Brownie28 wrote:
It's interesting. I'm not at all sure how the government vets people who move here then get married. A couple I know is married, it's valid, they live together, having a child this winter, etc. They've had to jump through all kinds of hoops to prove it's a legit marriage, going so far as bringing vacation pictures to one of their meetings to show what they had done together. Meanwhile I know someone else who's sister is in a total, 100% green card marriage. They don't live together, he's actually gay, they only got married so he could stay in the country. How does that slip through???
I don't know, I just find it strange.
Evidence - joint bank accounts, pictures, mail, utility bills, kids, length of relationship, etc.
There is an interview after you file. How you come across in that interview can mean a lot. The ICE officer makes a lot of subjective decisions. If you are from an area of the world that has a lot of fraud the requests are more, come from Canada or the UK and look and act like someone from the US and you can skate. If the people don't seem to know each other, don't seem like a match, or somehow gives the officer pause, it is going to be tougher. There isn't anything like in movies and TV where they ask how you have sex, what toothpaste, etc. It isn't really very hard usually to find the frauds. We turned away a lot of clients who were obvious frauds.
2 years later you can apply to have conditional status of your green card removed. Still being married and pumping out a couple kids makes that a breeze. You can be divorced, but the hoops multiply rapidly. I got one client through whose husband dumped her immediately upon moving here from China. But she could show a huge wedding, that she quit a good paying job in China, mail from him apologizing for screwing her over, etc. He drove her to his house from the airport, told her on the way there he had someone else, never spent a night with her. Real peach of a guy.
Your demeanor and how you come across is enormous.
I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.