My Story (Please give me some advice!)

I met my fiance in French class at college two and a half years ago. I fell in love with him and want to marry him and have children with him, but I'm terrified all the time because he is here illegally. His parents brought him over when he was 3 and when his sister was 4. I love him and his family so much and I don't want to see anything bad happen to them.

I know that the Dream Act will affect the children that have been brought over illegally, but it will also help people like me... and our children. My fiance and his sister have never done anything wrong and they and their future spouses are paying the price. We can't travel together. We can't have anything nice because he can't get a good job... I could go on forever. All you guys know.

They have gone to college (amazingly a Cal State college let them in and allowed them resident tuition) and now they don't know what they can do with their degrees. (The Dream Act WILL help them now that they've graduated, right? They've been here for 21 years.)

Sometimes I really want to just move to Mexico because life would probably be easier for us, but this is their home too and they don't want to leave. My country has failed me. We're going to be poor for the rest of our lives because he can't get a good job, he has to pay hefty fines for driving (or doing ANYTHING), my future sister-in-law is in $30,000 debt with a hospital because she had to get her appendix removed. (Do you guys know if I could put him on my insurance and have me not get in trouble?) And he won't get any of the social security back that he's made.

Do you guys think that if Obama wins the Dream Act will actually pass? My fiance and his family don't think it'll ever happen, so we're trying to get green cards through marriage, but I don't think that's possible. A lawyer told them that it's the only way to do it, but none of the forms cater to those who CAME illegally. If anyone has any advice for me, please help! I'm going to look around on the forums, but I highly doubt I'll find anything.

Also, I know I can write to my congressman about the Dream Act, but is there anything else I can do?

Welcome to DAP!

Obama has said that he will pass the DREAM Act in the first 100 days of his presidency. Senator Durbin (sponsor of the bill) also works closely with Obama which is a good sign. Of course we can never be 100% sure, but I'm hopeful something will happen in 2009-2010.

I don't think you'd get in trouble for putting him on your insurance. I actually have insurance through work, so I believe it's possible. Other members can correct me if I'm wrong.

Yes, you can get legalized through marriage. Check out this sticky, it has a lot of great information about it.

One more thing! In CA, thanks to AB540, undocumented students are allowed to pay in-state tuition rate as long as they meet certain requirements (graduated from a CA high school, lived there for 3+ years..). There's tons of information around the forum, you can use the search function to look for them

If you are a U.S. citizen and you guys get married. Happily ever after

not really not if he entered illegaly. but just marry him he'll have to go to mexico and wait.

You can marry and petition for him and it will be a long and expensive process and like someone said previously he/she would need to wait outside in their own country. You can visit the immigrate2us.net forum and ask some more questions there.