Can a US citizen, and a non US citizen (lesbian couple) get married?
Well, gay marriage is not legal in the state of California yet. You’ll want to go somewhere like Massachusetts, where it is legal and there are no residency requirements to get married. Most locales recognize marriages performed outside of their jurisdiction in the US as a matter of custom. Unless a law has been passed preventing recognition of marriages performed elsewhere, your marriage would be recognized in states where there is no legal gay marriage at this time. As far as how you’re going to get here, well, there are a couple of ways you can do that. It’s easier to get a student visa than it is to get a work visa in the US. That’s how I first came here – I was accepted into UC Davis as a transfer student from the University of Oslo. You could travel here to study and then get the appropriate work permits later. You could marry legally in any state without residency requirements regardless of your immigration status. The UK – indeed, the entire EU and many non-EU countries – are p
