Please help! Should i tell the embassy the truth?

George L

Well, what sort of visa application do you have pending? You can continue to lie about your marrital status, but you are running a considerable risk, because before you get a visa, you have to prove you are legally married. If you get caught, you'll be permanently barred from getting another visa for misrepresentation and fraud. So, do you want to assume that risk, or get married? Is the father of your child an American citizen or a green card holder? Or is he working in the US on a work visa? The answer to that question is very important to you. If the father of your child is a US citizen and filed an immigrant visa petition for you, you'd just be turned down. If he's a green card holder and filed a petition for you and the child, then you and your child will be turned down, unless he filed a separate petition for her. If he's on a work visa, you'll be turned down, but the child could still go. However, if he's on a work visa, he could marry you at any time before the interview and you'd still qualify. If you marry now, he'd have to file a new petition, but that would be the worst thing that would happen. If you go on with the charade, the worst thing that might happen is you'll never go.

Edit: By the way, Docar is right. If you do get the visa and immigration discovers the truth, that you got an immigrant visa fraudulently, they can revoke your green card and deport you.

helo pilot cfi

b4 any visa is granted they will check and re check u will be found out at the last processing step by them you will have paid filing fees and wasted you time only to advise you for a 10 yrs ban and denial of visa deal up front sleep soundly thereafter

Leslie B

deal now.....deal later....

Acyla

It's may affect the visa application, yourself and until the child becomes an adult because in some countries if a child is born illegitimate the mother has automatic full parental custody (especially if the other parent isn't mentioned). If the child's parents are married then both parents need to sign consent or the father could be given primary consent. If a father is listed on the child's birth certificate (this is starting to be true for any international documentation, passports, visas (migration especially will request you to list the parents and the connection)).

For the UK we needed to show our marriage certificate for our children's passports (as well as their birth certs and how we became British etc).

I would recommend changing it but you have a lot to answer for if the child's birth certificate lists where the parents were married and the date as they do in some countries.

Docar

If it's a immigration visa and they find out later: Deportation and banned from that country. Find out now: no visa banned from country. You decide!

cookiemonster

yes it will effect the visa. u have to bring the marriage license that u obviously dont have so they will know about. u better call them and tell tehm about ur misatkes or u will risk to get no visa at all!

cliff

I think it's going to be worse if they find out. They consider you lying and that's the only thing they know: "you're a liar". Usually they don't care about other things once they find out that you lie in (even) minor things

Joan Sandverysmart

Whether you tell them the truth or not, they
will ask for supporting documents to grant
you the visa, a marriage certificate is one
of them, and birth certificate, along with
other identifications of yourself, you might
want to consult an immigration attorney, and
quick, no matter how much money it cost.
I don't know where you live, but that's the
only safe way out,cancel the application
and then do it through an attorney, after
awhile, you will have a chance then.

Buckeye Bill

What country we talking about.. Just purchase an annulment decreed. Probably any street vendor in most countries can help you.

Brain Man

try to play on mistake.,sort of "oh yeah,sorry officer my mistake,...you know I thought unmarried,..obviously I don't have any legal document about that..
You go for it only if they find mistake otherwise don't...,because not even you realize what you wrote..
good luck

CyberSom

I would go ahead and leave things as they are. When you arrive here, you could file for devorce. It will complicate things if you are coming to the US on the basis of marriage. I hate to say this, but do not tell the truth if it is not on the paper and it may hurt you. The embassy relies on the papers and if your words come against any of your documentations you will be flagged for false documentation or misrepresentation and guess the following: DENIAL. Stick on what is on the papers - follow suite with the old mistake and deal with them when it is safe to do so.

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