how DO people get by doing the A.O.S

[Chica Yeyé 41]

If we were like all sitting around a table in a coffee shop talking about this, I bet you there would be a lot of air quotes being used.

Because truly, "some people".... now pass the timbits!

[thetreble 19]

I'm illegalz. Deal wiv it.

[domegirl1978 1]

LMFAO, Treble, you are HILARIOUS.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

LMFAO, Treble, you are HILARIOUS.

sistre treble, FTW!!!

[thetreble 19]

Wooo! Wooo! Come aboard on the illegal train, babies!

[Spoom 8]

I wish nobody ill will. I just wish that the media would stop portraying it as if marriage is an instant immigration ticket to the US.

Also, I could probably have done the straight AOS route, but I'm too honest with USCBP, mostly as they scare the hell out of me. Even if it had passed, I'd have forever been worrying that they'd look back on my record and subsequently determine that fraud had occurred, which would have given them an opportunity to revoke my hypothetical green card.

Of course, we didn't key in that it would likely take more than a year due to something on the Canadian side... (I'm looking at you, Montreal.)

[thetreble 19]

Again, I understand what you are saying, but people keep on saying. "I"m too honest for that..."

So many of us who did it the other way are....DIShonest? haha I just don't like these overloaded, oversaturated words. People think so highly of themselves in terms of doing the "right" thing...that you make others, like me, feel like I've done the wrong thing!

######, I married my husband after I told the border guard I was just visiting...The only person, honestly, who knows what I was really thinking is me. I'm living in the US now, with my husband, and my two dogs, and a government job..and I'm not worried for a second someone is going to come after me and deport me.

Actually, come to think of it..I hope they do..so I can go back to Canada. haha

[Krikit 1,164]

I honestly don't understand people who get all bent out of shape about it. I find it interesting when people make judgement calls on others without knowing a thing about either the person or the circumstance.

[Hugglebuggles 60]

I honestly don't understand people who get all bent out of shape about it. I find it interesting when people make judgement calls on others without knowing a thing about either the person or the circumstance.

I totally agree. That's what I was trying to get at in my post and I'm sorry if any of it came off as offensive thetreble. I really do believe there are people who cross with no intention on staying and end up marrying and adjust status due to a number of circumstances. If this was illegal then there wouldn't be a provision in the law allowing it.

For me it was kinda like this... As soon as I read that you could technically cross without the intention of staying, marry and do AOS I couldn't do it. Because if I would have done it after knowing that information, I knew that I would have intended on staying when I crossed. Know what I mean? It was no longer going to be a random act of spontaneity. It would have been a lie and then it would have been illegal.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Again, I understand what you are saying, but people keep on saying. "I"m too honest for that..."

So many of us who did it the other way are....DIShonest? haha I just don't like these overloaded, oversaturated words. People think so highly of themselves in terms of doing the "right" thing...that you make others, like me, feel like I've done the wrong thing!

######, I married my husband after I told the border guard I was just visiting...The only person, honestly, who knows what I was really thinking is me. I'm living in the US now, with my husband, and my two dogs, and a government job..and I'm not worried for a second someone is going to come after me and deport me.

Actually, come to think of it..I hope they do..so I can go back to Canada. haha

Do your dogs have visas? or are they illegal too????

[thetreble 19]

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[thetreble 19]

I honestly don't understand people who get all bent out of shape about it. I find it interesting when people make judgement calls on others without knowing a thing about either the person or the circumstance.

I totally agree. That's what I was trying to get at in my post and I'm sorry if any of it came off as offensive thetreble. I really do believe there are people who cross with no intention on staying and end up marrying and adjust status due to a number of circumstances. If this was illegal then there wouldn't be a provision in the law allowing it.

For me it was kinda like this... As soon as I read that you could technically cross without the intention of staying, marry and do AOS I couldn't do it. Because if I would have done it after knowing that information, I knew that I would have intended on staying when I crossed. Know what I mean? It was no longer going to be a random act of spontaneity. It would have been a lie and then it would have been illegal.

I understand, Huggle..and there are no hard feelings. It's just that people under estimate the naivete of people too, as they think they are just so gosh darn smart that no one could POSSIBLY mess up and not know their options. I spent a lot of time that year researching options, but before finding VJ, many months after I had come to the US, I found out I really didn't know that much at all in terms of the rules.

It's very hard to tell what someone's intentions are..and to be honest with you...especially from the Canadian side..what are we looking for? A better life? certainly not. So if your intention is to marry, even if illegal, it's not like its out of desperation or to get a better opportunity or even live of the US Tax payer. If I could have done it differently, I would have. I lost a year of my life doing nothing and feeling pathetic. I won't get that back. But I certainly won't apologize for it either.

[JillA 2]

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Cute baby

[Marilyn. 340]

David called a lawyer and the lawyer said the best way for me to move to the US was for me to come down and say I was going to visit and then get married and apply for AOS.... yes a small part of me knew that couldn't be right but I figured a lawyer would know what he was talking about so I tried and they caught me.. mostly because I packed too much stuff in my car and also because I am not a very good liar...

I was banned for a year

[thetreble 19]

David called a lawyer and the lawyer said the best way for me to move to the US was for me to come down and say I was going to visit and then get married and apply for AOS.... yes a small part of me knew that couldn't be right but I figured a lawyer would know what he was talking about so I tried and they caught me.. mostly because I packed too much stuff in my car and also because I am not a very good liar...

I was banned for a year

This is sort of what I mean. Every one's situation is different...Marilyn was told wrongful info..it could happen to any one.