My boyfriend has an expired visa. It’s been expired for 5 years now. His mom didn’t renew his visa and didn’t work his papers that’s why he is having a lot of trouble. We don’t want him deported. And we want that his status would be legal. Would marrying him give him a green card? Coz my grandparents said that marriage cannot change a visa’s status anymore.
HELP!
Originally posted 2008-12-21 21:02:38.
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Your grandparents are right.
Getting married does very little. (THank God. The govt’ has taken action to close tighter that little loophole that was used/abused/taken advantage of by so many.)
I suggest you find yourself a boyfriend who is here legally and isn’t a criminal. Or leave with him while he applies for LEGAL entry.
If you marry him you will have two problems instead of one.
Marrying him will do nothing to keep him in the USA. First, he has to deal with his visa situation which may prejudice him from entering the US for a while.
But, even if he ironed that out without problems getting married will only allow him to move to the head of the queue of people who want to enter the USA (another queue but much shorter). While that process was being debated he would have to be in his home country. In fact, to initiate the process he would have to do it at a US consulate in his home country.
If you accomplished all of that, you would have to be married for two years (I think it is still two, anyway) before Immigration would grant him permanent papers. Too many people have tried to circumvent the immigration laws by entering into phony marriages.