This isn’t an “um actually,” simply a weird american thing that I’ve experienced but, marriage to your first cousin is not illegal here. Prolly should be, and you aren’t wrong about it being immigration fraud but still, if it was a real marriage, there wouldn’t be anything illegal about it.
When I got US Citizenship, my mom joked about that I should “marry my cousin¹ in China so she could get a green card” (this was like 2016)
¹she meant like her sister’s daughter
I was like:
WTF mom, that’s disgusting, pretty sure marrying a cousin is a crime. (well it is in the us)
Also, it’s marriage immigration fraud.
wtf is that “joke” lmfao, does she want me ending up in prison or something?
This isn’t an “um actually,” simply a weird american thing that I’ve experienced but, marriage to your first cousin is not illegal here. Prolly should be, and you aren’t wrong about it being immigration fraud but still, if it was a real marriage, there wouldn’t be anything illegal about it.
you’ve what now?
Yeah, pretty sure we even had a President or two who married their first cousin. One of the Roosevelts, maybe?
Edit: not FDR (his wife was a much more distant cousin), but John Quincy Adams is an example.
It’s actually illegal in most states.
Good. Shame on you Texas.