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If you are looking to bring your foreign fiancé to the United States, you will need to apply for a K-1 visa. This type of visa is for people who want to get married in the United States. In order to be eligible, you must meet several requirements. You also need to...
The U.S. immigration system is a complicated one, and you need to know what you're doing if you want to successfully emigrate here with your fiancé(e). This post will detail the most important things you should know about the process of obtaining an immigrant visa for...
A travel ban remains in place for individuals attempting to enter the U.S. from the U.K. Specifically, and outside any exceptions, anyone who has been in the U.K. in the last fourteen days may not enter the U.S. The ban does not apply to U.S. citizens or U.S. lawful...
Updates to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Policy Manual will change the review of applications for adjustment of status, more commonly known as green card applications. Under the new guidance to adjudicating officers at the USCIS, discretionary...
According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, American citizens must complete and apply for a K-1 nonimmigrant visa, commonly known as fiancé(e) visa if they wish to bring their loved one to the United States and get married in Illinois. You can sponsor your...
USCIS re-opening on June 4, 2020 was supposed to jumpstart stalled immigration cases. However, the reopening has shown disparate impacts on green card, naturalization, and H1B cases The first, in fact only, action taken by USCIS after the reopening was to gradually...
If you plan to adjust status (obtain a green card) or apply for an immigrant visa, you will need to provide the government with tax documents for the most recent tax year. In some cases, you are required to obtain a tax transcript from the IRS and submit it instead of...
On April 22, 2020, the President issued a Proclamation restricting immigration into the United States. The Proclamation is scheduled to take effect at 11:59 pm on April 23. While many people feared that it would be broad in scope, the Proclamation contains many...
You could be one of many U.S. Citizens who wished that your foreign fiancé(e) who had come to the United States on a J-1, F-1 or B-2 visa stayed in the United States, got married with you and would start an adjustment of status process to obtain a green card...
A core requirement of a marriage-based green card process is to prove a bona fide relationship. For the purpose of U.S. immigration law, it means that the couple got married with genuine intent of being united in marriage. A sham marriage that circumvents immigration...
