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Originally Posted by gomoho
My compassion goes to my daughter and her Jamaican husband that have spent thousands of dollars to get him here legally and have been working on this for well over a year. If they could have somehow brought him in illegally they would be living happily ever after cause once you are here and married it is much easier. Have taught her to play by the rules and she is learning how it can bite you in the arse. So no I don't have much compassion for the line jumpers.
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As I said, I had the same issue with my Filipina wife. It took a tremendous amount of money, time and effort to get her here.
One of the problems is the marriage for conveniences that go on in some of these third world countries. An American goes to a foreign country and gets paid to marry one of their citizen so that he or she can bring their "spouse" here. Once here, they get divorced. It used to happen a lot and I can certainly understand the government having to crack down on it.
My wife now has her "permanent" (meaning ten year) resident status. Her first "conditional" permanent resident status had to be renewed after two years at the cost of about $600. Her current "permanent" status has to be renewed after ten years at another absurd amount of money if she doesn't get her citizenship. We have been married almost four years now.
Certainly, if this were some kind of sham marriage it would have ended by now. Why not just give her citizenship and get another case off of Immigration's workload and let them focus on real problems instead of harassing the people doing the legal way?
The whole system, like many of the things that government does is a mess.