 Age Gap in Spousal Petition Edgar Allan Poe, Geena Davis, Michael Douglas, John McCain, Demi Moore, Paul McCartney, Madonna. These famous personalities have one thing in common ・they are, or were, married to much younger spouses. Although some have raised eyebrows on their May-December affair, the general perception of the adoring public leans more towards acceptance. As they say, age is only a number. But the skeptics also say, love may be blind -- but the neighbors can see. And for those who plan to petition an alien spouse, that neighbor is the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services or the USCIS. Click the following to access the article: Conditional Green Card The other thing that you have to know is that you will be getting a conditional green card. This is because you have been married for less than two years (as of the date of the interview). The only condition of your green card is that it will be good for only two years. You will have to go back to the USCIS within the ninety day period prior to the second anniversary of your conditional green card. Click the following to access the article: K-3 Visa Brings Your Family Faster to the United States The Legal Immigration Family Equity (LIFE) Act of 2000 seeks to address this issue by creating a nonimmigrant classification for spouses of citizens and their children to expedite their entry to the United States. This new category is the so-called K-3 visa. It is available only to the spouse and children of U.S. citizens. It will allow Juliene to go to the U.S. to complete the processing of permanent residence there. Click the following to access the article: Immediate Relatives Do Not Have Derivative Beneficiaries It is important to lay down the definition of immediate relatives because they have the unique advantage of migrating to the Unites States without visa numerical limitations. This simply means that their immigrant visas are immediately available. In contrast, other relatives such as spouses and children of immigrants have to wait for several years for their visa numbers to become available. Click the following to access the article: U.S. Citizen Must File Separate Petitions for Wife and Kids Somehow, Alex already knew that something was wrong. The notice he received from the NVC does not mention his kids. Instead, it says that a separate petition must be filed for each immediate relative. Although Alex was consulting us only about the affidavit of support, he was already suspicious that he committed a blunder in filing the petition. Click the following to access the article: Illegal Drugs Will Disqualify You From Getting Your Immigrant Visa Notwithstanding the reported admission by no less than two U.S. presidents that they were into marihuana during their more adventurous years, U.S. immigration is very tough against users of the weed and other illegal drugs. In fact, even if the doctors do not find any trace of the illicit substance in your blood, if you so much as insinuated to them during your medical examination that you had used one in the past, your quest to go to the U.S. would be torpedoed. Click the following to access the article: Abused and Abandoned The law you are referring to is the Violence Against Women Act (or VAWA). xxx The rationale of the law is to protect victim spouses who are forced to endure their pain in silence for fear that they will be deported from the United States, or because they feel inadequate being in a foreign land. Such fear, as the law views it, is not present or compelling when the victim is in her own country. Click the following to access the article: Can You Petition Your Stepdad? Patrick comes from a modest and conservative Filipino family. Although his father is just a government employee and his mother a plain housewife, they are able to send him to a top Catholic university in Quezon City where he finishes civil engineering. They dream that Patrick will find not only a good job but also a good wife from an affluent family. After all, he is their only child Click the following to access the article: A Child is Born Christmas nears and we are once again reminded of that glorious event some 2000 years ago when a Child was born in Bethlehem. Spiritually, Christ痴 birth means our salvation. Historically, it marked the beginning of Christianity which would reach the shores of the Philippines some 1,500 years later. Traditionally, it provides us with a reason to share gifts, hold Christmas parties, attend simbang gabi, and eat noche buena with our family. Click the following to access the article: Returning Resident Visas (Avoiding Airport-to-Airport) Ruth wants to return but is concerned that she has already forfeited her green card. She fears that the immigration officials at the LAX will send her back to the Philippines without even letting her see the outside of the airport. She told me in the vernacular “Attorney, baka ma-airport to airport ako.” Amidst all her anxieties, Ruth has asked for our advice on what to do. Click the following to access the article: |
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