This week, I would like to discuss something different. Many people are not aware that in addition to the regular preference categories for family and employment based petitions, USCIS has also designated a special preference category for special imm…
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What is the Diversity Lottery Program? Every year, 50,000 legal permanent resident visas (green cards) are made available through the Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery Program. This program was created to make permanence residence available to nationals of…
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Sometimes when things don’t go as planned in a consular filing case, the visa applicant may be temporarily refused a visa. Perhaps the most common code used by the consulate is 221(g). What does 221(g) say exactly? 221(g) is can be found in the…
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In 2002, the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) was signed into law, providing much needed relief to beneficiaries of petitions who would otherwise not be able to immigrate because they had turned 21. Through application of the CSPA, many beneficiari…
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The first thing that needs to be clarified is whether your foreign born fiancé is actually here in the United States or abroad. For purposes of this article, let’s assume that he/she is not residing here but living abroad in his/her native cou…
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There is much excitement over Category F2A (the preference category for spouses and children under 21 of lawful permanent residents) becoming current next month-and understandably so. For quite some time now, this preference category has been approxi…
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According to the latest visa bulletin (August 2013), preference category F2A is now current! F2A is the visa immigrant classification category assigned to spouses and children under 21 of lawful permanent residents. For some time now, visa availabili…
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Confusion is rife when it comes to the topic of unlawful presence in the United States, as is on how long an offending alien has to wait before re-entering the United States. At the most basic level, an alien is unlawfully present when they have ente…
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There are many instances in which a person can find himself or herself ineligible to enter the United States. This could be due to overstaying one’s visa, being arrested in regard to human smuggling (which often enough involves nothing more tha…
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This week, the Department of Homeland Security announced an extension of TPS or Temporary Protected Status for nationals of Haiti. According to the public release, the extension period will begin next year, January 23, 2013, and end on July 22, 2014.…
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