@Roberto ******

I warned you. Have fun talking to the wind blowing through your head.

@Roberto ******

I am not wrong in my experience. I was there. If you can’t accept that, it’s your problem.

@Roberto ******

you really need to go back to school to learn how to talk to people in a civilized manner. Your constant name calling makes you sound like a 10 year old.

Laws and regulations can and do change. I can only tell you my experience, which was quite some time ago. If you were able to take advantage of a loophole, then good for you.

I don’t take kindly to trolls. If you continue with the insults, I’ll simply block you.

@Roberto ******

you’re the one that is not understanding it. I lived it!

Getting married in or out of the USA does nothing for your wife’s “status”. I had to explain this to numbskulls like you many times. People think that getting married automatically makes your spouse a citizen or gives them the legal ability to stay in the USA. It doesn’t work like that!

The only way it works like that is if you bring her in on a fiancé visa. That’s not what we’re talking about here.

@Matt ******

that is completely false. This is not my first rodeo. I married a Mexican citizen many years ago. It took me two years after that just to get her a green card. In the meantime, she could visit the USA but didn’t have the right to stay there.

Anyways, in this case my gf isn’t “going to visit her boyfriend”. I’m retired here in Thailand.

@Matt ******

getting married in the USA has no affect on her visa status. Only a fiancé visa would allow her to stay.

@Lawrence *********

how do you know it’s not true? Were you there at the time? Are you there every day?

@Werner ***********

there is an old bias against Thai women. Los Angeles has a very large Thai community. The Thais you see on the plane are probably naturalized and the lucky few who get a visa.

@Werner ***********

we have joked about that. But no, there is no issue with either of us. She has a government job, owns our property and has plenty of family here.

@Lawrence *********

just because you had good luck doesn’t make the OP’s experience untrue, or his statement that the decision is made before the appointment.