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It's not considered illegal because she isn't doing anything in violation of her overstay, just living at a place I bought. I have several apartments so I'm not technically living with her, but I spend all of my free time with her outside of work. I love her so much. She is not working, driving, anything, just being a good girlfriend to me. She does everything for me around the house, it is wonderful. I just can't lose my job over this and the only thing that makes it difficult is her overstay status. I've contacted several other immigration lawyers who have told me that marrying an overstay will not revoke my security clearance but I have to be sure. I had a background check done on her and called the agency today and am going to meet with them again next week, they said they had information on her that they wanted to discuss with me, but because they didn't call me its not anything bad as far as I know.

We have a real relationship and our marriage will not be fraud. She was held here in the US against her will by the ex-boyfriend so the overstay is not her fault.

Is there anyone here who knows about this specific circumstance? Any stories?

The issue was that because I'm in military aviation, certain jets have classified features/equipment on them, and it makes being married to a foreigner a greater strain on the status of that clearance. It's the same for most countries I'd assume, but here in the U.S. the government can be really paranoid sometimes.

She's just a simple girl from Greece, her english is kind of bad, and she doesn't even know how to drive a car, never had a father, and somehow me being married to her is a cause for alarm? I had to listen to my superior officers tell me until they were blue in the face that marrying her right away is not a good idea. So I listened. She will come live with me as my girlfriend in the meantime, and I will marry her after the training.

It was heavily implied that my security clearance would be withdrawn the moment I married her and that it would get me suspended from flight school training status, where they would review it and most 'likely' revoke it, causing me to lose my job.

I need the job to pay for my life and for hers lol, so I have to find a way to keep the security clearance and marry her.

NLR you're right, but do you know any specifics about being a DoD employee in this circumstance?

What about an overstay forgiveness for the abuse she received? I was told this was possible today by an immigration lawyer

I am posting this on behalf of my girlfriend who is an immigrant currently here in the US on an overstay of a tourist visa. She originally came here last year with her ex-boyfriend from Greece. They were together when they came here. The visa began in May 2015 and expired in August 2015. However, he had her things and proceeded to marry an American girl (mexican-American) specifically to get himself papers while he was here. He still was with her while he did this, and eventually became abusive and broke up with her, calling her out and claiming that she was a threat to his marriage, threatening to deport her among other things. I'm pretty sure he was physically abusive as well, as in hitting her. I met her shortly after this, and I asked her out over Christmas. I met her through a friend of mine in person, and I initiated the contact so she is not in this country trying to seek out a man to marry for papers.

I am an officer in the US military. I have reported her to my chain of command but just found out recently that the visa was on an overstay. She showed me her passport while I was with her in Chicago for Christmas, and it is still valid, but I did not know at the time I reported it to my chain of command and security officer. Now that I do know I am going about it logically to report it with the intent to sponsor her to stay here with me. I need help with this real bad because I know there is a valid way to do this without her having to be sent to Greece.

This girl does not know how to drive and her english isn't that great, we speak in both Greek and English together. I've already listened to a bunch of naysayers tell me I will have my security clearance revoked if I marry her in her illegal status. I don't doubt them, but if I report her now as an update that I want to sponsor her while she is here, not working or anything, just living with me, would this be a problem?

I love this girl very much and I want her to marry me. She means a lot to me, but I cannot provide for her and myself without my career. So I must keep both. I cannot risk having the security clearance revoked because I would not be able to do even the most basic and menial jobs in the military if so. There are plenty of US servicemen/women who have foreign spouses/girlfriends, but the problem is that mine is on an overstay status, and I don't want to lose her. She entered this country legally, but as you can see by my description, she was abused and controlled by this psychotic ex-boyfriend whose activities are more than likely illicit with regards to withholding her visa from her and forcing her to stay past the expiration date. She is not the smartest girl I've met, but so sweet and kind and caring, a simple soul and that is part of what attracts me to her the most, she has a big heart.

Please help me if anyone here has any ideas on what I can do at this point. I'm going to speak to the investigative branch of my service soon and update them with her visa overstay status and see if we can reach out to immigration for me to sponsor her to stay here so that I do not have any repercussions sent back against me later on.

Thank you