warning for international couples

Well thats added stress you do not need right now. I am so sorry. My daughter married an American. They had meet on a cruise ship (both working) and she followed him to Las Vegas on a student visa. Anyways they got married in Vegas and I do remember her not being able to come home to Canada for a while after they were married. I hope everything works out for you.

Thanks ladies.. It's IS very stressful when you don't understand the in's and out's of immigration AND why a resort can't offer something symbolic! I think i'm gonna have my fiance make some immigration calls while I call Jamaica today. I'm really hoping there was miscommunication and that we can get married here legally first, show the resort our license to do "vow renewal" and then apply for the green card when we get back.

Because if this were the case no international couples could ever go on honeymoons right? And i'm pretty sure I know ones who did and then got green cards. To be honest, i'm REALLY thinking my fiance is wrong on this but like I said - he's so stubborn that I can't very well call him out on it, gotta work it gently. Haha.

Urrgghhhhhh , so I just got off the phone with US citizen and immigration services customer care and boy that was no help. She basically read me EVERYTHING the website said! How irritating!! So a talking website live!

I emailed the wedding coordinator from our resort to see if she has had experience in the past. I just want to be able to get a legit wedding license and still be able to come into the country on the exact same visa.

I guess I may have to search for an immigration lawer...arggghhhh

Yeah and they also told him he couldn't leave the country for 3 months after we get the marriage license (regardless of the green card status or application).

Anyway, I talked to Keisha and she said we could pay an officer of the civil register $100 to perform the vows without any necessary paperwork. Thank god! That's one thing that bothers me about Keisha (and has been a problem with other issues). If I tell her "our situation is this, this is what we want, can we do option A?" she explains how option A won't work but doesn't go on to give me options B, and C which might actually do the trick! Anyway, I'm still slightly worried that some other little technicality will come up but at least it seems like we'll be ok and paper free!

I had emailed the WC at Beaches about this last week and am awaiting a response. I think that if within a few weeks I don't hear back, I can just follow-up with the option given above and that might help things along.

oh my goodness what a stress!! i better double check too!

Yeah, now she's checking with the civil official to make sure he's ok pronouncing us "man and wife" if it's not legal. Arg! I don't really care about many of the traditional wording but since this is our only ceremony I really want this part! Oh well, i'm sure it'll be ok.