us citizen DISADVANTAGES marying an illegal

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noblepacino

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hello. illegal marrying us citizen. us citizen has scholarship, health care, etc what are the losses for the us citizen after marriage with illegal alien? In case illegal alien has no employment and in the case he has a job.

p.s. they will get a sponsor within the family of the us citizen.

Thanks
 
The US citizen and the joint sponsor(s) will be financially responsible for the immigrant spouse according to the terms of the Affidavit of Support (I-864) until the immigrant becomes a US citizen or accumulates 10 years of Social Security credits.

Did the illegal alien enter the US legally with a visa? If not, that may already destroy the chances for a green card.

If it is a sham marriage, the US citizen could be prosecuted for immigration fraud.
 
illegal entered legally overstayed visa. thanks for info. do you know if the us citizen will lose any rights (health care from parents, scholarship at the college, etc) after marriage?
 
noblepacino said:
illegal entered legally overstayed visa. thanks for info. do you know if the us citizen will lose any rights (health care from parents, scholarship at the college, etc) after marriage?
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NO! Nothing should change for you if the marriage is legit.
 
For athletic and merit-based scholarships, the marriage should have no effect.

If a scholarship is need-based, the university or state or other organization that gave the scholarship may adjust the scholarship money up or down based on the new situation, taking the new spouse's finances (or lack thereof) into account. In particular, instead of looking primarily at the income of the student's parents, they might instead look only at the married couple's finances. But every scholarship is different they'll have to investigate the rules for the particular scholarship.

Being dropped from the parent's health insurance after getting married may happen, depending on the insurer's rules and the laws of the state.

Taxes will have to be filed as married*, which could result in more taxes being paid, although in most cases married-filing-jointly brings a tax reduction if one spouse earns much less than the other spouse.


*if they marry now, they would still file as single for the tax returns due in April of this year, since this April is the due date for 2011 tax returns, and they weren't married yet in 2011.
 
wow, thank you very much, fast and efficient answers . ok... so i would have to ask the school bout the scholarship, and the health care company about the procedure in case this and that. A possibility that some downside occur is likely, i understand. Got to run to the institutions to clear this, in any case illegal will have no job, and one of the us citizen's parents will sponsor the illegal until first legal papers will be available. Thank you all! This forum rocks!
 
If getting married causes the citizen spouse to be dropped from the parent's health coverage, the school may offer an inexpensive group policy that students can sign up for without screening for preexisting conditions. Check out what is available through the school.

Note that the possible consequences to need-based scholarships and health care don't really have anything to do with the spouse being an illegal immigrant, they are due to the fact of being married. When asking the various institutions, don't ask about what if somebody marries an illegal immigrant, ask what happens if they get married.
 
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