- Jurisdiction
- New York
I married a foreign national who came to the US. After our marriage, I sponsored permanent residency for him.
He then refused to earn an income, do domestic chores, or have sex with me. There was no medical impediment to sex as he had sexual relations with several women in my neighborhood. He received financial and social benefits from me (medical insurance, food/shelter, familial marriage gifts that he refused to share access to) and my legal responsibilities to him as his Residency sponsor.
In short, he scammed me. He openly admits this is what he intended to do. I think this gives me grounds to annul the marriage.
He disagrees, saying that spouses have no legal obligations to each other in the U.S.
Right now this is simply an academic point of contention between us. Regardless of what else happens we'll divorce. I'm wondering if there are any resources online that spell out the basic legal responsibilities of spouses to each other? If nothing else, there ought to be responsibilities for immigration purposes. I find it highly doubtful that it would be impossible for a marriage to be a sham for a visa as long as one partner believed it was genuine.
To sum up: what are the bare minimal responsibilities spouses have to each other before one spouse is scamming the other to the point that the marriage is not genuine? This would either be in New York State to prove grounds for an annulment, or on the Federal level to prove grounds for immigration fraud?
He then refused to earn an income, do domestic chores, or have sex with me. There was no medical impediment to sex as he had sexual relations with several women in my neighborhood. He received financial and social benefits from me (medical insurance, food/shelter, familial marriage gifts that he refused to share access to) and my legal responsibilities to him as his Residency sponsor.
In short, he scammed me. He openly admits this is what he intended to do. I think this gives me grounds to annul the marriage.
He disagrees, saying that spouses have no legal obligations to each other in the U.S.
Right now this is simply an academic point of contention between us. Regardless of what else happens we'll divorce. I'm wondering if there are any resources online that spell out the basic legal responsibilities of spouses to each other? If nothing else, there ought to be responsibilities for immigration purposes. I find it highly doubtful that it would be impossible for a marriage to be a sham for a visa as long as one partner believed it was genuine.
To sum up: what are the bare minimal responsibilities spouses have to each other before one spouse is scamming the other to the point that the marriage is not genuine? This would either be in New York State to prove grounds for an annulment, or on the Federal level to prove grounds for immigration fraud?