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To: shades who wrote (54650)	8/11/2006 7:41:57 AM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 116555

These folks that do this Moo - do they have the person sign contracts that can't be later overturned from a judge? Do you know anyone personally that has done this? I'm talking about people who are partners anyway, one reason to actually get a marriage contract would be to facillitate smooth immigration if one partner gets an opportunity to immigrate. I know a couple of cases: One an ultra-liberal Dutch couple who got married before coming to the US. Another couple in the US from China who hung onto being married while the green card application for one partner went through taking the other one with them before they get divorced. Australia has a much more liberal standard on this. If you can show you have lived together with someone for 2 years = "defacto marriage" you can immigrate together. Inside Australia this is the accepted standard too. But then there are fewer benefits for spouses anyway in the Australian system. No joint taxation. No social security either etc. LOTS of benefits though for families with children. And the latter is the only reason I can think that the state should concern itself at all with any of these family issues. Why couldn't you find an american to marry and get yourself on the fast track? Sure I know plenty of those cases but they are all real. It's a faster track but not an ultra-easy one either.