way OT - immigration sponsorship

We are co-sponsors for our daughter-in-law, who is from Hungary. She has
her green card and all of course, and then my son went back to school. He
was no longer earning enough to be her sole sponsor, so we signed to
co-sponsor with him. That was several years ago. They have now been
separated for 2 1/2 years, and he is in the process of getting a divorce.
She emailed and told us that if he does, we will be the sole sponsors. Can
anyone verify if this is true? It doesn't make sense to me that this is how
it would work, but it is SO hard to find out the details of things like
this. I thought I'd see if anyone here knows about these things. TIA!

Karen, Queen of Squishies
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Karen:
First, I have NO clue about this. I think an
immigration attorney would have the information.
This is my comment: do you and your DH WANT
to continue as sponsors? That is an important
issue.
Good luck, however you choose to go.
PAT in VA/USA

Queen of Squishies wrote:

We are co-sponsors for our daughter-in-law, who is from Hungary. She has
her green card and all of course, and then my son went back to school. He
was no longer earning enough to be her sole sponsor, so we signed to
co-sponsor with him. That was several years ago. They have now been
separated for 2 1/2 years, and he is in the process of getting a divorce.
She emailed and told us that if he does, we will be the sole sponsors. Can
anyone verify if this is true? It doesn't make sense to me that this is how
it would work, but it is SO hard to find out the details of things like
this. I thought I'd see if anyone here knows about these things. TIA!

Karen, Queen of Squishies

I understand we have no choice, it was clearly understood when we signed the
paper that this is a binding agreement. I suppose we could renounce her and
send her back home, but we don't want to get that drastic. There's no need
at this point. Thanks, Pat.

Karen, Queen of Squishies


Karen:
First, I have NO clue about this. I think an
immigration attorney would have the information.
This is my comment: do you and your DH WANT
to continue as sponsors? That is an important
issue.
Good luck, however you choose to go.
PAT in VA/USA

"Queen of Squishies" RisingStars @ KarenTucker.com wrote in message
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I understand we have no choice, it was clearly understood when we signed
the
paper that this is a binding agreement.

YES, indeed it is.

I suppose we could renounce her and
send her back home,

Nope!
It makes sense, tho. Allowing that option would open the door to blackmail
of the immigrants.

but we don't want to get that drastic. There's no need
at this point. Thanks, Pat.

what I dont understand is why does your son is no longer responsible
after divorcing her
must be a way to ensure people dont get married for the green card
I dont know much about this because I am getting mine under a special
category called national interest waiver because of my work but it
reminds me of that movie with gerard depardieu and the inspectors coming
to the house to make sure they were really together and asking all those
questions that I wouldnt know how to answer after ten years of marriage...

Queen of Squishies wrote:

I understand we have no choice, it was clearly understood when we signed the
paper that this is a binding agreement. I suppose we could renounce her and
send her back home, but we don't want to get that drastic. There's no need
at this point. Thanks, Pat.

Karen, Queen of Squishies


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Dr. Quilter
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(take the dog out for a walk)

No, I have discovered that she wasn't telling the truth. My son is still a
co-sponsor no matter if they divorce or not. She was trying to scare us
into talking him out of the divorce. Didn't work.

Karen, Queen of Squishies


what I dont understand is why does your son is no longer responsible
after divorcing her
must be a way to ensure people dont get married for the green card
I dont know much about this because I am getting mine under a special
category called national interest waiver because of my work but it
reminds me of that movie with gerard depardieu and the inspectors coming
to the house to make sure they were really together and asking all those
questions that I wouldnt know how to answer after ten years of marriage...
--
Dr. Quilter
http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali
(take the dog out for a walk)

makes sense now. sorry about the horrible syntaxis, I rewrote the first
sentence but left too many of the old bits... btw, you will find that
most of the INS (currently USCIS) employees are very nice and will help
you if you have the patience to wait after you call the 1800 number.
I've done it a lot in the last few years and if you are polite they are
usually very good about finding you the information you need (if they
don't know they'll transfer you to someone that does). I am almost done
with our application, btw, just went to the Dept. of Homeland Security
to have our 'biometrics' taken - read photo, fingerprints and a
signature with one of those electronic thingies that doesn't look at all
like the one I make with a regular pen - took 2 hours though...

Karen, Queen of Squishies wrote:

No, I have discovered that she wasn't telling the truth. My son is still a
co-sponsor no matter if they divorce or not. She was trying to scare us
into talking him out of the divorce. Didn't work.

Karen, Queen of Squishies



what I dont understand is why does your son is no longer responsible
after divorcing her
must be a way to ensure people dont get married for the green card
I dont know much about this because I am getting mine under a special
category called national interest waiver because of my work but it
reminds me of that movie with gerard depardieu and the inspectors coming
to the house to make sure they were really together and asking all those
questions that I wouldnt know how to answer after ten years of marriage...
--
Dr. Quilter
http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali
(take the dog out for a walk)




--
Dr. Quilter
http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali
(take the dog out for a walk)

Queen of Squishies wrote:
We are co-sponsors for our daughter-in-law, who is from Hungary. She has
her green card and all of course, and then my son went back to school. He
was no longer earning enough to be her sole sponsor, so we signed to
co-sponsor with him. That was several years ago. They have now been
separated for 2 1/2 years, and he is in the process of getting a divorce.
She emailed and told us that if he does, we will be the sole sponsors. Can
anyone verify if this is true? It doesn't make sense to me that this is how
it would work, but it is SO hard to find out the details of things like
this. I thought I'd see if anyone here knows about these things. TIA!

Karen, Queen of Squishies


Karen,

I don't know enough of this either, but I do occasionally hang out in

alt.visa.us.marriage-based

You might get help there too.

However, if she has had her greencard (by virtue of marriage to your
son) for more then 2 years, I believe she could apply for "removal of
conditions" and then she would not need a sponsor. In fact, I'm
wondering why she didn't do that already.

But do go look in the other group - most of the folks there are friendly
and know some stuff - even if the advise in the end may be to get a
lawyer, it is sometimes nice to have an idea of what is going on.


Hanne in London

Thanks, Hanne, I'll check it out.

Karen, Queen of Squishies


Karen,

I don't know enough of this either, but I do occasionally hang out in

alt.visa.us.marriage-based

You might get help there too.

However, if she has had her greencard (by virtue of marriage to your
son) for more then 2 years, I believe she could apply for "removal of
conditions" and then she would not need a sponsor. In fact, I'm
wondering why she didn't do that already.

But do go look in the other group - most of the folks there are friendly
and know some stuff - even if the advise in the end may be to get a
lawyer, it is sometimes nice to have an idea of what is going on.


Hanne in London

"Hanne Gottliebsen" wrote in message
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Queen of Squishies wrote:
We are co-sponsors for our daughter-in-law, who is from Hungary. She has
her green card and all of course, and then my son went back to school.
He
was no longer earning enough to be her sole sponsor, so we signed to
co-sponsor with him. That was several years ago. They have now been
separated for 2 1/2 years, and he is in the process of getting a divorce.
She emailed and told us that if he does, we will be the sole sponsors.
Can
anyone verify if this is true? It doesn't make sense to me that this is
how
it would work, but it is SO hard to find out the details of things like
this. I thought I'd see if anyone here knows about these things. TIA!

Karen, Queen of Squishies


Karen,

I don't know enough of this either, but I do occasionally hang out in

alt.visa.us.marriage-based

You might get help there too.

However, if she has had her greencard (by virtue of marriage to your son)
for more then 2 years, I believe she could apply for "removal of
conditions" and then she would not need a sponsor. In fact, I'm wondering
why she didn't do that already.

Not sure if she *could* but I do know there is no incentive for her to do
so. The sponsorship agreement in essence binds the sponsors to support the
immigrant.


But do go look in the other group - most of the folks there are friendly
and know some stuff - even if the advise in the end may be to get a
lawyer, it is sometimes nice to have an idea of what is going on.


Hanne in London