visitor to fiance visa

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pavkumar

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Hi All

If i am getting engaged to someone in India while my citizenship process is going on, can my fiance enter the country on visitor visa.

Once i get my citizenship, i plan to file for her fiance visa.

Would there be any issues with the above. What are my options.

Or do i wait till i get my citizenship and then just file for fiance visa - which may take a longer time

Thanks for your advice

Pavan
 
She can come on a visitor visa if she gets approved, but if you get married while she is here on a visitor visa, it will most likely be seen as fraud. It is better to wait until you get your citizenship then file for the fiance visa. Or go to India and get married there and then bring her here - apply for her to come as your dependent after you gain your citizenship. I don't know which one will take less time.
 
The application for the tourist visa will ask about a spouse, fiance, or other relatives in the U.S. so she would either tell them and probably be denied OR conceal it and then have that fraud come back to bite her later.

The quickest legal course would be for you to go get married, file an I-130 and UPGRADE the I-130 after you naturalize (submitting a copy of the natz cert with either the receipt or approval notice for the I-130). Then she would enter as a spouse of a USC with conditional status. The time that your N-400 is processing could be almost concurrent with the I-130 processing.
 
thanks for the reply. She is being sponsored by her relatives who live in the US. So in case she comes here on the tourist visa and leaves after the stipulated time.
After i get my citizenship can i then apply for her fiance visa when she is in India.
 
pavkumar said:
thanks for the reply. She is being sponsored by her relatives who live in the US. So in case she comes here on the tourist visa and leaves after the stipulated time.
After i get my citizenship can i then apply for her fiance visa when she is in India.
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You are confusing a legal term. A "sponsor" in immigration is usually the "petitioner" filing the immigrant petition [for family that is the I-130, fiance of a USC is the I-129F, or employer an -140]. Later in the process, a financial "sponsor" (the I-130 filer and any "helper") files an I-864 for family members that they petition for (or a job offer by petitioning employer).

The B1/2 visitor visa (tourist or business traveler) is obtained by an individual filing an APPLICATION. There is no "sponsor" for a B visa. IF she applies for a B visa and lies on the application, that is very bad for all future immigration applications. Don't play games in this, it always goes wrong and causes trouble.
 
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