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I'm a USC filing for my husband.
We met in 2015 while i was on vacation, we kept up our communication and he opted to get his visa, which he was granted a 10yr one. 2016, he came to the states and he proposed, i happily accepted. We immediately began planning our wedding for 2017, i got invitations made, he told his friends and family from his country so they can make travel arrangements for next year.....we were in full wedding planning mode.
We made plans for me to go to his country later that year, but i couldn't get the time off of work, so he came back up here. Not too long after arriving, i suggested we go get a marriage license "just in case". One morning i called my cousin and girlfriend and we went to city hall to get married. We still kept our plans for our "wedding" for 2017, because aside from those who came with us to city hall and his mother and best friend, no one else knew we were married...not even our children (i have 3 "adult teens" and he has 3 younger ones).
We eventually had to push the wedding back a few months because the place wasn't available, but in May, we had our wedding ceremony with about 100 guest. His sister flew up from the Cayman Islands, 2 of his 4 groomsmen and his best man flew up from Jamaica for the wedding, his mother, siblings, friends and children sent a video that was played at the wedding and they tuned in via IMO.
Throughout all of the above, i have tons and tons of pictures, text, ******** msg's, fb msg's and phone calls to prove our bonafide marriage.
My question is that i wasn't as "versed" with immigration then as i am now. Would they question us because we got married shortly after he arrived the 2nd time? He was in status when we got married (2016), his visa was stamped to give him 6 months in the country until May 2017....we had our wedding 3 days after the stamp expired, but was technically married already. We waiting until March 2018 to put in paperwork with USCIS to adjust his status....i just didn't know and at no point did we want to put in the paperwork so soon so it would look like we got married just for a GC.
Would we face any backlash at the interview? Would they think that he intentionally came to the US to get married? My marriage is definitely one of pure love, but i hope they don't see it otherwise.
We met in 2015 while i was on vacation, we kept up our communication and he opted to get his visa, which he was granted a 10yr one. 2016, he came to the states and he proposed, i happily accepted. We immediately began planning our wedding for 2017, i got invitations made, he told his friends and family from his country so they can make travel arrangements for next year.....we were in full wedding planning mode.
We made plans for me to go to his country later that year, but i couldn't get the time off of work, so he came back up here. Not too long after arriving, i suggested we go get a marriage license "just in case". One morning i called my cousin and girlfriend and we went to city hall to get married. We still kept our plans for our "wedding" for 2017, because aside from those who came with us to city hall and his mother and best friend, no one else knew we were married...not even our children (i have 3 "adult teens" and he has 3 younger ones).
We eventually had to push the wedding back a few months because the place wasn't available, but in May, we had our wedding ceremony with about 100 guest. His sister flew up from the Cayman Islands, 2 of his 4 groomsmen and his best man flew up from Jamaica for the wedding, his mother, siblings, friends and children sent a video that was played at the wedding and they tuned in via IMO.
Throughout all of the above, i have tons and tons of pictures, text, ******** msg's, fb msg's and phone calls to prove our bonafide marriage.
My question is that i wasn't as "versed" with immigration then as i am now. Would they question us because we got married shortly after he arrived the 2nd time? He was in status when we got married (2016), his visa was stamped to give him 6 months in the country until May 2017....we had our wedding 3 days after the stamp expired, but was technically married already. We waiting until March 2018 to put in paperwork with USCIS to adjust his status....i just didn't know and at no point did we want to put in the paperwork so soon so it would look like we got married just for a GC.
Would we face any backlash at the interview? Would they think that he intentionally came to the US to get married? My marriage is definitely one of pure love, but i hope they don't see it otherwise.
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