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My brother is currently in the process of figuring out how to marry an illegal alien. Seriously. She's here, in the US, on an expired Visa. If she gets caught here she can be deported and penalized by not being allowed to return for up to ten years even if they're married. They visited a lawyer who advised them to marry in Mexico and even after they marry in Mexico she will supposedly have to spend one year back there before she can return to the US. She's terrified to return to Mexico for fear that she'll have a really difficult time ever returning and my brother absolutely doesn't want to live in Mexico. He works on a fishing boat so he spends a good portion of the year in Cabo but she's not from Cabo she's from some tiny village that she would supposedly have to return to for a single year. After they've been married and lived in Mexico for a year she would be given a green card, according to the lawyer.

So the family is just sitting back to see how the whole drama plays out.

On the plus side my brother has never seemed so in love with anyone. On the minus side she withheld the fact that she was an illegal alien for quite some time.

Hopefully they'll get it all figured out but it really is complicated. They sure don't make it easy to become a citizen and apparently all those movies where a "marriage" saves the day are bull$hit. You can actually marry a citizen and be deported. I never knew that. The rules are even more ridiculous than I'd previously understood them to be.