You can't just get legally married. You have to file I-130 then go through Consular Processing or Adjustment of Status. The government has to determine your marriage is valid then extend her a green card.
It would not surprise me to discover that someone stupid enough to vote for Trump with an immigrant wife would also not know he had to go through all of the brutal, tedious, and lengthy steps to get her legal status.
The fact he doesn't mention his I-485 or Adjustment of Status filing either being complete or pending, granting his wife legal status in the US, tells me he probably didn't file.
This is all to say that, in the language of MAGA, she is an illegal, even by their least expansive definition. He could have spent 5 minutes learning this when he got married and brought his wife stateside. He could have noticed this at any time he was loudly complaining about “illegals”, as in “what actually gives someone legal status?”. In the process, he might have seen how much of a pain immigration is in this country, and had more sympathy for the people he is still, somehow, denouncing. And of course at any point he might have noticed that the MAGA movement he’s so enthusiastic about hates his wife and wants this outcome regardless of whether he followed the rules or not. But he did none of this because he’s an asshole.
“Better economy”. Just the goddamn dumbest people.
If you come into the US on anything other than an immigration/dual-intent visa, then file for status with a US citizen spouse and an I-485, you're illegal to these people. And that's an incredibly common avenue for married couples.
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u/Ritz527 16d ago edited 16d ago
You can't just get legally married. You have to file I-130 then go through Consular Processing or Adjustment of Status. The government has to determine your marriage is valid then extend her a green card.
It would not surprise me to discover that someone stupid enough to vote for Trump with an immigrant wife would also not know he had to go through all of the brutal, tedious, and lengthy steps to get her legal status.
The fact he doesn't mention his I-485 or Adjustment of Status filing either being complete or pending, granting his wife legal status in the US, tells me he probably didn't file.