What is the Process of bringing my Canadian Fiancee to the United States?
I need some help understanding this process! What Visa does she need to apply for, and will she be able to work in the US until our wedding (in 2 years)?? Will she be able to get american auto insurance with a Canadian drivers license?
She cannot work in the US until you are married unless she can get her own work visa
If you bring your fiancee in US, under a K1 visa, the immigration law requires you guys, to get married in 90 days after she entered USA !!!
I know, it sucks, THEY tell you what to do, but this is the law .
Please visit http://www.visajourney.com you will find there all the procedures for the fiancee visa.
Take care.
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She cannot work in the US until you are married unless she can get her own work visa
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My husband is Canadian and we went through this about a year and a half ago.
He came from Vancouver. He didn't have a Canadian passport so he drove across the border, which is acceptable as long as he had his Canadian birth certificate. We had to get married before 90 days of him coming into the country but not sooner than 60 days. There is a window of time we could get married or his application for his green card would have been denied and he would have been deported.
Your fiancee will not be able to work in the U.S. without a U.S. social security card which she will not be able to get without a permanent resident card. She also cannot get American auto insurance with a Canadian license. She will need a driver's license issued from the state she lives in, which again she cannot get without a social security number. Our car insurance company was going to cancel our policy because my fiance at the time didn't have a California driver's license number. Lucky for us, his green card came through within days of that happening so he was able to get his CA driver's license.
This is a complicated process. USCIS does not make it easy anymore. My advice is hire an immigration attorney to help you. If you do something wrong, your fiancee can be deported and banned from re-entering the U.S. for a minimum of five years. It's better to wait a while and do it right than risk not being able to get married at all, right?
Good luck. When that green card, driver's license and social security card comes in the mail, you'll see it was all worth it.
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Personal experience