{"id":654,"date":"2012-08-23T18:55:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T00:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2026-08-15T23:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:19:03","slug":"marriage-green-card-and-possible-illegal-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Green Card and Possible Illegal Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I have been dating this guy for a time and we wish to marry at the end year but he is not from the USA. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0I have been reading many things he is here but has no visa or green card we would like to know what to do to obtain one without him having to leave<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If your future husband entered the country legally \u2013 with a visa, through the visa waiver program or even with a false passport \u2013 we can help him obtain a green card in the US.\u00a0This is a general rule as there are some exceptions.\u00a0If he did not enter legally then he will likely need to apply for an immigrant visa (green card) and a waiver of inadmissibility and ask immigration to forgive his illegal entry and other immigration violations.\u00a0Please contact our office to discuss things further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been dating this guy for a time and we wish to marry at the end year but he is not from the USA. \u00a0I have been reading many things he is here but has no visa or green card we would like to know what to do to obtain one without him having &#8230; <a title=\"Marriage Green Card and Possible Illegal Entry\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=654\" aria-label=\"Read more about Marriage Green Card and Possible Illegal Entry\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,30],"tags":[279,182],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-601-waiver","category-marriage-green-card","tag-i-601-waiver","tag-marriage-green-card"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Marriage Green Card and Possible Illegal Entry - US Immigration Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=654\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marriage Green Card and Possible Illegal Entry - US Immigration Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have been dating this guy for a time and we wish to marry at the end year but he is not from the USA. \u00a0I have been reading many things he is here but has no visa or green card we would like to know what to do to obtain one without him having ... 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