Reality TV: “Who wants to marry a U.S. citizen?”
There’s a new reality tv show in the works (hat tip – reader Craig):
There’s a new reality TV show,produced by Morusa Media, called “Who wants to marry a U.S. citizen?” that aims at creating marriages between U.S. citizens and immigrants who have temporary visas. The show is already generating mix reaction from some who say the show hurts the immigration process. However, others praise the match-making concept.
“We’re out to prove love knows no borders,” says Adrian Martinez, creator of the show. “Besides, that’s what America is all about — a multi-cultural nation.”
Similar to the “Dating Game,” one bachelorette (a U.S. citizen seeking aspouse) asks three bachelors (immigrants with temporary visas) various questions. Towards the end of the show, she decides which one she would marry.
According to the show’s host, Angelo Gonzales, the show makes it clear toall contestants that it does not guarantee marriage or legal status, but willpay for a wedding party and honeymoon should a marriage result from the show.
“We’re just out to play matchmaker,” says Gonzales. “There are thousands of U.S. citizens seeking a spouse, and just as many immigrants seeking thesame. So we want to make it a win-win situation for all involved.”
Hezbollah gives the show “two thumbs up!”
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Wouldn’t this be aiding and abetting?
Obviously these mental midgets have never been to a Military installation in a foreign country. I remember going TDY to RAF Mildenhall, UK and the women would line up outside the NCO Club to get signed in to stalk American GI as husband material. Most were looking for a quick ticket to the “land of the big BX” dumping their husbands as soon as they earned their citizenship. There were those that actually married for love and liked the way we “Yanks” treated them. This is just one example I have seen it all over Europe and the Pacific were there was a permanent US Military presence. This game has been going on since the end of WWII. My wife is right there are no more original ideas left if Hollyweird.
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Does marriage automatically guarantee citizenship? I know for a fact that here in the UK, you need to be married for over 2 years before being allowed to apply for citizenship.
I’m kinda stuck even though I married my wife almost 3 years ago. I just never really bothered to send the papers in and now I gotta wait another year before being able to apply :S. But I digress.
From what I can tell, they’d still need to jump through the same hoops those who play by the rules jump through…one of them being proof that it’s a bona-fide marriage or engagement, depending on what long-term visa they apply for. So, when the interviewing officer asks: “Where did you meet?”, is “On a game show” going to pass muster?
Either way, it’s small potatoes compared to what our wonderful leaders are trying to do with their amnesty proposals.
No, but a visa can be obtained.. then theres like 7 other documents that must completed.
I saw this story on Cavuto
oops! here is the URL
http://www.foxnews.com/yourworld/index.html
No. My sister-in-law from Colombia, who came here legally, got married to my brother in 2000, took several years for her to become a naturalized citizen.
If getting married to and American citizen doesn’t guarantee citizenship, please don’t tell these people. They are trying to stick it to the US for not wanting illegals thinking they will beat us to the punch. Although it would be tough to deport someone married to a citizen, we can have the last laugh because they are under the impression this is a way to beat the system. NOT
marrying an American citizen gets you a resident alien visa (the so-called green card, no longer green); you still have to fill out enough paperwork to overflow a landfill to get the visa and then you have to wait at least two years before being able to try the citizenship test, etc. for naturalization.
The name of the show isn’t “Who wants to be an American citizen?” It is “Who wants to marry an American citizen?”. Marriage allows a U.S. citizen to sponsor a spouse for status as a permanent resident. This status is conditional for two years. At the end of that period the couple must reappear for an interview where it is determined whether it is a bonafide marrage. If they pass, the conditional status of the permanent residency is lifted. At that point he/she can stay in that status until death. At no point does he/she need to apply to be a U.S. citizen. They would only need to do that if they want to vote, serve on a jury or apply for certain government jobs.
I spent some time at RAF Chicksands in the early 1990s and saw it happen with guys and girls.
One American girl I knew got engaged and married to a British man. She was warned that he was just looking to get out of the country, but she was in love.
Not long after getting to the “land of the big BX” they got into an arguement and he admitted that he married her just to get out of England.
She called INS the next day and had him deported. The score:
Love 0, Deportation 1
Because we all know how well the last “Who Wants to Marry” show worked out…right, Darva Conger?
It’s sad that our laws, and marriage, are mocked in such a manner.
The funny thing was Mrs. Boomer and I met at RAF Mildenhall when we were both stationed at Beale AFB. I had to go half way around the world to meet my future bride. She was (and still is in my opinion) a drop dead gorgeous Administrative Specialist in the U-2 squadron and I was a cocky Boom Operator in one of the tanker squadron’s chasing the SR-71 around the world. She has told me some pretty interesting stories she overheard in the Ladies room in the NCO Club about how the women were manipulating a young GI to bring them home. Not pretty!
After this they can have a new version next season: WHO WANTS TO MARRY A TERRORIST? It could feature eligible moonbats paired up with young Arab men from the Middle East who want to take flying lessons in the U.S.
Or something along that line.
Will Elvira Arellano be on the show?
No for Elvira, the show (apparently) takes those here on temporary visas. They’d hafta change the title of the show to: “Who wants to marry an illegal alien with so much baggage you won’t have enough room to store it all?”
Boomer-I remember the Galaxy Club when I was a kid in High School over at Lakenheath; it made Playboy’s world’s top ten list of clubs in the late seventy’s. Before I joined my mother advised me not to marry foreign women; best advice, especially since she is German!
They’re not filming this at an Atlanta hotel are they?
I heard the questions were planted.
These people are just making a mockery of marriage. No commitment. No love. No honor. No respect. No for better or for worse and in sickness and in health. I certainly pray they don’t bring children into such a sterile relationship.
besides mocking the institution of marriage, isn’t this illegal?
In many situations, depending on the type of temporary nonimmigrant visa the lucky suitor/bride-to-be is on, it will raise USCIS eyebrows to see when someone here on a visa that implies no intent to immigrate suddenly submits an immigration-based visa application.
Those do receive more scrutiny. Let’s just hope USCIS keeps their eyes open on this show and raises a red flag on the “winners’” visa applications.
Hmmh, well my father in law is married to a “foreign national” and has been for about two years. She finally got her green card to come from Jamaica of all places and will be here for Christmas. She’s 25 and he’s 62-can you say sham marriage just like one that would come out of this show would be?
Boomer, 18 years ago my husband was a young 19 year old stationed in Panama. A friend of his introduced him to this sister of his girlfriend who had just broken up with her Officer boyfriend because he didn’t want to marry her. So 8 months later my husband marries her and she brings everyone in her family except for the family pet over. She gets her citizenship 2 years later and once she has everyone securely here she dumps him for the Officer she continued to keep in touch with during the 4 years she was married to him. The same thing happend to my cousin in the 80’s when he was stationed in Germany and believe it or not it also happens to us girls.
Yes, I’m sure there are many more horror stories of gold digging, green card lusting foreigners targeting Americans. The author of “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” was dumped by the man who inspired the book and movie. However, I feel that American men are casting a roving eye on foreign women because too many local women have been brainwashed by feminism into fearing the worst in the men they meet until proven otherwise instead of assuming the guys are worthy until proven otherwise.
I don’t think it’s as exciting as the reality show I created in 2002 called “Border Crossings”, where contestants are judged on their abilities to illegally cross into other countries. Of course they have several tasks to perform, like getting a fake license, obtaining work and a place to live, etc. If they get deported or put in jail, they are disqualified.
But the marrying show might have its possibilities.
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I’ve seen a lot of stories like that during my time around the Military buy normally it happened to guys. Now that the population of women has continued to grow since my early days around it I can see how some dirty bag can pull the same trick on the ladies too. Scamming a GI to get American citizenship appears to be more popular than I thought. Thanks for sharing.
What unadulterated BS! It was and should be the great MELTING POT where, while we do celebrate our unique cultures, we live, work and strive to integrate to American Society not immigrate to destroy it!
IMHO
Know where you’re coming from but ruefully deep in my heart I believe we’ve lost this battle. In another twenty-five years or so, except for pockets of hold-outs, America’s cultural landscape will seem as alien to us as the world of the 1940’s/50’s seems today. Never should’ve even toyed with bilingualism in the ’60’s; it was just the camel’s nose under the tent. I just don’t see enough people in power alarmed enough to DO something about it. What gets me is there are Americans who sincerely believe our traditional-cultural dilution is a positive thing, even though even France is wisening up (maybe too late). Norman Rockwell might as well pack up and go to the moon.
James Greenidge
Queens New York
I’m married to a foreign national-Indonesian. The paperwork is horrible. So far, it’s been a year and still more to file and pay. By the way, marrying a immigrant means you’re responsible for that person for 10 years, now. Used to be 2. So for some reason, these so-called contestants split, the citizen is responsible. Also, there is a “defrauding the government” charge that can be brought, if the split occurs right after the paperwork is finished. Remember the young ladies marrying 80 year old men for $5K so they could get a green card? Uh, uh…the gov’t is wise about that now. I don’t believe the show will last; once the lawsuits against it start being filed.
The market for this show should take care of the problem within the first season.
By the way, I once worked in the OPS shop of a brigade in Germany in which I had the only American-born wife. Many of these marriages work out.
So if there ever was an argument to end the Writer’s strike, it would be to end reality shows like this..
And get back to filming ‘Lost’
I’ve got an idea for a new show:
WHO WANT’S TO MARRY A SHOE BOMBER?
Richard Reid, via closed circuit TV, interviews one of 3 American liberal chicks and selects one to marry. After the Muslim ceremony, Richard and bride, board a remote-controled jet liner, while he is wearing his exploding shoes. Richard is given a bic lighter and the opportunity to “complete his Holy mission” OR to complete the flight with his bride and live in happiness as a newly enrolled member of the Mile High Club.
Videos of the consumation will be available only on the Playboy Channel.
Videos of the Ka-BOOM will be available only on the Military Channel.
Now all I have to do is find the financing….
Don’t allow this to be misunderstood or bigoted, but what I find infuriating is the “cuteness factor”, in this instance defined as both the creator of the show and the host having HISPANIC names.
A. It appears to presume that Hispanics – because of the unconscionable actions of their fellow Hispanics on the boarder and elswehere breaking US law – are now the “immigrant of choice” (there are hundreds of countries). Isn’t that hip? Isn’t that absolutely adorable?
B. It gives the impression of reducing multi-generational US citizens to second-class citizens in their own country. Why not a host named Jones? or Goldstein? or Chow? Or Tashimaki? or Ramaratan? Or Ratoff? Or O’Malley? Nope. Gonzales. For a show which seems to push the idea of marriages of convenience to circumvent immigration law. Isn’t that delightful? Isn’t that just too dee-lish?
let them keep being cute. When the societal backlash comes – from the people, not the fawning love-the-criminal-antihero, let’s-live-out-our-favorite-scene-from-Pulp-Fiction MSM, I have a feeling that Websters will need to redefine the word “prejudice”. That will be a shame, but at this rate, perhaps not entirely undeserved. Hispanics need to get with the program and change their national spokespeople in a hurry, before this country, fed up to the point of distraction, really does start hating Hispanics out-of-hand. And stopping the casual and arrogant breaking of our immigration laws by the millions might not be a bad idea, either.
I find fault with the Bush/Senate de facto policy of simply letting migrants and terrorists flood across the Mexican border and giving their jackpot babies citizenship, but the TV concept seems innocuous to me.
graysonret said:
When was it 2 years? How long ago was that? When I first started looking into this process back in ‘97~’98, the rule was 40 quarters (10 years). But not to worry, that rule is enforced less than internal illegal immigration enforcement rules for hiring undocumented workers. In all that time, from the more than half dozen web forums & BBSes I’ve been a part of dealing with courtship and marriage to foreign nationals , no one has ever mentioned that the Feds came to collect money due when his visa shark ex-spouse went on public assistance. Your typical runner is happy just to have his/her legal documentation to allow them to work and send money home and stay off the government’s radar. The only way it affects you is if you divorce and go back and try again, you must list the first wife as a sponsored dependent which will factor in to whether they deem that you have the ability to sponsor another émigré.
Though MC_Cat is right. That they would use a Hispanic host is “Verrry interesting … but shtupid.”
I bet this show would get great ratings. This is where everything is going it seems. The marriage for citizenship issue has been around for a long time. That would be the easiest way for anyone to gain citizenship and I’m sure it goes on all the time. It is a shame, but I don’t know what the government can do about it when they offer services and citizenship to everyone who crosses the river.
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