Guyana Travel Answers

this is a long and very complicated process - perhaps email don wright who married a taiwanese citizen and went through the whole process about where to start - it is long - and complex - and by no means a sure thing

You have to petition your own authorities before you leave for Guyana and your husband will require a visa from the U.S. Embassy in Guyana. The U.S. authorities concerned have plenty of information, including downloadable forms, online, see http://www.us-immigration.com/ and travel.state.gov/visa/immigr...

Hi Kelly, thanks for your e-mail, glad you did some research on DCF, and it looks like you are right in regards to DCF in Guyana. "In order to demonstrate residency, the American Citizen petitioners must be able to show that they have permission to reside in Guyana and that they have been doing so continuously for at least six months before filing the petition. Individuals who are in the country on a temporary status, such as student or tourist, would not be considered to meet the residency standard." so, they do allow it, but not on a tourist visa, you must have residency for six months as you found out. So, if you are not able to do that, you will probably have to file K-3 when you get back to the US.

Kelly, hope you log back on a read all of our information. It is an overwhelming, confusing, intimidating mess dealing with immigration, but don't give up, persevere and learn and do your research before hand. You need to find out what is the best path for you, and then the necessary steps you will need to take to pursue it. The goal is, to get your spouse into the USA and achieve Permanent Resident Status. The above mentioned options are different ways to accomplish that. You have to research and decide which is best for you. .

hi everyone, it has been awhile since I've been involved in research of this subject, since it's been a little over three years now since Jane and I got married. But in doing a little research today on DCF, it seems as though there was some law passed in March of last year called the Adam Walsh act I believe. this act pretty much requires at least a six month period of residency of the US citizen in the country of the foreign spouse before allowing the USC to apply for his spouses immigrant visa in that country. I wasn't able to get clarification as to whether this law applies to every country. When Jane and I got married, at that time there were some, not many countries, that a US citizen could apply for a spouses immigrant visa, without the US citizen having to have resident status in the foreign spouses country. Taiwan was one of the few countries, so Jane and I took advantage of it. I didn't even need a tourist visa since Taiwan and the US participated in the Visa Waiver program for tourist stays of less than 30 days, so I flew over there we got married and I appeared in person at the American Consulate in Taipei to apply for her Immigrant Visa. My stay was about two and a half weeks, I returned to the USA, and her Immigrant Visa was processed in about three weeks. Anyway, I'm curious as to whether this Adam Walsh act affects every country. If so, it kind of defeats the purpose of DCF, because it would add at least six months to the process and the US citizen would have to stay there and establish residency. It has something to do with additional background checks on the US citizen, which requires the application to be sent back to the USCIS in the United States. Anyway, I thought DCF would be a nice option for Kelly, but as far as Guyana, they do require a minimum six month residency for US citizen, so that might not work out for her.

I agree with Don_Wright. This will be a long and complicated process. Since 911 things have really become insane, so I'm told. In 1989, I visited Venezuela, and in the process decided to get married to a citizen of Venezuela. The plan at that time, which ultimately worked, was for me to fly back to the USA alone, and then to have my fiance come to the USA a month later on a tourist visa. Almost as soon as she arrived, we got married in a civil ceremony at the country courthouse, and then went about the business of getting her a green card for employment purposes. We went through some strange interviews with the INS, but had no real problems dodging the "fiance visa" hassle the way we did. But, that was then, and now things are much more complicated. I will say that before you file the paperwork, study all the possible options to see if it's possible to get around the otherwise ridiculously long waiting line.