Englishman in Miami

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Poppins68 Member

Member since 16 July 2016

Poppins68Member16 July 2016 23:20:01

I'm English, living in uk. I'm 47, with my own income from property.
I'm now in a relationship with my old boyfriend of 20 years ago who moved to USA 20 yrs ago, got married had kids and is now divorced.
He never applied for citizenship but has done now.
We want to be together and in the last year I've been going over to visit. 4 times in total the last time for 3 months and I'm going back again in sept for another 3 months.
I've never been married but seems like it's the only way forward.
Do we need to go down the fianc茅 visa route or can we just do it there?

flitters17 New member

Member since 31 May 2016

flitters17New member03 August 2016 09:40:03

Hi,
I had a very similar situation. My boyfriend at the time was a US & UK citizen but I was only a UK citizen. For a few years we could not get married as waiting for his divorce to finalise. So like you came back and forth for 3 times.... I had a 'B' visa so I could stay for up to 6 months at a time, but only stayed back in the UK for a month before returning.
On my 4th visit back flying through Atlanta, the pulled me over, interegated me for a couple of hours, treated me like a criminal then told me " I was living there" ! (Which is not allowed) and that if I didn't agree to being deported I would be put in a cell over night and put before a judge in the morning and if found guilty, would not be allowed back in the US for 10 years, I said they left me no option, so was put on the returning flight back to the UK.聽 No one told us you had to stay OUT of the US for at least 6 months.聽 We went to the US embassy and they advised us to apply for a fianc茅 visa. Which we did and it took about a year!!聽 Eventually I got one flew back the US and we were married within the 90 days. The lived there for the next 10 years, within that time I received MY US citizenship.
So in answer to your question.....YES.....get a fianc茅 visa ASAP before they deport you.
Barbara

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