Difficulties In Securing A Marriage Student Visa

If you are studying in the U.S. on a student's visa and have fallen in love with a U.S. citizen, then marrying that person might jeopardize your studies. This is bound to happen if you don't follow the rules laid down by the U.S. government. You have to follow the process of getting a Green card as soon as you get married because. This is because after marriage, student visa will be automatically canceled.

The first thing that youre not supposed to do is to try and leave the U.S. without proper travel permission. The visa processing will start only after you get married. Even if you are only planning to get married, your student's visa will stand canceled. Before getting married, you have to apply for the license at the local country clerk.

You will get a time frame so you will have to marry within that time frame. You need to clear all your paper work like filling up various forms including I-485, G-325A, I-693 etc. Then you also have to confirm that your spouse is over poverty level by 12.5%. In case you cant fulfill these criteria, then you will have to find a co-sponsor. You spouse can be the main sponsor even in this scenario.

Once you are through with filling up the forms, you should make copies of the official documents that are required by the USCIS. This way, you don't have to send the original copies. You are also expected to keep the return receipt with yourself along with the copies of documents that you are sending. This is to ensure that you keep track with the documents that you have sent in case of loss.

The processing time to get a Green card can go up to 2.5 years. You have to be ready for that. The average waiting period for a work permit is 60 days. But it can come early or later also. If you want to go out of the U.S. for a certain period of time, then you need to apply advance parole when you are waiting for permanent status. This advance parole will take somewhere between 30 to 90 days.

You are also expected to save all the love letters, photos and other documents as proof of your marriage as you are expected to face an interview in this regard. The interviewer can ask you some very private and personal questions also which might be very embarrassing. But it depends on the interviewer. You must be prepared for such questions.

You should also be concerned about being aware of the laws. Even a slight skirmish with law can result in the denial of your permanent status. Once you are through with the interview, you will get a permanent citizen's status. But in any case doing marriage, student visa can get cancelled. So, marriage on students visa is a very difficult thing to do and requires lot's of precautions. So be careful and alert, always.