Getting a green card through marriage.?

Question

Do people getting a green card this way get investigated, for example immigration officers ask the couples friends to find out whether it legit or look through there garbage etc?

Answer 1

You are eligible to apply for Residency with a marriage (still can not work a job). With a Green Card you can apply for work. Two different things.

To get Green Card, you can buy a chance on 65,000 cards given every year in a lottery system, or get an employer to sponsor you. The sponsor promises you will not go on welfare for 10 years.

Answer 2

You have to get a visa to get married, and this takes about 8 months and its a lot a lot a  lot of paperwork and money and you have to give proofs of relationship (pictures, flight tickets, mailsm phone bills...) and you get interviewed in a US embassy near you. Your fiancee is supposed to make a certain amount of money to sponsor you and you are not allowed to have anything bad on your police report. You cant make it if the relationship  is fake for sure. After you arrive in the US you have to fill out more paperwork and get your AOS and after a month of marriage they will interview you again and after two years again. You always have to give them proofs that you live together (life insurance, same address, same banc account). The total cost will be about $3000. In case you just get married in the US your AOS can get denied and you have to go back and get another kind of visa.

Answer 3

The US citizen must apply for a fiance visa for the intended spouse.  He/she must prove when/where/how met, how long & how well they know each other, when & where they have been together, etc.  And the citizen must prove sufficient income & assets to support the prospective spouse and guarantee a $30,000 bond.  The foreign fiance/e must remain in their own country the entire time the fiance visa is being processed.  It now takes about a year.

Entry on any other type of visa for marriage will require the foreign spouse return to their own country while the spousal visa is processed.  Marriage while one is on a tourist visa automatically triggers a marriage fraud investigation; so do a number of other circumstances.  

Marriage fraud is so rampant these days that every fiance/spousal visa application is presumed to require extensive proof.  If you have anything to hide, it will be discovered.  Only convictions for the repeat-marriage scam really makes into the newspapers, but a great many "marriages" are deemed fraud and visas denied.

Answer 4

Sometimes they do investigate.They do not ask the couple's friends.They do the investigation on their own.Why are you worried?

Answer 5

It's really rare, but they don't investigate that way " by asking your friends or going through the garbage, they actually ask for your wedding pictures," including family" ask about hers and your family, see how you react around eachother..etc.

Answer 6

More than likely immigration would simply reject the application rather than doing a detailed investigation on each applicant.  They don't have the manpower for that.  Immigration puts the burden of proof on the married couple to poof that the marriage wasn't entered into just so someone can get a green card.  The people you hear about who have actually been arrested for this sort of things are people who have done it several times, drawing attention to themselves.