Im a US citizen who wants to marry my bf who is on a tourist visa, can he stay after we get married?

Question

My bf entered the US on March 2008 originally a Middle Eastern guy, came here as a tourist, as he told me he was granted 6 months stay then has to leave to his country but im really not sure if it is true as i have a feeling he is out of status already and was given less than 6 months, I recently found out that he has also been sued in his country for a crime after he left and I think he is very worried of going back home to face his sentence and trying his best to stay here. I really love him but I am not sure what to do, can he stay after we get married or can they find out that he already has a criminal background back home? I am really confused what to do. I also found out that he is also married in his country, im not sure if he divorced her or not. What is the situation for us when we get married? I have never been married to a foreigner before.

Any help please?

Thanks

Answer 1

You have a complicated problem there.  But if you marry him, he will be a US citizen.

Answer 2

Please stay away from this lowlife. He will ruin your life.

I had a Lebanese guy almost ruin my life when I was very young. I have 2 children by him, and haven't seen him in 9 years; haven't received a dollar either. He owes 80G in child support. I was young, stupid, had mental problems at the time (honestly), and fell in love with a heartless man with no morals whatsoever. Luckily, I didn't marry him because of my family. (Thank God I have some very big brothers that he feared.) Therefore; he saw he didn’t have a chance for a green card, and that's why he moved on. I will not let him use my children for his own benefit.

He is now using a friends birth certificate for his new identity to avoid child support and he also found a woman even dumber (hard to believe) than I was that did marry his ignorant !@#$

Middle Eastern people are not like us. They are primitive: snakes, liars, thieves, and are capable of the most hostile evils. They are raised to hate Americans and that American women are wh@#%s

Don't believe the lies that come from this devils tongue and don't be used by this Osama/Mohammed/Omar/Fouad/ lowlife terrorist. They have zero respect for women and children. Don’t think (like I did) that he will do any good for you. Please? I have 2 fatherless children for being a foolish girl. Now, I’m a tired grown woman with regrets for my past poor judgment.

Also, my children don’t even know the origin or their father and hopefully never will.

Answer 3

Jon is writing rubbish in his reply here.Marriage does NOT make a person a US citizen. If you marry him he still cannot stay in the US, He has to leave before his visa expires.and appy to come back as your husband, which could take up to two years, and may be denied if he has any criminal record at all.

Of course he will not be divorced, and if you marry him, he will one day start treating you the same as he is treating his wife now. He is probably only wanting you to marry him because he thinks he will be able to stay. If he is from the middle east he will be used to treating his wife like a servant.

You should be getting away from him as fast as you can. You do not want to get mixed up with a married man, or someone who is breaking US laws. That could make trouble for you too.. You can look at his passport to see his status,If he won't let you see it or uses excuses, it is because he is illegal mand is lying. That is no way to start a marriage. Get out while you can. There are plenty more fish in the sea. And stay away from Muslims. Most of them treat there wives like cattle as you will find out if you stay around..

Answer 4

You and him have to go to his home country and prove you were there. Then you must wait 2 years to get married. It would be best if you just stay there with him and get married there.

Answer 5

I am trying to help but I don't know why you would married someone who is already married and has a criminal background. Immigration will know who he is and what he has done. Us Immigration doesn't just let anyone become a resident just by being married to a US citizen. It will be a long process and he will have to take care of his problems in his country before they let give him a green card.

Answer 6

Like the others ask, why would you want to marry someone who is 1) already married in his own country, and 2) has committed a crime which might cause him to have to go to jail, which is obviously why he is trying to stay in this country? He will not get citizenship immediately as someone has suggested. And since he is of Middle Eastern origin, I promise you, as unfair as it is, the IMS is going to go through his file and background with a fine tooth comb. They will find out he's married and a criminal, and you will risk being arrested for marriage fraud, among other things.

PS You might end up finding yourself married to a man who is a bigamist, criminal, AND ends up getting kicked out of the country. And he'll move on to a woman from another country who can help him, if citizenship or a green card is all he's after.

Answer 7

First of all, why do you want to be involved into a married guy who has just committed a crime in his own country ! I am afraid he is using you to get himself out of the legal trouble and may not really love you.  

I had a girl friend who was convinced to marry her new boy friend, a Pakistanian guy, when his visa was about to be over.  She married him 6 months after they had met. Later, that guy was granted the permanent residency through marriage, and he went back to his country for a vacation. 3 months after he had stayed in his own country,  he wrote a letter to my girl friend telling her that he had met a nice woman back in his own country and was planning to marry her. He wrote, based on the Muslim law, he was allowed to have multiple wives and she had either to accept him to have another wife or to divorce.  My friend was deeply hurted and file for a divorce.  The guy got what he wanted of getting the permanent residency and marrying a girl he truely loved.  It happened in Japan though.

Your boy friend may not be able to get the permanent residency after the back ground check.  He may need to produce the proof of clean record to the USA immigration department which issued by his own country the time when he files for the immigration. I can't remember clearly if he is required a background check while he is physically in the USA, but you can consult the immigration law office for help.  Howeve, if he marrys you while he is still a married man, he is also breaking the USA law.

Again, for your situation, I am pretty much for sure you are being used and you may end up having the same ending as my girl friend, lost a fake husband after his problem is solved.

Be a wise woman.......

Answer 8

why would want to married to a bad guy? You can hire a lawer and spend 10,000's and go from there.