Hi!

My name is Cari, and my fiance Mattias just came to the U.S. to visit me less than a week ago. He came on a temporary passport and the visa waver program and we planned on him staying for a few weeks (he is supposed to leave on the 28th according to his passport and visa) but on the fifteenth we decided to get married. We did that and now I'm sending in for the certified copies of our marriage certificate and Mattias and were talking when we decided that we wanted him to stay in the U.S.

Mattias is origionally from Sweden and only came on a temporary passport because his full passport didn't arrive on time. His temporary passport expires shortly after the VWP waiver expires and we found out yesterday that we may have lost both the temporary visa and the waiver stapled into it. We need to go to the Swedish consulate to get a new one, but even after we have that we arn't sure how to proceed on getting Mattias to stay permanatly and legally.

Any help would be greatly apreciated, I just want my husband here in my arms... I know I shouldn't get my hopes up, but does anybody know any way that he can legally stay? Where do we start? Help!


~~Cari