If i were to marry a brazillian woman in brazil, does she need a visa to come to the us, and if so how long do

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If i were to marry a brazillian woman in brazil, does she need a visa to come to the us, and if so how long do

Answer 1

Of course she needs a visa. Citizens of Brazil are required to have a visa to enter the U.S.

The purpose and intent of an applicant for admission must be compatiable with the documents presented, and vice versa.

If you marry a girl from Brazil, and you two want to live in the U.S., then the girl from Brazil will need an immigrant visa based on your relative petition.

If you prefer to get married in the U.S., you can petition for her as a fiance. You need to submit form I-129F to CIS on her behalf. Then she could come to the U.S. to marry you within 90 days of her arrival.

Either way you choose, she will need the right visa to enter the U.S. Right now, either method takes about the same amount of time to receive a decision, about 8 months from the time you file to the time you get an answer.

If the petition is approved, she can apply for a visa.

Answer 2

Assuming you are either a Permanent Resident or US Citizen, there are perhaps two ways:

1) If you are a US Citizen you can sponsor her on what is called as a K-1 Visa (usually takes at least 90 days to grant).  Once granted, and she comes to the USA, you have 90 days to get married in whatever State you choose, and file for her adjustment to get a Green Card (Immigrant Visa).  

2) If you are Permanent Resident, you really can not do a K-1 visa.  What you must do is go to Brazil, and get legally married in Brazil.  Get the legal papers (translated to English, authenticated, and notarized in Brazil).  Take your set of the copies and return to the USA by yourself, where you file for an Immigrant Visa for your new wife under what is called as a CR-1 category (married less then two years at time of filing).  Please note that there is also an IR-1 category.  If you file for CR-1, you must petition two years from her entry into the USA as an immigrant for removal of her condition (90 days before she completes second year of living in the USA as an immigrant...failure to do so means deportation).  If IR-1, there is no need to worry about this two year rule...more or less.    Please note that it may take up to two years to get this visa granted to her in Brazil, meaning that she is stuck in limbo in Brazil until she gets the visa.  

What the current President Bush signed into law is something called as a K-3 Spousal Visa.  You must first file for Immigrant for your wife before you file for this.  You can file for the K-3 (nonrenewable) Spousal visa in the USA, that will allow her to come to the USA and be your dependent spouse until her Immigrant CR-1 visa is granted.  Often, the immigrant visa is approved faster then the K-3 visa.  The K-3 visa becomes null & void when the CR-1 visa is approved.  You must file for adjustment of status when the CR-1 visa is approved.  They will most likely require both of you to show up at an USCIS Office when you need to file for adjustment due to this.  

Now you can file for all of these as a US Citizen.  As a Legal Permanent Resident, you can only do the Immigrant Visa (Green Card) and K-3 Spousal Visa (not K-1 Fiance Visa).

All of this may sound complicated, but it really is not if you have all of the paperwork together, and translated into English and authenticated.  You can really file all of this yourself.  You do not need a lawyer.  A lawyer is only for convienience.

Answer 3

She may be able to a tourist visa for a trip but to get a permanent resident visa she will need to apply for a spousal visa.

If you want to live together in the US, you should get married in the US. What will you do if you marry in Brazil and than there are problems and she is denied a US visa?

Good luck