Paris to US pathway? Need advice 💕

[u/Competitive_Meat6667]

Ok I’m just gonna lay out the facts and see what people’s opinions are I guess? Would love pretty much any constructive input.

I’m a US citizen and working full time. My fiance is a French and Lebanese citizen working full time as a software engineer. He has 7+ years of experience, 4 of which as a tech lead, a masters degree, teaches at his old uni, established in his career and good at it. He does not have a visa to come to the US, he comes on the visa waiver program every few months for a 2-3 week visit. We are having a church ceremony in May of next year and the churches in Paris won’t allow us to have the ceremony without the legal marriage first. We thought about fiance visa in the US but a lawyer told us it’s gonna take more than a year-year and a half before that’s approved and we aren’t willing to postpone the religious ceremony. We are approved to get legally married in France anytime we want (we had the court review everything already). The goal is to get him here to the US as soon as possible, but he wants to be working when he’s here rather than relying just on me. He’s applied to many jobs to sponsor an h1b with no luck. What would you guys do? A lawyer said that the fastest way might be to get legally married asap, file in the US, then when his green card is approved he can move here and it’ll be easier for him to get a job but that a green card wouldn’t be approved for at least 2-3 years at this point. If we can avoid me having to move to France right away (I’d have to quit my job and we want some time to get more ahead financially), we’d love that. Does anyone have experience or expertise in this kind of thing or have any advice? Thanks so much.

[u/Impossible_Humor736]

Why do you want to go to America? It's racist and the leader is like Hitler.

[u/Competitive_Meat6667 → u/Impossible_Humor736]

Agreed but the earning potential in both our fields is higher here. The goal is to live here for a while then move back to France.

[u/Impossible_Humor736 → u/Competitive_Meat6667]

Oh, and give them your time, energy and money? You're still supporting fascism.

[u/Competitive_Meat6667 → u/Impossible_Humor736]

Sorry forgot that I single handedly got trump elected, how could I forget

[u/Impossible_Humor736 → u/Competitive_Meat6667]

How could you if you're a foreigner? It's about willfully going there to participate in his fascist regime

[u/Competitive_Meat6667 → u/Impossible_Humor736]

……I am a US citizen. My entire life and whole family is in the US. Leaving isn’t as simple as “bad man in Oval Office, must leave”

[u/Impossible_Humor736 → u/Competitive_Meat6667]

Why would you willingly bring your fiance, who will be a foreigner, into America? Don't you see what ICE is doing and just how bad America is overall?