Nate

I have a friend who came to the US on a tourist visa. She ended up marrying a permanent resident. She has overstayed her tourist visa about 2 years. Can you tell me what options she has? Can she fix her status so that she can be in the US legally? What papers does she need to file?

inquisitive40

If the spouse is a permanent resident and NOT a US citizen, they may have problems, normally a permanent resident is not granted the benefits of a USC and cannot sponsor their spouse, instead they would have to wait in line to get their spouse a green card, this can take many years.
Patrick

Folinskyinla

Hi:

See a competent immigration lawyer for an IN-PERSON consultation. This is not the type of question I would discuss on a public newsgroup.

Jonathan McNeil Wong

Folinskyinla wrote:
    >>I have a friend who came to the US on a tourist visa. She ended up
    >>marrying a permanent resident. She has overstayed her tourist visa
    >>about 2 years. Can you tell me what options she has? Can she fix her
    >>status so that she can be in the US legally? What papers does she need
    >>to file?
    >
    >
    > Hi:
    >
    > See a competent immigration lawyer for an IN-PERSON consultation. This
    > is not the type of question I would discuss on a public newsgroup.
    >

And, see the lawyer before anything is filed and before she leaves the
U.S. (and, I might add, before any trouble with the law).

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