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Although not clear from your question, I presume that your fianc?e and her son are located abroad. If that is accurate, you may apply for a fianc?e visa that would authorize her to come to the U.S. in order to marry you within the required time, and then you could sponsor her in a marriage-based adjustment of status application process. Alternatively, you could marry her in the Philippines and then proceed with Consular Processing. There are pros and cons to these approaches, and if your fianc?e and/or her son already may be in the U.S., other options should be explored too, each with its own pros and cons and legal requirements. It would be wise for you and your fianc?e to consult with an immigration attorney who, after learning all of the relevant details, would be able to advise you about immigration eligibilities, options and strategies and offer legal representation for the application process.

Generally, a single DUI offense will not stand in the way of a foreign national's eligibility to be sponsored by a wife in an immigration adjustment of status application. You mentioned a "hold" in another state, but it is not clear to me what offense that may relate to, and of course there are many other details that need to be addressed in order to provide an immigration legal analysis for your husband. There really is no substitute for you and your husband to consult with an immigration attorney who, after learning all of the relevant information, could advise about eligibilities, options and strategies to attain your goals, and who then could offer legal representation in the often complex application process.

The marriage-based adjustment of the status application process includes a medical examination and determination about whether an applicant may have a "communicable disease of public health significance" per INA 212(a)(1)(A)(i). Some sexually transmitted diseases/venereal diseases can render an applicant ineligible for immigration benefits, such as gonorrhea and syphilis (at an infectious stage). Of course, health-related grounds for inadmissibility are only some of the details that determine immigration-related eligibilities. It would be wise for the man you mentioned and his spouse to consult with an immigration attorney who, after learning all of the relevant information, could advise about eligibilities, options, and strategies to attain the couple's goals, and who then could offer legal representation in the often complex application process.