AILO Kaye A. Y. Evans - 1981 to 2011 

FAMILY IMMIGRATION

FAMILY PETITIONS

1. RELATIVE PETITIONS

These petitions may be filed by parents and step-parents to be joined by their children or step-children; citizen children to be joined by their parents; husbands and wives to be joined by their spouses; brothers and sisters to be joined by their siblings; and sometimes even grand-parents may be able to immigrate their grandchildren, depending how they got their status and depending the current status of the parents of the grandchildren. This sometimes avoids the longer wait when a lawful resident parent is petitioning.

2. FIANCEE PETITIONS

Relative petitions also include fiancée petitions which may be filed by United States citizens to immigrate their fiancés or who are in the United States or overseas. These petitions, when approved by Immigration, gives the beneficiaries of the petitions the right to apply for permanent residence at the United States embassy if they remain overseas, or at the Immigration Service office nearest to their residence if they are in the United States.

These petitions permit an individual to enter the United State within approximately 6 months.

In the case of fiancé petitions, the fiancé or fiancée will be eligible to apply for adjustment of status to that of permanent resident in the United States after they enter on an approved fiancée petition and marry their United States fiancée or fiancé.

If you have questions, please call 323-658-1111 or send an email to: admin@immigrationhelp.net