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Canadian becoming a US Permanent Resident

Hi everyone,

I'm new to these forums. I'm a Canadian citizen who is dating and engaged to an American citizen. I am planning on traveling down to the US to visit her. While I'm down, I plan on getting married to her. After marryingher, I plan on staying in the US while she sponsors me to become a Permanent Resident, so I can stay in the US legally and we can start our future together.


Anyone have any tips or helpful hints for this to go smoothly for myself and my fiancee. We hope it goes smoothly, as all we want is to be together and start our life together.

Thank you,

Dan
 
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DPG said:
Hi everyone,

I'm new to these forums. I'm a Canadian citizen who is dating and engaged to an American citizen. I am planning on traveling down to the US to visit her. While I'm down, I plan on getting married to her. After marryingher, I plan on staying in the US while she sponsors me to become a Permanent Resident, so I can stay in the US legally and we can start our future together.


Anyone have any tips or helpful hints for this to go smoothly for myself and my fiancee. We hope it goes smoothly, as all we want is to be together and start our life together.

Thank you,

Dan
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At the POE, if you tell the officer that you are entering US for getting married, you would be sent in the next flight back home. Other than that, read the posts in this forum. There is a lot of valuable information 'floating' around.
 
Thank you for your response, and that's a very important tip.

Any idea of how long it would take for me to get my green card? I assume if we do everything properly then there shouldn't be an issue. Do you know of any potential hang-ups that could possibly occur?

Thanks,

Dan
 
DPG said:
Hi everyone,

I'm new to these forums. I'm a Canadian citizen who is dating and engaged to an American citizen. I am planning on traveling down to the US to visit her. While I'm down, I plan on getting married to her. After marryingher, I plan on staying in the US while she sponsors me to become a Permanent Resident, so I can stay in the US legally and we can start our future together.


Anyone have any tips or helpful hints for this to go smoothly for myself and my fiancee. We hope it goes smoothly, as all we want is to be together and start our life together.

Thank you,

Dan
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Well, a tip for you:

Never marry a women while you're down ;) :D
 
Oh lol. Wow gave me a scare there!

Anyways, I plan on going to the US next week, we've dated for a year and 3 months online. I visited with her back in January for a month. We've only met that one time in person, but we fell in love way before we met in person. We genuinely love one another and want to marry.

So I will tell the Customs officer at the airport that I am visiting friends, which I am (my fiancee included), and I plan on marrying my her while I am down with her, and then I will just stay with her while we go through the process of getting my green card.

My biggest fear is doing something wrong or illegal by accident, as I want to do this legally. And the first thing that I am doing legally is marrying her for love.

If anyone can give me any more tips or hints, now that I've said more then my original post, please feel free.

Thanks,

Dan :)
 
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First things first do not even say that you have a Fiance if i were you i would say im here on vacation.Its not good to lie but i doubt they will pester you.For the address you are staying at say with a family member or a friend because i told them i was here to see my bf now husband and i was asked an infinite amount of questions.
 
DPG said:
Oh lol. Wow gave me a scare there!

Anyways, I plan on going to the US next week, we've dated for a year and 3 months online. I visited with her back in January for a month. We've only met that one time in person, but we fell in love way before we met in person. We genuinely love one another and want to marry.

So I will tell the Customs officer at the airport that I am visiting friends, which I am (my fiancee included), and I plan on marrying my her while I am down with her, and then I will just stay with her while we go through the process of getting my green card.

My biggest fear is doing something wrong or illegal by accident, as I want to do this legally. And the first thing that I am doing legally is marrying her for love.

If anyone can give me any more tips or hints, now that I've said more then my original post, please feel free.

Thanks,

Dan :)
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I hate being the one breaking it to you here but you'll definitely be doing something illegal if you come to this country with the intentions to immigrate under a non-immigrant visa (or in your case a lack of visa since you don't need one). When the customs officer lets you pass into the US, it is only because he/she believes you have no immigration intent. But since you actually do, you are in fact breaking the law.
 
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Pinturicchio said:
I hate being the one breaking it to you here but you'll definitely be doing something illegal if you come to this country with the intentions to immigrate under a non-immigrant visa (or in your case a lack of visa since you don't need one). When the customs officer lets you pass into the US, it is only because he/she believes you have no immigration intent. But since you actually do, you are in fact breaking the law.

However, the interesting part about it is that if you do things right and never bring it up, no one might ever suspect this and you won't have any problems.
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Thanks for your response.

I'm caught in between a rock and a hard place. I want to do everything legally, because I respect the laws of not only Canada but in the United States as well. But on the other hand, I love my fiancee dearly, and I want to spend the rest of my life with her, here in the United States, and I want to find a job, start a family and settle here in the US with her. My intentions are not devious or dishonest, but I don't want to do something illegal, either.

Damn it *sigh* :( Does anyone else have any tips or helpful hints?
 
There's a very simple solution actually. Your fiance would just have to file a fiance petition for you. You'll get a fiance visa, and after entering the US you have to get married within 90 days.

After you marry you just file for AOS, and that's it.
 
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Pinturicchio said:
There's a very simple solution actually. Your fiance would just have to file a fiance petition for you. You'll get a fiance visa, and after entering the US you have to get married within 90 days. After you marry you just file for AOS, and that's it.

Or.... you can just enter the US, get married, and adjust. If you wait long enough before tying the knot, you won't be suspect.
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Thanks for your response.

The only problem with the fiancee visa, is I have already planned my trip, and not realizing that this could be done with the fiancee visa. I was planning on waiting about a month or so after entering to get married to her.

Like I said, I don't want to do anything illegal, I have read many posts on this forum about illegal aliens and what not, and I don't want to become a citizen, in that fashion, as I respect the whole process of becoming a citizen, which is why I want to do this properly by marrying her and going through the entire process, and as I said before unlike many marriages that are fraudlent, I want to marry her because I love her and want to start a life with her.

Thank you for your help, Pinturicchio.

Dan
 
The only thing is, I have already planned this trip and whatnot. My fiancee and I have been together for a year and 3 months, and all we want now is to start our lives together, so we figured when I came down to the US we would get married and then she can sponsor me for me to become a permanent resident.

I didn't know about this fiancee visa. It was just so painful to leave her last time, and I don't want to go through the pain of leaving her again. :( And we've already discussed the topic of me coming down, marrying and her sponsoring me. We are both very excited about me coming down, because this time we can stay together and not deal with the pain of leaving one another.

So, really, I've already planned my trip down to the US to do this, and while doing the fiancee visa is smartest thing to do, I've already committed to myself and to my fiancee that we want to stay together when I come back down this time around.
 
DPG said:
So I will tell the Customs officer at the airport that I am visiting friends, which I am (my fiancee included), and I plan on marrying my her while I am down with her, and then I will just stay with her while we go through the process of getting my green card.

My biggest fear is doing something wrong or illegal
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We must never forget about Murphy's Law.

From one fellow Canadian to another, I would strongly urge against attempting to enter the US with "intent" to remain and adjust status. "If" you manage to make it onto US soil and wait a few months before marrying and another few months before filing, you will most probably get away with it. However, Customs officers are pretty sharp and they might very well phone up the "friends" you're supposed to be visiting and have a chat with them. If they do this and catch you in a lie, you will have jeopardized your future green card application. It's best to play by the rules.

I'd personally suggest you go the fiancee visa route.
 
DPG said:
Hi everyone,

I'm new to these forums. I'm a Canadian citizen who is dating and engaged to an American citizen. I am planning on traveling down to the US to visit her. While I'm down, I plan on getting married to her. After marryingher, I plan on staying in the US while she sponsors me to become a Permanent Resident, so I can stay in the US legally and we can start our future together.


Anyone have any tips or helpful hints for this to go smoothly for myself and my fiancee. We hope it goes smoothly, as all we want is to be together and start our life together.

Thank you,

Dan
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Hiya!!
I am also new to this forum and I was looking thru all of the posts trying to find someone with my same situation. Looks like I found someone.

I am also currently living in Canada and my fiance lives in the US. He has already filed the I-129F form back in Feb. I have filled out the G-325A form (Biographic Information for an alien). We have not gotten any feedback or information since then.

I guess my question that may also help 'DPG' is: If I were to go to the states to get married...is there a restriction from leaving the US? I only ask because a friend of mine who is also helping me has been finding fragmented information on the government sites. I however, found a page that told me after marriage you must not leave the US for 6 months. If that is the case, what do I do with my apt. as well as possessions here in Canada.

Applying for fiancee visa: is there a way they can decline you after you've been already married? Or can they decline sponsorship?

Finally, what is the fastest way one can go about legally getting married and moving to the states?

Thank You All (especially Dan)
Vic
PS. Hope everything works out for you :)
 
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If I were you I would do it the right way. File for your K1, since you already asked her to marry you I assume, go to your interview in Montreal or Vancouver and start your lives from there. By doing it that way your case will probably get transfered to the California Service Center and you'll most likely avoid an interview. If you have been dating 1 year and 3 months, I am sure you can wait another 3-6 months to do the right thing. With all the immigration debate that is happening, I wouldnt be surprised if there are Gov't officals looking at these websites for suscpious posts that could lead back to people who are going to or have violated immigration laws. The choice is yours but as it stands you will be breaking the law, and if caught you may never set foot on American soil again.

Bonne chance mon ami!
 
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