IF, and it's a big IF he does get a visa, it will be a conditional visa so if he messes up within the time limit, she can have something done about it...I know only too well this whole process as I've went through it before and I didn't use a lawyer but that was my choice....had to fight the government about it and it took another year before they re-approved him and he got the visa (he was Moroccan)...by then he was eligible for the IR-1 at that time...about 6 months after that is when he started his BS...yes he was a scammer and unfortunately it was my first experience with that so I was completely clueless and it was definitely the end of giving any other fraudster a visa but believe me, the rats will still try even when told they aren't getting a visa...when I met my Tunisian rat, years later, he stayed married to me for nearly 8 years secretly hoping that I would give in on that when he was told the day we met that if he was looking for a visa that I was the wrong one (he was an extremely good actor who portrayed himself to be genuine and I believed him at the time because of how long we'd been married...he belongs in Bollywood).....they can be very persistent to the point of wearing the woman down and they can be VERY patient....so hopefully this clown she married will show his true colors before she gets in too deep, like him being caught with lots of different profiles with different names and still she might forgive him until she finally can't forgive him any longer, especially if there has been quite a bit of time invested.....and a word of advice, these rats know how the visa process works better than the nationals do in their own country...they do their "homework" way ahead of time...I wasn't willing to share this part of my story here yet, but for the sake of trying to help your friend, I hope to inform you of what I went through before because any little piece of information can help someone else