In all seriousness, how can my friend get legal.?
Answer:
Marry him.
He'll still have to go back to where he belongs, but he should qualify for a visa and be back here in about a year.
Marry him, but you have to be at least 21 and able to support him.
In all seriousness, hire an immigration attorney; no one on this "forum" is remotely qualified to answer your questions.
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Marry him
Take fast Eddie's advice.
Right now being a minor I don't believe he's going to be able to do anything. When he becomes an adult, then he may get some company here in the U.S. to sponsor him, or if he's a good student he may get a college or someone to sponsor him with a student Visa.
It is hard to believe the part about him not knowing his legal status until he was 15...he has to have a citizen petition to have his status changed..fiance, wife, sister, brother, parents...
call ICE and report him
There's different ways:
1. He has to get marry.
2. Find someone that can hire him to come to work, after 5 years he can become a resident
3. If he isn't Mexican he can play the VISA Lotto and maybe win a Resident Card.
4. If his parents become residents and then citizens, they can claim him. But must be before he turns 18.
Samething happen to my cousin, he is now in Mexico.
Fault has nothing to do with immigration status. After an illegal act is made (illegal entry) to perpetrate a crime, "All that follows is mute". meaning he's persona non grata, of no legal merit.
Otherwise a bank robber could get away with the original crime for awhile, invest the money and then keep the interest after hes arrested.
Fast Eddy has it right.
Our immigration attorney has a guy she represents in the same situation. Except that he is 24 and the father of 2.
As the law stands today, these guys would have to go back to the country they are legal nationals of and apply to come here. They may or may not be given legal entry into the US.
What I do know, without question is that he has quite a challenge ahead of him.
If you marry him, or he marries a US citizen that DOES NOT Change the Rules - not at all. It gives him NO leverage in any way UNLESS he goes back to his home country and applies. Any immigration attorney is going to tell you that....it doesn't matter that it 'wasn't his fault'.
He needs to talk to a lawyer who specializes in immigration law. I don't know if there is a way to become legal, but a lawyer might.
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