Going from Green Card to US Citizen - help

[nicadj 0]

I currently reside in Colombia with my Colombian wife who has a green card. We make it to the States at least once a year to validate the green card, but somebody just mentioned that if we get married in the States (we married in Colombia 4 years ago) that it is a few simple steps and she and her 15 year old daughter would become US Citizens. Anybody have any specific knowledge of that process?

[Inky 1,110]

Your already married - you cant get married again in the USA unless its just a ceremony.

She wont be getting citizenship because she has no US residency. You are abusing the green card, it is for living in the USA not outside the country.

http://www.uscis.gov/files/article/attachments.pdf

http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/Office%20of%20Citizenship/Citizenship%20Resource%20Center%20Site/Publications/PDFs/G-1151.pdf

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=480ccac09aa5d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD&vgnextchannel=db029c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD

[inloveVEN 46]

you cant re-married.

your Colombian wedding is as valid as an US one. so you dont need it

and you have the same chance and opportunities as if you were married in US

[ceadsearc 515]

Untrue. You are already married. It appears she is spending too much time outside the US to qualify for citizenship anyway.

Green cards aren't meant to be validated while permanently living abroad, so if you continue doing this then chances are she is going to lose her green card altogether soon enough because that is abusing the system. I would be far more concerned about that then about citizenship.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

The story you are being told is a lie anyway. Where you get married has nothing to do with becoming a US Citizen.

[NickD 202]

Information is to loose in your case to make any comments. But only have one comment to make about Colombia. USA recognizes a marriage conducted in Colombia, but Colombia does not recognize a marriage in the USA. Want about 4,000 US bucks to have a judge look over it to make sure it complies with Colombian laws, the crooks. With further robbing done by their notaries.

Screw Colombia. So when we travel down there, don't travel with my wife, travel with my girlfriend. We know of several couples that never got a divorce and remarried down there, they just move and live together. If born there, still need a Colombian passport to enter, we were robbed just to get that in my wife's maiden name.

[warlord 72]

I currently reside in Colombia with my Colombian wife who has a green card. We make it to the States at least once a year to validate the green card, but somebody just mentioned that if we get married in the States (we married in Colombia 4 years ago) that it is a few simple steps and she and her 15 year old daughter would become US Citizens. Anybody have any specific knowledge of that process?

What does once a year do? It does nothing as others have mentioned. There is a very good chance that her GC will be revoked upon one of your US visits down the road. Just a matter of time for abandonment of the GC unless she has a re-entry permit. Let alone even qualifying for citizenship which continuous residency hasn't been met at all in this case.

You will have to move to the US, reside and maintain US residency, and then in a few years she might qualify if they don't abandon the GC before then...