A Green Card Through Marriage - Pros And Cons
Getting a green card through marriage is much like playing with a double-edged sword. Over the past couple of decades, the less than moral or legal have been scheming and getting a green card through marriage. Not because they fall in love with someone here and eventually make the legitimate status of United States resident, but because they manipulate the system and the original resident, or because they spend big bucks to become a legitimate resident.
The stories are many. I remember one young person had met a really nice guy from Mexico. He was working two jobs—cleaning offices at night and moving furniture during the day—and he was humble, quiet, respectful … and, yes, good looking. He was working her, working on getting a green card through marriage, so he did not disclose all of the details of his current or past situations. She had a bleeding heart, one which she wore on her sleeve, and so she imagined that his usual silence implied his struggles with swimming through swamps and crawling under barbed wire, and getting shot at … all on his treacherous journey to sneak into a country where war was not waiting in the sidelines to ambush him when he walked to the creek for a pail of water.
But he was much more clever than she gave him credit for, much more ingenious. He worked those two jobs in the States by having stolen the social security number of a dead man in the Midwest. He would get parking tickets he would flee from. And he had a girlfriend and ready-made Mexican family on the side. He was successful in getting this girl to marry him but he was not so successful in getting a green card through marriage … for once the extended family members on his side — of which there were many — began haranguing and harassing and threatening, she got wise and got the hell out.
This is only one story of many in the green card debacle. And this is also a miserable example of getting a green card through marriage. For there are just as many more tales (and procedures) that involve getting a green through marriage in the legitimate fashion, whereby the visiting immigrant or the alien international student on a visa comes to the country to better him- or herself and falls in love, marries, and is made a legal citizen of the U.S.
This is what the country is made of, in part, along with the immigration of every single one of us or our family members or ancestors … who fought or struggled or insisted and became a U.S. citizen by equally ambitious intentions and acts — on the up-and-up, without lying to or hurting anyone else in the process.
Written by Tuppy on November 22nd, 2006 with
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#2. December 7th, 2006, at 10:47 AM.
A sad-sad story…
Interesting, what he’s being doing in mexico.
When the US State Department closes big countries for the Green Card Lottery, here’s what happens.
I see, marriage is turning to deal…