My fiance is from a foreign country and we were hoping to get her here on a green card (not citizenship) before we get married or anything. Does anyone know anything about getting green cards or renewable year-long Visa's? What are the reqs. etc.?

2/7/2007 12:17:08 PM

mail order bride?

2/7/2007 1:10:15 PM

that'd be cool, but no.

2/7/2007 1:20:14 PM

i hope tww was not your best idea for solving this problem

2/7/2007 1:56:10 PM

no, it wasn't. i've seen a bunch of websites that claim to handle all the paperwork for you, but they charge 600-1k. Seems like I should be able to get the paperwork done myself with minimal government fees.

2/7/2007 2:08:32 PM

http://www.uscis.gov

maybe ?

2/7/2007 4:57:49 PM

if you are a citizen it will be easy.

read ^ above site it will tell what you need to do.

2/7/2007 7:22:10 PM

The biggest annoyance with the whole process is that you have to get a fiance visa before you get the green card. During the visa's duration you have to get married. The thing is, the visa is only 3 months meaning you have to plan a wedding and get married and then file for the green card all within that 3 month period....-_-

2/13/2007 2:17:07 PM

plan it, get the visa, have her come over, get married, dont get the visa and then start planning. (this is assuming you can get the visa on a predictable lead time and you are capable of planning things with remote management)

2/13/2007 2:26:23 PM

have a legal marriage - and do the big show later...

2/13/2007 3:54:34 PM

yea, that's what i was thinking about doing. It's just dumb they can't make it a 1 year visa.

2/13/2007 4:07:01 PM

Was checking on some stuff for a friend a few days ago and saw this website dedicated to the issue of K visas.
http://www.visajourney.com/faq/k1faq.htm


Another good one :

(http://boards.immigrationportal.com/)
http://www.immigration.com/faq/kvisa.html

[Edited on February 14, 2007 at 11:35 AM. Reason : typo]

[Edited on February 14, 2007 at 11:35 AM. Reason : typo]

2/14/2007 11:34:15 AM