Marriage F1 with foreign loan

[Nektaria]

Hello,

We are trying to figure out the best way to do this. My fiance is here on an F1 visa and full scholarship. One of the conditions he had to sign was that he would not marry while he was here.

So, if we marry and apply for change of status he loses his scholarship, salary & tuition. But the larger problem is that he has a loan from his home country which is around $100,000 payments for this loan are currently deducted from his salary.

Without his salary he (obviously) can't make the loan payments, which are roughly $1000/month for the next 6 years. While he would be eligible for financial aid, scholarships, student loans, work ect He is afraid of being deported because of this loan.

Any Ideas?

[Marco 72]

I don't think it should be a problem for him to get married on an F1 visa, but in order to make sure it might be a good idea for you to ask on the US marriage based visa forum.

[Nektaria]

Thank you for your response...I didn't realize there was a better forum for posting my question. I will do so.

He is mostly worried that if he falls into default on his foreign loan that "international police" will come to arrest him.

note: He isn't trying to skip out of the loan...but $1000/mo is a hefty sum for a struggling student. And rearranging the terms is out of the question with their banking system.

[sakura]

Thank you for your response...I didn't realize there was a better forum for posting my question. I will do so.

He is mostly worried that if he falls into default on his foreign loan that "international police" will come to arrest him.

note: He isn't trying to skip out of the loan...but $1000/mo is a hefty sum for a struggling student. And rearranging the terms is out of the question with their banking system.

Well...if he is not supposed to get married...then don't get married? He has a hefty loan to pay back and a pretty decent scholarship, from the sound of it. (btw, which country is he from?). At first I found it hard to understand why they'd have a contract saying he cannot marry, but I think they are more concerned about him (or any other scholarship student of theirs) running off to another country (i.e. switching immigration status to a PR or potential PR) instead of bringing their skills back home. I can understand that. Is he from China? Such developing countries don't want their skilled persons not to return!

So - unfortunately, you shouldn't do anything to jeopardise his scholarship, and if that means no marrying....then you'll have to wait until he finishes. Count him lucky, really - studying abroad is very financially costly and he shouldn't do anything to be in the bad books of his sponsor/s. Plus he did sign the contract - it might sound unfair, but sponsors do sometimes have a "must return/not change status" clause.

Now, I don't think he'd be deported for his loans, but if he cannot afford his fees, then he might be chucked out of his course and his visa cancelled (?). The bank can of course always chase him up if they want to - he will always have to repay them if that is their demand.