dbackjon wrote:Pwns wrote:I'll explain it...she married a US citizen.
Or did I miss something.

If you are illegal, marrying a US citizen doesn't matter.
Incorrect
USCIS grants you an I-601 waiver of your ineligibilities .... almost a textbook rubber stamp- making marriage to a USC matter more than anything. Because USCs have rights - to lots of things... like petitioning for their foreign spouses
And if you came on a duration of status visa, you dont accrue unlawful presence until DHS adjudicates you to actually be out of status
So unlike someone who walks across the border, it is entirely possible - probable even - that Melania Trump has never had an immigration violation.
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