My girlfriend is in the country illegally and we want to get married. What should I do.?
Answer:
Ok Most of the answers above are wrong and Hate Speech.
Thins to do to be with her:.
1. You cannot marry her here and get her legal status here. She needs to go back to apply for visa in any scenario.
2. Lets assume, you married her here. Then you submit I-130 on her behalf. Whixch is denied and forwarded to Cuidad Juarez consulate. At this point she needs to go there. She will have interview there - denied and need I-601 waiver of inadmissability. Yuo need to write it (yu can do it beforehand - its difficult) and submit. Once approved, she comes here.
3. You can go with her to mexico, and get married there and submit papers. It will be similar.
4. Once she will be returning back, make sure she has some evidence that she is marrried to you, papers filed on her behalf, or else. This is in the case if she will be stopped by border patrol - she wont get deported, once they see that she is going back to do everything proper way. If caught and deproted - more headacke.
5. Father, brothers and so on likely will never be here legal. She wont be able to sponsor them, and overcom all inadmissabilities.
Go get married in HER country.
Report her and the whole family to INS, walk away and get a girlfriend who is not a criminal.
I thought, that if you get married, then you can stay in the country. I may be wrong. Otherwise, try to get her to be a citizen and get married. Do it the right way. Then you don't have to deal with the consequences.
Get married somewhere than no one cares if she is in the country illegally, like LA or New York. Well I mean, the pastor prob wouldnt care.......
I say don't. You may have your life be nothing but problem after problem until this immigration fiasco is figured out. You don't have a clue to problems this is going to drag into your life.
Take her back to her country and marry her there. Why does everyone have to disrespect our country and laws?
she should be deported along with yourself. you are committing a crime along with her and are going to get married fraudulently. call immigration and tell them your story and a time and place of where they can pick u up
I know you may get married in KY without any need for a ssn is best I can help
My best advice is to seek a consultation with a competent immigration attorney. Much is forgiven when married to a USC but this only applies if one was inspected and granted entry to the US. As your fiance wasn't inspected on entry and is now 18 years of age she is not eligible to adjust status through marriage to a USC. Once she turned 18 her illegal status came into play. There is a very reputable and well known lawyer (Laural Scott) that specializes in those from Mexico. Have a read of her website below. Your fiances only choice may very well be that she has to return to Mexico and a petition filed on her behalf. A K-1 fiance visa would be the go as there is a almost a 12month wait for interviews for an immigrant visa if you get married and file an I-130 petition as your spouse.
I do not think there is a way she can be legal in the country even if you marry her. An amnesty would be the only solution for her to become legal. You will just have to wait for the president to forgive illegal aliens who sneak in the country.
Her mother, father and 2 brothers are illegal too?
if so, good luck to you and tell them to go back to their country and to do things the RIGHT way.
Legal immigration is possible no matter what people may say.
Have her go through the same steps that my grandparents (and many, many other immigrants did) to become a legal citizen. And while she is at it, have her learn English like my grandparents (and many, many other immigrants) did. People that come here from countries that use entirely different alphabets learn (example: Chinese). She is at least as intelligent as them, isn't she?
As for her family - same thing. If they want to dance here, let them do the right steps.
And about your worry about legal action - if a citizen commits a crime, do you think they should get away with it? Then why should those that are here illegally.
Persons from her culture tend to get pregnant and married too young in my opinion. Stand back and take a good look at YOUR situation. Remember you are not only getting involved with her but her whole family as well! Why is she pushing marriage so soon any way. Think about what YOU truly want in your life?!
Go to Mexico, get married and live in Mexico. Only thing is, that would make you an illegal alien in Mexico, and they would throw you in jail, not give you tax money.
Dude , Dont you know a trap when you see one???
I think th apropriate steps would be
1.- send her back to mexico
2.- get a fiancee visa
3.-bring her back to the us legally and then get married
but i´m not a lawyer, u should probably ask one.
Good luck!!.
Do the right thing and report them to immigration. You are an American, right? The law is there for a reason.
Here's how they work; They marry you and have a kid. This gets them citizenship. Then they divorce you, sue you, and are free. It happens all the time. Don't be a fool by falling for this old scam.
they dont have to know where her family is,,u can still marry her and apply for her to become a citizen,, the only thing they will do to her is send her back to mexico for awhile you''ll have to pay a fine for lying pretty much and being here illegal ,, but she will be able to come back,,my friends husband was from mexico and he was illegal, they sent him back it wasnt for long though and he payed his fines and came back,,i dont remember how much the fine was though
first of all,don't listen to all of the ignorant and racist people who are giving you stupid answers. you marrying her will not get her legal. i know because my husband is mexican and we have been to juarez and done everything right and none of it helped. be careful going to mexico because she will not be coming back with you unless she re-enters illegal. keep her here and try to get her legal here. and be careful of the lawyer's you trust!!
MOVE TO HER NATION AND MARY HER THERE
Move to Mexico WITH HER...get married and stay there!
The ignorance of people never ceases to amaze me.
I'm sure everyone who answered this question with a statement rather than an answer are all native American decendants, otherwise in my opinion you have as little right to be here as this girl.
It was your Immigrant ancestors that earned the right to be here, not you. You were just lucky enough that you parents, when they made the mistake of creating you, did it here.
The amount of people born here that have a million opportunities in the palm of their hands just by possessing a social security # and they waste their lives looking for handouts and thinking they're so entitled to something more without ever working for it sickens me.
I'm Irish and I'd safely say that the Mexicans are the most descent hard working nationality that you have in this country. You're lucky to have them.
Why don't you deport these Bums who can't see how lucky they are? Or better yet, suggest a replacement that will do the job half as well as these so called Illegal Aliens.
All of you guys have completely avoided the question asked and instead expressed your own personal beliefs. Steve C your response althought the question was not directly answered it was one of the best respones I've have ever seen on these forums (kudos).
Quick answer to the question: See an immigration lawyer.
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