Getting Married For The Green Card (Citizenship)

Marrying For The Green Card/Citizenship!

Nigerian men/women in the US/UK especially students sometimes marry just for the Green card, so they can change their visa status.  Now the question is have you done it before? what were your experiences? would you do it again? Is there any *better*way to do it, Who is the best person to do it with? If you would not do it what are your other options?
was it worth it? I know this is a personal issue so you don't really have to be specific.

I would appreciate your honest answers and feelings about this issue.

Lol@Zubudaya, Wallahi this is too personal
Well, if u must know, i have never had to get married 4 papers but if I had no choice and so much depended on staying in that particular place i might jsut do so. I mean, people do this all the time as you're aware of it. In terms of what is the best way, i don't think there is such a thing, a woman/man gotta do what a woman/man gotta do

Good luck  

i was on a date with this British girl once and she asked me the same question. i didnt have to think before saying NO.
its like selling yourself to slavery in a foriegn land. i don't see the reason why anyone should get married because you want american or british citizenship. i can understand if an illegal immigrant uses this method, but students and other legal residents have better options.
please bear in mind that i speak for UK, we have HSMP(Highly skilled migrant program), various work permits programs, ancestral visas and working holiday maker program that can lead to citizenship. Come 2008, there are plans for a point system like that practised in Australia and Canada which will obviously favour current/past students and other legal residents in regards to becoming citizens.
infact why should we bother with foriegn citizenship that costs so much, the only thing they have in these countries that we don't have in Nigeria is the Underground/ Subway.

oh !I almost forgot, we have no government.

its quite hard to do that in the uk especially if your illegal co they ask for your passport and all that.

I was kind of suprised when clocky said that once you graduate you can change your status, because i know in the US once you graduate you have one year to find an employer, if you don't find an employer to file for H1-B you. you pack your bags and go home.


I hear you have to be with the woman for over 2 years, what if she comes back and requests for more money or she goes to the authorities? what if when you divorce her she wants half? divorces are messy. or what if she wants to marry her soulmate and asks you for a divorce,  It's not as easy as they make it sound

@OldGlory

Wetin be your comment here o.

Diddy you know I got you!

Adjustment of status through marriage to a US citizen is by far the most realistic option open to someone with a visitor's visa.
Students face a much tougher process adjusting to permanent residence or even to a work visa, since after 9/11.  Students must return to their home country at the completion of their study and wait 2 years before they can be eligible to adjust their status.

@Akolawole

My comment is that the owner of the thread should ask me when last i slept with my woman, instead of the stupid questions he has up there. Like anyone would say. It is non of his business. There are many easier ways to get a green card, instead of the headache of marriage. www.uscis.gov

@Zebudaya

Where are you? I think if anyone married for papers and got their green card, they should make it a point of duty to keep it to themselves. Your questions are a bit too personal.

Mochafella

You have it all wrong. I spoke to Akolawole yesterday over the phone, and we have agreed to disagree on our basic opinions. I think we left the conversation with a mutual respect for each others opinion. The current fight is between "Jackal and Akolawole" and it has lasted nearly a century. It is now UK on UK fighting. The topic is in "Career" and it is about HSMP VISA. Check it out. FYI: (Jackal is currently on the run)

i still don't see the point in having an arranged marriage when you can have the real thing for free. there are bare british/american girls that are single or single parents especially that you can marry and get on well.

It is something that alor of people are doing now, they are men and women out there who are ready to do an arranged marriage at probably a cost of $15000 to $20000, it just depends cost can varies. You get married you process your documents, when you have gotten your papers, then you divorce and move on with your lives.

ive heard of people who have been stuck in this mess even with nigerian /african american girls.

Adjustment of status through marriage to a US citizen is by far the most realistic option open to someone with a visitor's visa.

maybe it is ok in the USA but it would be impossible for a visitor to use that method in the UK

Hello Guys and Dolls  


I am torn here, first i agree to an extent,because i feel so much for people who come to the Uk and see it as a chance to make something of themselves. I am biased because i like to see my Bros and sisters from Naija make a go of their lives. However, it's breaking the law which i am not for, i believe you don't come to somebody's house and $hit on their doorstep or stick two fingers up at their laws , it rubs people off the wrong way, still i hope to see a system where people are
allowed to come in without so much restrictions, but then again its a hard one cause the country they trying to obtain permenant residency from has to have these rules, on the number of people in it cause at the end of the day resources can go so far.

I find those who  marry for this reason ,meeting an unsuspecting girl or man and luring them to the altar under false pretenses is vile. Actually i will take the stance of a CAPITAL NO to this practice because, it is wrong lawfully and wrong if you are coming from a Christian angle(which i am) It makes a mockery of the institution of marriage

I find those who come and after obtaining the card or residency do not contribute to the country, sucking govt resources dry, go about doing crime( fraud etc).

I do want to see a Nigerian do good for themselves, we do ok  from what i see , some other foreign nationals(name no names) in London for instance do nothing but sit on their backsides,go about robbing people and sit on handouts for years and years, all this after getting a the right to leave permanently

Best thing is do things properly and lawfully, that way you not looking over your shoulder.

I have a friend who wanted to see if I could help him with that but I couldn't simply because I have my own fiance to file for but this guy decided to do it with one akata and he ended up not getting it because the akata always was requesting for sex without protection for whatever her reason was. The lady later requested for the  3/4 of the money b/4 she could make a move which was given to her but later she changed her mind and she refused to give the guy his money back and that guy couldn't sue her  nor do some thing about it because he knew he was gon' be in a hot soup. He lost his money though.

  Well If I wasn't here with my papers I wouldn't do it either but if you want to do it then go with Naija person or any other African because Akatas are smart about it now. Either you end up paying child support if you are not careful like some many Naija guys I know or they keep on requesting money from you which if you reject then you are done.

don't see anything wrong in the idea but I can't do it 

please zebudaya, which one be temp green card? they gone give u your green card even if it is temp which i doubt it is, you can still work and do stuff with it.

it is better than visa.

my man, nobody asked you to contribute. it is if you like and since u consider it so personal, why did you bother commenting?