TwoInLove

You need to find out how he entered. If he entered legally, by way of a visa, then yes. As long as he has NEVER claimed to be a USC at any point in his life, as long as he's never used a USC's SSN, then yes, it's entirely possible for you to file AOS for him from within the US.

I do however second the statement that even though YOU know your first marriage was real, they might find it odd that you happened to petition yet another immigrant and thus question this relationship as legit, or just to get money to help him immigrate or something. Just be prepared for the tough questions is all.

Well one good thing is that my Mexican ex-husband after being here decided he did not want to be here in the USA and is not even going to file for his permanent residency, he just missed home too much and is already back in Mexico with no plans whatsoever to return this would be a plus for me to petition my Latvian if I married him. I also can have my ex write a letter if need be explaining that fact as well. They will have record of his exit and non-return therefore extinquishing any doubt to the US that he or I got married to obtain a greencard. He doesn't want it. We were together for 6 years in total, married for 1.5 years. Sad indeed however it is what it is. His wanting to just go back to Mexico would be a plus here for this situation. What do you mean pretend to be a US citizen or use another's SS card? How would anyone be able to do that?

To use marriage as a vehicle to make someone "legal" is not legal but perhaps legal status could be achieved through a bona fide marriage.

I think the reason you are seeing some of these negative reactions is because of the way the question is posted. It would seem that the intended outcome is to make the Latvian boyfriend "legal" by marriage to you or even someone else.

Correct and thank you for making that point. Oh well I had no idea a person could legalize after being here on an overstayed visa, there was only one response to this so is this really true?

I really love him a lot but I don't know where the relationship is really going right now -

I know what it was like to get my mexican husband here and it was tough so not ready to go through that again anytime soon OMG! But if our relationship does get to the point of being that serious I would petition him but then again if I did marry him and he didn't get it then that would be a nightmare so it's a big decision to make I've already been through so much already.

If anyone knows that it is definitely possible to petition him by marriage I'd like to hear from you!

I obviously would have to marry him I wouldn't petition a boyfriend, I am just asking hypothetically if he would ever be able to get legal after overstaying a travel visa for 15 years? Do they treat Europeans differently than mexicans? If a mexican were here over 15 years he/she would have a lifetime ban -

I just want to know if anyone knows if it is possible for him to become legal assuming I or someone else was going to marry him?

Also, my mexican marriage was a legitimate marriage it was not a scam.

I wouldn't worry about petitioning a second person because my first marriage was real we had been together for 6 years.

My mexican husband and I are getting divorced sadly. It didn't work out so he went back to mexico.

Hi my Latvian boyfriend has been here for 15 years, he left his country and came here on a visit. He never left. Now that we are together it's difficult because he can't drive, so many things that an illegal can't do.

Is there anyway to get him legal since he overstayed his tourist visa 15 years ago? He was arrested twice for drinking in public (NYC sitting in front of his apartment) and was fingerprinted for this about 10 years ago - Is there anyway for him to become legal?

Thanks,

Janet

I remember reading your story. I am so sorry that you have not received the visa yet. Good luck on the next interview I hope all goes smoothly and they finally give it to you.

Thanks, yep still waiting. I just called the information # today and they said it would take about 3 months to get an appointment? We don't get appts, we are for a fiance visa - they give an open appt for that so that call was a waste of money. I just wrote to the consulate on the public inquiry form on their website because I get a fast turn around from them, never more than 10 days so hopefully they will just send me the open appointment letter. 3 more months to wait will surely kill me - this is not fair. Now they changed the drug ban law to one year from 3 years. We did our three years because my fiance admitted to smoking a joint once back in Dec 2006 so here we are still waiting. I hope I get the appt letter via email soon - when this is all just a bad memory, I will surely write about our experience.

wow congratulations on your visas! We are still waiting 3+ years for our 3 month fiance visa because my fiance smoked a joint in December 2006. We have our 3rd interview scheduled in about 6 weeks, if they give us the run around again like they did in Feb 2010, we are just going to get married and start over.

*sigh*, I just cant wait until my fiance never ever has to go to Juarez the armpit of the world again - it's a very dangerous place and the US should be ashamed to make people go there to get their visas. It's a dump.

Check all the expiration dates on the forms you have to use. Juarez sends you links to forms that are expired and then when you get there they won't accept them so check each form to make sure it's not expired - competent folks they are!

Nice, I just found out that two cocaine users got their visas! My fiance smoked a joint 3 years ago and still doesn't have his visa, great work Juarez!!!

Oh yes and when you go for your medical exam the answer to all drug questions is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO - do not let them intimidate you and lie to you telling you that they have tests to see if you have ever done a drug in your life, those are all lies. They want to keep as many mexicans out of the USA as possible so don't be a dummy, the answer to all the drug questions is NO! In fact, just say you don't drink, smoke, or anything, don't even go there. If you answer yes to the drug question and the use has been withing a 3 year period of the interview, you will get the 3 year ban so smarten up - don't even consider saying yes to the drug questions. I wish someone had warned us before we went, would have saved us thousands of dollars and a mountain of heartache.

Oh yes and because my fiance smoked a joint, he is now classified by the USA as a "Class A Drug Addict" - NICE.

Yes, unpredictable is putting it mildly. The Ciudad Juarez consulate just gave visas to two cocaine users after they served their 3 year bans. Both only brought 1-2 urine tests to show as proof of their "rehabilitation" - and both received their visas. My fiance took a few puffs off joint once in Dec 2006, we served our three year ban and came back to the embassy armed with 16 clean urine tests. We however were told to come back in another six months and to attend further AA or NA classes for "behavior modification" - now we are going back in August, I wonder what run around we will get this time? Just remember that the people that work in the embassy are just paper pushers, equivalent to going to DMV, you are just a number folks so don't think anyone is going to look at your case with any kind of concern, they only know how to push paper.

THANKS FOR THE ADVISE! I GUESS IT'S NOT A 3 DAY THING LIKE I WAS THINKING...LOOKING LIKE A 1 WEEK ..NOT A GOOD PLACE TO BE AT OH GOD

The psychologist rejected my fiance's proof of rehab and then turned around and told the embassy that my fiance failed to produce proof of rehab, I cannot for the life of me figure out why on earth this doctor would do that to us? I'm just sick over this and I miss my fiance so much it's making my physically ill. I just got back from visiting him over easter and now I'm ready to go back again, I can't wait out the three more months for them to jerk us around again - all I do is cry and cry, I'm SICK without my fiance. The thought of them wasting another $2000 of our money for this nonsense is making me sick. I've already decided that if they do not give us our visa in August, that we are just going to ditch this whole fiasco, I will quit my good job and sell my home (if i can even sell it) and go to Mexico, how #### backwards is that. Please say a prayer for us that they don't screw us again and that we get what we deserve, our visa to get married. Whatever they do, I will marry my fiance, they can't keep me from doing that.

The psychologist rejected my fiance's proof of rehab and then turned around and told the embassy that my fiance failed to produce proof of rehab, I cannot for the life of me figure out why on earth this doctor would do that to us? I'm just sick over this and I miss my fiance so much it's making my physically ill. I just got back from visiting him over easter and now I'm ready to go back again, I can't wait out the three more months for them to jerk us around again - all I do is cry and cry, I'm SICK without my fiance. The thought of them wasting another $2000 of our money for this nonsense is making me sick. I've already decided that if they do not give us our visa in August, that we are just going to ditch this whole fiasco, I will quit my good job and sell my home (if i can even sell it) and go to Mexico, how #### backwards is that. Please say a prayer for us that they don't screw us again and that we get what we deserve, our visa to get married. Whatever they do, I will marry my fiance, they can't keep me from doing that.

The psychologist rejected my fiance's proof of rehab and then turned around and told the embassy that my fiance failed to produce proof of rehab, I cannot for the life of me figure out why on earth this doctor would do that to us? I'm just sick over this and I miss my fiance so much it's making my physically ill. I just got back from visiting him over easter and now I'm ready to go back again, I can't wait out the three more months for them to jerk us around again - all I do is cry and cry, I'm SICK without my fiance. The thought of them wasting another $2000 of our money for this nonsense is making me sick. I've already decided that if they do not give us our visa in August, that we are just going to ditch this whole fiasco, I will quit my good job and sell my home (if i can even sell it) and go to Mexico, how #### backwards is that. Please say a prayer for us that they don't screw us again and that we get what we deserve, our visa to get married. Whatever they do, I will marry my fiance, they can't keep me from doing that.

Going on 4 years now for a 3 month fiance visa! Incompetent embassy - I'm disgusted with them. I'm ready to get married and just give up everything and go to Mexico and live poor.

It all means nothing - no matter what you say or I say or anyone says - mexicans will never stop coming to the USA, they will never be stopped so complain all you want! It really doesn't matter. If they were made legal they could pay taxes and boost the economy or charge them each 5K for amnesty another large boost to the economy - but, whatever. Oh BTW, illegal aliens are not "criminals" needing to go to jail for 5 years - that is just pure nonsense, being in another country illegally does not warrent going to jail for 5 years, have a heart you complete moron - some americans make me absolutely sick to my stomach - how about we put someone in your family away for 5 years you dope.

So after being in C. Juarez for two and a half weeks now, my fiance and 3 soon-to-be stepsons were given the final thumbs up on their k1/k2 visas yesterday. Fiance picked his up today and the kids' packets are ready also and will be picked up tomorrow!

Crossing tomorrow night and flying from El Paso home on Thursday. SO excited!

If you have any K1/K2 questions about the Juarez Consulate, ask away. Thankfully he had family there or 2 1/2 weeks would have been super expensive!

Congrats on your K1/K2! I guess you are lucky for getting those since this forum is dying and looks like no visas going thru juarez at least from this thread. I'm still waiting going on 4 glorious years now for a 3 month K-1 VISA! Hooray! I imbecils at Juarez still can't make up their minds and are having fun jerking us around yay! Idiots. Anyway, after the jerk us around again 6 months for now and another $1200.00 goes down the tube for their ignorance, that's when my fiance and I will just get married in Mexico. I will sell my house in the USA that I worked so hard for, quit my great job with Merck Pharmaceuticals to go work in the country for pennies and where my skills are not needed anywhere - well we will probably be poor for the rest of our lives but at least we will be together and the food will be good, that is if we can afford to eat! Gotta love the imbecils at the Juarez consulate, they will prob reject my fiance again in the next 6 months and he won't be able to go to law school in the states because he's been classified as a "Class A" drug addict by the United States consulate because he tried coke once when he was 14 years old! Aren't they just ingenious to put labels like that on people who experimented when they were teens over 14 years ago? Geniuses they are! So, because of their idiocy, I will lose everything and life will just be a toss up. I hate Juarez! Don't trust them and above ALL, do not trust the medical people or the psychiatrists, they LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE.

All you guys are what I like to call "Band Wagoneers", everyone loves to "jump on the bandwagon" to attack the mexicans - ppl just don't have anything else better to do with themselves. If our gov't was any good at all we wouldn't have this problem, don't blame the mexicans, they are just poor starving people trying to survive, better to attack our own government that doesn't do anything about anything worthwhile.

Jumping the border is like a right of passage for every mexican anyway, the beauty of it all is that it will never ever stop! Nobody will ever be able to stop the mexicans or anyone else from jumping the borders, it will never happen so just get used to it - it's better to tax them than to kick them out.

I should have my dual citizenship next year w/Mexico, that will be nice

People just need to wake up and stop complaining about the mexicans - it's beating a dead horse, they will never stop coming, never ever EVER.

It's unfair when they keep out mexicans but they let everybody else in - a mexican can't even come here on vacation if they want to, it's a big long thing of red tape to even get a travel visa, that's just wrong, it's wrong. People should be able to go wherever they want to go in this world and gov'ts are stopping them, it's wrong.

I WISH mexico and the USA were one country, that would be a blessing!!

Lighten up you guys, this country ain't all it's cracked up to be - there are numerous other countries in the world to live in besides this one -

Yes, ok the europeans worked like dogs too to build this country including my ancestors but in our lifetime the mexicans have been working our fields don't say it isn't true and is your 15 year old brat with the ipod on his head going to go out and pick oranges to feed your family? I highly doubt it. This country lovessss to complain but we have everything - and we kick ppl when they are down - the moral condition of this country is a disgrace. If there were any honestly or intelligence at all in the gov't, they would make the illegal immigrants legal and make them pay taxes. That way we can start to pull this country out of the hole President Bush plunged us into.

Consider yourself lucky as I've seen some people in the Philippines that admitted having taken a puff on a joint in their teens and ended up with a life time ban.

At least you guys have a chance.

Why are the so tough with the Filipinos? Pot is becoming legal in some states now for ppl with medical conditions, like big deal a joint, give me a break! My fiance has no arrests and is clean as a whistle, no tattoos, just a good man who cares for elders and ppl less fortunate than him, it's sick!

My fiance had to serve a 3 year ban for smoking a joint once in Dec 2006. Upon his first interview in 2007, he told the doctor at the medical what he'd done after they assured him that everyting would be ok if he told them the truth. After that he was given a 3 year ban and labeled a "Class A" drug addict. WOW, I didn't know smoking a joint would classify you as a Class A drug addict, I can only wonder how many real drug addicts pass thru the medical and lie - pass GO and enter the USA.

So throughout the 3 year ban my fiance was sure to get urine tests done every 3 months up until it was time for him to go back again to try for our K-1 visa. Wow, almost four years to get a 90 day visa, almost seems like it's not even worth it. Anyway, of course he has to go back to the medical and back to the psychologist. So my fiance goes armed with his clean urine tests and the psychologist tell him, "Oh, any proof of rehabilitation is "bullshit" and neither I nor the consulate takes rehabilitation into consideration, only "MY" medical opinion matters to the consulate". So the rest of the interview goes on and the psych kept trying to tell my fiance he was a drug addict because he smoked pot once in December 2006 and tried coke 9 years ago when he was 14 years old. My fiance kept insisting that he just experimented when he was 14 and that the incident with smoking the pot was just a stupid mistake in 2006. The psych kept making faces at him like he didn't believe him and then he tried to get him to sign a statment saying that he did what he did and when. I had already warned my fiance not to sign any paper like that because it's just a trick that will be used against him. Ok so my fiance leaves the interview feeling everything went ok because the psych's are known to try and play with your head. At the consulate interview which lasted about 45 seconds, the consular said to my fiance "what did you say to the psychologist?" and my fiance repeated the same thing again. Then she shoved a 221(g) form at him and says, "You have to come back in six months for another medical". My fiance asked "Why?", the answer was "They have not yet made a decision on your case". That was it? No further information whatsoever! But they kept our packet but the rehab papers were not in the packet because of what the psychologist led my fiance to believe. First mistake.

So I sent an inquiry thru the website to the consulate asking why we are in "Administrative Processing?", a week later I get a reply that says that my fiance failed to produce rehabilitation and that the psychologist suggested to my fiance that he attend counseling for drug abuse and to come back in six months.

WTH??? I flipped out! What???? What the heck are these imbecils doing down there? The psychologist LIED to my fiance, refused to inspect his paperwork and led us to believe that the consulate would not want to see those papers!! Shocked isn't even the word not to mention another $1200 down the drain for NOTHING!! I wrote back to the consulate and told them that we DO HAVE PROOF OF REHAB and that the psychologist lied to us and NEVER ONCE suggested my fiance "go for counseling", are they kidding me?

This must be illegal? I'm thinking about sending a certified letter to the Director of Psychologist at the clinic and asking why this psychologist did this to my fiance? If they only knew how squeaky clean he really is? He wants to be a lawyer, he's the farthest thing from a drug addict and that is the god's honest truth on my mother's GRAVE! I am sickened by this, just disgusted. So what, now we are supposed to dump another couple thousand to go up there and be treated like this AGAIN? I don't have money to be throwing around for this nonsense! I am furious!

I called a lawyer today to see if I can file a suit against this psychologist for false reporting and refusing to inspect my fiance's documentation. I also requested the Psychological reports under the FOIA , Freedom of Information Act and contacted my US Senator's office. This is a disgrace!!!

If anyone else has had this happen to them at Ciudad Juarez, I want to hear about it. I am also thinking of calling the local news and newspapers there about this. My fiance is not a drug addict and I am furious that they have done this to us. I may just go marry my fiance and not wait for them to run our lives - we have been on hold going on 4 years now and it is a disgrace. I am a homeowner, great job, excellent credit and a taxpayer and this kind of treatment is completely unacceptable!!!

Good, I'm sick of the USA keeping the mexicans out, this country was half built on the backs of Mexicans and we treat them like #######, enough is enough - open the floodgates!!! Tear down the wall!

I'm an American but sometimes I'm ashamed to admit it!!

They should take to the streets for all the lying psychologists at the consulate and how horribly they mess things up.

I found emails between us but they are not his own personal account. He's not too tech savvy. We emailed each other through a mutual friend at work. It's the best I have. I printed several of emails between me and our friends talking about me and Adolfo and our plans and they would give me messages from him too. Also, there are a few messages about my soon-to-be mother-in-law being sick and my SO asking for money to take her to the doctor and stuff. Also an email to my old boss that lives on this side of border but works at the plant asking her if I could send stuff to him via her address. I have a couple people writing letters for us testifying that they have been out with us and know all about us and even worked with us plus letters from kids and my dad who lives with me. How does this sound? I have a prepaid phone so I don't have phone records but I already sent hundreds of border crossing receipts and pictures.

How about Western Union receipts, have you ever sent him cash? Just make more emails - he has to get to a library or a cyber cafe and start writing back and forth love notes and ecards etc. They are paper pushers without brains so the more paper you put in front of them the better.

There are tons of cyber cafes in Mexico, for like a dollar an hour, maybe he can go over to one of those and send emails to you online - that is what my fiance and I do, we've been doing that for years.

Like anywhere else, it sounds like they have a quota to meet. (X amount of rejections per month or something) I'll pray for you both. Keep your head up. This is just gonna make yall stronger and closer.

A quota? Are you SERIOUS? Thank you so much for your prayers - I really appreciate that, this whole thing is making me broke - it costs a lot of money to send my fiance to the border on a moment's notice -

I can't see having to wait six more months, since I wrote back I'm praying that they see what has happened and just gives us our darn visa.