Im 22 and my gf is 26 who ive been with for a year, she came here at the end of 2003 on vacation and ended up staying and getting a H1-B workers visa for 2 years, which expires dec 1, 2006. Ive known her scince she came here because she works where I work. She was under the impression that you just file to renew the visa before it expires. Well we went to see her immigration attorney yesterday and she wrote everything down and it turns out you have to pay almost 6 thousand dollars just to get it renewed, which totally changed the whole situation because she doesnt have the money to pay for that. Her other option is getting married, which we had talked about before. What is the process for that? It would have to be before Dec 1st I would assume? I still live at home and she lives with her aunt 5 minutes away from me. Im going to be starting school for automotive technology in Feb of 07, and she has already graduated 4 year college for physical therapy from her county, and needs to take a couple classess here to be able to get her physical therapy liscense. What is the best way to go about this?

