The subject of marriage and immigration often don’t make good bedfellows. Many clients ask, ‘Am I getting married for true love or for a green card? Shouldn’t I explore every other immigration option first before deciding whether to marry the love of my life? What will people think?’ Clients agonize about these issues when they have fallen head over heels in love with an American citizen. In truth the answer is very simple. Get Married.

Marrying your US partner will enable you to obtain a work permit and green card within a matter of months. Once in green card status, you pretty have much resolved all of your main immigration issues for life. If you avoid this route then you have to jump through many non-immigrant visa hoops which, even when you are successful, will only last for a limited number of years and then you have to apply for another visa. This hopping from visa to visa can get very expensive over time and the only real solution in the end will be a green card.

For this reason US Immigration (USCIS) estimates that about fifty percent of all marriage-based immigration applications are fake or sham marriages. Yes, people who have entered into a financial business deal to get married so the alien can cut through all the major red tape and obtain green card status. This was so common that Hollywood made a film called ‘Green Card’ starring Andie MacDowell and Gérard Depardieu. It’s actually a very good film.

Today USCIS starts with the presumption that all marriage-based applications are sham marriages so they scrutinize each and every application very carefully to root out these fraudulent cases. BTUSA will ensure that your case is carefully put together and is well documented so that it will stand out as being one hundred percent genuine. Your BTUSA immigration attorney will request a great deal of information from you to fully prepare your case.

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