SciFiFisher wrote:It's probably easier if she offers him a job and they do a work visa.
Yosh wrote:SciFiFisher wrote:It's probably easier if she offers him a job and they do a work visa.
Actually, having looked into work visas, I'm thinking marriage would be easier and faster.
Come on, Fisher, I'm sure you've run into any number of troops who came back from some picturesque country with a wife interested primarily in the "land of the big PX."
SciFiFisher wrote:...The civilians get something along the lines of the Spanish Inquistion and have to pay about $20,000 just to import thier foreign spouses to be.
code monkey wrote:SciFiFisher wrote:...The civilians get something along the lines of the Spanish Inquistion and have to pay about $20,000 just to import thier foreign spouses to be.
and for a work visa?
Yosh wrote:Come on, Fisher, I'm sure you've run into any number of troops who came back from some picturesque country with a wife interested primarily in the "land of the big PX."
SciFiFisher wrote:The process is moderately easier than the marriage Visa. The US sort of assumes that all marriage visas are fraudulent so they work really hard to make you prove that you really are marrying the person without any secondary incentives.
Sigma_Orionis wrote:Yosh wrote:Come on, Fisher, I'm sure you've run into any number of troops who came back from some picturesque country with a wife interested primarily in the "land of the big PX."
What's the name of that land? BestBuy?
Sigma_Orionis wrote:Yeah I figured as much, there's at least a couple of movies about "Green Card" marriages and all the trials and tribulations the USIS makes candidates go through to avoid that kind of immigration fraud. I guess that Uncle Sam thinks that their military personnel do not willingly participate in those schemes
Sigma_Orionis wrote:For starters you'd have to show to a reasonable extent you could not get a US national would able do to the job. the number of visas issued is capped at 65000 a year. I'd have to have a college degree in whatever field you claim you need me for. The visa fee is not much though
SciFiFisher wrote:Except for the occasional rare opportunist they really are "in love". The majority are young. For most it's the first time away from home and thier first serious romance. In many cases it may also be thier first real sexual partner. That combination makes for some interesting horomonal and emotional responses.
In some cases I think both parties are sincere but once the cultural and individual differences collide the relationships are pretty much doomed. A lot of those wind up with the foreign person returning home to his/her own country.
There are, interestingly enough, a significant number of the relationships that last. I don't have hard numbers but I care for a lot of veterans who have wives who are asian or of other nationalities.
And then, of course, there are the opportunistic grifters who marry some poor sap knowing full well they plan to milk it for a green card, cash, and everything else they can load into a U-haul truck.
SciFiFisher wrote:Sigma_Orionis wrote:Yeah I figured as much, there's at least a couple of movies about "Green Card" marriages and all the trials and tribulations the USIS makes candidates go through to avoid that kind of immigration fraud. I guess that Uncle Sam thinks that their military personnel do not willingly participate in those schemes
Except for the occasional rare opportunist they really are "in love". The majority are young. For most it's the first time away from home and thier first serious romance. In many cases it may also be thier first real sexual partner. That combination makes for some interesting horomonal and emotional responses.
In some cases I think both parties are sincere but once the cultural and individual differences collide the relationships are pretty much doomed. A lot of those wind up with the foreign person returning home to his/her own country.
There are, interestingly enough, a significant number of the relationships that last. I don't have hard numbers but I care for a lot of veterans who have wives who are asian or of other nationalities.
And then, of course, there are the opportunistic grifters who marry some poor sap knowing full well they plan to milk it for a green card, cash, and everything else they can load into a U-haul truck.
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