I am afraid that a “friend” of mine is getting played like a second hand fiddle!!
My poor boy, (who never really had any luck with the opposite sex) met, fell in love with and actually married a Brazilian Go-Go Dancer. Soon after sliding a few George Washington’s where the sun don’t shine my friend fell madly in love with this still practicing pole whore!! Unsurprisingly she is noteven a citizen and was actually illegally in the country being that she remand in the US even after her “Working Girl” VISA had expired.
My question is "how long does a non U.S. citizen have to be married to a U.S. citizen before they can keep their citizenship regardless of their relationship with the citizen that gained them their citizenship in the first place???
How much longer until she disses and dismisses this fool??
I’m guessing something like 7 years but I’ve heard that it may be as little as 4 years!!
Any one know the answer to this one??
Getting married to a US citizen does not make you a citizen. It does not even garrentee you will be allowed to stay in the US. It allows you to apply for a Visa allowing you stay in the US. This is dependent on husband/wife being able to prove they can finacially support you. If they can’t prove this ability, then out you go.
Once you have the Visa, you can apply for a green card. This process can can take several years. Wife and I have been married for 3 years and she still is not considered a permanent resident. She has a “Conditional” green card, which can be turned into a non-conditional green card after two years of marriage, plus the processing time. This makes it over 3 years to get the green card. After this time, for a person of her national origin, she will be able to apply for citizenship in two more years I believe. She knows better than I but she is sleeping so I won’t bother her.
She is under no obligation to become a citizen and can stay in the country legally forever with her ‘permanent resident’(unconditional green card) status. She simply can’t vote. Nor does she have any legal basis for helping other family members to get visas to come to the US. As a citizen, she does.
So now that you have that bit of info, take iy easy on the dancer. Maybe she’s a beautiful person deep down inside…although your insults were mildly entertaining.
I’d like to see that prenuptual agreement: “E.T. takes home!”
As long as they keep far away from Atari, I’m all for illegal aliens landing here and raising families of gigantic wrinkly pricks.
I know of one NHL player from who was married to an American citizen for 7 or 8 years. After they got divorced, he lost his residence status that he got by being married to an American. Of course, he still was able to qualify for the visa (I forget the designation) that is usually given to athelets and artists.
Citizenship is individual, not matrimonial, as has been posted.
billy has given a broad sense of the terms and conditions (in specific cases YMMV. 5 years legal residence, which may be counted retroactively to “conditional” time, is the minimum time for qualifying for US citizenship; except if you’re in the military) Marital status helps ease some steps in the application process, but that’s it. Even if you do marry a US citizen AND are here legally in your own right, you are STILL subject to having to haul your ass back to your home country if your original visa expired. In fact the INS seems to prefer that the noncitizen spouse apply to enter the US at the home country consulate. If she indeed is here extralegally, (a) that time doesn’t count for citizenship (nor does time spent on work/study visas!) and (b) any day may be the day the INS puts her on the night flight to Rio, with a note filed on record at the proper consulates;and he gets into trouble for aiding an “undocumented alien” (ok, expired-documented alien. whatever).
As to being dissed-and-dismissed, that’s probably a function of when his bank account gets sucked clean, but this last could happen to him with a bona-fide non-stripping citizen anyway!
You might want to check my recent thread on this subject, which has answers from folks who actually know about this stuff. I should point out that I am not a Brazilian go-go dancer.
E.T.? Did we ever verify what gender he/it was? The kids use the male pronoun, but how did they know? After all, his voice originated (partially) from a woman. With the gay marriage thing in hot dispute, how do you know you’re not opening a new can of worms by approving a marriage? Does the fact that those worms look like E.T. make any difference? The movie was also rated PG, so I can’t say I remember any Brazilian Go-Go Dancers.
I’m confused. 
But how would E.T. be allowed into the country in the first place? He would have no passport and no way to prove an originating country of origin.
(I’m not kidding.)
Plus, Ludovic, E.T. did not enter through a proper border control point. So in addition to the country of origin and documentation issues that you noted, he’s also committed illegal entry. The KG^H^HHomeland Security folks, who IIRC now are in charge of INS, would bust his alien ass at least as hard as they bust Mexicans who sneak into this country. (Sorry, no cite, I don’t know how hard INS / DepHomeSec ass-busting is these days.)
I just thought of something: If E.T. landed at Kennedy Space Center or at the California dry lake where the Shuttle often lands (Vandenberg AFB?), would that be considered a legal point of entry?
(Obviously, landing at Groom Dry Lake AFB (“Area 51”) would not be a legal point of entry, because it’s a military reservation. The security issues alone would put any illegal immigrant in indefinite detention. And then you can just forget about the alien marrying a US citizen, let alone establishing residency, applying for citizenship, and otherwise meeting the condition of the OP.)
How charming.
I’m Sorry but only “2$ skank whore” fits her any better!!
The truly sad part about the whole pitiful situation is that she has the face of a thousand hooves and the manners of a retarded chimp. If she wasn’t so hard on the eyes I wouldn’t feel half as bad for him as I currently do.
I’m just really worried that this little mongrel is going to break his heart and take his house just after she gets to keep her citizenship for good. I’m betting that the marriage doesn’t go 4 months past the confirmation date!!
Poor Sucka!!
Why don’t you do your friend a favor and “seduce” his wife away from him? Don’t marry her, of course!