I want to marry an overstayer how do I help him legalise himself?
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The advice you have been offered here is, to be frank, ill informed crap.
You are in the UK and your intended is a S10 overstayer under the 1971 Immigration Act (as amended). He has no legal status and so he cannot get permission to marry in the UK. Don't bother thinking he can just "go to France and get a tourist visa" because he can't marry on a tourist visa (not to mention all the other things that are wrong with this STUPID advice).
If you are serious then there is only one way forward: He must leave the country and return to his own country. He must approach the British Embassy and make an application to them. Any attempt to hide his past will court refusal. He needs to apply for a FIANCE visa (or a SPOUSE visa if you have married overseas). Only then does he have any chance of securing a lawful and married future in the UK.
You can approach as many solicitors as you like. They will take your money - and so will the Home Office. And the HO's answer will be no (without right of appeal as the application is made by a person w/o leave).
Why not pop along to Eaton House Enforcement Office (Hounslow area) or Becket House (London Bridge) on Saturday morning. If he brings his passport and asks for the CIO in the reporting centre then I'm sure we can start his repatration and hasten your happy nuptuals. Well - the first bit at least.
He MUST go back to his home country and become LEGAL first.
Sorry but he isn't an "overstayer." He is an illegal alien! That makes him a criminal because he is breaking the law.
i don't see anyway to change his illegal status to legal while in the Country.
talk to an Immigration lawyer is my best bet
See if he clears DHS and Interpol first. Otherwise, thanks for letting another criminal into the US like every other love-starved sucker.
If he "overstayed" his visa he is an illegal and therefore a criminal. He needs to re-apply for a visa and immigrate legally. Sorry, but even decent illegals are breaking the law and need to be held accountable. If you love him as you say, marry him and help him apply legally, but don't look for a shortcut or any way to circumvent the law.
YOU fell in love. Chances are HE DID NOT. DON'T DO IT.
Marry him, that will make him a legal citizen. Go to Vegas theres a 24 hour wedding chapel on just about every block. Its not very romantic but its legally binding.
If he can't and you do truly love him, return to his country with him
So honest and a good citizen so he did not lie to get employment and a mortgage really
I would not do that if I were you...I don't know HOW many times I have read on MyTend about women who got married to illegals and then the illegals invite their family in and the family never leaves, and to make matters worse the illegals family ends up trying to make the American citizen to be the villain by twisting incidents to make themselves look like the victim. There was one girl on here whose illegal sister-in-law said that the girl attacked her after the illegal HIT the girl. The illegal ended up getting a restraining order against her and was KICKED out of HER HOUSE and her husband didn't do anything about it either...he took his sister's side!
PLEASE, just be careful!
Don't do it. Nothing good can come from this.
You are breaking the law by even considering assisting an illegal alien.
You are opening yourself up to criminal prosecution under US Code.
If you love him, move back to his country, see how that idea sits with him. Then you'll see about "love".
If he "overstayed" his visa I cannot see immigration officials offering special treatment from his resume mortgage, pays his council tax and is a good citizen really this has no bearing on how to interrupt the laws. He will have to return refile the required paper work. This is why it's important to keep your affairs in order so when events like this happen you are prepared to address them rather than what it should be -is not going to be what it will be.
sorry but asking you to get married then telling you that he's up for deportation seems a bit suspect to me and I think he'll need to re-apply for citezenship or the right to stay!
Hope things work out though!
One thing stuck me in your question. "You could provide for you both".
Why should you have to do that; if you can't be on an equal footing then there is no hope for you as a couple.
Regardless of the rights and wrongs of his entitlement to be in this country, i am concerned about you.
Why let your feelings turn you into a possible doormat?
Love is about sharing; not one person giving and the other taking.
I am not trying to be mean, just being realistic after reading your question.
Based on what you've written, you're located in the United Kingdom. The UK has strict laws about their immigration, but much more relaxed there than here in America. He has a couple of options (depending on his nationality of course).
One is to leave the country (France or Ireland will be fine) then come back to the UK on a tourist visa and marry you there. Then he can apply for an emergency visa, which may or may not be approved.
The second is to remain as he is in the country and lie low until he reaches the mark where he can apply for citizenship right off the bat. I think it's 14 years in the UK. ANyway, he'll have to prove that he was there the entire time. One document for every six months is great, one for every year at a pinch. His mortgage paperwork will be wonderful for that purpose.
Nevertheless, you should get to an immigration lawyer ASAP so that he can help you guys sort out the legalities of this. In the meantime, check out the British immigration site at: http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/...
It's relatively easy to sort through, though it seems daunting at first. It also gives lots of informationon different visas he might be able to get for the UK. Your best bet might be a finacee visa, where he is allowed to stay there for something like a year (not allowed to work) soley for the purpose of the two of you to marry.
Bets of luck! Negotiating immigration is a tough job!
Seems to me he has no other legal option than to get off back to his legal home, wherever that is. Even if it's Uganda, North Korea or some Middle East country, to stay with him you'll have to go there with him ( provided you believe you're not being taken in by this dodgy-seeming guy). Best of luck if you do follow him. He won't need it, he's had plenty already and it looks like he makes his own.
Do the right thing and take him to his country and marry him their, and live your lives there. Love??? More like the legalize me illegal mind trick.
well why dont you go to his country and get married and live with him there and with a bit of luck thay will not him or you back in to the uk
If you live in the states, you need to contact an immigration lawyer as soon as possible. I think that's the only way for you to find out if he can stay here legally.
I do believe that if you marry him, he can legally stay here. But the process of getting him a green card will probably be very difficult becaus of his illegal status but you just need to contact a lawyer and find out what s/he can do for your boyfriend.
Good Luck.
Just Another One of Thousands and Thousands --- Living here "ILLEGALLY" Your,e Kidding Yourself and Living Under an Illusion .........and harbouring an Illegal Immigrant ?????
He's in the country illegally. He can't just change his status.
He'll need to go back to his homeland and apply for a fiance visa. Better still, marry him in his country then you can apply for a spouse visa to come here.
You need evidence that your relationship is genuine before anything else.
I can't understand how he got a mortgage when he only had a temporary stay in this country, if he lied regarding his status he may be charged for fraud by the mortgage lenders, he will then be in more trouble than he is at the moment and when his boss finds out that he is illegal he will be sacked anyway.
To get married he would have to provide proof that he was a resident in this country.
I understand that the standard of living will be better here than where he comes from but if you really love him why not go to the country where he is originally from and with your qualifications you can get a good job and get married there.
Better that than him being put to prison for fraud for 3 years then deported.
You say he is a good citizen, a good citizen would not lie and cheat his fellow man which you have said he has.
He borrowed money by lying now the lenders will be out of pocket,
He has stolen a job and deprived someone of a living
If you really loved him you would follow him to the ends of the earth, I don't see your problem does it really matter where you live.
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