What are the requierments for us citizens when they decide to live outside us for 1-2 yrs?

Question

what will i be expected to do when living abroad. (my fiance is being deported to the philippines and he's asked me to go with him. Knowing its a bad choice.) Can anyone offer any instructions or expertice thank you very much. Or even remind me again why I wouldnt want to do this.

Answer 1

US citizens can live outside the USA as long as they want to.

Bit of advice, ditch the criminal alien boyfriend!  If you don't it will end in tears!

9 out of 10 marriages between a US citizen and illegal alien end in divorce within 5 years.

You will be treated as an outsider among his friends and family.  He will take his hostility out on you.  You will be in a foreign country/culture without a support network.

But you will probably do it and then in a few years, we will see your question posted here:

"I'm a US citizen in the Philippines and my husband and his family hate me and beat me.  How can I get back home, since he won't let me have any money and he keeps me locked up during the day."

The answers you get will be full of sympathy for you, but no real advice.

Then your husband will find out what you wrote and will beat you severely and we will read about it in the newspaper in some small corner.

Your choice.   Make a wise decision now.

Answer 2

as long as you're not part of that deportation, you can visit on a tourist visa...as long as you dont explain you are visting a deported national. or if you plan on staying for awhile, maybe a J-1 visa (Student/work) visa might be suffice. Only requirements is that you would have to enroll in school.  a J-1 visa will only allow you to intern at a job there.

Answer 3

There seems to be a lot of confusion with the answers about immigration and legal requirements, but stick to Yak Rider and Dognhorsemom and you will be on the right track - they know their material.

As for whether it is a right choice for you - bear in mind that you will be a foreigner, and always stand out.  Especially if you don't have a lot of money, it will be very hard for you - you won't know the language or the culture, and you will find it very difficult to be accepted.  I suspect your boyfriend will easily be drawn into the old, male dominating cultural role, and he will also be around an endless supply of local girls wanting to ease you out of the picture.

Answer 4

Yak Rider is an expert on Philippine immigration; believe what he writes.

And it's correct that you cannot lose your US citizenship except by renouncing (not 'denouncing') it, but staying in the Philippines will be difficult.  Here is the US government's take on it:

http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/livin...

http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_p...

http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_p...

Answer 5

Once an American always an American.

Answer 6

your still a citizen unless you denounce your citizenship. Also anyone who makes you give up your life for thiers to go to the unexpected is a shady character. Unless it is your decision which if you love him than go but if you get married wouldn't he get legal rights to stay here. Unless he is being deported back for doing a crime?

Answer 7

You'll find getting a long term visa to the Philippines expensive and difficult to obtain unless you get married to him.  There's no guarantee the USA will ever issue him a visa.