Q: My BF wants to get married in France, (he is french) with my tourist European visa, is this possible or it is illegal?
I'm Colombian and my bf is French and we live together in NYC. He will have to go back to France soon and we would like to get married there. We have been trying to find information about how to doing so but we are not sure if it is possible to get married on the Schengen permit.
I'm a refugee here in the USA and can't travel back to my country to get a long-stay visa.
Any advice on this?
Thanks for your help
A:
I agree with you. This is a challenge! You must have a Refugee Travel Permit and that can take a lot of time. Otherwise, you cannot return to the U.S., without lawful permanent resident status, which you 'may not' have. How long have you been a refugee? Have you ever filed for adjustment of status?
In addition, your French boyfriend can be summarily excluded during pre-board inspection in Paris, or elsewhere, upon his return to the U.S. as your husband. It can be presumed that he has immigrant intent for the purposes of the visit, so he can even have his ESTA waiver rights indefinitely cancelled, be found to have committed visa fraud, and be indefinitely banned from living and visiting in the U.S.
This is a problematic situation unless you somehow decide that you will never return to the U.S., again. I strongly recommend an appointment with a competent and experienced immigration attorney before he leaves the U.S.
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