Hello!

Hello. I just found this website. I've been looking for a place like this for a while now, but haven't found anything so organized as this. This is great.

I'm married to a wonderful woman who was brought here when she was 15 by her mom. They entered without inspection. When she was 17 she got pregnant by a USC. We met at age 21, and have been married for 8 months now, all for the right reasons

I'm excited to take part in this community and hope, as you all do, that the DREAM Act will pass and allow many people like my wife to have a happy, normal life.

I wonder how the current laws expect people like my wife to act. She was younger than 18 when she was brought here by her mother, and then before she turned 18 she had a child. What do they expect her to do?? The child's father doesn't work and is basically a loser. Is she supposed to just leave the child with him and return to her home country? No way. But under the current laws, she's being punished for trying to do the right thing.

Thanks in advance for all the help and support!

Hi. I am new here also. I am very interested to join and take part in the discussion regarding immigration and laws that govern foreign citizens in the US.
Thanks so much and I hope I can gain more knowledge on the subject by being part of this online community.

quick questions rufus, are you a USC?

If you are, have you been in contact with a few lawyers and asked what they think her chances would be to be granted a waiver from facing the ban in Mexico? considering that she has a USC child that is dependent on her, the age when she entered the country, the length of time she has lived in the country, and assuming you are a USC, a spouse that can petition her, the chances might not be too bad, but, ask several lawyers, and definitely, don't jump at the first one that says he can do it, ask lots of questions, research thoroughly, cross reference with other trustworthy and very good lawyers, to say this would be easy would be a pretty significant understatement, but it could be a potential option.

I haven't talked with any immigration lawyers yet. Ive been researching as much as I can and hoping that the DREAM Act would just pass and avoid all these problems. I definately will finally talk with lawyers in the near future. I figured she must have a really good chance considering all the circumstances. Yes I am USC. I was hoping for the DREAM Act to pass rather than going the waiver route. It seems to risky for me to just put her out there in the open and make it known that she's here. And if the waiver is denied, then what? She gets deported? And like a year or two later the DREAM Act passes... That would be very sad!

Yeah, it is very risky, but at the very least start asking questions, hope for the best but prepare for the worst, make sure to know that the path is actually feasible and start figuring out what would be needed, not necessarily to undertake that path but know that there is something you can turn to if something happens.

The DREAM Act has been going up for the past 10 years and it has been getting more and more complex, with more and more requirements, however, the actions have also been escalating in publicity and even though it failed to pass during the lame duck session, it was not even expected that it would go up for vote at all, much less that it would pass the house, or be so close. It's impossible to say what the outcome will be in two years, and what the requirements will become. I would not say they will be more strict or more lenient, but we will certainly aim for a more lenient version next time.

I agree! Thanks for the encouragement. Knowledge is power as they say, and besides, it helps me and my family feel more secure about our futures, which is a really hard thing to do considering the circumstances. I've learned so much since I've joined this site.

We've been working on some other stuff lately, but our priority for this next year will definitely be talking with lawyers and finding out as much as we can about what we can do.

Just beware of the lawyers that you get in contact with, there are some that will promise you that they will get results when they can't and are really after your money, you should really look for lawyers that are referred not one that you see in some ad somewhere. A good resource of good lawyers might be an active organization in the area, I would suggest looking at the list of the organizations listed here.

Ooo. None of those are in New Mexico. Yea, we're working with a lawyer right now, but for something else, and it's very frustrating. Someone needs to write a training guide on how to deal with lawyers. It's a scary thing, haha.