The process to apply for an immigrant visa for your parent who is outside the U.S. is called consular processing. To apply for an immigrant visa for your parent who is outside the U.S., you must be a U.S. citizen over the age of 21. Permanent residents are not eligible to apply for an immigrant visa for a parent. The steps involved in the application process are as follows.
Yes, you can apply to change your B2 status into an F1 status. However, to attend this school and change your nonimmigrant status, you must meet the following criteria before filing Form I-539, Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status.
If your student status expires before you leave the U.S., you will begin to accrue “unlawful presence” for each day that you remain inside the U.S. To avoid this from happening, you can apply to change your visa status from an F1 student to a B2 visitor. To qualify for a change of visa status, you must submit the following to USCIS.
As a lawful permanent resident, you may submit visa applications for the following family members: (1) your spouse, (2) your unmarried children under the age of 21, and (3) your unmarried children over the age of 21. When immigrating to the U.S., the spouse of a permanent resident may bring his or her unmarried child under the age of 21 years old as a “derivative beneficiary.”
You can apply for an immigrant visa for your father, but you cannot apply for a visa for his new wife. After your father immigrates to the U.S. and receives his green card, he can then apply for an immigrant visa for his wife.
A U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (a green card holder) can apply for a green card for an unmarried child under the age of 21. During the application process, the U.S. petitioner must prove the existence of a parent-child relationship. If the U.S. petitioner is the child’s mother, the mother just needs to provide the child’s birth certificate.
A U.S. citizen who is under 18 years of age may apply to renounce her U.S. citizenship. She will have to convince a U.S. consular officer that she understands the consequences of renunciation and that she is renouncing her U.S. citizenship of her own free will.
If USCIS requires you to attend a second interview, this means USCIS has serious doubts about the legitimacy of your marital relationship. At the second interview, USCIS will separate you and ask you a series of probing questions. You should both invest a lot of time to prepare for this interview.
If, at the time you enter the U.S. on a tourist visa, you intend to immigrate to the U.S., you may be ineligible to receive a green card. However, if, at the time you enter the U.S. on a tourist visa, you fully intended to timely depart from the U.S. and decided to immigrate only after entering the U.S., you may be eligible to receive a green card.
You must answer “Yes” to these questions and any other applicable questions. For immigration purposes, the expungement or sealing of a criminal record does not mean the criminal record does not exist. You must answer all questions on the green card application truthfully without regard to the expungement of your record.
A U.S. citizen can apply for a K-1 visa to allow a fiancé(e) to travel to the U.S. The K-1 visa application process has four unique stages. Below is a detailed explanation of each of these four steps.
If your foreign spouse is outside the U.S. and wants to immigrate to the U.S., the first step is to file Form I-130. Together with Form I-130, you must also submit supporting documents to prove that your spouse is eligible to immigrate to the U.S. Here is a checklist of the required documents:
No, your I-751, petition to remove conditions on residence will not automatically be denied. Even though you and your spouse both signed your application, you must still notify USCIS about your wife’s death. Below is a list of items you need to prepare to file with your request.
To apply for your 10-year green card, you need to provide evidence of your relationship from the time your 2-year conditional green card was approved through the time you apply for your 10-year green card. You need to submit the same categories of evidence, but you do not need to submit evidence that you previously submitted.
If you received your green card through marriage but your relationship is not going well or you have already divorced, it may still be possible to maintain your lawful permanent residency. There are several possible considerations in this regard.