Please...need help

[fgerth]

I have a question regarding a friend of mine who came to the US from Poland. She came to the US about 3 years ago with a tourist/visitor visa set to expire in 2010. After a year or so, she met a guy and fell in love and eventualy married him. As a result she changed her status to recieve permanent residence (Green card) through her marriage. To make a long story short, her husband was arrested one day and the authorities discovered he has a false identity and isn't even a US citizen. Not only that, he is charged with also creating fall documents (id, social security, and immigration papers for others).

She had no idea about all this. She is extremely devastated and for the past four months, her husband has been in jail trying to negotiate with a FBI to help catch other people that create false documents as he did.

She has no idea what to do. Obvioulsy, her status in now in question snce they are based on a false identity.

What can she do to remain in the US? Can she go back to her tourist/ visitor visa? She wants to go to school here as well. Can she get a school visa?

Please help...what are her options?

Thanks in advance.

 

[fgerth]

bump...please help

 

[vulpasin]

She needs to see a good immigration lawyer ASAP.

Asolutely, she has to see a very good immigration attorney.
In my humble opinion, I don't think is much that can be done, more, I'll say that if she's not charged with anything related to this case she should consider herself lucky.
Just a curiosity, she's concern about staying in US, what about her husband, any concern for the man she married from love, I assume, not for Green Card only?

 

[hadron]

If he beat and abused her, she might have been able to file something under the 'victims of traficking' angle. But if they were just a normal couple, I don't think that would fly.

If she has been a PR for 3 years, she could try her luck and file for citizenship. Chances of this getting approved are slim, but if it goes through she would be relatively safe. While they do take away green-cards if they find out that the underlying paperwork was fraudulent, the process of stripping someone of their citizenship is pretty long and rarely used by the authorities (most of the cases were nazi war criminals).