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Not quite sure what you mean by that. The only thing I can think of where that could be an issue would be if you were to marry him in the US while there on a visa waiver and then apply to stay. You can apply for a fiancee visa to the US or you could alway marry in New Zealandthe only reason you haven't married that person already is so that it DOESN'T affect your chance to be with them
Because the visa waiver is a waiver extended to some countries so we don't have to apply for a tourist visa which is permission to tour or visit a country. If I go to the US on a visa waiver or even a tourist visa and marry, then that is grounds for applying for staying. They don't like that.Marco 72 wrote:What makes you think that?Eternal_Howl wrote:We want to marry. If I go to the US on a visa waiver and marry him, we could get in big trouble and I be told to leave.
It's ok to marry on a visa waiver. I did it two years ago and had no trouble at all. You might have trouble if you applied for adjustment of status within the US afterwards, but it's ok to get married there, go back to your country and then apply for an immigrant visa. Best not to mention your marriage plans at immigration control anyway.Eternal_Howl wrote:Because the visa waiver is a waiver extended to some countries so we don't have to apply for a tourist visa which is permission to tour or visit a country. If I go to the US on a visa waiver or even a tourist visa and marry, then that is grounds for applying for staying. They don't like that.
At the moment the dollar is historically cheap, so simply converting your salary into dollars isn't going to give you a very useful result. You need to look at the purchasing power, i.e. what you can buy with it. If the US salary is half but life is half as expensive there, then it shouldn't be much of a problem. Here in California prices are almost half of what they are in London, for example. And California is one of the most expensive states in the US.Eternal_Howl wrote:You know, it's funny - I'm busting my butt and now looking at the potential to have to go to the US and I just look on a local US jobseeker site and see the average wage offered for the job I do is about 1/2 of what I get now.
Many jobs in the US include subsidised health insurance, so you may not have to pay for it out of your salary. My wife used to work as a clerk for the county, and they paid all of her health insurance. Unless you are self employed or have a low pay job, health insurance is likely to be part of the deal.Eternal_Howl wrote:Yeah the cost of living where I would be going is cheaper, but I guess it all balances out to around the same as various insurances are up to 3-4 times higher and the wages are lower. I would opt for insurance because of life's uncertainties. In my working life, I would be taking a step backwards but the whole idea is that I get to be with the man I love.
I didn't actually move to the US, my wife joined me in the UK afterwards. At the moment we are just visiting my wife's relatives in California. I didn't want to move over here because I work in the finance industry, and it would have been difficult for me to find a similar job in this part of the US. We would probably have had to move to Chicago or New York, neither of which seemed particularly appealing to us. Also, I didn't like the idea of having only 10 days vacation per year. Despite all this, we really love it here and may retire to the US one day. Whenever I'm here I always wonder: "What the hell am I doing in London?".Eternal_Howl wrote:So you married on a visa waiver? Did you return to your home country and then your wife apply for the spouse visa? The reading I've done so far indicates that can take longer than the K1 visa.