If I choose to marry someone overseas, what are the requirements from INS?
Answer:
Go to the INS web sight for all that info...It is a lot easier if you marry him over here compared to marrying him in his own country...It took me 6 months compared to 2 years to get my wife over here from the Philippines..
become a citizen he have to be a Legal Resident first.
after both of you get marry.
Take all teh necesary paper work to aply for his L Resident here...You have apply, doesn't matter if you got marry there or here in the US.
You make it sound very easy.. It's not.
You want advice, right? It's not very clever of you to marry abroad. What you need to do is apply for a K-1 visa (fiance visa) for your boyfriend so he can get into the country legally.
That has to be done in his country, at the American Embassy there.
It's not easy, but it's the BEST thing you can do. Once he's in the US, you can marry him here and then file the papers for his permanent residence based on marriage.
After 3 years of being a legal permanent resident, he can file for citizenship.
Go to the USCIS website and do a search for 'fiance'. By the Way, it's not called INS anymore..:-))
Edit: Maybe some people who get married overseas are lucky and can bring their spouses into the country without any problem.
In my case, it was just the opposite, the whole process, filing for the K-1 visa and the rest, took about 6 months. I know TWO other couples.. one lives in Germany and the other one lives in the UK because the foreign spouse was NOT allowed in the US after they got married in their country in Europe.
So, I guess every case is different.
Good luck.
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You can go to the US Embassy in that country and follow the steps and paper work for your spouse to become a resident alien.
In Taiwn ROC, American Institute in Taiwan is the agency that grant visas and deal with other US immigration issues.
Other countries, you can inquire from the US Embassy and they will give you instructions.
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