Immigration Processes For Marriage Immigrants

The U.S. citizens who are married to foreigners abroad face a lot of problem while facing the immigration process. The migration process to the U.S. is a lengthy process where there is a huge number of marriage immigrants every year, who want to enter the U.S.

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is a governing body that looks after the immigration process. Its duty is to see that a person who wants to migrate to the U.S. fulfills all the criteria of immigration process. A foreigner married to a U.S. citizen needs a marriage based visa like K3 visa or K1 fianc\'e9 visa to enter the U.S.

There are so many people who just get married to a U.S. citizen solely to obtain a Green card while others have criminal records or suffer from communicable diseases. Finding and extracting all such details, makes the immigration process quite lengthy. Earlier, it used to take two years in the processing time but now with K3 marriage based visa program, the time is reduced to eight to twenty months.

It is difficult to enter the U.S. and secure citizenship. The USCIS service has found that many marriages that have helped in the migration process are not even legal once. Therefore, certain immigration laws have been formed against these fake marriages.

Immigration laws describe or define marriage as a legal union between a man and a woman as husband and wife. No other type of marriages like marriage between gays and lesbians is considered as legal once under the scrutiny of the U.S. immigration laws. A man and a woman married in a way that at the time of marriage they were not physically present in the marriage ceremony are ineligible to apply.

The immigration laws classify polygamous marriage, incestuous marriage, proxy marriage, customary marriage, and common law marriage as unacceptable marriage. If the immigrant falls in any of this category of marriages, migration to the U.S. will not be allowed.

Different migration processes have to be followed depending upon whether the foreigner spouse is married to a U.S. citizen or the permanent residence of the U.S.

In case, a foreigner spouse is married to a U.S. citizen and is already in the U.S. on a non-immigrant visa then for immigration, the U.S. citizen spouse has to file immigration petition I-130. In such a case, the foreigner spouse has to file immigration petition I-485. In case the foreigner spouse is outside the U.S. region, then the U.S. citizen has to first apply for the foreigner spouse's marriage visa to enter the U.S.

All marriage immigrants to the U.S. have to face the immigration process. But at the same time, this is a process to guarantee the security and well being of a country which makes the task a difficult one of the U.S. immigration authorities too. So the best bet is to follow the rules and not attempt anything that is remotely illegal.