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I am one of the DV2008 winners. However I do have an important issue to resolve, for which I would like to hear your advice. I have a girlfriend, who I've been with for almost 2 years and which I love a lot. I am 21 years old and my girlfriend is 20. As far as I have been told by now - the only way I can take her with me in the USA i to marry her before the interview of at least before I enter the US. But marriage is an important decision, for which I still do not feel ready enough to take. My reluctance is not because I believe that I'll take the wrong decison by marring her, but because I believe that it is not the right time to do it. A man marries when he is willing, able and ready to support a family. I certainly can not say this about myslef. I just finished university and I earn as much as to be able to support myself and pay my loans. A normal wedding (one which she definitely deserves) in my country costs almosts as much as my income for a year and half. Alternative wedding is one in which we will just sign in front of few witnesses, but you will agree that this is not a wedding for which any woman would dream, it is not the wedding for which I dream also.
Moreover if the consular officer wants to see photos from our wedding, he/she could interpret and suspect it as fictisious one (usually such weddings would occur between an alien and a US citizen for the purpose of the alien to obtain a green card).
Is there any altenative way by which I could take her with me, besides marriage? What if she comes to the US by another visa and we marry in the US? Could she get a status, which will allow her to stay in the US?
I am one of the DV2008 winners. However I do have an important issue to resolve, for which I would like to hear your advice. I have a girlfriend, who I've been with for almost 2 years and which I love a lot. I am 21 years old and my girlfriend is 20. As far as I have been told by now - the only way I can take her with me in the USA i to marry her before the interview of at least before I enter the US. But marriage is an important decision, for which I still do not feel ready enough to take. My reluctance is not because I believe that I'll take the wrong decison by marring her, but because I believe that it is not the right time to do it. A man marries when he is willing, able and ready to support a family. I certainly can not say this about myslef. I just finished university and I earn as much as to be able to support myself and pay my loans. A normal wedding (one which she definitely deserves) in my country costs almosts as much as my income for a year and half. Alternative wedding is one in which we will just sign in front of few witnesses, but you will agree that this is not a wedding for which any woman would dream, it is not the wedding for which I dream also.
Moreover if the consular officer wants to see photos from our wedding, he/she could interpret and suspect it as fictisious one (usually such weddings would occur between an alien and a US citizen for the purpose of the alien to obtain a green card).
Is there any altenative way by which I could take her with me, besides marriage? What if she comes to the US by another visa and we marry in the US? Could she get a status, which will allow her to stay in the US?
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