Best Option to Get Married to Girl From Ukraine

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JamesTown

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I have recently met the most wonderful girl from Ukraine. She is everything I have always wanted and we really connect on a very deep level. We're discussing marriage as an option and I am going to visit her for the first time this coming June. If we choose to be together, we were thinking about going ahead and getting married while I am in Ukraine.

Priority number one, of course, is getting her here to me in the United States as quickly as possible. I am thinking the option with the lowest risk of the visa being denied would be the CR1 option, but I really don't know! I have read several cases of fiance visas being denied and have heard that CR1 is a better option than the K3.

I am 26 years old and still a college student, so money is certainly a concern. This is why I would like to get married the first trip because I cannot afford trips of there very often.

I'm really just wanting to know our best option and what is the likelihood of us actually making this happen in a reasonable length of time and least amount of money.

I don't know if any of the following matters with regard to the visa but I will mention it anyway:
I am 26 and she has just recently turned 27. She has two degrees and a very good job. As stated, I am not rich (I barely meet the 125% above poverty requirement), so certainly she is not doing this for money. She has not traveled much at all - only once to Italy when she was very young. We never talk on the phone (neither of us can afford those kind of phone bills), but we talk on Skype every single day for several hours and email several times a day while at work. We literally talk (Talk feature on skype) not just type and use webcams sometimes also. We could provide all these records to the interviewer. Her family and mine would both be totally in favor of this if we decided to get married, so pictures and statements attesting to the validity of our marriage would be no problem obtaining.

Thanks for any help!
 
Then go ahead. A CR1 visa should take under 12 months. You will need to make just one trip. Have a co-sponsor ready just in case. Good luck!!!

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I am 26 years old and still a college student, so money is certainly a concern. This is why I would like to get married the first trip because I cannot afford trips of there very often.
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JamesTown said:
I have recently met the most wonderful girl from Ukraine. She is everything I have always wanted and we really connect on a very deep level. We're discussing marriage as an option and I am going to visit her for the first time this coming June. If we choose to be together, we were thinking about going ahead and getting married while I am in Ukraine.

Priority number one, of course, is getting her here to me in the United States as quickly as possible. I am thinking the option with the lowest risk of the visa being denied would be the CR1 option, but I really don't know! I have read several cases of fiance visas being denied and have heard that CR1 is a better option than the K3.

I am 26 years old and still a college student, so money is certainly a concern. This is why I would like to get married the first trip because I cannot afford trips of there very often.

I'm really just wanting to know our best option and what is the likelihood of us actually making this happen in a reasonable length of time and least amount of money.

I don't know if any of the following matters with regard to the visa but I will mention it anyway:
I am 26 and she has just recently turned 27. She has two degrees and a very good job. As stated, I am not rich (I barely meet the 125% above poverty requirement), so certainly she is not doing this for money. She has not traveled much at all - only once to Italy when she was very young. We never talk on the phone (neither of us can afford those kind of phone bills), but we talk on Skype every single day for several hours and email several times a day while at work. We literally talk (Talk feature on skype) not just type and use webcams sometimes also. We could provide all these records to the interviewer. Her family and mine would both be totally in favor of this if we decided to get married, so pictures and statements attesting to the validity of our marriage would be no problem obtaining.

Thanks for any help!
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You need to slow down on your plans. You have never met her in person yet are planning your future with her. If it is true love, it will last. If she or her family is pressuring you to make a decision, run the other way! Please, please, please, look through the postings as there are several horror stories from people who did just what you are proposing. The cost of numerous trips will be a lot cheaper than extracting yourself from a failed marriage. Read closely the financial obligations and the length of time you are bound by the support affidavit.

I truly hope it works out well for you, but you are still very young and the potential for disaster from a relationship beginning like yours is very high.
 
Hi, thanks for the replies. I appreciate yall's concern and I know how it must sound, but she isn't pressuring me at all. We certainly have not decided to get married but it was mentioned and discussed as an option. She has even mentioned that it would be ideal, if everything went well, that I could move there and live with her and her parents! I kindly explained that I couldn't work due to language and such and that I wouldn't feel comfortable living off her parents. She then suggested I come as an English teacher. I said that the USA is best for me.

Really though, my reason for going there is not to get married, but I have considered it and I would like to have everything in order just in case. There are a lot of things that must be in place before it can happen, so I would just like to know that if things go perfectly then I won't regret not being prepared and researched on the matter. I understand it's a huge risk and I'm still weighing it carefully.

Anyway, back to the visa: is a CR1 a lower risk visa compared to the K1 or K3? By low risk I mean less likely to be denied.

Thanks
 
I'm from Ukraine too.I'm here in US And what I want to tell that not all girls and women are the same overthere. But I will tell you one thing that matters: in Ukraine if you are not married by 24-25(female), you are considered "not right" like you missed your train.( I don't say it's right opinion but it is as it is) And she is 27 and is looking for a guy on the internet. Do you think she couldn't find anybody that fits her in real world and bump-she found you on internet? I'm not trying to bad mouth her but I would also be with other posters: make more than one trip and than decide. Good luck
 
You can find some advice here:

forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?308529-In-Love-With-Someone-Far-Away-But...-Somethings-Not-Right&p=2147209
 
Here's the advice I gave to the other naive teenager:

I don’t want to interrupt your sweet dreams but you sure sound like a hormone raging teenager.

Do you honestly believe that you found your true love through the Internet and WEB Cam? It sounds more like a marriage for green card to me. I would be very careful with these kind of over the border relationships. You might end up in the big sobering reality and with a big slap in the face.

Check this forum a little bit and you will find horrific stories about how people like you ended up sooner or later. Lot of women simply claim domestic violence once they brought into the US and then YOU have to move out your own residence and spend a fortune on legal fees not to mention alimony and other sweet things.

If she lives in Ukraine I think she just wants to get out of the country .
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I no expert on marriage [ just married one, and still married :) ] but internet dream love perfect girl is scam. She Nice till get married, then she become HELL for you. I from israel. and lot of israel men go russia and ukraine for beautiful girls in soviet countrys. It is 99% fails. In US, she get you in lot of legal trouble.
Sorry, and no offence to your dreams. save money, don't go to ukraine. find girl here in US. you young still.
 
OP, I don't want to comment on your relationship - however you should search for the numerous threads right here on this board asking for ways to help "deport" their foreign wives after they have realized their mistakes.
You see, when I get those nigerian funds emails - I think to myself - why do these guys ever try? Who would fall for these scams? Then I saw a documentary about this lady who had been scammed over a period of two years by the same nigerian guys, as well as this guy who was also scammed for a lot of money over time - all because they were made to BELIEVE they really were the closest family members of a deceased person. I mean this guy is mad at these scammers NOT because they took his money, but because they still won't give him the millions he DESERVED!! It's all in your head.
 
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