How does an illegal immagrant become legal?

Question

If someone is here illegal and they want to become legal how do they go about doing so.? My friend is married to an illegal imm. and he has no papers,social, or greencard and they want to make it so that he can get his papers and such without having go back to his home (mexico). Where does he go to get help?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Contact an immigration lawyer. He may be able to stay, but more than likely will be asked to leave during the application process. The lawyer may be able to prove something like 'financial hardship' if he were to leave during the process, but being illegal makes it a slippery slope. It could still take years to get approval anyways. If your friend is a permanent resident or citizen, they've been married for awhile, and have kids, then it should be easier. But still, talk to a lawyer. They'll know how to get around the pitfalls your friend's husband's status has created.

And by the way, if he files for a vistor or employment visa so he can come back during another visa's application (marriage visa is probably the one you'll use), then he's committing visa fraud and is banned from entering the US permenantly. So if they ask him to leave, just do it. It's better to be apart for awhile than a lifetime.

Answer 3

He needs to get his sorry *** back to Mexico, fill out the papers, pay the fees, and wait in line JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. Stop asking for special favors just because you've already managed to break a few laws and you're already here. That makes me want to send him back and NEVER let him back in. People like this want something for nothing and don't deserve anything.

Answer 4

Well, he should have thought about that before he got married. Go back to Mexico and apply for a visa, once he has that, he can move in legally.
He may be able to do that at a Mexican Embassy.

Answer 5

Your friend is harboring a criminal and is equally a criminal too. So are you because you know about it and do nothing. Illegal immigrants blatantly ignore the laws of this country the second they step over the boarder.

Turn him in and then he can try to come here legally.

Answer 6

They go back to their home country and apply for papers there.

Answer 7

If your friend is a US Citizen then the spouse is OK. Nothing to worry about.

Answer 8

MYTH
Undocumented immigrants don’t pay taxes or contribute to the U.S. economy, and instead take advantage of social welfare programs.
“Controlling illegal immigration is also an issue of fairness to American taxpayers. Is it fair if people are using public services like schools and roads, but are not paying taxes?”
--Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, May 4, 2006

FACT
The myth of “lazy” immigrants cheating U.S. taxpayers and living off welfare couldn’t be farther from the truth.

According to a 2004 study by the Urban Policy Institute, virtually all undocumented men--96 percent--and 62 percent of undocumented women are in the workforce. According to a March report from the Pew Hispanic Center, of the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., 7.2 million were employed in March 2005, making up approximately 4.9 percent of the labor force in the U.S.

Overall, immigrants--both documented and undocumented--are a huge boon to the U.S. economy. And as for what’s “fair,” the U.S. government takes far more from undocumented immigrants than it ever gives back.

In 2001, then-Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan testified before Congress that in the state of Illinois alone, "[undocumented] workers pay $547 million in taxes yearly, compared to $238 million in services used"--a net “profit” for Illinois of $309 million. And according to a report in last year’s New York Times, each year, undocumented immigrants pay an estimated $7 billion more than they get from Social Security and $1.5 billion more than they get from Medicare.

The Internal Revenue Service issues “Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers” (ITINs) to allow undocumented workers to pay income taxes. Since 1996, 9.2 million of these numbers have been handed out. According to the Los Angeles Times, last year, 1.2 million people paid taxes using ITINs.

Answer 9

they become legal, by going back home and staying there,

Answer 10

long hard process good luck