On 11/07/2006, at 5:48 AM, David Hobby wrote:
I don't want to jinx you, but are you sure you're done? : )
We're done until the wedding. Prospective Marriage Visa has been granted. Then we have to go back, and it gets changed to a Spouse Visa (Temporary). Then in two years after that, you go back, and it gets changed to a Spouse Visa (Permanent). The last is the one where they grill you, apparently.
My wife is German, and when she got US permanent resident status it was not that easy. We did multiple trips to the immigration office, where one had to arrive a couple hours before it opened just to get an appointment. Fortunately, we lived pretty close to an office.
It's slightly easier being British going into Oz than most other nationalities (Kiwis are the one that's easier, and that's cause Kiwis have automatic residency and work rights in Australia), and certainly a lot easier than for just about anyone to go to the States, even Canadians (should have seen the traumas Kat went through to get her Canadian beau into the US).
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