I'm a white American married to an illegal hispnic how long does it take to get legal???!!!?
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I hate to tell you but it can take a long time. I am really surprised though that you are still waiting on an interview after two years. Most people I know have waited for about a year for an interview unless it took longer for you to complete paperwork and get it back to them. Warren Jensen is the head of the consulate at Juarez where your husband will be interviewing. Since he is and as long as he qualifies he will be required to submit the I-601 and a hardship letter from you. I amsure you already know this since you have lawyers. Once the I-601 is entered into DHS current wait time is anywhere from 6-12 months for a approval or denial. Mr Jensen has stated in many live chats (www.visacentral.net) that they are working on clearing the backlog and implementing a new system that will cut wait time down to a matter of 2-3 months possibly less. They plan to have this new system implemented by the end of this year so hopefully by the time you get your interview you will only have to wait a few more months. Of course if reform passes as they expect it to by mid summer or so then he will be able to adjust status with a 2,000 fine and stay in the country. Good luck to you hon, hopefully you won't have to wait much longer but remember to cherish the time you have together now. I have many friends who have been separated from their spouses for a year or more already.
From my understanding......a long time. When I first got involved with this issue there were people from the last amnesty who still hadn't got their citizenship yet. Obviously they are seriously lacking in having enough people to do a thourgh job with all the different visas and applications for citizenship that they have. There are people waiting 15 years to come here legally.
If you just applied two years ago and your husband came into the US illegally, he will not get his residency. Sure, you can go to a lawyer and he will charge you and fill out the paperwork and the US government will take your money and process the papers, but when you get to the interview stage, he will just get a letter to show up to court for deportation.
If he came legally or applied for something before May 2001, then it should not take more than two years to get some sort of progress. I suspect your lawyer isn 't telling you everything, either that or your application is progressing fine, you just don't like to wait (which would be understandable considering how much you paid).
I am a little curious why you agreed to pay five grand. That's a lot. Did you think you were getting "the best" so you were willing to pay for it? FYI: marriage applications are pretty standard, you don't need a lot of legal expertise to do them coirrectly. I bet your expensive attorney had his (or her) assistant do it.
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Maam, please take a deep breath. You are waiting for the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez to give you an appointment to process the waiver for illegal presence. They do thousands of cases like yours and they are understaffed. So they are backed up. Its gonna take as long as it takes, nobody can give you an exact answer, not even the consulate. So cool your jets. If you are patient, they might pass a law this year so your husband does not have to go to Mexico to see if they MIGHT let him back in with a waiver. That waiver is not automatic, and if they don't approve it, he is SOL in Mexico with no way to get back in legally.
If your lawyer is doing a waiver application then it's worth five thousand, btw.
Sorry but, first of all, kiss him goodbye and send him back to him home country to start the paperwork. He can't start it here because he's ILLEGAL.
Don't you know that ILLEGAL is wrong? I know you don't want to hear this but that's the law.
I agree with above, if you want him to be legal start down the right road to him going back home. Legal residency starts with the approval of the United States goverment after he passes all the required tests. Shame on him or you for that matter for putting yourselfs in this position. Follow the laws and you won't have such a hard time.
Save some money, time, and frustration. Get a divorce or move to his homeland. If he is illegal, there is no process, you were gipped of $5000, and he will just be deported.
Well, that's a complicated matter here. The problem is that he broke the law of entering to the U.S. and that complicate the process. But he has a point to his favor which is that he never was deported. The U.S. immigration laws said, that your spouse should live with you for a minimum of 4 years and to prove that he married for love and not for the papers. That means that you have to submit the tax information every year to them and to prove that you live together. At the meantime he can't go out of the country because they can't let him in. You don't have to pay that huge amount of money. Stop spending money like that, it is better that yourself do all the process. One of the solution were that he comeback to his country and you to claim him as a boyfriend because you were going to get married and the U.S. embassy or consulate to give him the special visa. That was a better solution, but now the authorities have knowledge of his presence here and he's stuck in the bureaucratic process. I advice you to take it easy and wait, you don't have another option. Check with the INS office regularly to see what's new. Good luck.
The only way an illegal can become legal is through an amnesty. There is no amnesty coming in the near future ( and never I hope).
You lawyer may have told you he could when in fact an illegal alien cannot be legal even if he is married to a citizen.
From I have heard, there are notaries who say they are lawyers just to take money from people desperate to fix their status.
$5 000 is a lot of money. Lawyers wanted to charge me $2 500 at the most.
No amnesty.
you are long past due, when i fixed my husbands papers it only took 1 year from the date we put in our application.
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