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Traveling to the US during GC process?
- Thread starter Tazmania
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It all depends on how important the GC is for you or I should say how much you want to risk your chance of getting GC.
My wife is the DV 2008 winner and she has been waiting for her first step of employment based GC (getting her Labor Certificate) for 5 year and still has not received it. Me and my wife were legally in the US for almost 9 years and finally have this opportunity to get our GCs through DV, for me as a spouse, I wouldn’t risk any chance.
My wife is the DV 2008 winner and she has been waiting for her first step of employment based GC (getting her Labor Certificate) for 5 year and still has not received it. Me and my wife were legally in the US for almost 9 years and finally have this opportunity to get our GCs through DV, for me as a spouse, I wouldn’t risk any chance.
Hi,
my wife is a DVD-2008 winner. Somewhere else ppl discourage from traveling to the US during the process.
I dont see any reasons not traveling to the US for vacation.
Whats your opinion/experience?
Thanks,
Tazmania
I tend to agree.
If you are a citizen of a visa waver country there should be no problem. I have looked up the visa waver form and it does not ask you if you have applied for an immigrant visa on it. It does ask if you have been refused a visa or entry to the US before but that’s it. So for all intents and purposes you are just another visa waver citizen travelling to the US on vacation. That said I would not overstay the waver or hold up any banks while your in the US ;-) or you may run into problems when it comes to your DV interview. I am intending to travel over there for Christmas, I have been in and out of the US loads of times so I cant see why I would have any problems. I personally would have no intention of staying there or working illegally there. I think not going just because you have been selected and sent in your forms is a tad excessive, but I guess its up to the individual circumstances. This may not be the case if you can’t participate in the visa waver. You may have to apply for a tourist visa and specify that you have won and applied for the DV during the tourist visa process, however I know nothing about tourist visas as I have never had one.
I think the the same about it.
@toughcase
Your case is a little different. Dont get me wrong, but if someone who applied for an employment based GC, the officers at the POE could think that there is the possibility that individual start working.
@toughcase
Your case is a little different. Dont get me wrong, but if someone who applied for an employment based GC, the officers at the POE could think that there is the possibility that individual start working.
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no, the individual will not be able to start working, because he won't have a work permit.Your case is a little different. Dont get me wrong, but if someone who applied for an employment based GC, the officers at the POE could think that there is the possibility that individual start working.
There is no difference whether you applied for DV or EB GC. The point is that you cannot enter with a non-immigrant visa while having immigrant intent. It's up to the immigration officer at the POE to turn you around.
Do you have a source where this is written?The point is that you cannot enter with a non-immigrant visa while having immigrant intent.
However, I would travel under VWP, so I dont need any visa.
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www.travel.state.gov, and any embassy. You have to prove non-immigrant intent before you can get a non-immigrant visa.
No problem, I have a job here, so no intent to immigrate at this point.www.travel.state.gov, and any embassy. You have to prove non-immigrant intent before you can get a non-immigrant visa.