Marriage and VWP

[wookey22]

I met a girl online about 6 months ago, we have never met but have decided we love each other and want to be together. Just recently she flew into uk under the visa-less travel programme but was rejected at heathrow immigration and sent back to the usa so we still haven't met. I now plan to travel to the US to marry her. I am planning to do it under the Visa Waiver Program. I plan to enter the USA on VWP as a tourist and am not gonna mention anything about her to immigration so as not to ring any alarm bells. When in US i will marry her. I will only be in the USA for 3 weeks.

1) Is this legal
2) Do you think this is a good idea
3) Bearing in mind i will be in USA on VWP do you forsee any problems with getting married within 3 weeks

Does anyone else have any good ideas on how to do this or can they see any problems with my plan.

[John]

Do you think this is a good idea

Well no, seeing as you ask, but that is nothing at all to do with the visa or immigration issues. Simply it is far too early in your "relationship" to be talking of marriage. Give yourself time to get used to each other. Why not just meet on this occasion and then if the two of you do get on as well as clearly you both hope then plan on from there.

Possibilities would include her getting a fiancée visa in the States, then flying to the UK, and getting married here, followed by conversion of that fiancée visa into a spouse visa in the UK. Or alternatively getting married in the States, after which she would apply for a spouse visa in the States, then fly to the UK.

Both of those of course assume that the two of you plan to live together in the UK.

Just my thoughts.