[FrankRizzo890]

ALMOST! The support rule that you speak of says that the sponsor will reimburse the government for any “means adjusted support” the government provides for your foreign spouse for a period of 40 quarters. (10 years).

So you don’t have to give them a credit card and let them go wild. You’re just on the hook to reimburse for welfare or the like that uncle sam provides.

[Dr. Franklin]

ALMOST! The support rule that you speak of says that the sponsor will reimburse the government for any “means adjusted support” the government provides for your foreign spouse for a period of 40 quarters. (10 years).
So you don’t have to give them a credit card and let them go wild. You’re just on the hook to reimburse for welfare or the like that uncle sam provides.

That's what I meant. It far wiser for a man to marry a foreign woman and then live abroad than it is to bring her to the U.S. There are all kinds of feminist organizations willing to help foreign scammers game the system and make their husbands repay Uncle Sam for the fraud.