Spouse Immigration

How To Bring Your Spouse To The United States And Spouse Immigration

Spouse Immigration

Bringing your spouse into the United States is not as easy as it was several years ago. If you are a naturalized or born citizen in the United States but your spouse is a citizen of another country then you might need to seek the advice of an attorney in order to make sure that you fill out the proper papers. This would especially be the case if you are trying to obtain citizenship for your spouse in the United States. Even though it is more difficult to do this now than it was several years ago, it certainly is not impossible and can be pursued successfully if you do it in the proper way.

There are several things that are necessary to understand before you decide to pursue spouse immigration. There are timelines that need to be met and it would also depend on whether the two of you are married or engaged at this particular time. The United States government will take a look at your relationship to make sure that you are not simply getting married in order for your spouse to obtain citizenship in the United States. If they decide that this is the case, you both can be punished in one way or another. That is why getting married simply for the purpose of obtaining citizenship is not as good of an idea as it was several years ago.

If you are not yet married but are engaged and planning on being married in the United States, you will have to fill out a K-1 form. Your attorney will be able to help guide you through this process so that the form is filled out properly and put into the hands of the correct people. This will greatly streamline the process because an improperly filled out form will only cause delays for both of you. Once you are granted permission to come into the United States to get married, you will have to do so within 90 days of the time you hit United States soil. It is therefore necessary to have everything planned out in advance so that there are no problems that would cause unnecessary delays.

If you are already married, there are some other papers that will need to be filled out. As with the case of your engagement, a spouse immigration attorney would be able to help you to fill out these papers in the proper way so that there are little or no delays in your being able to immigrate to the United States.

One final thing that you might need to consider, depending on the country of origin of your potential spouse, are the laws that govern marriage in both countries. If it is illegal for a citizen of the United States to marry someone from their country, according to the laws of either country, the marriage will not be legally recognized in the United States. If this is the case, spouse immigration will not be something that is granted as it is considered an illegal marriage.

Spouse Immigration

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