Georgia Peach

I did suggest CR1.

Whatever you do, please be calm. Do not let your emotions guide you, put worry aside.

Wish you well in your immigration journey!

Thank you for the kind words! They are greatly appreciated right now. I definitely need to calm down a bit. Worry and stress won't keep my family together. I'm just so frustrated by the weight of their actions and of course my family back in the US are flipping out as well. "FAKE PASSPORT"!! "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT"?!?! That's all they heard. I naively thought that everything would be easy peezy for us. That's not the case but we'll just have to fight for it.

Gerogia, it's really good that you're there in France already. You need to get to the bottom of it regardless of if you want to live in the States...your husband needs to get his papers in order just for his own well being and yours. Maybe try being patient with his parents and just explaining that this is something that needs to be done regardless of where you guys end up living. I know it's hard being away from home...you've just been dealt a bad hand with this, try to stay positive...I would double check everything to make sure his French papers, Senegalese passport and everything are 100% clear and in order. Don't just take his or his parents' word for it, everything needs to be scrutinized.

If your husband is weary about moving to the US in the first place, you guys need to weather this storm first and see how it goes...but I'd say every step of the way needs legal expertise. You don't want him to end up getting banned for life from the US

Thank you so much. I guess my fear and despair is pretty palpable right now. I'm definitely going to take a step back and really asses the situation before fully jumping in. We've been in a free fall over the past few days, lots of tears and finger blaming. My ignorance to this entire process is slapping me in the face. But we'll definitely use the lawyer...even if just for my sanity. lol. I'll be checking out some of the lawyers suggested in this thread because I don't know any nor do my friends/family. I never realized how detached I was from the immigrant experience until this. I'm definitely more sympathetic now.

Maybe the passport itself is not fake, but the documents used to get the passport were?

I actually think that this is the case. Some things are coming to the light and although I fell empathy for my husband and even for the parents as these aren't people with nefarious intentions, it is becoming too stressful for me.I didn't sleep a wink last night just thinking about the situation. Living separately from your spouse is no marriage at all. This is too much to handle. Plus his chances look even slimmer now that our new president-elect wants to crack down on this very type of thing. Funny how your past always catches up to you.

Thanks again for the replies

Thank you all for your suggestions. This is definitely too much for me to wrap my head around so I am reaching out to an immigration lawyer. I never even considered all of this nonsense when I fell in love with a non-American. The damage control alone is daunting. Nevermind the long distance that comes with the normal visa process. I was clearly living in la la land because these things never crossed my mind.

As far as how he was able to manage to live in France with bogus documents. Well I can't answer that. In the US we seem to be proving our identity at every hand. I'm not sure what life was like in France. I'm sure his parents had the documents that he needed aside from the passport. Who knows. They are acting very indignant about it at this point seeing as they don't really see the point of him moving to the US.

Apply

Denied

File a waiver

Get a visa

Got it. Clear as day :)

You have to list all the aliases and previous entries anyway.

Obviously not a quick process, but you can start the process by filing now.

For the waiver you need to do a lot of research or employ a competent waiver lawyer.

Filing the waiver is sometime off so you have plenty of time to research.

Thank you very much.

Are you saying that I should go ahead with the normal visa process even though he'll have problems at the border? Like apply, get denied, and then file the waiver type of thing? I'm just trying to make sure I'm understanding your suggestions correctly?

WOW!!!! Gosh I was hoping that this wouldn't be the responses that I'd get. Now I'm even more infuriated with his parents!

Should I just move back home and get a lawyer in the states or can I start the process in France? Just two days ago I thought we could start the process here in France but now my world is upside down. I'm afraid of leaving him here and France and then not being able to see him for several months or more. I'm far from old but I'm no spring chicken either and we are actively trying to start our family. A year apart would definitely put a dent in those plans. This is all so overwhelming. Maybe I should just stay in France.

Thank you for your replies

Hello all,

I need some serious help. My husband and I currently live in France and he has lived here most of his life. He was born in Senegal. Long story short, his parents forged documents and got him a fake passport/identity, unbeknownst to him. All of his younger siblings are legal French citizens. He has been living his life thinking that he was a French citizen and FOUR years younger than his real age. He discovered the truth last year and after the shock he went ahead got permanent residency in France. So his legal woes are straightened out in France. We had put the shock behind us and didn't give it a second thought until recently.

I want to move home (USA). For several reasons it just makes more sense for us to live in the US. Today it dawned on us that my husband traveled to the US twice last year and the year before on a FAKE French passport. I met him on the first trip. He only stayed a couple of weeks each time. But of course he was fingerprinted upon entry into the US. When he tries to return, with his Senegalese passport, he will be fingerprinted again and the system will pull up his fake identity. I am at a complete lost of what to do! Even if he can get approved for a K-3 visa (I'm still learning the types of visas) he will likely be turned away at the airport. The approval of a visa application means nothing if he can't even enter the country.I don't even know where to begin. I was thinking of going back to the US and petitioning for his immigration there and adding in an I-601 form; But what good would that do for the border issue? I'm infuriated with my in-laws right now! My husband had no desire to move to the US and would have preferred that we stay in France but I really need to move back home. He's only ever visited the US as a tourist! Any help is greatly appreciated. Does anyone know how the border control handles situations where someone has previously traveled on false documents but are currently legal?