plan I am thinking about is: 1. File I-129F, she waits for the visa outside of the US. 2. Once she gets the K-1 visa, she enters the US at SFO (this is the single entry, 90 day clock starts then). 3. A couple weeks after that, fly to St Thomas. 4. Wedding 5. Fly back to California. 6. File AoS, Advance Parole etc. 7. Wait for GC So, my questions are -- for step (3) of the plan above, is flying to US VI (directly) considered an intra-US flight? I think there's a customs check in US VI but not an immigration check. And for step (5), are there immigration checks on coming back from US VI?

Ah no, she has not come to the US on the K1 visa, she's outside of the US now. We haven't even filed the I-129F application yet. As I said in the original post, this whole journey is in the early planning stages. Noname93: Regarding the risk of diverting the plane - that risk is not significant enough for us. I can come to Poland and live there for the duration of the CR-1 process, or another K1 process if necessary. Annoying? Yes. Life changing? No.

Unsure why it wouldn't work - we do intend to marry within 90 days of original arrival. Can you explain a bit more?

Hi everyone, We are in the very early stages of planning for the K1. We were initially thinking of going the consular processing route but due to a change in circumstances, we're now planning to follow the K1 -> AoS route. Can we marry in US Virgin Islands? I know that K1 is a single entry visa. If we fly directly from the mainland there should be no immigration. But what about the return? I am not familiar with the immigration procedures in USVI. Is travel to USVI similar to Hawai`i, where there's no immigration if coming from the mainland? I am the USC (naturalized), my fiancee will be the beneficiary. I have to confess that I am not looking forward to dealing with USCIS again heh. Thanks!