Divorce and immigration status

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Programbo - 01 Jul 2009 03:28 GMT

Hello. To make a long story short I'll skip the details and ask
the most basic question. A US born man goes to Vietnam and marries a
woman he has known there for years..He comes back to the US and goes
thru the process of sponsoring her and she arrives in the US and is
given a "Permanent Resident" card..They live together for 5 years and
she goes and takes her citizenship test and retest but fails because
of English comprehension problems. Anyway after being married 8 years
of which 5 are spent living together here in the US the couple gets
divorced..My question is will this negatively affect the womans status
immigration wise of is she here regardless now?..If the divorce is
based on the womans infidelity (Adultary) would that change
things?..Or is the divorce a seperate matter at this time and has no
bearing on her trying to become a US Citizen?..Thanks in advance

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Joe Feise (Immigration) - 01 Jul 2009 05:30 GMT

Programbo wrote on 06/30/09 19:28:

> Hello. To make a long story short I'll skip the details and ask
> the most basic question. A US born man goes to Vietnam and marries a
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> things?..Or is the divorce a seperate matter at this time and has no
> bearing on her trying to become a US Citizen?..Thanks in advance

If she has had a GC for that long, she obviously has an unrestricted GC, so
divorce is irrelevant for the GC.
She may not get naturalized until 5 years after the adultery, but that's it.

-Joe

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