All foreign people who have married US citizens, please help!?

Question

Please tell me your experiences of marrying a citizen of the USA and your living arrangements. Were you able to get a job? Describe your challenges and all else.

Answer 1

Well, my ex-husband is a US citizen...living in Canada as a landed immigrant. I like Americans, even though he is my ex. I love the US too. Luckily, I live very close to the border. I know that if we moved to the US when we were married, it would take some string-pulling by an employer to get me a working visa. Someone we knew was going to do that for us several years ago when we thought about moving. You still have to apply for your Permanent Resident's card (or green card, or w/e they call it now). And you have a waiting period, and you cannot always just hop on into the US just because you married a US citizen. It's quite complicated, and you could end up being separated by living arrangements for quite some time.

Answer 2

Im getting married with a US citizen here in Germany,since we are getting married through the German laws we have to translate all of our paperwork, Im from latin america so my affidavit and birthcertificate were in Spanish, but I found a translator and she did that for us, his had to be translated into german too, since he is in the military I can only work on base basically, cause I dont speak German, we wont sing a pre nup, he doesnt want to, so if we did get divorce it'd be half and half and if we have kids you always get child support no matter what, I always wanted to marry an american because of they way they treated me (I always had an american bf), sometimes it can SUCK when his family doesnt know you yet and thinks you are marrying him for "money" (I come from a good family though so is not that), or ppl judge you cause hes from there and you from somewhere else so that kind of sucks but thats something you have to be able to deal with, but overall is nice, I think if you are going to live in the states is even easier, you have more things to do and better jobs to choose from.
A marriage isnt easy either way, and coming from different cultures may make the differences between you both more obvious, from the kind of food to the way of thinking on some topics, but no one say marriage was easy, plus the best things in life come when you work hard to get them!
If you love him you shouldnt care at all what ppl say, just be happy with him/her, dont give up when challenges come, oh btw what I do with him is that when we get upset to eachother I dress up and look all pretty instead of getting even more pissed so when he comes home he sees Im trying to be better, and not keep getting mad over the same thing, but instead trying to make it better
Oh and the visa thing, since hes in the military they kind of take care of it, they will give me a new passport and permission to stay in Germany, but I also have to apply for the "green" card
Good Luck!