During COVID it’s very hard to know how long an application can take. However if you have you been waiting a long time for your application for a Green Card, Work Visa, Student Visa, or any other immigration application? We’ve had a lot of success going through the immigration service to speed up applications that have stalled or are just taking too long.
USCIS published its new fee schedule – with some significant or even dramatic increases – on August 2 of this year, to go into effect on October 2. USCIS conducted a comprehensive biennial fee review and determined that current fees do not recover the full cost of providing adjudication and naturalization services.
We’ve been getting a lot of panicked phone calls lately from clients who have been granted their permanent residency, but whose green cards are expiring. To this I always answer: don’t panic. Unless you have a conditional 2-year green card, your permanent residency is…well…permanent. Even if your green card expires you are STILL a permanent resident.
If you are in a gay or lesbian marriage, can you get a green card if one spouse is already a green card holder or US citizen? The short answer is YES. Same sex marriage has been legal nationwide in the United States since June 2015…
Close to 800,000 people in the United States have been protected (more than the current population of Seattle) under the DACA executive order that came into effect under former President Obama. If you include those young people that applied for the program and didn’t get into it, or those who were eligible, but hadn’t applied yet, all in this change affects upwards of over a million young people in the United States and their families.