We now have an 11-month old baby girl, and we're both 18. I want to make her my wife, but I have to do it soon because I plan on joining the Air Force in order to support her and our baby, but I really want to station in Japan which means she must have a passport, and that means she must be a citizen. She is fully illegal, she didn't come to the US with a visa or anything like that. She first came to the US illegally with her parents when she was 5years old. I read that if you are an illegal alien tha wishes to marry to become a citizen, that you must leave and return to your home country for 10 years as punishment before you can request for a status change. The problem is I truly love her, and we can't afford to wait that long, our daughter will be 11 years old by then.
I also heard about a more affordable way to do it, but it sounds sketchy and I want to learn more info before I jump at it and end up doing it worng. I read online(website similar to this one) that you an go to you're fiance's home country, go to her home town/state and go to the Ameican Consulate or something like that to brig her back the legal way to it'll take less time to file and be more affordable as well. I don't know though, I never heard of such a thing. And would I have to get married to her here in the US or in Mexico? I heard something about going to the Consulate first and then having to marry her within 90 days. Please help me out, our future depends on it and we really have no idea what we're doing, at this point we can'r afford to consult a lawyer about it.