You could go on and on with varying hypothetical situations, and the more ties to the US that the immigrant has, the greater the reason to secure permanent residency. My issue, once again, is that the immigrant's threshold inquiry and #1 priority should not be a green card when going home is a viable option.

tito, immigration law lets a person whose marriage was entered into good faith and terminated file to remove conditions on his or her own. We are talking about cases without fraud, and you're insisting the person should leave the country because the USC is the only person who put in time or effort or sacrificed anything. Which ignores that moving across the world does upend one's life, and a person who did that and resettled might not want do that twice.

With all due respect, that the foreign spouse hasn't given up anything only makes sense if you view the foreign spouse as a piece of property the USC bought.

Fortunately immigration law doesn't agree. If they find that the marriage was entered into primarily for immigration benefit alone, then the person has no right to stay here. But marriages fail, for any number of reasons, and it isn't in anyone's interesting to make someone stay in a failed or abusive marriage to "earn" permanent residency.

Then why are you living in the USA is Canada is so great? I mean why not make the US citizen immigrate to your country and become a Canadian? I wonder. I really do, it makes no sense, you act as if the US citizen has no rights in this whole process and it is always the US citizens fault no matter what and that it is fine to get by with whatever an immigrant can whether it is legal or not and there are many on here that would not hesitate at doing something illegal based on the comments that are posted.

On the other hand, it's the USC who has the most to lose if things don't work out...seems to me almost universal that the great majority of costs and expenses are borne by the USC...the USC stands to be subject to support costs if things don't work out...the USC can't just toss everything and move home...the USC has got to support the ex if things don't work out. Bitter? Nah. Realistic.

One additional comment...I think I've covered just about everything... It is abhorrent to me that, after a short term marriage where the immigrant complains about how difficult the adjustment is, how much they miss home, how much they miss their family, their climate, their environment, their circumstances, whatever, the FIRST thing the proposed immigrant wants to do if and when things don't work out is secure permanent residency!! If they miss home so much, why is THAT the #1 priority?? It doesn't make sense.

I don't understand why you think this way. I am way richer than USC husband and I've paid all expenses for visa and other stuff. Why do you think all immigrants are very poor and can't even support ourselves? Biased?