[quote=deadzone]What do you mean by “have the visa overstay thing figured out”? Is/was there some specific technique or scam?[/quote]
No I don’t know the specifics of the paper work, Some times I knew it was faked, Sometimes I heard of people going home to renew visas but not sure of the details. They got here and stayed here in large numbers , not all through marriage, but a lot that way. Most of them, I know some who struggled economically. I met a good sample of single people got gainful employment in stable positions/ companies others cleaned houses or were nannies and did other under the table work,and went to adult ed/college. Those successes = having it figured out . Even if it were all “legal “, or through marriage, which I know it wasn’t , it would still mean they had it figured out to me.