To protect our workforce and to help mitigate the spread of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in our communities, effective immediately, USCIS is suspending all routine face-to-face services with applicants of all of our offices, including all interviews and naturalization ceremonies.
Whether your green card application is based on family, employment, visa lottery, political asylum or any other means, everyone must file a completed Green Card, or Immigration Medical Exam ( also known as an I-693, I693, or I 693 form) before approval. If you want to get a green card “fast” (and of course that term is relative) you need a properly completed green card medical exam.
Since 2016, more undocumented immigrants are able to get their green cards through marriage than ever before. The expanded I-601A waiver means that many applicants who previously could not qualify now have this route open to them. Before 2016 only adult (over age 21) children or spouses of US citizens could apply. Since then it has opened up to include: spouses and adult children of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.
In August 2016, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expanded the eligibility for provisional unlawful presence waivers to all individuals who are eligible for the unlawful presence waiver and who can establish extreme hardship to a U.S. citizen, or lawful permanent resident (LPR) spouse or parent.