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How long have you been married before filling for you GC

Me and my wife have been married for about a year and a half before i sent out the forms to uscis in July.
How long have you been married before you filled? and does it make a difference the way INS looks at your case if you filled day after your marriage or 2 years later?

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Most people file within 6 months, it does not matter much Id think, as long as you have had plenty of time to gather evidence of the relationship.

We just filed this week and have been married for 1 year. I have a TN valid until December, 2011 so we werent in a rush.

Hello everybody,

I got DV2010 with CN of EU25xxx. I am an F1. I am planning to get married next week with my girlfriend. We have been together for 6 years now, the last two years being in seperate countries, but it is not a fake marriage. She is coming all the way from Turkey to get married here and apply for GC together, otherwise she will have to wait 6-8 years to get greencard by my sponsorship.

My questions are:

1)Are there any legal issues that may jeopardize the process with such a "quick" marriage? She is coming here for 1 week, we are getting married and she is going back until she finishes her school and then she will join me here in US. Will they say "hey wait this looks fraud?"?

2)Do we have to wait some time after getting marriage certificate or should we send our documents right away? I think we are already late because I hear that many people already sent their files latest by August. My case number is high (EU25xxx), so I am not really expecting to be current until May-June even July.

 
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