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Hello,
My fiance is currently employed and sponsored with an H1-B visa. However, we want to have our wedding outside of the US and apply for an Immigrant Visa. We do not need a fiance visa for this reason, and want to get a green card for him through marriage and not employment sponsorship. Is there a need for an immigrant visa? (Because corporate sponsorship requires him to stay with the sponsering employer, we aren't interested in going that route.)
A side-question. If for some reason, before marriage, he was to become unemployed and then deported, how long (on average, realizing that sometimes there are variances that speed and slow approvals) would it take an immigrant visa to be approved so that he could come back to the US?
Note: he received his Masters degree in the US; I've heard that advanced degrees, gained in the US, can speed up the process sometimes. Please consider this when you reply.
Thanks so much!
My fiance is currently employed and sponsored with an H1-B visa. However, we want to have our wedding outside of the US and apply for an Immigrant Visa. We do not need a fiance visa for this reason, and want to get a green card for him through marriage and not employment sponsorship. Is there a need for an immigrant visa? (Because corporate sponsorship requires him to stay with the sponsering employer, we aren't interested in going that route.)
A side-question. If for some reason, before marriage, he was to become unemployed and then deported, how long (on average, realizing that sometimes there are variances that speed and slow approvals) would it take an immigrant visa to be approved so that he could come back to the US?
Note: he received his Masters degree in the US; I've heard that advanced degrees, gained in the US, can speed up the process sometimes. Please consider this when you reply.
Thanks so much!
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