Sponsoring 2nd time?

[konikpolny]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Illinois

Here is my question...

A US Citizen by Naturalization, married a woman 12 years ago and sponsored his wife so she obtains a US Citizenship. She did...

12 years later, marriage did not work out, both got divorced.

Now he is 40 years old and finds a 31 year old woman with 2 kids that he falls in love with and wants to marry. She is not a US citizen and neither are the kids.

Questions????

If he marries her, will he be able to sponsor her and give her and the kids citizenship. Keep in mind that he has done this in the past 12 years ago already.

Are there any rules on "how many times a US citizen by naturalization" can sponsor others for citizenship?

Technically if there are no rules a US Citizen by naturalization would be able to marry every 5 years and sponsor a new spouse every 5 years...

The spouse that receives citizenship through marrage, after a divorce, can that spouse sponsor someone if they get re-married, or is this a one time deal?

 

[Proserpina]

He is free to sponsor another immigrant - provided the marriage is genuine and not a scam to obtain a green-card. However if he has a pattern of marrying, sponsoring and divorcing immigrants he WILL come under scrutiny and might have a rather unpleasant future ahead of him.

To clarify though, here's how it works.

US citizen sponsors immigrant.
Immigrant becomes Permanent Resident.
If they're still married after 3 years, immigrant can apply for naturalization.

If the immigrant does not naturalize, the US citizen is on the hook to guarantee support of the immigrant unless one of these things happen - and this applies even if they get divorced:

Immigrant dies;
Immigrant abandons their permanent resident status;
Immigrant has 40 qualifying social security "quarters" and thus will be able to obtain welfare etc;
Immigrant naturalizes.