?'s About getting started bringing wife to USA

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wesferris

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My wife is currently in Sweden. We were married here in America, but we are doing the greencard with her in Sweden. I was just hoping someone could help me to get started on this. The I-130 is the first step, right? Is there any other forums I need to send with that such as the support affidavit? What other forums, or papers need to be sent out with the I-130?

Thanks for your help
 
Errr. Please provide more information. Are you an US Citizen or a Resident?

Second, forums... are places for discussion of different topics... not a document you send :p.

Third, it all starts with the I-130 and it's supporting documents. Read the instructions.
 
I am a US citizen. My wife currently resides in stockholm sweden. Me and my wife have been married since december.
 
"My wife and I have been married" not "me and my wife," Mr. US citizen. :p I'm just kidding with you.

So as I understand it, you are considering consular processing for her in Sweden. Have you considered bringing her here on a K3 (spousal) visa first?
 
Ok...here is the story. We were married in December of 2006. We planned on doing the greencard thing in america, but she had a family emergency and had to make it back to sweden. That was almost a month ago. We kind of procrastinated the greencard process too much, I work a lot...we just had a lot going on.
What exactly is the K3 visa? Would we be eligle for it? I was reading up on it a little, would that cut down the time that she would be unable to come back? Because right now we were seeing 12 weeks a lot on the net for processing time. What is the advantages to bringing her over the K3 visa?
 
Maybe someone who knows more about K-3 can comment on whether these days, it would be faster to do consular processing or K-3 and AOS?
 
Ok...I just ran across another question. My wife came here last October, and we were married in December, she left last month back to sweden. We were still working on the whole greencard process. That amount of time, and she was here on a visa waiver, wouldn't make her an "overstay" or "out of status" would it?
 
I believe that visa waiver countries get 3 months of stay. If she stayed from October 2006 until June 2007 (last month) then Yes, she overstayed. :p
 
Visa waiver is granted for 90 days only, so she definitely stayed beyond the time she was authorized. But if I calculate it correctly, she didn't accumulate any "unlawful presence" (180 days overstay) in which case she would have been subject to a 3 or 10 year bar on entry. So overstay yes, unlawful presence no.
 
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