I'm currently a US Citizen and I've resided in the USA all my life (31 years old now). Anyways, I met a girl in China a few years ago and we were just friends for many years before we started a romantic relationship earlier this year and it's quickly progressed to engagement and we are planning our wedding now.
In the meantime, she obtained a B2 visitor visa to come visit me (this was actually prior to us getting engaged). She is scheduled to come visit me in a few weeks (early October), and I have been popping over to Hong Kong to meet her (she lives in Shenzhen just across the border). She is now also pregnant with our first child, so we are looking to get married legally within the next few months (before the child is born).
I intend to apply for a spousal visa (K-3) for my fiancee immediately after we get married. So now the question is, would my fiancee still be able to use her B2 visitor visa in the next year or so to visit me while her K-3 visa is still pending? She does not intend to immigrate over to the US until mid 2019 because she needs to wind down things in China.
Since the child will be born in wedlock, from what I know, the child is automatically a US Citizen because I am a US Citizen and I've been a US resident all my life? We would prefer for the child to be born in the US (so she would be arriving on a B2 while pregnant and already married to me, give birth here, and then return to China for a bit). I know the US authorities are suspicious of Chinese ladies coming to the US to give birth to take advantage of birthright citizenship for the child, but in this case, the child should automatically have US citizenship anyways.
It seems like, there's a lot of paperwork to do and I'm a bit confused as to everything. Thanks for any guidance I can get.
In the meantime, she obtained a B2 visitor visa to come visit me (this was actually prior to us getting engaged). She is scheduled to come visit me in a few weeks (early October), and I have been popping over to Hong Kong to meet her (she lives in Shenzhen just across the border). She is now also pregnant with our first child, so we are looking to get married legally within the next few months (before the child is born).
I intend to apply for a spousal visa (K-3) for my fiancee immediately after we get married. So now the question is, would my fiancee still be able to use her B2 visitor visa in the next year or so to visit me while her K-3 visa is still pending? She does not intend to immigrate over to the US until mid 2019 because she needs to wind down things in China.
Since the child will be born in wedlock, from what I know, the child is automatically a US Citizen because I am a US Citizen and I've been a US resident all my life? We would prefer for the child to be born in the US (so she would be arriving on a B2 while pregnant and already married to me, give birth here, and then return to China for a bit). I know the US authorities are suspicious of Chinese ladies coming to the US to give birth to take advantage of birthright citizenship for the child, but in this case, the child should automatically have US citizenship anyways.
It seems like, there's a lot of paperwork to do and I'm a bit confused as to everything. Thanks for any guidance I can get.
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