RedHeadMarine
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I'm a Lance Corporal in the United States Marine Corp. I was stationed overseas in Okinawa Japan for two years. I went on a MEU (Marine expeditionary Unit) and visited several countries. One of them was the Philippines. I met my fiance there and at first I was going to take leave from my unit in Japan to meet her and marry her so I could take her with me to the U.S. This proved to be such a hassle that I was advised to wait until I was in the U.S.
That's not even the main issue anymore though. While I was still over there she was hit by a bus and had to have a craniotomy. I helped pay for this operation. This is not a scam, I saw the pictures of her in ICE and I was given photocopies of the receipts and doctors notes from "Our Lady of the Pillar Medical Center." She recovered and the plan remained the same...then she received information from the doctors there that she had less than a year to live because she was going to die from a brain hemorrhage. That happened in April and she told me last may. I instructed her to apply for a tourist visa with the plan in my mind that she would come over to the U.S., I would marry her and then get her military medical care. I've been told by a few people that you can upgrade visas to allow spouses to stay and the only reason I didn't have her apply to a marriage visa was because by the time it would have filed through I would have been deployed to Afghanistan with 3/7 and then it would do her no good because I'll be gone until May 2012. She will die in that time. Everything went according to plan and she now has a tourist visa ready to use. But I was just informed by my 1st Sgt that this plan is somehow "insurance fraud." I'm furious and beside myself with confusion. How is my plan in anyway illegal or fraud? It's not like I plan on divorcing her after the operation! I love her, want to save her life and life with her for the rest our lives. I just wanted to do it all in one visit of very brief pre-deployment leave because I leave for Afghanistan by Sept 15th. HELP!
That's not even the main issue anymore though. While I was still over there she was hit by a bus and had to have a craniotomy. I helped pay for this operation. This is not a scam, I saw the pictures of her in ICE and I was given photocopies of the receipts and doctors notes from "Our Lady of the Pillar Medical Center." She recovered and the plan remained the same...then she received information from the doctors there that she had less than a year to live because she was going to die from a brain hemorrhage. That happened in April and she told me last may. I instructed her to apply for a tourist visa with the plan in my mind that she would come over to the U.S., I would marry her and then get her military medical care. I've been told by a few people that you can upgrade visas to allow spouses to stay and the only reason I didn't have her apply to a marriage visa was because by the time it would have filed through I would have been deployed to Afghanistan with 3/7 and then it would do her no good because I'll be gone until May 2012. She will die in that time. Everything went according to plan and she now has a tourist visa ready to use. But I was just informed by my 1st Sgt that this plan is somehow "insurance fraud." I'm furious and beside myself with confusion. How is my plan in anyway illegal or fraud? It's not like I plan on divorcing her after the operation! I love her, want to save her life and life with her for the rest our lives. I just wanted to do it all in one visit of very brief pre-deployment leave because I leave for Afghanistan by Sept 15th. HELP!
