[HN Gopher] Sex and the citizenship process ___________________________________________________________________ Sex and the citizenship process Author : akiselev Score : 28 points Date : 2023-03-29 19:47 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (lux-magazine.com) (TXT) w3m dump (lux-magazine.com) | robertwt7 wrote: | > Now, submitting graphic materials like this is generally a bad | idea. | | No shit, what are these people thinking? after all of the years | of hardwork to get the citizenship, they would just send it for | what? for fun?? | dangerlibrary wrote: | Literally the next paragraph: | | "The fact is, the government does tend to view certain types of | unions as more "legitimate" and certain types of spouses more | worthy of citizenship. "Expectations of sexual intimacy are | implicit in all of the laws around family reunification for | [mixed-status] couples, and I think some couples try to make it | explicit in order to demonstrate the legitimacy of their | relationship," said Jane Lilly Lopez, a sociologist at Brigham | Young University and the author of Unauthorized Love: Mixed- | Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the | State. | | Is it any wonder that couples misread the subtext and send in | NSFW stuff?" | vkou wrote: | > they would just send it for what? for fun?? | | USCIS instructs you to provide proof that you're in a 'real' | relationship, and half the people in the world are below- | average at exercising good judgement... Or at parsing weird | written and unwritten bureaucratic rules. | grecy wrote: | So, ah, how would a person who is above-average prove they're | in a "sufficiently committed" relationship? | jMyles wrote: | > No shit, what are these people thinking? after all of the | years of hardwork to get the citizenship, they would just send | it for what? for fun?? | | The article dances around the subject a bit, but I think that | the answer to your question is still clear: | | They do it because, in their minds (and let's face it, they're | not wrong) it will undercut questions about whether they are | serious about their claims to be in a consummated marriage, | which is the legal requirement. | | And, as the article points out, this tactic does sometimes work | (which is also not a surprise). | | I don't understand criticizing the people submitting what is | common-sense evidence of what the system requires. If you want | the "porn" to stop, then change the system. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-03-29 23:00 UTC)