My mother is a naturalized citizen of the US, i am unmarried over 25, and she has filed for me to join her, i have a priority date of JAN 2004, i need to know what this means and how long will this process take, i am travelling to the US next week will this have any implications on my application? is there any way to speed up the process or to legally live in the US temporarily?
2006-08-03 00:56:03 · 4 answers · asked by trini_4_real 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
The priority dates mean that a petition is reviewed based on its filing date. In your case, you petition will come up for review once the USCIS are at the stage they are reviewing petitions FILED in Jan 2004. In real terms, I think the backlog is about 2-years so, you can expect your petition to be reviewed roughly 2-years from your filing date. Unfortunately, premium processing is only available for a select type of petitions typically work visas and so forth. Until your petition is reviewed and approved, you must apply for VISA to enter the US which could be tricky since some visa categories e.g. tourist and student are non-dual intent visas which means that you cannot have an immigration petition pending to be eligible for those visa types. The H category of viasa are work visas and are dual intent visas. So if you can get a US employer to sponsor your work visa then you could live and work in the U.S. until your petition is approved assuming it is before the H visa (usually given for max. of 6-years) runs out.
2006-08-03 03:08:13 · answer #1 · answered by boston857 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, you will not at once become a criminal everlasting Resident (LPR) it quite is the right term for a green card holder, which certainly hasn't been the colour green for approximately 50 years. it quite is properly referred to as an enduring Resident card or an I-551. maximum each and every guy or woman born on US soil is a US citizen and whilst that guy or woman turns 18, they might have the skill to petition so which you will become an LPR, yet you receive not something at once out of your newborn being born right here.
2016-12-11 05:51:47 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Acutally, the correct website is www.uscis.gov for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. I used to work at an immigration office, but I never handled that aspect of it... I worked on N-400 applications for naturalization. Wish I could help you out better, but their website is very thorough, so you should be able to find an answer to your question there.
2006-08-03 01:54:28 · answer #3 · answered by j.f. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to www.bcis.com and see if your answers are there...INS takes there time no matter where you are from
2006-08-03 01:00:05 · answer #4 · answered by Jessi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋