American marriage immigration consultation

Namely:

K 1/K2 visa summary:

K 1 fiance (wife) of an American citizen, and K2 for unmarried children under 2 1.

Applicants from China must get married within 90 days after entering the United States with a K/KLOC-0 visa, otherwise they must leave the United States before the 90th day, or they will live illegally. K 1 visas cannot be transferred to other types of visas, such as student visas and work visas. If you don't marry an American citizen who applied for a K/KLOC-0 visa within 90 days, you can't change your identity even if you marry another American citizen. You must go back to China and start applying for CR 1 again.

K 1 After marriage, American citizens can transfer their identity for China applicants and their children, and they can get a conditional green card for two years in about one year. Within 90 days before the two-year conditional green card expires, American citizens must apply to cancel the conditional green card and apply for a ten-year green card. After approval, they can get a green card for ten years.

American citizens must apply for a green card for China applicants within one year after entering China. If it exceeds one year, their marriage will be invalid and they must return to China.

If China applicants have children, they can fill in the information of their children in the application form of K 1, that is to say, they have applied for a K2 visa for their children, that is, K 1 has its own K2. If children are not filled in, it means that children will not be applied.

Brief introduction of foreign CR 1/CR2/IR 1/IR2 visa:

Cr 1 the spouse of an American citizen who has been married for two years, and 2 1 the unmarried children under the age of 0 are CR2.

IR 1 The spouse of an American citizen who has been married for two years, and the unmarried children under 2 1 are IR2.

American citizens living in the United States can only submit CR/IR applications to the immigration service centers in their residential areas, 00 1 called foreign CR 1/CR2/IR 1/IR2.

If an American citizen works or studies in China and holds a residence permit in China, he can apply for a DCF visa (direct consular filing) in embassies and consulates in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Chengdu and Guangzhou), which is called domestic CR 1/CR2 or domestic IR 1/CR2 (Chinese) /DCF (English).

CR 1/IR 1/DCF is an immigrant visa. After entering the United States, you can receive a two-year conditional green card (less than two years from the wedding date to the entry date)/a ten-year green card (more than two years from the wedding date to the entry date) from the immigration office in the United States.

CR 1 Before or during the interview, if you have been married for two years, the immigration officer will automatically change your situation from CR 1 to IR 1, which means that you must obtain a green card for ten years after entering the country. CR 1 Married for two years at the time of employment. The immigration officer of the Immigration Department may not issue a ten-year green card, but a two-year conditional green card. At this time, you need to get it from the immigration officer in time. If the immigration officer is not persuaded, a two-year conditional green card will still be issued. After entering the country, you can apply to the Immigration Bureau to renew your green card for ten years.

Children:

American citizens can apply for a CR2/IR2 visa for your children (stepchildren of American citizens) separately at the same time, but you cannot apply for a visa under the following circumstances. After becoming an American citizen, you can only apply for an F 1/F3 visa for your children, spouse and children. You LG can't apply for any visa for your child:

A. When you marry an American citizen, your child is over 18 years old.

B the child is over 2 1 year old at the time of application.

The Child Identity Protection Act signed by President Bush on August 6, 2002 changed the calculation method of children's age. Click to learn more]

CR 1/IR 1 cannot bring its own CR2/IR2. You need to fill out the application form separately for your child and pay the application fee.

If the child is an American citizen and your own child, and the American fiance has lived in the United States for five years, the child can automatically become an American citizen. American citizens can apply for American passports for their children directly in the United States and go to the United States directly with you. Otherwise, the child is not an American citizen and needs to fill out the application form and application fee separately for the child. CR 1 cannot bring it back to CR2.

Click to view the relevant regulations of the US Immigration Bureau in official website on the application for US passports by children born to American citizens overseas.

Click to view the homework of overseas-born children of American citizens applying for American passports (in Chinese).

After the application of foreign CR 1/IR 1 is accepted by the Immigration Bureau, that is, after receiving P 1, you can apply for K3/K4 in order to enter the United States for reunion in advance, continue to wait for the CR/IR visa in the United States or apply for a green card directly in the United States. Please click to view the relevant K3/K4 visa information.

Conditions for applying for a foreign CR 1/CR2/IR 1/IR2 visa:

1. Foreign CR 1/IR 1 Visa conditions:

1) The spouse of China applicants must be an American citizen, and green card residents cannot apply for a CR 1/IR 1 visa for the spouse of China;

2) If an American citizen previously obtained green card status through marriage immigration, he must meet one of the following three conditions:

A. China's new wife needs five years to obtain a green card (conditional green card or ten-year green card) when applying for CR1/IR/KLOC-0;

B. Or, provide sufficient evidence to prove that the previous marriage with American status is true and conforms to the immigration law;

C. Or, provide the death certificate of the former spouse, which proves that the marriage that previously obtained American status ended due to the death of the spouse;

3) American citizens are willing to provide financial guarantee for China applicants, and assure the American government that they will bear the living burden of China applicants in the United States, and will not increase the burden on the American government.

2. Conditions for minor children of China applicants to apply for CR2/IR2 visas:

1) When the China applicant married an American citizen, the children of the China applicant were under 18 years old;

2) Children of China applicants must be under 2 1 year old and unmarried.

3) For the children adopted by the China applicant, the adoption relationship must be established before the adopted child 16 years old, and the China applicant has lived with the adopted child for more than two years and has legal custody. The adopted child must be under 2 1 year old and unmarried.