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You are right that marriage currently cannot be expressed in this way. However, I would like to see it be able to be expressed this way.
by montecarl 14y ago
You are right that marriage currently cannot be expressed in this way. However, I would like to see it be able to be expressed this way.
- millstone 14y agoHow would that be accomplished? For example, spousal residency. Would that be a general right - any US citizen could grant permanent residency to anybody else, through a private contract? Or would you rather eliminate the right entirely, so that if you fall in love with a foreigner, you have to hope they can make it to you through other immigration channels?
- nitrogen 14y agoThat sounds interesting, a sort of "personal sponsorship" visa. You vouch for somebody, they get to move to the US, and you bear partial responsibility for their actions (like a parent would for a child) until they obtain traditional residency?
- Spoom 14y agoHmm. As a fiancee visa recipient (now Lawful Permanent Resident) who is necessarily familiar with that area of immigration law, your proposal is probably more interesting than you realize. US Citizens who wish to petition USCIS to grant permanent residency to their fiancee or spouse must, as part of the petition process, sign a form that creates a legal contract with the US Government that the US Citizen sponsor must repay any means-tested social benefits the beneficiary receives. This is in addition to the filing fees incurred as part of the process. Given that this bond must be created as part of the process, I could see your proposal as potentially being OK, except that USCIS would have to set up rules to limit this ability if the sponsor fails in their implicit duties to get the beneficiary on their feet. Basically, I see it as potentially being a privilege, not a right.