Is Immigration Too Easy??

[DanielParul 50]

[almaty 19]

lol..this thread started out with promise

[Nagishkaw 510]

It's going no where.

[athena_ny 1]

Thank you LaL

Unfortunately for people like ZQT, adjusting the way my husband did, and the way thousands of others do every year, is completely legal and WRITTEN INTO the INA. It's not a loophole, not something they just "left out". It's written into the laws; the I-485 application instructions make it very clear that it's legal.

I have nothing to hide. I'm not ashamed that my husband overstayed a visa because his PR father died while working and now has to deal with a wrongful death lawsuit (his employer was not following Florida state statutes that would have prevented his death). I'm not ashamed that we used the cheapest, best option available to us. Your ignorance is astounding, along with your lack of reading comprehension, zqt. My process has no effect on your's, and when you think about it, forcing everyone who is already in the country to go back to their countries will only bog down the process at the consulate level even more than it already is. That affects you and the time you'd spend away from your spouse FAR more than my husband adjusting inside the country did.

[Ban Hammer 13,336]

lol..this thread started out with promise

throws popcorn at bro dean.

[Gaby&Talbert 1]

Another is to marry in the USA with the correct visa. Any non US citizen can marry there on a toursit visa.

And? I met my husband after he entered the country, I wasn't going to send him back to Peru when it was completely legal to do it as we did it ... he had an overstay as he's embroiled in a wrongful death lawsuit. I wasn't going to make it harder on us than we had to. Did I mention it's legal? Legal legal legal. Just because people didn't choose the same path as you doesn't make it the "incorrect" visa. He didn't come here planning to get married, and turned down all the Puerto Ricans offering to marry him for papers.

Most of you people need to get over the "I didn't have that option available so it's not FAIIIIIR WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" entitlement complex.

I agree completely with this, why not stay together if you can. Why would anyone want to change the law so everyone has to be apart during the immigration process? I would think that if everyone had a choice they would rather have their SO here with them during the process?

Again I say if we want to change the law then let's make it better! Issue a temp visitor visa while you are petitioning your SO and allow them to have more time before LPR is issued to know if the relationship is real? What would be the harm in allowing the foreign spouse or fiance visit the US during the petitioning process and if denied they must return home. This could be ensured by a tracking device.

[Gaby&Talbert 1]

Sure people like you love it, so you can skirt the system and people like you want liberal open borders so that it fits your agenda, only reason. Only way it is legal to marry someone on tourist visa is if they were not intending to get married prior to this and plan it, which makes us all wonder. And anyone overstaying a visa is breaking the law and an out right criminal and should be arrested and deported by ICE promptly, then we would not see all the problems we currently have along our borders, what is it that you people do not get, it is the law, and you do not want laws then move and get out of the USA and go live in some other place that has no laws and is liberal like you want, but yet people like you never do, they just want to stay right here in the USA and break any law or rule to fit their agenda, and so what if it is wrong as long as you can get by with it and do it, it makes it all ok in your mind, way to rationalize irrational law breaking behavior. And the sooner the USA closes the tourist visa loophole for marriage and raises the fee to do it that way to $10000 or more the better. And it is coming get ready, for it is people like you that advocate abusing it that is the reason the mass majority of America is sick and tired of immigration laws not being enforced and they are ready to change it now.

Another is to marry in the USA with the correct visa. Any non US citizen can marry there on a toursit visa.

And? I met my husband after he entered the country, I wasn't going to send him back to Peru when it was completely legal to do it as we did it ... he had an overstay as he's embroiled in a wrongful death lawsuit. I wasn't going to make it harder on us than we had to. Did I mention it's legal? Legal legal legal. Just because people didn't choose the same path as you doesn't make it the "incorrect" visa. He didn't come here planning to get married, and turned down all the Puerto Ricans offering to marry him for papers.

Most of you people need to get over the "I didn't have that option available so it's not FAIIIIIR WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" entitlement complex.

People here that have overstayed their visa didn't marry a USC THIS IS NOT THE PROBLEM WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS! The law allows to adjust from a tourist visa so why complain about this? There are alot of much more serious flaws in INA laws than this and this isn't that bad really. If someone wants to get on a soapbox over something I would hope it would be for something bigger than a few people adjusting while on a tourist visa compared to other problems that keep the majority of us apart for long periods of time.

[LaL 418]

It's going no where.

And it never will, unless some open their minds and read vs. posting broad inaccuracies. All why I responded - for those who truely do not know about this piece of the process and while posting in off topic is generally innocuous, these posts are also seen in the AOS forum - bullying those members who find themselves in this situation.

[JeroenAndMichelle 28]

They should:

1. Eliminate VWP.

2. Disallow AOS for individuals here on visitor visas.

3. Strengthen income/asset requirements for the Affidavit of Support.

4. Disallow divorced foreigners with conditional LPR status to remove conditions unless they were the victim of physical/mental abuse.

5. Allocate a sh1tload of new funds for ICE. Use it.

#1 Doesn't make any sense, really. Most of the people who fake their marriages are coming from non-VWP countries. The people who can come in with a VWP are nine out of ten times from countries with similar or even better systems (healthcare, schools, wellfare, soc security, etc etc) than the US has.

#2 This is something I could live with as I think this might make it harder indeed for people to just come and stay.

#3 I disagree on this one.. first of all, I think everyone should be able to be together with their loved ones, not only the richer ones. Second of all, and this is maybe an even better reason why I disagree on this one: people who come for fake marriages (like the article of the OP states, about obese people and such), they will only be happy to get a rich person for their marriage.

#4 No comment on this one

#5 Like with all of those thingies, I hope they wont use it for the wrong things (like people usually tend to do)

And other than the above things; I have seen some weird reactions in this thread from people which makes me wonder if they actually were once or are still working on their visa's for either themselves or their loved ones... Don't forget you also want(ed) to get your visas one day, it is hard enough as it is already imho.

[zqt3344 21]

Hold that thought, will be right back with something for you. Do not go away, hang tight.

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

It's going no where.

And it never will, unless some open their minds and read vs. posting broad inaccuracies.

Some people will never open their minds. They are stuck in their selfish themselves, plotting all these plots, spitting on everyone else around them for no reason and talking about their "truth" about laws that they have no clue about cuz they either refuse to read them or they simply don´t or can´t understand them. And it has been proven many times that some of these people are not even worth arguing with anymore here, cuz a discussion with an ignorrant leads nowhere

[Ban Hammer 13,336]

Hold that thought, will be right back with something for you. Do not go away, hang tight.

[eric&gen 0]

Immigration is very easy if your coming from Mexico looool.

[Marilyn. 340]

Hold that thought, will be right back with something for you. Do not go away, hang tight.

hmm, I think she is concocting some kind of proof to prover her point

[Dr. Obvious 49]

In the UK, you have to have a fiance visa to marry. Can't be done on a tourist visa.

The UK fiance visa is very recent.... I didn't need one when we got married 4 1/2 years ago.

Do you have any idea why they started them?