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“Easiest” way is probably getting married to a citizen. On the scale of least horrible, refugee status might be OK if you can get it, but the anti-refugee clim

“Easiest” way is probably getting married to a citizen. On the scale of least horrible, refugee status might be OK if you can get it, but the anti-refugee climate here has never been worse.

ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
> “Easiest” way is probably getting married to a citizen. I don't think that's the case, anymore. I remember a notorious case, around here, where a guy had a Russian wife (I have no idea of the background -but they were married for many years), he was dying of leukemia, and required her around-the-clock care, and they deported her.
- lesuorac 2y ago
  I mean you probably are missing a bunch of details. Being married doesn't automatically grant you citizenship. It does give a way to apply for a green card (IIRC, no caps on this path so it's "easy") which then gives a path to citizenship (naturalization). So; no-duh if the guy's wife is russian she can be deported; she's probably overstayed her visa while caring for the guy.
  - ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
    Me Mum was British[0], but had to get US citizenship, in order to bring in her mother, for final years care. She was pissed off. [0] https://cmarshall.com/miscellaneous/SheilaMarshall.htm https://cmarshall.com/miscellaneous/SheilaMarshall.htm
- astura 2y ago
  Dude, there must be something incredibly specific about this case for this to be a thing. Like the wife just said she was a tourist and never left instead of applying for a green card. If you just do the paperwork - enter the US under a K1 Visa (fiancé(e) visa), get married, and then apply for a green card once you're married - you won't be randomly deported when your spouse gets leukemia. It is actually is very easy (multiple people in my family have done this - one guy has even sponsored multiple foreign wives because they keep leaving him cuz he's an asshole). But you do have to do the paperwork if you don't wanna get deported.
  - ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
    I never read up on the details of the case. It may well be that she had some complication, that prevented the process from moving forward. I knew a guy that had a Korean wife, legally in the US, but had been, many, many years earlier, swept up in a human trafficking thing. That made getting citizenship difficult. Twice victimized.
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alephknoll 2y ago
"Easiest" is probably entering illegally and signing up for the military.

“Easiest” way is probably getting married to a citizen. On the scale of least horrible, refugee status might be OK if you can get it, but the anti-refugee climate here has never been worse.

ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

> “Easiest” way is probably getting married to a citizen. I don't think that's the case, anymore. I remember a notorious case, around here, where a guy had a Russian wife (I have no idea of the background -but they were married for many years), he was dying of leukemia, and required her around-the-clock care, and they deported her.

lesuorac 2y ago
I mean you probably are missing a bunch of details. Being married doesn't automatically grant you citizenship. It does give a way to apply for a green card (IIRC, no caps on this path so it's "easy") which then gives a path to citizenship (naturalization). So; no-duh if the guy's wife is russian she can be deported; she's probably overstayed her visa while caring for the guy.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
  Me Mum was British[0], but had to get US citizenship, in order to bring in her mother, for final years care. She was pissed off. [0] https://cmarshall.com/miscellaneous/SheilaMarshall.htm https://cmarshall.com/miscellaneous/SheilaMarshall.htm
astura 2y ago
Dude, there must be something incredibly specific about this case for this to be a thing. Like the wife just said she was a tourist and never left instead of applying for a green card. If you just do the paperwork - enter the US under a K1 Visa (fiancé(e) visa), get married, and then apply for a green card once you're married - you won't be randomly deported when your spouse gets leukemia. It is actually is very easy (multiple people in my family have done this - one guy has even sponsored multiple foreign wives because they keep leaving him cuz he's an asshole). But you do have to do the paperwork if you don't wanna get deported.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
  I never read up on the details of the case. It may well be that she had some complication, that prevented the process from moving forward. I knew a guy that had a Korean wife, legally in the US, but had been, many, many years earlier, swept up in a human trafficking thing. That made getting citizenship difficult. Twice victimized.

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alephknoll 2y ago

"Easiest" is probably entering illegally and signing up for the military.