Visa For Thai Gf To Usa

[CKM8ED]

I have been living for over 1 1/2 years with my Thai GF in Bangkok who happens to be a nurse. She had been working at B & H hospitol. Now I need to go back for work in the USA and would like to bring her. My question is what is the best way? Fiancee or try to get a visa for her to work there as a nurse? Another friend also said a student visa might be good. I am looking for different advise.

Thanks

[RPETER65]

I have been living for over 1 1/2 years with my Thai GF in Bangkok who happens to be a nurse. She had been working at B & H hospitol. Now I need to go back for work in the USA and would like to bring her. My question is what is the best way? Fiancee or try to get a visa for her to work there as a nurse? Another friend also said a student visa might be good. I am looking for different advise.

Thanks

If you plan to marry within the time table of a fiancee visa, this is a good option, once you are married she can apply for and obtain a green card with work authorization, this will be good for one year, at which you apply to remove the one year condition and she will recieve a card good for ten years.

[Svenn]

The tourist visa, specifically the multiple entry one, was created in part to be convenient for situations like yours: "visiting family or friends." However as you probably know, the long abuse of that visa by the unclean hordes of the world have made it very difficult to acquire. Nonetheless, it is a much easier route if you don't want to make the commitment of the fiance visa.

[scottydel]

I have been living for over 1 1/2 years with my Thai GF in Bangkok who happens to be a nurse. She had been working at B & H hospitol. Now I need to go back for work in the USA and would like to bring her. My question is what is the best way? Fiancee or try to get a visa for her to work there as a nurse? Another friend also said a student visa might be good. I am looking for different advise.

Thanks

If you plan to marry within the time table of a fiancee visa, this is a good option, once you are married she can apply for and obtain a green card with work authorization, this will be good for one year, at which you apply to remove the one year condition and she will recieve a card good for ten years.

what is the time table you speak of? i'm in a similar situation. don't really want to marry but if i have to i will. we have a child together, and i want to bring him home next may to meet my family and learn the language, culture, etc. i think he's too young to not bring his mom with us. so i thought we'd do a six month visit in america, pending his mom getting a tourist visa.

[Svenn]

what is the time table you speak of? i'm in a similar situation. don't really want to marry but if i have to i will. we have a child together, and i want to bring him home next may to meet my family and learn the language, culture, etc. i think he's too young to not bring his mom with us. so i thought we'd do a six month visit in america, pending his mom getting a tourist visa.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but a mother applicant with a U.S. citizen child (the child I assume is a U.S. citizen), would seem like a slam dunk approval for the tourist visa. That would be pretty cruel of the embassy to require you to spend whatever thousand dollars on the fiancee visa just to extract an arbitrary facade of commitment out of the mother.

[Pakboong]

what is the time table you speak of? i'm in a similar situation. don't really want to marry but if i have to i will. we have a child together, and i want to bring him home next may to meet my family and learn the language, culture, etc. i think he's too young to not bring his mom with us. so i thought we'd do a six month visit in america, pending his mom getting a tourist visa.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but a mother applicant with a U.S. citizen child (the child I assume is a U.S. citizen), would seem like a slam dunk approval for the tourist visa. That would be pretty cruel of the embassy to require you to spend whatever thousand dollars on the fiancee visa just to extract an arbitrary facade of commitment out of the mother.

It is not a slam dunk. The only slam dunk is a legitimate abilty for a single Thai woman is to have a life that affords her international travel with a serious reason to return to Thailand. A solid job history with income tax records is the best evidence of that life.

[jfchandler]

I was at the U.S. Consulate the other day for an income verification letter... But my long-term TGF and I, separately, have been talking about a (first-time for her) Christmas trip back to the U.S. to meet my parents.

So while I was there at the Consulate, I figured I'd try to ask on the best route to proceed, or at least, see what advice they'd have to offer.

First ask at the Consular services window, after finishing the income letter business. Answer: sorry, we don't advise on visas here, go to the window in the other room (where they do Thai immigrant visa business)

Second ask at the Thai immigrant visa section window. Answer: None... waited there 10 minutes in the middle of the afternoon... three windows open, and no staff sitting at any of the counters the whole time. Went back to the Consular services window to ask how to proceed.

Third ask at the reception desk outside in the courtyard, where a group of youngish Thai female staff are stationed. Answer: They don't speak much English, but we try together. Explain my situation... GF has a steady long-term professional job, but no big savings or property interests. I live here on business and now retirement visa... Want her to go back with me at Christmas for meet my family for a 1-2 week trip.

I tell the staff women, I could do either a fiance visa or a tourist visa... They advise to do a tourist visa application. I say the GF doesn't have big savings. I tell them, I would be paying for the trip. They say, you can write a letter (guarantor letter) stating such. (In the past, I've heard those are not especially helpful...but reports seem to be contradictory...)

I'm guessing, the advice I received that day is just about worth the price I paid for it... nothing...

PS - Neither of us has absolutely any intention to STAY in the U.S. or move back there. But, how to persuasively convince the Consulate folks of that... is the rub...

Edited August 16, 2009 by jfchandler

[jazzbo]

Hello JFC -- As you may or may not be aware, just about the only Western Hemisphere place a Thai citizen can go without any advance Visa is BERMUDA. UK will also allow a 24 hour layover for Thai citizens for change of planes... so you can all reconnoiter at the Hamilton Princess... not exactly LAX. I kept this plan in case an emergency visit was required.

[sirineou]

The Easiest way, with the highest possibility of success would be a fiancé Visa, The only requirements for that are , a) That you have a documented relationship, ( they will ask for evidence of relationship) you are a US citizen c) you can provide evidence of Support, d) Your fiancé has a clean criminal record, and is not married to some one else. e) are both of legal age

If you meet the above criteria it is only a mater of time before the application is approved and the Visa is issued. Timeframe about 8-12 months. First make the application ( cost about $450) and wait for the application to be approved, ( about 4 months in our case). Second a letter of approval will be send to you and to your Fiancé and your fiancé will receive from the embassy a list of documents she need to gather , make translations of some of the documents, and go to a hospital foe a physical examination and necessary immunization records, when she have all the necessary documents your fiancé needs to send the documents to the embassy and wait for an interview appointment , she can take the interview in either Thai or English . at the end of the interview you might be lucky and the Visa might be issued or they might ask for additional evidence of relationship of documents, if so they will probably ask you to come back in 1-2 weeks, at that time they will be either satisfied and issue the Visa or you case will go it to administrative review, that usually occurs if there are any red flags raise in the mind of the interviewer ( real or perceived) . if that occurs you can expect a 3- 6 month delay until they send the case to the appropriate place for investigation and the case returned to the embassy.

When your fiancé has her Fiancé visa and you go to the states you have 3 months to get married ,( I suggest you do it ASAP) and apply for a change of status. If you do not marry in 3 months she must return to Thailand.

A tourist visa ( from what I read in this forum)will be almost impossible

An other possibility would be a work Visa ( I don’t know anything about that) but I know that Nurses are in great demand in the USA , depending where she will be geographically. She can make as much as $50 p/h . My sister is a registered Nurse , and at a time when we are all scrambling to find work or keep the jobs we have, she gets calls from headhunters every week with job offers. If her license is excepted in the USA ( she might need to get re certified) , and you can get a hospital or a doctor in the US to hire her, they might be able to get an expedited work visa for her. Something to look in to.

If you need any additional info on the Fiancé visa send me a message

[lopburi3]

He lives in Thailand so a visitor visa is the route that needs to be taken. And with proof of his and her ties to Thailand it is not impossible. Your extension of stay will surly be helpful so a copy of your passport/extension (and any history you have here - long term lease and such would also be positive) - letters from family might also be considered. Don't give up without a try.