AIM - 26 Fiancé Visa or Marriage Visa What is the difference

03/12/19 • 6 min

What's the difference between a fiancé visa and a marriage visa? 00:00 A fiancé visa or marriage visa. What's the difference? 00:10 We'll talk about the difference between a K-1 visa, a fiancé visa, and a marriage visa. 00:29 What is it K-1 fiancé visa? A fiancé is usually reserved for people that are engaged to U.S. citizens only. 01:06 It's also important to understand that the fiancé visa can be sometimes quicker than a marriage visa. 01:42 Marriage visa is reserved to green card holders that want to file an I-130 for their spouses or for U.S. citizens that want immigrate as sponsor. 02:36 The main difference between a fiancé, visa and marriage visa is that first of all, for a fiancé visa, the couple/ They don't have to be married 03:22 They want to be able to test the relationship by living here together. Sometimes, those couples, it's the first time they actually live together. 03:56 It's good to know that there is the option of doing your fiancé visa before marriage and there's an option to file for a marriage visa once you're already married 04:25 Hopefully you understood the difference between the K-1 fiancé visa and a marriage visa. If you have any other questions, post them in the comments below or email them to me, to [email protected].

Previous Episode

AIM - 25 How International Students can accrue Unlawful Presence Tight and Devastating Rules for Students!

How International Students can accrue unlawful presence? 00:01 A new USCIS policy can have devastating consequences on students who overstayed or violate their status 00:15 The new UCIS policy coming up August 9, 2018 that will change the way a students, F-students, J-Students, M Students are considered to be accruing unlawful presence in the US if they violated their status by not going to school or working 1:25 The only way they could accrue that if they were apprehended by immigration official, by a judge who determine that at that moment they accrued over presence. 2:26 but the essence of accrual of unlawful presence will happen at the time of that interview when that person willmeet the immigration officer. 3:37 If they are here now, before August 9th they should try to speak with an immigration attorney to see what they can do facing that change in and the upcoming date because after that they will be a accruing unlawful. And it's important to make plenty because we have 180 days and then you have the one year. And it's important to plan that 4:40 Keep in mind that this is a policy change that is coming in August 9th. It will be impacting all students that are here in DS status that currently are in violation of status 5:33 it's important to understand and plan how you're going to try to change your status. Once again students that are currently in violation of status are going to start accruing unlawful presence after August 9th based on this new memo

Next Episode

AIM - 27 Employers' Five Most Common PERM Mistakes San Diego Immigration Lawyer

Employer's five most common mistakes when they are filing the labor certification also known as Perm. 00:03 The five most common mistakes that employer's make every single time when they are involved in the process of filing a labor certification. 00:26 When you prepare an ETA 1989, which is also the PERM application, it's very important to check every single line on that form. The number one mistake is that employers would do it on their own or even work with attorneys on experience in the process, they fail to check the form correctly 01:19 Employers and people that are working with employers make mistakes in the placement of the ads. Most common mistake that we see is putting those ads in the wrong dates and the wrong information. 01:51 It's really important to outline the recruitment schedule beforehand. 02:14 Employers and people who work with the employers who prepare the form, they fail to match the experience of the employee, 03:13 Once the ETA form has been submitted, there's an email sent from the Labor Department to the employer and a lot of employers are failing to respond to that email and that could be resulting in abandonment of the case. 03:51 Not keeping clear records and not doing everything you're supposed to be doing during the recruitment process. 04:26 Avoid those five mistakes and you'll be golden and you have your Perm Labor certification application approved in no time. 04:45 Hopefully this was helpful to you and you enjoy our videos.