Marriage on Student Visa?

My girlfriend is here on a student Visa, before it expires next year with graduation I plan to propose and marry her, but was not sure if it is a lot easier just to get married while she is still on her student visa, than for her to return home for a short stay and bring her back in on fiancee visa? The only reason to wait to get married is to save money for a nicer wedding, but neither of us want to deal with all the paperwork that could become involved if we wait under the fiancee visa application.





I am under the correct or incorrect assumption that if we marry in Vegas or City Hall during her student visa stay, we will avoid a lot of the paper work?

Marriage on Student Visa?
I would talk to a immigration lawyer. I don't know if you can get married on her student visa. she can change it to get married and still Finnish school here i think but not sure. ask a lawyer to be sure.
Reply:If you marry here, in the United States, while her visa is still valid you'll avoid having her leave the United States to wait for an immigrant visa.





You will have just as much paperwork if you get married here now, go to her country and get married or send her home and bring her back on a fiancee visa. There's no difference.





You do NOT need a lawyer. It's just a matter of a few simple forms. Any high school graduate, even a graduate of a public high school, can fill these forms out.