I know, it's outrageous. The US now has a temporary visa that let's the foreign spouse join the American spouse in the US - if it's approved - for all the months until the permanent visa is also approved. That's just dumb.
By way of comparison, I married my Brazilian husband in July of 2017. The next week, we took our Illinois Marriage Ce…
I know, it's outrageous. The US now has a temporary visa that let's the foreign spouse join the American spouse in the US - if it's approved - for all the months until the permanent visa is also approved. That's just dumb.
By way of comparison, I married my Brazilian husband in July of 2017. The next week, we took our Illinois Marriage Certificate to the Brazilian Consulate General in Chicago, registered our marriage, and applied for my spousal visa. A week after that, I went back to the Consulate to pick the visa up. My husband went home to rent us an apartment, and I joined him in November. I went to the Federal Police on the next business day to request my resident ID Card, and had it in less than a month.
Other countries have figured a lot of this stuff out years ago; not all of their solutions are scalable, but many are. We don't HAVE to reinvent it all ourselves!
I know, it's outrageous. The US now has a temporary visa that let's the foreign spouse join the American spouse in the US - if it's approved - for all the months until the permanent visa is also approved. That's just dumb.
By way of comparison, I married my Brazilian husband in July of 2017. The next week, we took our Illinois Marriage Certificate to the Brazilian Consulate General in Chicago, registered our marriage, and applied for my spousal visa. A week after that, I went back to the Consulate to pick the visa up. My husband went home to rent us an apartment, and I joined him in November. I went to the Federal Police on the next business day to request my resident ID Card, and had it in less than a month.
Other countries have figured a lot of this stuff out years ago; not all of their solutions are scalable, but many are. We don't HAVE to reinvent it all ourselves!