marry my american man

Not the best forum for that type of complex legal advice with serious ramifications. Speak to an Immigration Lawyer asap....

Hi,

Just do it, get your marriage certificate and apply for your residency! That's all there is to it. Once you are married, you can start to prove it and they will extend your visa. If the relationship isn't real, they will tell you this later after interveiws and other stuff.

You can apply for a Fiance Visa (K1 Visa). It is a bit easier than most of the alternatives. As far as I know you will need to get married within 90 days of entering the states though. Information here.
http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/visa_k1.html

Good Luck

You can get married in the USA now, legally. get married while you are in the USA legally, then you dont have to wait for the process. The process can be time consuming, and also the sponsor (Fiance) in America needs to prove he provide for you, and also you have to be cleared by the Belize Embassy for no criminal record, and also prove your intentions.

I just did this myself. I am American, and my wife at the time was in the USA on a Student Visa, which was to expire shortly and we didnt have a chance of getting a work Visa as she was in Finance and the economy stinks, USA would not view her as a "special skills" like a scientist or something, so we got hitched. She holds a Chinese Passport.

Apply for a marraige license where you are in the USA, get a judge and/or have a small civil cermony, while you are in the USA Legally.

Soon as this is done, you need to Apply for Legal Residency, and change your status from a Visitor to a Conditional resident, which is painless, but not cheap.

All the forms are free from Homeland Security, get the entire packet for also a Work Visa and a Travel permit (though its not good idea to leave the USA, as your entry back in is at the discresion of the border/immigration officials until you have a residents card or Green card)

The application is not that complicated to fill out, you and the sponsor (US Citizen) must pove financial standing, above the Poverty line ($19K) and also you need to your Birth Certificate, and a clean bill of health, which there are DR/Medical clinics in all major cities to get this check up. Any medical records from your home country also, so you dont have to pat for extra shots/vaccines.

Once this application for Change in Residence status is completed, enclose a check for $1,100 USD and send it certified mail to Homeland Security address on packet. In 2-4 weeks you will get a Letter saying its recieved, and your application in under review. If there is any info you failed to provide, they send you a letter asking for it, and give you 90 days to provide, if not the Application is terminated, and you are then a illegal alien and this will ruin your chance to get back in legally.

After all the papaerwork is in order for Homeland Security, they send you letter to get your fingerprints/eyes scanned (Bio-metrics) at a regional office, then after that, you will get a letter saying you have to appear for a interview, normally about 2 months from the time you get the letter. Once at the interview with your fiance, you must provide prove of marraige, pictures of cermony, that you live together, and share finances, so open a checking account now together too.

The interview for us was pretty easy, some simple questions like where we met, where was first date, how many siblings, names, where do parent live etc...I do understand NYC is a lot more detailed in interviews, ours was Chicago.

So, there you have it.

Details-
Student Visa expired 11/26. We married 11/22. She did have another 60 days tourist Visa on top of the Student Visa as a courtesy to students to travel beffore returning, but we were advised to get married while she was here under the Student Visa time frame.

We applied on Dec 18th. (she was here legally as a Tourist at this point, but the Student Visa had expired)
Jan 2 we got letter of reciept and process
Jan 12 letter ofr Bio Metrics
Feb 29 letter for Interview on April 29.
April 29 interview was fine
June 29th letter welocming her to USA
July 15th Resident card arrived (Green card)

Dont lose the I94-W card in your Passport...very important.

Hey five...thought you got banned when you began using mrmrst as a handle.
How many times have you applied for a marriage license in Costa Rica in your thirty five trips?

No No No

Its was a Snafu in logging on...all sorted out now.

I think I need to plead the 5th on the marriage question.

...oh no....don't tell me Tim's got another new handle?!.....

I've just been going through this with my new daughter-in-law from Russia, and it is costly, they really soak you for those forms... But alarmingly, I have a friend from Mexico who married an American girl eight years ago, but now is divorced, who was just deported while trying to cross legally in Texas because after marrying (a real marriage, too) they failed to do the follow-up documentation that Tim refers to. This guy has been here twenty years, owns two businesses and is a member of the darn chamber of commerce here.... So don't think that because you have the ceremony that your problems are over, they're not.

Why don't you get him pregnant?