WHAT RIGHTS DOES IT OFFER TO BE MARRIED TO A US CITIZEN?

By
abhinay pandey
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Marrying an American citizen in the USA is a special situation that many immigrants choose to get legal security or live unplanned in the course of their lives. The important thing is that you know the rights you have when you marry a US citizen and use them in the most appropriate conditions . 

Marrying a US citizen can offer you countless different opportunities if you have both in the US and in Turkey. If your spouse is not only a green card holder but also an American citizen , you can go to America to live and work. Your spouse must vouch for you   and show that their family income is 125% or higher of the US poverty line.

Actions to be

Taken According to the definitions, “Immigrant” is a  foreign national who is allowed to work and live in the USA. Because of your spouse, who is an American citizen, you have to go through a lot of procedures to become an immigrant. As a first step , your spouse ,  who is a US citizen, must file an immigration petition for you with USCIS . Next, the   state government will issue you an immigrant visa number (whether or not you are in the United States at the time). Thirdly, if you are in the United States ,  you must apply for permanent residence status. If you are not , you should go to the  US consulate and do the necessary procedures for an immigrant visa. When you apply for permanent residence,  

 If you have only been married for less than two years, you will be granted “conditional” permanent resident status. FOR LESS THAN 6 MONTHS: Green card holders have the freedom to travel outside of the United States as they wish. They have to have the documents and bona fide marriage affidavit sample they need when they come back to America, the passport and green cards of the country of nationality. Travels lasting less than 6 months do not cause any problems.

How to Get an Immigrant Visa Number?

If your spouse, who is a US citizen, wants to take you to America and your spouse’s immigrant visa petition is approved, your  immigrant visa number will be issued very quickly. But the situation is slightly different if your spouse is not a US citizen but a legal permanent resident. If your spouse’s petition to take you to America has been approved ,  you may have to wait for a while, according to the preference system, because the number of immigrant visa numbers issued each year is limited and you may not get a number immediately after the immigrant visa petition is accepted.

The most important issue: Work permit After

all your procedures, you  do not need to apply for a separate work permit after obtaining an immigrant visa or obtaining permanent residency status . You must obtain proof of permanent residency (or the ‘Green Card’ as it is commonly referred to), which indicates that you can live and work in the USA permanently. If you are in the United States and have applied for permanent residency status (by filling out the USCIS I-485 form), you can apply for a work permit while you are still processing. For this, you must fill out the I-765 form. 

5 GOLDEN RULES TO NOT CANCEL GREEN CARD

Things not to do are:

  • Obtaining permanent residence in another country;
  • have been uninterrupted outside the United States for more than one year;
  • stay more than 2 years after obtaining the legal right of entry and exit outside the USA;
  • Not to declare Income Tax while you are a Green Card holder;
  • Declaring on Income Tax that your domicile is not America.

TAX OBLIGATION OF GREEN CARD HOLDERS 

Green card holders have an obligation to declare income tax in the United States every year according to federal, state and city, and “Even if you get all of your income from abroad as a green card, you will not be exempted from this obligation. Green card holders residing in the USA. According to the Tax Treaty between the United States and foreign countries, they will be exempted from paying taxes a second time on their income from foreign countries, pursuant to the prohibition of double taxation. However, this legal regulation does not mean that they will not declare their income from outside the United States”.

THE RIGHT OF GREEN CARD HOLDERS TO TRAVEL ABROAD

Green Card holders must spend the legally specified periods in the United States uninterrupted in order to apply for American Citizenship, and periods legally spent abroad for more than one year in each semester violates the rule of uninterruptedness required by law.  Here are the things that green card holders should pay attention to when traveling:

FOR MORE THAN

6 MONTHS BUT LESS THAN ONE YEAR Green card holders who have traveled outside of the United States for more than 6 months but less than a year will have an obligation upon entry to the Immigration Officer to prove that they have not stayed to obtain residence in a foreign country during this time. In this case, the burden of proof lies with the foreign national.

RIGHT TO ENTER THE COUNTRY AGAIN. 

Our citizens who plan to stay abroad for more than one year must obtain permission from the Immigration Office before they leave the United States in order to stay abroad and protect their green cards. With this legal permission, they can stay abroad for up to 2 years and protect their green cards.