Divorce prior to Greencard
Aug 22nd 2007, 4:11 am
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Divorce prior to Greencard
Hello
My wife and I are both Mexican nationals. We married there 9 years ago
and came to the US under my working visa in 2002. My boss is now
sponsoring my grreencard and we just filed the form i-485. So we are
at least 18 months away from getting approved. And in the meantime
we'd come to a difficult point in our relationship where divorce has
been talked about as a real possibility. The problem is we have a 2
year-old, US-born daughter. If we divorce I'm pretty sure my wife
would want to go back to Mexico. Which is fine by me. Except, can she
take the child with her back to Mexico? I've heard the law is usually
on the mother's side, but is that still the case even when that would
mean taking a child, a US citizen, back to another country? I don't
want to go back to Mexico and lose everything I've worked for and try
to start from scratch on a meager Mexican salary, but I love my
daughter and don't want to lose her either. Any help would be
appreciated.
DR
My wife and I are both Mexican nationals. We married there 9 years ago
and came to the US under my working visa in 2002. My boss is now
sponsoring my grreencard and we just filed the form i-485. So we are
at least 18 months away from getting approved. And in the meantime
we'd come to a difficult point in our relationship where divorce has
been talked about as a real possibility. The problem is we have a 2
year-old, US-born daughter. If we divorce I'm pretty sure my wife
would want to go back to Mexico. Which is fine by me. Except, can she
take the child with her back to Mexico? I've heard the law is usually
on the mother's side, but is that still the case even when that would
mean taking a child, a US citizen, back to another country? I don't
want to go back to Mexico and lose everything I've worked for and try
to start from scratch on a meager Mexican salary, but I love my
daughter and don't want to lose her either. Any help would be
appreciated.
DR
Aug 22nd 2007, 12:30 pm
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Re: Divorce prior to Greencard
While the child is a US citizen, it's entirely possible that she is also a citizen of Mexico... but yes, your wife can take the child to Mexico as long as she has your written permission to remove the child from US jurisdiction.
Ian
Ian
Aug 22nd 2007, 4:01 pm
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Re: Divorce prior to Greencard
On Aug 21, 9:11 pm, Desp71NY <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't want to go back to Mexico and lose everything I've worked for and try
> to start from scratch on a meager Mexican salary, but I love my
> daughter and don't want to lose her either. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
Marriage counseling would be nice...
P
> I don't want to go back to Mexico and lose everything I've worked for and try
> to start from scratch on a meager Mexican salary, but I love my
> daughter and don't want to lose her either. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
Marriage counseling would be nice...
P
Aug 25th 2007, 8:07 am
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Re: Divorce prior to Greencard
She can only take the child to mexico if she has your written permission.
Yes the law is on her side and she will get the custody of the child (if she
has a clean record) however, she cannot remove the child from the country.
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"Desp71NY" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> My wife and I are both Mexican nationals. We married there 9 years ago
> and came to the US under my working visa in 2002. My boss is now
> sponsoring my grreencard and we just filed the form i-485. So we are
> at least 18 months away from getting approved. And in the meantime
> we'd come to a difficult point in our relationship where divorce has
> been talked about as a real possibility. The problem is we have a 2
> year-old, US-born daughter. If we divorce I'm pretty sure my wife
> would want to go back to Mexico. Which is fine by me. Except, can she
> take the child with her back to Mexico? I've heard the law is usually
> on the mother's side, but is that still the case even when that would
> mean taking a child, a US citizen, back to another country? I don't
> want to go back to Mexico and lose everything I've worked for and try
> to start from scratch on a meager Mexican salary, but I love my
> daughter and don't want to lose her either. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> DR
>
>
Yes the law is on her side and she will get the custody of the child (if she
has a clean record) however, she cannot remove the child from the country.
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"Desp71NY" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> My wife and I are both Mexican nationals. We married there 9 years ago
> and came to the US under my working visa in 2002. My boss is now
> sponsoring my grreencard and we just filed the form i-485. So we are
> at least 18 months away from getting approved. And in the meantime
> we'd come to a difficult point in our relationship where divorce has
> been talked about as a real possibility. The problem is we have a 2
> year-old, US-born daughter. If we divorce I'm pretty sure my wife
> would want to go back to Mexico. Which is fine by me. Except, can she
> take the child with her back to Mexico? I've heard the law is usually
> on the mother's side, but is that still the case even when that would
> mean taking a child, a US citizen, back to another country? I don't
> want to go back to Mexico and lose everything I've worked for and try
> to start from scratch on a meager Mexican salary, but I love my
> daughter and don't want to lose her either. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> DR
>
>
