Timeline for Overstay in US and married to a US citizen
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| Feb 21, 2021 at 11:30 | comment | added | ouflak♦ | @Alex, No need to delete your account. Please consider cleaining up the post. I can delete it for you until you make your updates. This will return to you any lost rep. And once your changes are made, the post will automatically go back into our ReOpen queue. | |
| Feb 21, 2021 at 11:23 | comment | added | ouflak♦ | Also, posting advice based on the speculative future political situation is always asking for bitter disappointment (and possibly trouble). We tend to discourage that here as it is akin to making predictions with a crystal ball. If you know for a fact that there are going to be, or have already been, changes to immigration law or executive policy, it shouldn't be a problem to include a link. | |
| Feb 21, 2021 at 11:21 | comment | added | ouflak♦ | "Because you are legally married to a U.S. citizen, the government is obliged to issue you permanent residence," NO THEY ARE NOT. This is a dangerous misunderstaning of American immigration law and could lead potential immigrants to making life alteringly bad decisions (such as what phoog suggested). | |
| Feb 20, 2021 at 2:56 | comment | added | phoog | I didn't downvote, but there are several factual errors here. There are many reasons why the government can deny permanent residence to the legitimate spouse of a US citizen. Someone who has enough unlawful presence triggers a ban when they leave the US, but spouses can apply for adjustment of status even if they're unlawfully present, so leaving the US is a bad idea because it can set the process back by 3 or 10 years. Also, F-1 and ESTA are not compatible. If he entered using ESTA, he was not in F-1 status, and vice versa. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 20:19 | comment | added | Alex | Why the downvote? Should I just delete my account and go to another site? | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 16:17 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 19, 2021 at 16:13 | history | answered | Alex | CC BY-SA 4.0 |