With more than one couple divorced how long does the immigrant have to Stay married to qualify to stay forever in the United States: comes to mind Some real winners like Mohamed who tricked poor yve in New Mexico And he isn’t alone.
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You could probably Google this
There is no time limit. Usually they get a two year conditional green card that can be extended if you are still married. But even if you are not married by then, there are ways you can stay. They won’t kick someone out just because they got a divorce. Marriage needs to be entered in bad faith and that needs to be proven for them to lose status.
I would think it differs by state?
I believe one can apply for a green card after 2 years of marriage.
Doesn’t seem to be a specific amount of time to remain married, look at Larissa. She and Colte divorced before she got her EAD and conditional GC but remained in the US also with 3 or so arrests since entering the US.
It’s three years but there are other ways to stay if you were married for a shorter time.
I’ve had two friends who got scammed, one by a French guy and another by an Australian woman. Both marriages ended right at the three year mark.
I also had a German coworker who couldn’t get a green card to stay in the US (work visa was up) so she paid a gay guy $10k to marry her so she could stay.
2 years.
There’s no minimum time to be married - so long as the K-1 holder marries within the 90 days, they can adjust their status to resident at any time. If there is a divorce before filing for adjustment or renewal, the application will probably need extra evidence showing that the relationship was genuine at the time.
If you enter on a K-1, as we know, you have 90 days to marry. After marrying, the foreign spouse applies for an adjustment of status. The adjustment of status takes 5 or 6 months to get approved. Once approved, the foreign spouse will usually get a conditional permanent resident card that lasts 2 years (I think if the marriage is longer than 2 years, the green card isn’t conditional)
After 2 years, you would file to get the conditional status removed. I think you can then file for citizenship, 2.9 years after the original adjustment of status was approved.
Wait times vary and so do estimates, but from the time of marriage to citizenship should take about 5 years
Our adjustment of status application took almost 2 years to get approved 🫠🫠
Yikes
I’m a real life 90-day fiance who has jumped through these hoops.
Depends on what your definition of forever is. Technically, after getting married and getting the conditional greencard (no minimum time of being married and valid for 2 years) there is a pathway to have the conditions removed and be a US citizen even if the couple divorces before the 2 year mark.
So, it takes 2 years from the issuance of the greencard (so meaning they can be married for longer) before one can apply for the conditions of the first greencard to be removed. If you meant US citizen, it takes 3 years of being a greencard holder before they can be considered for US citizenship.
Also went through this (now a citizen and still with my husband).
But I’ve seen people get divorced while still in the process of removing the conditions and citizenship. The most common reasons of divorce I’ve seen is 1) Some of them are victims of abuse cause it turns out their husbands were terrible people, 2) others truly just want the green card/citizenship. Most of the time, people stay together cause they do truly care for their partners. But reason #1 is as common as #2 which is sad.
You ever been accused of being a user for the green card? Like the US is some magical location draped with money. Are you still in US? Congratulations.
There is no hard minimum time requirement. You merely have to provide sufficient documentation that the marriage was entered into in good faith. Marriages have fallen apart in under a year and the beneficiary still can obtain their conditional (2 year) green card. All comes down to if the applicants satisfy the USCIS officer adjudicating their case. Luck of the draw.
My friend married someone who was in the US, but would have had to leave otherwise. They were told that they had to be married and living together for a minimum of 2 and that the marriage had to last at least 3 years for him to become a legal permanent resident.