Illegally here

[sheedahgirl]

My girlfried came here on a visitors visa several years back. Now she has a two year old daughter who was born here. She wants to become a citizen or get another visa, how would she go about doing so since she's been here so long illegally. She's afraid to do anything because she thinks that she would get deported back to Belize.

I'm a citizen, and just really want to help my friend, but i'm ignorant in this subject and don't know where she should start.

Please help me help her.

 

[hadron]

The best thing you can do for her is to take her to a good immigration attorney.

In all likelihood, the only possible route her to become a permanent resident is by marrying a citizen. It is the only scenario where the goverment still has sort of an amnesty for past illegal behaviour. All other avenues like employment based immigration, or change to a different non-immigrant visa are unavailable to her as she is out of status. Asylum is unavailable as she is here for longer than a year by now.