Help! I'm about to get married!

Why can't you tell your mom. Don't they kow him or don't they approve of him? I wouldnt get married unless I was SURE I wanted to marry that particular person, but If I was sure, I wouldn't let my parents stop me. Are you from the Philippines? Or Califoria? Or somewhere else? Just trying to get an idea of your situration.

I would not bet the farm on your fiancee being approved for the H1B visa.

It's already 1 week before the deadline for it. If he haven't signed yet, it would be stretching it a bit that they can get everything in before the deadline (April 1). Another thing, even if the petition will be sent on time there is no guarantee that 1) *his file will be picked by the computer and 2) if picked by the computer - that his petition will be approved as they are skimming H1Bs for non-specialist nurses. They do not regularly approve H1Bs for nurses. In fact, they deny it if this would be a non-specialist.


*The H1B has become a lottery since last year. There are only 65,000 visas available per year for H1Bs and last year, there were at least twice as much who applied for it. So what they did was to let the computer pick files randomly. It is expected that more will file for the H1B this time around, maybe even more than from last year's as those not picked will surely re-apply for this year and of course there will be entirely new applicants applying as well.

If you want to learn more about what I'm talking about regarding H1Bs for nurses and what happened last year please read a previous post I made about the subject. Please read the links and the memos from USCIS regarding H1B for nurses. You will learn that it is not meant for nurses and two, a file being picked by a computer randomly has made it even harder even if someone is truly qualified for it.


*See: http://allnurses.com/forums/f75/more...es-253715.html

Honey, you have to do what makes you happy. Don't live you life according to what your BF wants, or for your parents sake. If you want to follow your BF, do it and don't look back. Good luck!

You should have said that from the start. We cannot possibly give give good advice for lacking info. but even then being picked is hard like I mentioned.