Aya820

Please save your money there's nothing an immigration attorney can do.
Please go to the Jamaican portal and read pass threads this has been discussed many many times.
Please view my timeline and my past posts on this subject.
Applying for a different kind of visa is not going to change the situation. The fact remains marijuana is illegal in the United States under federal law.
No one knows the heart break better than myself you simply have to wait out the one yearr ban and redo the medical in a year.
If you enter this topic in the search tool you will see many many post many VJers have gone through this.

I was contacted a couple of weeks ago on Reddit. I wouldn't do it as I don't think it's healthy for the relationship.

That is fraud when it's planned to do.
I do not believe he will get any kind of visitor visa for US and especially when he just got a denied K-1 visa.

I really want to thank you guys. It's been hard, but by the grace of God I am getting stronger everyday. I can now understand that as the oldest my mate has the weight of his entire family on his shoulder. I also understand that coming here there are more choices than in Ghana. He had never traveled, he never had anything to call his own.....but he was not ready for marriage. I will always love the man I thought I married, but I know that God is telling me that it's time to let go of the hurt and pain. As long as I continue to put God first, I will be fine.

OP stated that both of them have leases through 2017, yes? OP, is it possible to add your name to your husband's studio lease, and his name to your lease? At least then, both of you would be on both leases.

Agreed.
I could go on and on defending myself of 'why I put myself in such a situation' but I chose not to having defend my choices.
If OP had met her husband a few years later she very well may have also put herself in that position past child bearing age.
"That situation" is what it is. It should not be scrutinized when well explored between the couple,
not by CO's, not by anyone......but sadly it is.
A pancake always has 2 sides. I feel like telling people to just leave my pan cake alone, I have looked at all sides and edges.

Please start a thread when Your case is over, and let us know how it goes. There's so many conflicting stories here, I don't think anyone can say exactly what will happen.It could really benefit someone in the future having the same issue, with the Mexico embassy, to have some information to go by. Good luck!

What would they get banned for?

If you get denied because of this it'll most likely happen at the interview.

Yeah, keep some for sentimental reasons.
Word is that we can have a celebratory barbecue with the other stuff 2 years after naturalization.
I'm keeping it to remind myself, should anything befall our marriage, never to repeat this process in a zillion years.
We actually couldn't find our marriage certificate recently (needed for some arcane application to some arcane program by Mrs. T-B.), but we found one amidst her immigration papers. I recommend keeping that, if you have an original, or at least going to your county clerk to get a new original to have on file.
It might not be a bad idea to go through your papers one by one to see if you have any other official document like that to pull out.

She can't apply for citizenship until late 2020. 5 year rule applies here (due to divorce).

First off, if you are getting canadian PR, why would you want to do observership in the US? Why not Canada?
If you give the USMLE in USA, and then continue to residency, then you would get licensed as a physician in the US, not the Canada. You need to give a whole set of exams in Canada to be licensed.
So your explanation of why you planned for US studies makes no sense when you are eventually settling in the Canada, but want to do observership in the USA?
Why do you want to give USMLE if you want to eventually settle in the Canada?
Dont you know you cannot practise in Canada if you do your USMLE/residency in the US?
And getting residency in the US is one of the hardest things.

We had every red flag in the book (including the age difference). Luckily, I was able to attend the interview, and we got his K1 visa without any issues whatsoever - but we also had a lot of chemistry that seemed obvious to the interviewer. However, a large age difference between an older non-African woman and a young African men automatically conjures the image of a "desperate middle-aged woman who wants a young hot boy toy" and "an African yahoo boy who wants a green card"
This is not meant as an offense by any means, but that's just what the outside world will assume - and not just at the consulate.
My marriage fit that cliché, and ultimately didn't work out unfortunately. Convincing the consulate and getting that visa is a small feat compared to what married life in the US will present for such a couple. Co-workers, family, friends, neighbors might not understand. And when the outside world constantly doubts, it's hard to maintain trust and confidence in your relationship. That pressure is sometimes too much, even when the relationship is real. And then it's easy to say "he only used me for a green card". And no matter how much you want to believe that age is only a number, there will be a day, when you realize that you are in different stages in life.
This is not meant to discourage. I still remember how much in love I was with my "beautiful young man", and how I was convinced we'd beat the odds. Love is a gamble, and I am glad I played ;-)
Wishing you the best of luck!!! Don't worry too much about the interview - if it's meant to be, he will get that visa.

So our region has been plagued with numerous K-1 visa denial due to a major culture conflict; traditional engagement ceremonies.
Culturally, most African cultures will not permit an UNMARRIED woman to leave her parents abode to stay with a man with performing or paying the dowry (or at least something similar to offer marital protection to the woman).
In most areas of our region, proposing with a ring is not good enough to take the woman away.
Women who like to bring the "fiance" here also are pressured by family member to get this "marital protection" afforded by the engagement also recognized as marriage (if dowry is paid).
However, those activities or ceremonies have recently been considered MARRIAGE..(I believe, confusion created by our ppl).
So before you get "engaged" do the following:
1. Do not do any ceremony that LOOKS LIKE an engagement ceremony...it could be viewed as marriage
2. Do not pay dowry...Paying dowry is culturally seen as marriage. If field investigators come around , someone in your neighborhood will talk!!
3. In any gathering with the families, abstain from wearing similar cloths that are typical of traditional engagement.
4. Convince and persuade both family members about this important requirement of K-1 Visa.
5. Keep your social media page clean and monitor what you post and what others post on your page.
6. If family members playfully refer to you as "wife" "husband" or any attribute for a married person, correct them.
Read through the your country thread for embassy reviews..Ask questions and don't take anything for granted!!
Good luck to everyone!!

Nothing you can do unless you can prove fraud. Why did you wait a year if you knew he forged some papers to remove conditions? NVM the why doesn't matter, just divorce and move on being vindictive will gain you nothing. Do file for child support as he has an obligation to support his child.

We submitted his divorce with our i-130 packet, but in our interview the consulate gave us a paper to take to the HIGH COURT to pay for a DIVORCE VERIFICATION RECEIPT, Which we did. And to submit the paid verification receipt to GSS in Lagos.
The receipt simply shows that his divorce has been filed with the high court....

If you got the vaccine in 2014 then it shouldn't be expired - it is valid for at least ten years. Did you mean 2004? Do you have an international vaccination booklet/card? What does it say?

No, that isn't your only option. Butt out and leave her alone, you warned her and she doesn't want to hear it.
Your 'going public' with what she confided in you is a real betrayal, more so than his 3 FB pages.
You want to tell her parents ? For Pete's sake she is a grown woman. Go rescue a puppy and stop manipulating her decisions behind her back.
She falls, she heals, she knows better the next time. End of story.

Give your friend the gift of choice without the need to control her and undermining their relationship.
You have overstepped your boundary, start respecting her choices whether you agree with them or not.
On one hand you say she is like your sister and on the other you want to end the friendship because of her choices.
Time to let go of the outcome and be there if she crashes, like a real friend would. It is life's lesson for you to re evaluate where your boundaries
are in regards to other adults around you. Your assumption that she can't survive a betrayal without you stepping in to "rescue" her
is frankly a co dependency trait. There may be just as much to learn for you from all of this than there is for her.
You have no facts and wanting to go behind her back and report assumptions to the agency is childish and a betrayal.
Stop trying to rescue and fix others and allow them freedom of choice, experience and growth in the path they have chosen for themselves.

She is a grown women who os 29 years old so she can make up her own decisions in life. No you can not stop her.
But you can tell her what you feel and then it is up to her to listen or not.

There's so many uneducated and unemployed people, good that he is motivated to work and study. Just divorce and keep things civil for your child. Its his child too. A working father who's studying is a good role model for any child, even if your marriage didn't work out.

Then you have nothing at all to worry about. And by the way - at 21 I was adamant I didn't want children. I also thought the world was going to hell in a handcart and having children was a ridiculous idea. At 29 and happily married for a few years I felt completely differently.

Sounds like playing with fire. No wedding ceremony is more important to me than getting my fiance approved for a visa without any added stress and/or risk of denial or turned away at POE. I would never recommend this to anyone. Just my opinion.
Good Luck. Let us know how it turns out.

If it looks like a wedding or smells like a wedding, don't do it. It doesn't matter what you call it. People get denied visas AND entry by the CBP because they're too married for the K1 but in actuality are not married enough for the CR1.

I totally agree but in Ghana for instance. Traditional marriages allow men to marry more than one but the gov't or "legal" marriages do not allow that.
So a man with traditionally more than one wife can only register his marriage to only one of the wives.
In case of death without Will, the other wives are out of luck in the court of law.