UK citizen marrying a US citizen?

Question

my fiance is from London I'm from North Carolina. Next time she comes over on her tourist visa we're not sure but if all goes well we may get married. I've heard that you need a fiancee visa but a lot of people marry on a tourist visa. have any of you all done that and had any problems afterwards bringing your fiancee here after that as a permanant resident if you didn't get a fiancee visa first? What are our other options? if we are going to do it, we'd rather do it sooner rather than later. We don't want to wait 6 months or a year to get a fiancee visa when she can just travel to the US on a tourist visa. after the wedding she will go back to the UK to finish up school. What's our best option? can we say go to canada and get married and then apply for her permanant visa in a year after she finishes school in the UK? or just get married over here first on a tourist visa?

Answer 1

If she really is just going to come here, get married to you and then go back to the UK then you shouldn't need a K1 Visa.  The advantage of the K1 is that the person can come here and marry you, then stay with you in the US whilst you apply for their green card.  The problem with the B1/B2 arises when you use that to enter on a temporary basis then turn around and get married and apply to stay, immigration sees this as immigration fraud as you entered under one pretense and then got married to stay here.  From what I understand you guys could get married over here and then once she is back in the UK you can start her green card paperwork.... When you start that depends on how long she has left in school and how soon after finishing school she wants to come out here. I would say to start the paperwork perhaps about a year before the date you think you want her to be approved by, that way you have time to iron out any snags that may arise.  Although a lot of the advice given here is good, I would still advise having a consultation with a lawyer, some of them give a free initial consultation, some will charge you for an hour of their time, but paying a couple of hundred bucks up front to check your facts and make sure you aren't making a mistake could be money VERY well spent.

Answer 2

If she doesn't plan to stay in America you can both just get married then apply for a spousal visa when she is ready to join you. It's only immigration fraud if she marries you and plans to stay here with you right away. It's never a good idea to try to marry and stay on a visa waiver as you would both have to prove you didn't  plan to get married. It's so hard to prove a negative.

Go to http://www.visajourney.com for full details of how to get a visa once she is ready to move. Then you can bothplan the best time to file everything to have a good chance of her moving here when you both want that.

If she wants to move  here after she finishes school then you could send in the firstpart of the petition once you are married and she can go back to the UK and get on with her studies. On average it takes about 6 months to interview in London and after the visa is issued she would have 6 months to use it so she could leave when she is ready.

Good Luck

Answer 3

You don't need any visa to marry anyone of your choice. When you go get marry, the only thing they want to see is ID, which is driver license or passport. No visa will be checked.

After marriage, you can sponsor her to apply for residence (green card)