GC through marriage, naturalized, and remarriage (split)

[Pete_Bd 0]

Actually I am in a similar situation as well. I got my green card through marriage than got good faith marriage waiver and than Naturalization (5 year rule). I want to sponsor my future spouse for CR1 to get them here. The issue is that we graduated from same degree in the same area of study from the same college in the same year in my home country some years ago. We did not have a relationship or anything. But now my parents are interested that we get married as arranged marriage. Since we graduated from same degree in the same area of study from the same college in the same year in my home country and I got my Citizenship through marriage to a USC that ended in divorce. Do you think embassy and/or USCIS will give us hard time? What are the chances for my spouse to get CR1? Do you think I can get into trouble and get myself deported in all this? Is a suspicion enough to get me deported? I want to ensure I don't get into any trouble unnecessarily. The USCIS should have that info because we both filled out DS 160 form at different points in our lives to apply for US visa. My future spouse's visa was denied though.

Sorry to pile on your question.

Please help.

Thanks

[Dario2012 51]

Actually I am in a similar situation as well. I got my green card through marriage than got good faith marriage waiver and than Naturalization (5 year rule). I want to sponsor my future spouse for CR1 to get them here. The issue is that we graduated from same degree in the same area of study from the same college in the same year in my home country some years ago. We did not have a relationship or anything. But now my parents are interested that we get married as arranged marriage. Since we graduated from same degree in the same area of study from the same college in the same year in my home country and I got my Citizenship through marriage to a USC that ended in divorce. Do you think embassy and/or USCIS will give us hard time? What are the chances for my spouse to get CR1? Do you think I can get into trouble and get myself deported in all this? Is a suspicion enough to get me deported? I want to ensure I don't get into any trouble unnecessarily. The USCIS should have that info because we both filled out DS 160 form at different points in our lives to apply for US visa. My future spouse's visa was denied though.

Sorry to pile on your question.

Please help.

Thanks

Serendipity is a beautiful thing.

You won't lose your green card (i.e. "be deported") unless it can be proven you intentionally married a USC to gain permanent residency.

Just as you are stating above, USCIS/embassy would be curious, at least, if you knew each other before, etc.. No one can know if you'll be given a hard time to get CR1. Most applications specifically ask if your current status (LPR or USC) was acquired through marriage to a USC. I suspect that's an indicator for adjudicators to look at this application more closely. Will they find anything in your case if they give you a hard time? Only you can answer that.

I see no reason why you would face any obstacles. People marry former classmates, co-workers, and even neighbors all the time. It happens. USCIS will have to prove you fraudulently planned all along to acquire USC through marriage so you can marry and sponsor your college sweetheart years later. Even in the unlikely event that you did just that, and you wouldn't be the first, the burden of proof is too great and you're more than likely to get away with it.

If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about.

Edited May 16, 2015 by Dario2012

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Actually I am in a similar situation as well. I got my green card through marriage than got good faith marriage waiver and than Naturalization (5 year rule). I want to sponsor my future spouse for CR1 to get them here. The issue is that we graduated from same degree in the same area of study from the same college in the same year in my home country some years ago. We did not have a relationship or anything. But now my parents are interested that we get married as arranged marriage. Since we graduated from same degree in the same area of study from the same college in the same year in my home country and I got my Citizenship through marriage to a USC that ended in divorce. Do you think embassy and/or USCIS will give us hard time? What are the chances for my spouse to get CR1? Do you think I can get into trouble and get myself deported in all this? Is a suspicion enough to get me deported? I want to ensure I don't get into any trouble unnecessarily. The USCIS should have that info because we both filled out DS 160 form at different points in our lives to apply for US visa. My future spouse's visa was denied though.

Sorry to pile on your question.

Please help.

Thanks

If it was someone elses case and you were looking at it from afar what would you think.

I do not knw what country you are from, that would also make a difference.

Now if you are French and whatever low opinion we have of the French, unlikely to be an issue.

[Pete_Bd 0]

Country is not France it is Pakistan. I didn't know that country affects this matter. So of course there is no proof that I had any relationship with my future spouse in college because there can;t be since we just knew each other from class. Just a hunch or suspicion that embassy may or may not have can lead to my status in jeopardy? And my future spouse's CR1 denied? Thanks

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

Country is not France it is Pakistan. I didn't know that country affects this matter. So of course there is no proof that I had any relationship with my future spouse in college because there can;t be since we just knew each other from class. Just a hunch or suspicion that embassy may or may not have can lead to my status in jeopardy? And my future spouse's CR1 denied? Thanks

As was stated before in this thread .....yes to extra scrutiny with the CR1 and no to putting your status in jeopardy unless you were proven

to have committed fraud. If you haven't then stop stressing. Yes the country matters because people in France aren't desperate to use a USC

to get out of their country.

[Pete_Bd 0]

Thanks for the replies. A big relief. How does the govt prove fraud or real? Thanks

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

Thanks for the replies. A big relief. How does the govt prove fraud or real? Thanks

There are too many variables to answer that question. Sometimes a clueless fraudster leaves tracks and sometimes they wipe them clean

but the discretionary decision of a CO will have a hunch and refuse to issue the visa. Filed investigations reveal some things also and sometimes what

quacks like a duck is really a duck.

If you have proven that your intentions were genuine and bona fide and the marriage just didn't work out then fine but if the former USC has left some

information that proves you have used her then you would have a hard time with the CR1.

A soon after GC divorce, an overlapping new romance, a quick new marriage to someone at home can all smell fishy to CO's.

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