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The two-year extension to my UK fiancee visa is called "further leave to remain" (not indefinite leave to remain) is this acceptable then to the US embassy as part of my proof of 6-month residence or do I actually need to have lived here two years before submitting a DCF and once I've obtained Indefinite leave to remain.

thx

Just wondering if anyone has experience filing in London for I-130/CR-1 immigrant visa without having lived in the UK for six months. We were advised to go ahead and submit our petition by the consular hotline and I will at least wait until I at get temporary leave to remain (permission to live in the UK for two years as married spouse of UK citizen), but will they accept a petition before I've lived here for six months? How is this 6 months residency requireent calculated?

I also read on the VJwiki that the London consulate could require a two-year residency - can anyone comment on this? Hopefully its not true! I have lived in Bolivia for three years so maybe I can explain why I didn't have permanent residency in the US either? And now that I am too pregnant to fly, I can't return to Bolivia to file DCF there.

Thanks for any and all advice and experience!

Thanks, everyone, for the speedy responses. It is great to see how people in similar circumstances can help each other out, and I hope one day to give as much back as everyone else is giving right now. At the moment, it is hard to see past the frustration of an inhumane bureaucracy that separates families to make level-headed decisions that are needed. Still I will try

Pushbrk, I found this post very helpful on whether you could travel during the visa process http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...mp;#entry342725 however it does suggest that my partner applying for the 1130 whilst am in the US could be problematic.

I also wondered what take folk had on what I should say at the border if I am going in on the Visa Waiver Program. Is it best to be upfront and transparent say I am visiting my wife, and have the back-up evidence to show that I intend to return to the UK to do the full process from there? Or should I obscure the existence of an American wife and avoid raising unnecessary questions by just saying I am visiting friends in California. Any thoughts, experiences?

It's been a depressing eye-opener into visa bureaucracy but thank god for forums like these! Our situation is this:

I am a UK citizen and my wife a US citizen. We met a few years ago in Bolivia. A couple of weeks ago we got married in the UK and are planning to move to the US to give birth to a child in October. The key thing for us is to to be together for the birth and obviously to be together once our child arrives, but we have been a bit naive about the difficulties in doing this.

We are now trying to work out our options, and getting headaches trying to work it out, so here are a few questions I would appreciate any comments or thoughts on:

1. If I go in on a Visa Waiver Program (VWP) end of August and return within 3-months in November after birth, could my wife start process for K3 visa while I am still in the US?

2. If I apply for a B2 tourist or journalist visa (I could get a commission to cover the US elections), how easy is to firstly get the visa given that I have a wife in the US (yet also have documentation showing my job and home are in the UK)? What are the difficulties in applying for Adjustment of Status under a B2 or journalist visa?

3. If we were to go for Direct Consular Filing in December from the embassy in London, how difficult is it to convince US visas bureaucrats about UK residency given that we have been residents in Bolivia for the last four years and will be spending the next 6 months between here and the US?

4. Is it possible for either of us to travel (myself under the VWP) whilst we have a K3 visa in the pipeline?

5. Lastly, I was wondering whether anyone knows if there are any exceptions or faster-track systems in place in the US when separation would mean being apart not just from my partner but our new baby.

thanks everyone!