{"id":432,"date":"2012-06-16T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T20:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=432"},"modified":"2012-07-25T19:08:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T01:08:41","slug":"marriage-green-card-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Green Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

My wife entered the US on a tourist visa two months ago.\u00a0We weren\u2019t planning on getting married but we ended up in Las Vegas and got married in a spur of the moment thing.\u00a0What do we do now?\u00a0Can she stay here or does she need a K3 visa?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Immigration law discourages persons entering the US for one stated purpose but then pursues another.\u00a0This includes entering the US as a visitor in B2 status or through the visa waiver program.\u00a0Failure to follow the rules can lead to charges of visa fraud and removal from the US.\u00a0Fortunately, the law does recognize that people do change their minds.\u00a0In this situation you will need to weigh the risks associated with your desire to both remain in the United States.\u00a0If your marriage occurred two months after she entered the US as a visitor and you did not plan to marry prior to her entry, it may be safe for her to remain in the US and apply for permanent residence and no K3 visa would be necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My wife entered the US on a tourist visa two months ago.\u00a0We weren\u2019t planning on getting married but we ended up in Las Vegas and got married in a spur of the moment thing.\u00a0What do we do now?\u00a0Can she stay here or does she need a K3 visa? Immigration law discourages persons entering the US … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,30,123],"tags":[187,182,260],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k-3-visa","category-marriage-green-card","category-tourist-visa","tag-k-3-visa","tag-marriage-green-card","tag-tourist-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}