[Mz]

To those folks who keep saying "get married", a couple of questions, out of curiosity:

A) Did you even read the entire post? He states his lawyer has already recommended that and he has already ruled it out.

B) Do you realize this is a public forum and (assuming you are in the US) you can be potentially tracked down and theoretically charged for encouraging someone to break the law?

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To the OP: I have tried to do some googling. Law is not my strong point and I'm not finding what I want, but I am curious if there is a means to seek amnesty based on the fact that you were brought here as a child, so had no real choice in immigrating illegally. If I find something to point you to, I will post it. If not, please consider researching that angle as well.

Best of luck.

[lutorm]

There is no amnesty, unless congress passes another amnesty act (fat chance, given the current climate). As someone said, the Dream Act would do what you are thinking, but that's not likely to pass either.

[Mz]

I'm not so sure about that: My mother was given a "hardship exception" to immigrate here. And the googling I have done so far indicates that historically we tended to give amnesty to individuals rather than whole groups and this is what was different about the 1986 Amnesty Act (Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)). So while there may be no wholesale amnesty available as an easy out, that doesn't mean there are no exceptions being made. If I were in this situation, I would be asking a) when and why they make such exceptions? and b) is there any hope I can get such an exception? If so, how?

So I think they do sometimes make exceptions, on an individual basis. That is the angle I would look into.