TheRealCanadian
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No, because you are not eligible to file the petition until you become a citizen.
Wife with Visitors Visa and Husband a USC..... HELP!!!
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No, because you are not eligible to file the petition until you become a citizen.
Some additional questions...
TheRealCanadian: Thanks for replying to my post.
I had a couple of additional questions; firstly, just to provide some context again: I'll hopefully become a US Citizen by this July/August (already 4.5 years post-GC). I'm contemplating marriage to a lady in India. And now for the questions:
1) Which scenario below would allow my fiancee/wife to come to the US faster?
Scenario A: I become a US Citizen, go to India and get engaged to a lady there, and then return to the US and apply for a fiancee (K-1) visa for her. I then marry her here in the US.
Scenario B: I become a US Citizen, go to India and marry a lady there, and then return to the US and apply for a K-3 visa for her (What's the processing time for the K-3 application?).
2) If I decide to go to India right now (i.e. about 6 months before becoming a US citizen) and marry a lady there right now, then could I apply for a visa for her as the wife of a GC holder, and then once I become a citizen, could my application be transferred to the queue of citizens applying for K-3s? I'm hoping my "position in the queue" (I think this is also called a ?priority date?) remains the same despite the transfer and I can have her come to the States faster by starting some kind of application now as a GC holder rather than waiting to become a citizen first before I apply.
Many thanks in advance.
TheRealCanadian: Thanks for replying to my post.
I had a couple of additional questions; firstly, just to provide some context again: I'll hopefully become a US Citizen by this July/August (already 4.5 years post-GC). I'm contemplating marriage to a lady in India. And now for the questions:
1) Which scenario below would allow my fiancee/wife to come to the US faster?
Scenario A: I become a US Citizen, go to India and get engaged to a lady there, and then return to the US and apply for a fiancee (K-1) visa for her. I then marry her here in the US.
Scenario B: I become a US Citizen, go to India and marry a lady there, and then return to the US and apply for a K-3 visa for her (What's the processing time for the K-3 application?).
2) If I decide to go to India right now (i.e. about 6 months before becoming a US citizen) and marry a lady there right now, then could I apply for a visa for her as the wife of a GC holder, and then once I become a citizen, could my application be transferred to the queue of citizens applying for K-3s? I'm hoping my "position in the queue" (I think this is also called a ?priority date?) remains the same despite the transfer and I can have her come to the States faster by starting some kind of application now as a GC holder rather than waiting to become a citizen first before I apply.
Many thanks in advance.
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Triple Citizen
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Scenario A will be the quickest.