PeruvyandGringa

Thanks for the responses. I do not want her to go insane from boredom so we figured the Spouse Visa would be a great way to show up and hit the ground running so to speak. Our plan is to have a small ceremony, then have her fly back to Germany after filing the necessary paperwork so we can get started. Most information I see on the VWP seems to imply that there are big problems if we were to say marry and then she remains here. My biggest concern, though, is her getting blocked from entry and then we get to deal with trying to figure out how to cope with visa fraud/whatever other nasty penalties they can cook up.

Yes, you don't want your new bride going insane. Just have her bring plenty of ties to her country (proof to return to work/school, etc). One thing you have on your side is that Germany was awarded best country in the world to live (ie, definitely not a high fraud country). If you can find a way for ME to move THERE, please let me know. Also, if they do ask more questions, just the fact that you have it planned out, and just for the reason that she wouldn't stay in the country, she would go nuts without work, and she has a good job/school that is keeping her busy and occupied, while at the moment, there is nothing for her to do in the US, until you get the properly filed spousal visa filed/approved after your wedding, and she would be happy to be able to work right away. Good luck!

Hey, I would be careful about this. If she says she is here on a tourist visa but it is clear she is here to get married, then the USCIS is likely to perceive that as visa fraud. I would definitely NOT assume that it's ok.

don't scare the OP with mis-information. people have destination weddings all of the time. Just be honest, and bring ties to Germany when entering in case they ask.

OP, it sounds like you already have your plan in mind! Congratulations, and with a spousal visa, they can work as soon as they arrive, which for a lot of people is a huge factor. For busy-bodies, there is nothing worse than sitting at home for many months on end waiting for AOS to be approved after a K-1 wedding. The downside is that the visa may take a bit longer to process, and that you would be apart after marriage.

My mother is 56 years old .My aunt is the citizen of usa .Mother wants to visit her .My mother owns a house in pakistan n having the bank satement of 1 million kindly tell me the probabilities of getting the visa.My mother doesnot have any travel history

1 Million Pakistani Rupees? or USD? From a higher fraud county I would think you need more ties, as someone suggested (a great job? her children/grandchildren in Pakistan?). The more ties, the better. A huge mansion with maids would be more of a tie than a very small standard dwelling (that could maybe even be rented out to other family/friends if you moved to another country). The stronger and more ties, the more likely the visa would be approved.

She came here on tourist Visa to visit and see if she likes Colorado and could possibly study law here. She is a Lawyer in Colombia. Well, we have had a blast the last 3 weeks she has been here and we do not want to separate. We decided to get engaged. She was asked because of her return flight being so far away if she had the money to be able to stay here...

Not sure how much she earns in Colombia and how much she has saved, but law school here in the US is typically expensive, maybe she might want to go back to Colombia and work a little more while the K-1 process is completed. If she does have a lot of money saved and a means to get through law school already, then she can stay here and adjust status.

Deductible -

$250 deductible example--You pay for everything until you reach $250 spent. Then insurance will start picking up a percentage of the tab, usually 80%. You do still get the negotiated rates your insurance has worked out with the doctors or hospitals. For example, if a doctor charges $100 for an office visit that's what he would bill a person with no insurance. But your insurance has negotiated that an office visit is only worth $52. The doctor can only bill you $52. If you had not met your deductible, then you pay the full $52, but that's better than $100. Once you hit the deductible with doctors and medicines, then insurance pays part of each procedure. There are some no cost things outside of the deductible that the Affordable Care Act mandates. You get a yearly health exam, mammogram...I forget what else...paid for by insurance even without meeting your deductible mark.

Out of pocket--

$3000 example. Once you reach your yearly out of pocket number, insurance pays $100%, so let's say you got cancer and had a lot of treatments, CT scans, and hospitalizations. You pay everything until you hit the deductible mark. Then insurance starts paying 80% of the bill. Once you have spent $3000 out of your pocket (for the deductible part, and then your 20% part of the bills) then insurance pays everything for the rest of the year. You could get bills totaling $500,000 but would not spend more than $3000 a year paying for your treatments, scans, and medicines. Those figures are from actual experience and not an exaggeration. My former husband died of cancer. We reached our out of pocket max in January each year and Feb-Dec was free mostly. There's a few small co-pays sometimes that wrangle their way in.

When you shop for insurance, the small deductible and small out of pocket amounts will have a high premium to pay every month. If you pick the lowest premium, you may get a $6000 deductible which pretty much means you are going to pay for all your doctor visits for the sniffles and such. But if you have a heart attack, cancer, surgery, etc then you will reach that point easily. I spent a week in the hospital and the bill was $42,000. That did not include paying the doctors for their services. It included the room, medicines, blood tests, IV fluids, monitoring devices, etc.

If you get a job that offers group insurance, it will usually be a much better deal than plans found on the marketplace for insuring yourself.

I want your plan, it's much better than the one I have. And I pay plenty each week for my not fabulous plan, it's actually the best of the plans my company offers

A deductible is sometimes also called maximum out of pocket. This is how much you will pay before the insurance covers at a higher rate. If you have a $100 co pay for hospital stays and have a $500 max annual out of pocket after you go to the hospital 5 times you will no longer pay anything to go the 6th and more time. Out of pocket in general is things you pay for above your premium such as co pays and ?? ( crutches may be something not covered and you pay out of pocket )

There is a deadline of Feb 15th for everyone , if you don't get covered by then you pay a tax penalty next year.

The deductible is not the maximum out of pocket, my plan has a $1500 deductible and $5000 out of pocket maximum. What it means? The first $1500 in medical expenses in a year, I have to cover. I do pay the discounted negotiated rates negotiated by the insurer, but I pay it all until I reach $1500...after that, they cover a portion, (I believe it is 70%), of expenses over $1500 in a year (and I cover 30%). At some point in the year, between the first $1500, and paying the 30% for anything over $1500, I eventually might hit $5000 of my own money spent in a year. At that point, I don't need to pay anything else (that year). It's really not a great plan, since I typically spend right about $1000 each year (so I'm paying a lot to have a plan that i really don't get much advantage of, other than slightly lowered rates from the doctor, which i'm not even convinced are much lowered). It will only be beneficial if (hopefully not) I would be in need well in excess of the $5000 in medical expenses in a year, which would be easy if you end up in the hospital even once!

Here and there I have this conversation with my wife. We are already at the NVC stage so I guess in this year my Wife and I are going to live there. She is 19 and always lived with her mom and never worked before, when she turned 18 she came to live with me in Brazil where I already have my stuffs, like an apartment, car and some savings.

We are always wondering how life will be once we move to US.

I work with IT, and I am guessing in the worst scenario I will end up getting, after a couple of months, once I am there, a full time job at a Help Desk or something like this, getting around a minimum wage. That being said I will get per hour 8.25$ and working 40 hours a week I will get at the end of the month around 1.300$ right?

She will start college as soon as we get there and will only be able to get a part time job, at a retail store or something like that. So her income will be around 660$.

I hope this will be a temporary situation, and by the time goes I will get something better than a minimum wage job, because I already have a graduation and years of experience here in Brazil, and I am not bad at what I do. But like I said, I hope this is the worst scenario.

We have been looking at prices, apartments, car and a few other stuffs here and there.

Those are the prices in Vegas of a few stuffs:

Apartment rent: 750$ ~ 900$

Internet: 60$

Mobile: Pay as you go 100$

Groceries: 250$

Medicines: 50$

Gas: 150$

Power: 150$

Water: 50$

Clothing: 70$

Transportation: 250$

This is around 2.000$

Am I forgetting something major? Are those prices realistic? My point of view is that you cannot live comfortably with a minimum wage plus a part time job, but you can live and not go broke!

I have a friend who married her hubby from Peru and he has a degree (and work experience) from Peru. He's been here 5 years and has yet to find a job in computers here. He is now going to school to get a degree here (plus at this point, he is learning all that is new). My cousin and her hubby lived here for awhile but they ended up moving back to Brazil. Her hubby has a wonderful corporate finance job and they have maids and nannies for their children there. Here they could barely make ends meet. You could get lucky and manage to land a really great job, the economy here has improved in the past few years from what it was. Best of luck in wherever you live!

Recently I filed the I-129F application with the Texas Lock Box. The file was sent to Texas for processing. Since Texas times are so long, we decided to request an expedite. We reviewed the criteria, and I inquired with USCIS about the request.

The day I filed the request on the phone, the agent confirmed a few of our personal details, then asked for a brief 1-2 sentence explanation. It was near impossible to explain the circumstances in 1-2 sentences, but that was it. I asked what the next step was, and she said "in 5-10 days someone from USCIS will contact you regarding documentation, etc". I was satisfied and began to prepare our case. I was excited for a chance to explain why we need this expedite. If they say no after reviewing everything, then the answer is no.

Anyways, the other day I received a "canned" generic email from USCIS saying they denied our request. I was so confused! I was never able to present our case to USCIS. They somehow made a decision based on 1-2 sentences taken by a less than helpful phone rep. I called USCIS and it did no good. I asked why I was told I would have a chance to present my case, yet no one has any answers.

What experience has anyone else had when applying for an expedite? I need to know what I can do to present my case, appeal, or re-file it

Thank you!

Requesting an expedite because of the service center your application was sent to is slow is no reason to be able to jump in front of everyone else waiting in the very long line. Is there a legitimate reason for the request?

Delta in July and December ask me to show my cc to verify it was my card and both times the ticket was for myself. In December it was thrown somewhere in my purse and I ask what if I didnt have it and the answer was you wont be able to fly and explain there have been many cases where tickets are purchase with stolen cc and its for customer safety. Luckily after digging everything out I found it.

I just flew to Germany in December with a ticket I didn't purchase and had no issues, but both my card and my mom's are frequently used to buy Delta flights.

That's because you bought the ticket through the airline and not a third party such as expedia, priceline, kayak, orbitz, or any of the others. As the op stated when you buy through the airlines, they require you to show it at the counter.....not the 3rd party vendors. I am not sure why that's the case. but it is. I can only surmise that when bought through third party, the airlines aren't worried about whose name is on the card, because the money doesn't go through them but through the vendor so it's the vendors responsibility to verify not the the airlines. Through a vendor the airlines will get their money no matter what so they aren't concerned with how the ticket is purchased. Kinda long winded but that's my take on it. As stated before I have bought tickets through those sites no less than ten times for others while I wasn't traveling with them and never had any issues at all.

Shaune--> Vendor---> Delta

Delta will get the money from the vendor no matter what card is used or whose name is on it, because the ticket is bought from Delta by the vendor. It is the vendor's risk to verify the card

Shaune ----> Delta

Delta will verify my card at the counter because they are getting the money from me and have a stake if there is an issue with the card

This isn't true because I've used my mom's credit card to buy myself tickets on Delta directly, my CC to buy her tickets on Delta directly, and my CC to buy my fiance an international ticket on Delta directly. You can have them look up your reservation using that CC you used at the counter if that is the method you use, but you can look it up any of the other ways with Delta at the counter as well. They don't care who paid for the flight. It's the same as a step parent buying a flight for a step child to travel alone to visit their parent. There is a reason the passenger info section is different than the payment info section.

I tried searching on the reciprocity by country site but for Mexico it only has that police records are unavailable (whereas for Peru, it explains the very difficult process of obtaining them!)...Hopefully someone from Mexico can explain better...

http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/fees/reciprocity-by-country/MX.html#policerecords-3

I'd like to add what happened to me about the ssn. When I was born they mistakenly gave me someone else ssn , didn't think that could Happen yea I know. I am 27 and social security office only realized it when I was 25 because the woman that had it died . I filed my taxes ever since I was 18 and nothing showed up . I went to file my taxes when I was 24 and they said sorry this social is assigned to someone dead .. What! I went to the social security office because I just thought they did something wrong in their system . Only to find that it was given to two babies at birth me and another woman her name was close to mine we had the same birthdates and our mothers first and last name were R J so I think someone just assumed it was the same person . So what did I get ?! A new social with all my debt cleared.. But the point in me saying this was i went to work with a valid ID and nothing showed up to my employer . She was working in New York city the same time I was working and filing taxes the same time as I was and still nothing flagged anything down until she died . So this is only for the point about the employer should have done research . Well their system can only go so far im assuming and yes it's possible for two people under the same social to file income tax with no issue and work in two different cities with no issue and to buy things live under the same social . I have no idea how this social security thing works ! Even when I flies my taxes all those year her income did not come up once! Not her address nothing!

Once again this is just referring to the comments about how they can both files taxes and about the employer not knowing..

This social security thing is royally screwed up, no wonder it is going bankrupt.

Your friend needs to apply on their own merit for a tourist visa. Strong, strong ties to their home country (a house, children, an exceptionally paying job and a lot of money in the bank). They need to show they have every reason to return to their home country and the visitors visa is only for a visit.

You are assuming that they change the date on the stamp they are using. When I arrive in Kazakhstan, the flight is scheduled to land at 23:55. The stamp is always the day the flight lands even though it is usually well after nidnight when I go thru passport control, but that is Kazakhstan. I have never entered the US near midnight, so I do not know if the CBP person stops processing people at midnight and changes the date, but I am doubtful. If a new line opens up that CBP agent may have the new date, but I really do not see them stopping in the middle to change a date--maybe they do.

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If you read the USCIS website about foreign travel, you need to count any part of a day before midnight as a day for the number of days outside the US, so I alway assumed that if you arrive before midnight it counted as a day and if were in the US past midnight that was another day until you left or until midnight. Not 24 hours.

Dave

When Victor arrived to the states, his plane landed just before midnight and it took him over an hour to get through (he managed to be the very last person of it seemed multiple flights!), and they did also stamp his passport coming this direction with the new date. That was in Orlando, but when they have multiple flights arriving at all hours, they can't separate people by which flight they came in on either. (thinking of Atlanta, it's always crazy busy there).

If you arrive on 2/17 at 11:50 p.m., and you go through immigration on 2/18 at 12:05 a.m., the stamp in your passport should say 2/18. That would technically give you the extra day you need, since you were writing "minutes", I guess this is the case for you. Hide out in the aiport toilette until you reach the next day

It seems the OP has already changed the flight, but I was going to suggest the same thing. When I flew to Peru I was wondering why they stamped my passport with the wrong date, then i realized I had waited in line for an hour and a half! So, yes, if you are arriving with only minutes in the US you can always just wait the few minutes before proceeding through and getting stamped!

Marry within the 90 days (day 89 is fine) but double check the I-94. yes, you can wait until the very last minute and then file AOS after. The only issue in waiting is that it is that much longer that she will have to wait to work and such. She will have been here 90+ days doing nothing before you even start the AOS process, and that will take ~3 months? give or take (so that would be 6 months total she would be stuck here with nothing much to do). But yes, the culture shock is also a huge adjustment, so it is possible that she decides to go back. I never would have expected it from my former fiance, but he freaked out once he was here (he had been denied a visitors visa). It was all too different for him, and he had never lived somewhere without friends or family. We loved each other very much but we decided he would go back. I will say, since he went back, we both regretted it terribly, but I couldn't bring myself to another year of communicating mostly via internet while waiting for another petition to be approved (and the expense!). I think by the time he flew back (on day 87) he was almost comfortable enough of life here, I just wasn't wanting to change our minds on such a permanent decision based on the last couple of weeks finally being better. It is a difficult adjustment, prepare her as best you can.

Since you want to work immediately after arriving I would suggest getting married first and file the spousal visa. Especially since you do not have any intention of being here for at least a year, but want to work immediately. Still, timing-wise, you would want to marry in the next few months (later if you are OK with arriving later).

I have had friends ask me to be a co-signor on a car loan (I've said no, but certainly doesn't prove that you are living with anyone, anyone could co-sign)

I have no family, and have always had close friends listed as beneficiaries on my insurance and such (someone might as well inherit something, but I'm not related and don't live with these people).

I am reading that some people are saying that the deed to the house can not be adjusted without refinance (makes sense, but my friend added her husband to her house without refinancing - perhaps that was in error).

Just my thought, I would start by adding each other's names to your bank accounts (even after the fact, it is showing trust in each other's funds), and make certain there is no possible way to get the name added to the deed.

Credit Card bills and bank statements with common address could be helpful (I'm really fishing for you), but I wouldn't have my bank statement/credit card bills/phone bills getting sent to an address of somewhere I wasn't living...

best would certainly be to have what it is you need as proof!

I am using Photoshop and i put 4 to 6 pics in every page. how many pages you printed ?

I had a total of 20 photos for the initial submission, but he brought many more photos to the interview (which they only glanced at the stack of photos, never went through them). Spain is not a high fraud country though, so if he had been from a high fraud country, I'm sure I would have included much more. Good luck!

I made a digital "album" if you will in Word, 2 photos with captions per page, printed on high quality color printer. We had all original photos for the interview...

Each consulate is different, but we were able to call the Embassy and choose our date. Once you know the petition is at the Embassy you can try to contact them to schedule a date? I would ask other people from The Netherlands...good luck!

What I would suggest as many have done is once you get the visa in hand, come over, get married in the courthouse to get your paperwork started, then begin preparations for the wedding "party" as you have called it. It may take you nearly a year to get the visa in hand (hopefully sooner). That way you can have as much (or as little) time as you want to plan your actual wedding party together.

It depends on what is important. If you file for a fiance visa, you would be apart during the engagement, and must get married in the US. If you go the spousal route, getting married abroad is an option as you mention, but then you are apart for a period of time after you are married. If you go the fiance visa your fiance will not be able to work/travel when they arrive, so that may or may not be an issue. Read the guides, but I think where you want to marry, when you want to be apart (during engagement or after marriage), and if your fiance wants to work immediately are the key factors...

Has your wife been living with you? or staying with you while visiting? You mention that she came on 3 visits...if they are 3 extended visits, or did she actually have residency in Morocco?

Our dates were off slightly, as I saw it as falsification if you sign and date with the incorrect date. If they looked at my passport entries and saw that I returned to the US 2 weeks before sending off my package, and there is no way for the mail to arrive from Spain the same day it was mailed (if it had been mailed to me). I figured it was best to have different dates. We just signed everything the very last day before I flew home and then I filled out a couple of things a few days later when I returned and sent it off quickly. I think the dates only varied by 5 days or so. Nearly everything was complete before I left Spain the last time, except a few things I added from that trip after I got home.