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Which left a bad taste in my mouth. Many of those foreigners saw dollars signs not love. However, I do realize its reality tv and they do choose the most F'd up couples for ratings. TLC used to stand for The Learning Channel. A skeleton of its former self.
People wouldn't watch if it was two poor people or where one makes just enough...
Hi there! I’m a US citizen who recently (6 months ago) met the most amazing woman from Honduras.
She has a tourist visa and was here in the states for about 6 months (4 of which was with me). She has since returned to Honduras in mid January of this year.
I traveled to see her a week later and she’s on her way back here for one week in April.
I really feel like she’s the one for me and have been shopping for engagement rings. Unfortunately the information out there is a little confusing.
I would like to propose to her when she gets here in April, but I’m afraid of what it might look like in terms of immigration being that she is only here for a week.
I don’t know if I should convince her to stay or if she should go back and marry later etc. I’m just hoping for the path of least resistance. I know she loves me and also wants to get married, but she has NO clue what I intend to do.
Any advice?
Some things I'd like to make clear:
* She has no intent to marry or stay at all. She has no clue what I am doing. She is merely visiting her boyfriend
* I am looking for the path of least resistance. If that means a CR1, then that's what I'll do.
* Is an AOS very risky in my case? I can try to make one hell of a case that she had no idea and therefore did not commit visa fraud, but I want to be careful as well.
* I am going to be taking my info to an immigration lawyer should she say "yes". I'm just doing as much research as I can right now.
Follow the rules when it comes to the government. Be patient.
Somebody mentioned the social stigma thing and you will catch some flack about it. My X wife was a citizen when we met in 1996 but she was ethnically Russian. I caught some flack about the Russian Bride thing and I didn't care for it. I just told any idiot that said anything to go and ask her about it. I got terse with a few if they persisted but everyone seemed to understand in the end once they got to know us.
I'm speaking from other's experiences here and soon to be my own likely. I'm not sure how much experience you have in this but as an example, one of my friend's applications was delayed by nearly 7 months because they weren't happy with the photos provided to prove a bonafide marriage.
Another friend of mine completed his paperwork over a year and a half ago after a couple of back and forths, and is STILL waiting on his interview.
Between the two immigrating to the US and another friend who has also dealt with immigration (from Germany to USA) all of them said "get a lawyer". Now I'm not sure what that will cost me, but clearly they don't make it so easy.
Maybe it was easy for you, maybe you've never done it before... not sure. It's not looking as though to me that simple reading comprehension is all you need.
We shall see. It all depends on what she decides.
Been there. Done that. Naturalization was almost botched by a very experienced attorney.
My brother's son married a fellow student from his college. She was in the country illegally. With that said. ..
If you can, visit her country. Meet her family, where she's from, talk to people that know her. Get all that background out of the way. I know there's scams out there and I know for your own peace of mind you should see her in her own environment and if she is proud to be seen with you on her terms. You also need to know how close she is to her family because they will be coming to visit, she will be calling them and running up the phone bill, you will be making trips with or without her to see her family if you do marry her.
I wonder if she talks about you to her family. Do you talk to them on her phone? Is there a language barrier? How accepting are your friends and family of her? That means a lot if things become permanent.
Which left a bad taste in my mouth. Many of those foreigners saw dollars signs not love. However, I do realize its reality tv and they do choose the most F'd up couples for ratings. TLC used to stand for The Learning Channel. A skeleton of its former self.
Actually, the foreigners see a green card and the American citizens see a partner (usually younger and more attractive).
Both are being equally exploited because no one wants to marry someone who brings nothing to the table.
But it doesn’t matter. If the relationship was in good faith and it s a good match, it will last. If it’s not, it won’t.
Between the two immigrating to the US and another friend who has also dealt with immigration (from Germany to USA) all of them said "get a lawyer". Now I'm not sure what that will cost me, but clearly they don't make it so easy.
Maybe it was easy for you, maybe you've never done it before... not sure. It's not looking as though to me that simple reading comprehension is all you need.
We shall see. It all depends on what she decides.
Getting a lawyer does nothing. You’re wasting money to pay for something that you can do yourself for free and with some google searches. I’m American and my wife is Romanian, we did the K1 and never needed any lawyer and are currently waiting for the green card interview.
God forbid something goes wrong or becomes complicated, then I would hire an immigration attorney.
Getting a lawyer does nothing. You’re wasting money to pay for something that you can do yourself for free and with some google searches. I’m American and my wife is Romanian, we did the K1 and never needed any lawyer and are currently waiting for the green card interview.
God forbid something goes wrong or becomes complicated, then I would hire an immigration attorney.
Aren't you putting the cart before the horse? You say she has a boyfriend here and you state she has no intention to stay or get married.
Why do you think she is interested in you?
Aren't you putting the cart before the horse? You say she has a boyfriend here and you state she has no intention to stay or get married.
Why do you think she is interested in you?
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I’m her boyfriend
Her intent is what matters to immigration.
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