Posts Tagged ‘Immigration Attorney’

Seattle Immigration Lawyer | The Marriage Route to Getting a Green Card Cont’d – Living in the U.S. and Married to a LPR

I have used the last three postings of the Seattle Immigration Lawyer Blog to discuss this popular topic and after this current posting it will be time to move on. In this last scenario, if the immigrant spouse is living in the U.S. and married to a U.S. LPR, the LPR files the visa petition with USCIS, which goes into the now familiar “lockbox.” When the immigrant spouse’s priority date is current, or close to that time, the petition will hopefully be approved.

But, here is where it really gets ugly. The immigrant spouse living in the U.S. who is married to a U.S.

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Seattle Immigration Lawyer | The Marriage Route to Getting a Green Card Continued – Living Abroad and Married to U.S. LPR

As any decent immigration lawyer will tell you, it’s easier to get your green card if you are married to a U.S. citizen rather than a U.S. lawful permanent resident. But, in writing my immigration lawyer posts on obtaining a green card, I want to cover as many options as possible. So, in the case of an immigrant living outside of the U.S. who is married to a U.S. lawful permanent resident (LPR) spouse, as usual, the U.S. spouse starts the process by mailing the visa petition (I-130) to USCIS.

Now, here comes the bad part. A visa petition from a U.S.

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Seattle Immigration Lawyer | The Marriage Route to Getting a Green Card, Continued – Living Abroad and Married to U.S. Citizen

In the case of an immigrant living abroad who is married to a U.S.

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Seattle Immigration Lawyer | Asylum Basics Continued, Referral to Immigration Court or Granted

If Your Asylum Case is Referred to the Immigration Court:

First, to be clear, a referral to the Immigration Court is not a denial.

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Seattle Immigration Lawyer | Asylum Basics, Continued

Picking up where I left off last…

The Asylum Interview:

Once the application is filed, you will receive a notice to go the nearest USCIS office for fingerprinting.

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Seattle Immigration Lawyer | Asylum Basics Continued, The Application

If you are not in removal proceedings and wish to apply for asylum, you must file a form I-589.

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Importance of an immigration lawyer

Immigration is actually moving of a person from one country to other settling temporarily or permanently. But here the immigrant is used for the permanent resider and not the casual visitor. The migration is done due to many reasons like economic reasons, national reasons etc. Gaining permanent residency i.e. Green Card is based on the various types of opportunities like employment opportunities and that to require passing through many of the steps i.e. it is a multi step process. In order to obtain a Green Card one need to choose the path of USCIS under lawful permanent residency.

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