His options, he said, are stark: He will have to find an employer to sponsor his application for a green card, or he and his wife will look for Americans to pose as their spouses, a black market service that could cost about $10,000 for each of them.
When we got back my parents then made me sponsor his visa application.
But the prospect of establishing a lasting foothold in the United States makes him, in some ways, a captive to his employer, which sponsored his visa application.
Mr. Kushner, who pleaded guilty in August to hiring a prostitute to coerce witnesses in a federal campaign-finance investigation, also helped Mr. Cipel during his time in New Jersey: he sponsored his visa application, gave him a part-time job during the campaign and arranged for him to meet with Howard J. Rubenstein, a New York City publicist.
Until recently, if a worker waiting for his green card left the company that sponsored him, his application had to go through the entire system again, a process that could take years to complete.
A 34-year-old Canadian woman whose husband was an American and was sponsoring her application for legal status says she is now in limbo, not knowing whether she and her two children will eventually be forced to leave the country.
Cash has sponsored him in his application for American naturalisation – a process that the immigration authorities have said will take up to nine years and cost up to $17,000.
She began by doing bird-rescue work with the Audubon Society and they sponsored her application for a license as a bird-salvage operator.
He rang her to say Deng wanted to come to the US to study, and the couple sponsored her application for a student visa.
When she decided to strike out on her own and purchase a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, she was turned down by the first nine men she asked to sponsor her application before a 10th agreed.
Colleges would be banned from sponsoring visa applications if applicants promoted extremist views, and would face consequences for "knowingly or unknowingly" hosting extremist speakers without challenging their views, according to the plans.
