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I am a male US citizen looking to marry a female Irish citizen. Looking for information or advice on the most timely way to accomplish this? She is currently in the US on her second Travel Visa (visiting me). She has visited to US on travel visas a total of six times. I have been to Ireland on holiday once. The standard Fiance visa seems to take a very long time. (I have heard 6 months to a year)
You'll find all the information you need on the USCIS website (along with application forms and instructions) which is linked in the first "sticky" on this forum.
Just follow all the instructions, send in the forms, pay the fees. Yes, it can take quite a while, even a few years, but normally less. Gather all your information--birth certificates, photographs of the two of you together, emails you have written (to prove that you are a legitimate couple, not scammers), get the background check, medical check. You can check on the status of your application online to see if it has been "touched."
If you two survive the immigration process, then you deserve to be together. It is like a test, in a way, a drawn out and frustrating test, and the sooner you start, the sooner you will be able to get married.
You can get a lawyer to help you if you want to and if you have the money. It would make it easier but it won't make it faster.
If you think 6 months is too long, your only other option would be to have her overstay her visa - but prior to doing that you will have to marry and she would fill in a change of status form (or something like that) to do the whole spouse thing with her already in USA. From memory you will have to prove you did not intend to by-pass the 'proper' way when she entered USA as simply a 'tourist' rather than intended spouse
I know it's possible but I don't remember the specifics - it was an option for me when I married my USC wife (I am not a USC)
*Edit: Personally I wouldn't bother with a lawyer as the USCIS/NVC websites are very informative, and if in doubt the NVC are great at answering questions over the phone - a few times we were unsure exactly what a form was asking or what evidence would be sufficient and a quick phone call to NVC always resolved it.
If you think 6 months is too long, your only other option would be to have her overstay her visa - but prior to doing that you will have to marry and she would fill in a change of status form (or something like that) to do the whole spouse thing with her already in USA. From memory you will have to prove you did not intend to by-pass the 'proper' way when she entered USA as simply a 'tourist' rather than intended spouse
I know it's possible but I don't remember the specifics - it was an option for me when I married my USC wife (I am not a USC)
That is also a very risky route that could backfire and make things even worse.
If you think 6 months is too long, your only other option would be to have her overstay her visa - but prior to doing that you will have to marry and she would fill in a change of status form (or something like that) to do the whole spouse thing with her already in USA. From memory you will have to prove you did not intend to by-pass the 'proper' way when she entered USA as simply a 'tourist' rather than intended spouse
I know it's possible but I don't remember the specifics - it was an option for me when I married my USC wife (I am not a USC)
*Edit: Personally I wouldn't bother with a lawyer as the USCIS/NVC websites are very informative, and if in doubt the NVC are great at answering questions over the phone - a few times we were unsure exactly what a form was asking or what evidence would be sufficient and a quick phone call to NVC always resolved it.
Count YOUR blessings and keep advise on visa fraud to yourself.
Count YOUR blessings and keep advise on visa fraud to yourself.
I agree it could be construed as fraud, but like I said, taking that passage will required a lot of 'proving' that it was a path that was NOT willfully taken. It's not fraud if it's not fraud.
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