Hi!

I am Brazilian and my fiancee is american! we have been dating for over 4years and we plan on getting married in december! I have lived in the US with a student visa for 2 years. I would like to know what would be the easiest way to marry him?

we plan on getting married on december 20 and then flying to brazil for our honeymoon on the 26th! would that be ok? I mean, can we just go and get a marriage license and certificate? would i be able to leave the country? would the US know i got married? what whould we do about this?

thank you!

How fast and how easy (in terms of paper work) you can get married in the US, depends on the place where you get married.

Depending on the state/city you can get married within a few hours.

To give you more specific information, you should provide more details about the place where you plan to get married.

BOA SORTE!

Originally posted by Steven Your situation is too complex to answer here but a short answer is that if you get married and then leave the country the U.S. government will frown on your eventual Green Card application.  In fact you are supposed to apply for a change in status on your visa long before you actually get married.  Doing this, however, could conceivably get you kicked out of the country (student visa voided) until the government decides to act on your application for a fiance K-1 visa.  There are many strategies to deal with your situation but you really should spend $100 for a consultation with an immigration lawyer before you do anything. ...

Wow, slow down, you are already two steps ahead!

So far she asked about getting married in the US, no word about staying in the US after marriage.
Maybe they have other plans!?!?! Moving to Brazil or how knows where to !?!?!?

hey guys! thanks for the replies!!

we do plan on living in the US after we get married. The only reason I would want to leave right after the marriage is because of my honeymoon and my parents are having a big party for us in brazil.

we heard that getting married in the states would have less complications than if we got married in brazil. We're still 6 months away from the wedding, but since we have party plans here in brazil, i wanna make sure we will be able to attend our own party!

we live in Salt Lake city, Utah. Any recommendations?
FYI we are mormon, so here's what we thought we should do. This is just us thinking on our own.. so we get our marriage license and then have our wedding performed by one of our church leaders. I heard all I would need (I am brazilian) was my passport and my fiance (american) his ID and such. Since I do have a student visa, we thought we would just go to brazil and a vacation (which i am allowed to have in between my semesters) and have our party in Brazil, and when we came back (me on my student visa for school), we would file the documents to change my status and such. Are we somewhat in the right path?

I will be getting some professional help once I get back in the states this month, but for now, I would like to have a little idea of what could be done.

thank you all once again!

yah I totally understand why that would be a problem. I just thought since I am allowed to be in the country until I finish school (which will be in a couple more years), it would be "ok" to just go ahead and get married, since living in the US to study, still gives me the right to have a life, right?
ugh, I'm just so worried our plans won't turn out the way we want them to! I'm just scared we won't be able to live together...or something horrible happens...