Green Card Petition for Immediate Family

1. If you are a U.S. citizen you may file a petition to establish your relationship to your alien relative, who wishes to immigrate to the United States. You may file for:
   1. Your Husband or Wife;
   2. Your Parent if you are at least 21 years old;
   3. Your Unmarried son or daughter over 21 years old;
   4. Your married son or daughter of any age;
   5. Your brother or sister if you are at least 21 years old.

2. If you are a lawful permanent resident you may file a petition to establish your relationship to your alien relative, who wishes to immigrate to the United States. You may file for:
   1. Your Husband or Wife;
   2. Your Unmarried son or daughter under 21 years old;
   3. Your Unmarried son or daughter over 21 years old;

Note:
If your relative qualifies under paragraph a(3), a(4) or a(5) above, separate petitions are not required for his or her husband or wife or unmarried children under 21 years of age.

If your relative qualifies under paragraph b(2) or b(3) above, separate petitions are not required for his or her unmarried children under 21 years of age.

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Application to Replace Green Card

If you are a permanent resident or conditional resident, file this application:

• To replace lost, stolen or destroyed card; or
• To update a card after change of name or other biographical data; or
• To replace a card that is incorrect due to USCIS error; or
• To replace a card that was never received.

If you are a permanent resident, you must file this application:

• To replace a card that is expiring; or
• Within 30 days of your 14th birthday, to replace a card before your 14th birthday; or
• When you have an older edition of the card and must replace it with the current type of card.

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Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence

If you were granted conditional resident status (Green Card) through marriage to a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, you can apply for the removal of the condition. If you are still married, the petition should be filed jointly by you and your spouse through whom you obtained conditional status. You can also apply for a waiver of this joint filing requirement in certain situations.

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Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status

You may apply to adjust status if:

• An immigrant visa number is immediately available to you based on an approved immigrant petition; or
• You are filing this application with a completed relative petition which if approved would make an immigrant visa number immediately available to you; or
• At time the principal applicant files to adjust status or at the time the principal applicant is granted permanent resident status, if the spouse or child (derivative) of the principal applicant is in the Unites States, the individual derivatives may file their adjustment of status application; or
• If you were admitted to the United States as the K-1 fiancé(e) of a U.S. citizen and you married the citizen within 90 days of your entry.
• If you have been granted asylum in the United States and you have been physically present in the Unites States for one year after the grant of asylum; or
• If you have been admitted as a refugee and have been physically present in the United States for one year following your admission; or
• You are a native or citizen of Cuba and you have been admitted into the United States after January 1, 1959, and thereafter have been physically present in the Unites States for at least one year; or
• You are the spouse or unmarried child of a Cuban described above and regardless of your nationality, you were admitted or paroled after January 1, 1959, and thereafter you have been physically present in the United States for at least one year; or
• If you have continuously resided in the Unites States since before January 1, 1972.

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Fiancé(e) Visa Petition

If you are a U.S. citizen and, you and your fiancé(e) intend to marry within 90 days of your fiancé(e) entering the United States, and you are both free to marry, and have met in person within the last two years, you may file for Fiancé(e) visa petition.

Note:
Unmarried children of your fiancé(e) who are under 21 years of age will be eligible to apply to accompany your fiancé(e).

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Affidavit of Support

This form is required to show that an intending immigrant has adequate means of financial support and is not likely to become a public charge. You can file this form:

• For immediate relatives and family-based immigrants, the family member petitioning for the intending immigrant must be the sponsor.
• For employment-based immigrants, the petitioning relative or a relative with a significant ownership interest (5 percent or more) in the petitioning entity must be the sponsor.
• If the petitioner cannot meet the income requirements, a joint sponsor may submit an additional affidavit of support.

Note:
A sponsor, or joint sponsor, must also be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, at least 18 years old and reside in the United States or its territories and possessions.

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Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration

All foreign nationals who wish to immigrate to the U.S. permanently on an immigrant visa must submit a DS-230 Form, for themselves and one for each member of their family, to the National Visa Center - provided that the Petition for Alien Relative is approved by USCIS.

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Green Card Lottery Application

The annual DV program makes 50,000 permanent resident visas (Green cards) available to any persons meeting the simple, but strict, eligibility requirements from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. Applicants for Diversity Visas are chosen by a computer-generated random lottery drawing. Within each region, no one country may receive more than seven percent of the available Diversity Visas in any one year. These US diversity visas grant permanent residence and work status to qualified persons.

You and your family can win green cards. We will professionally prepare your registration for this year's Green Card Lottery. We guarantee that your application will be prepared and submitted in strict compliance with US Government requirements.

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Application for Naturalization

You can apply for U.S. citizenship if you are:

• A lawful permanent resident for at least five years and at least 18 years old;
• A lawful permanent resident for at least three years and at least 18 years old, and

  •You have been married to and living with the same U.S. citizen for the last 3 years, and

  •Your spouse has been a U.S. citizen for the last three years;

• A person who has served honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces, and

  •If you are at least 18 years old, a Lawful Permanent Resident with at least one year of U.S. Armed Forces service, and you are filing your application for naturalization while still in the service or within six months after the termination of such service.

  OR

  •You served honorably as a member of the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve or in active-duty status during a designated period of hostilities.

• A member of several other groups eligible to apply for naturalization, such as U.S. nationals. You must be at least 18 years old.

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U.S. Citizenship Application for Minor Child

If you are a U.S. citizen by action of law while residing in the United States or by having been born outside the United States to U.S. citizens parent(s), you may file citizenship application,

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Application to Replace Citizenship Certificate

You can file for a replacement of citizenship certificate:

• If you have been issued a Naturalization Certificate, Certificate of Citizenship, Declaration of Intention or Repatriation Certificate which has been lost, mutilated or destroyed.
• If errors have been made on your certificate by USCIS.
• If your name has been changed by marriage or by court order after the document was issued and you need a document in the new name.
• If you are a naturalized citizen and need to obtain recognition as a citizen of the United States by a foreign country, you may apply for a special certificate for that purpose.

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Application for Travel Document

Re-Entry Permit

If you are in the United States as a permanent resident or conditional permanent resident, you may apply for a re-entry permit. A reentry permit allows a permanent resident or conditional resident to apply for admission to the United States upon return from abroad during permit’s validity, without having to obtain a returning resident visa from a U.S. embassy or consulate.

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Refugee Travel Document

If you are in the United States in valid refugee or asylee status, or if you are a permanent resident as a direct result of your refugee or asylee status in the United States, you may apply for a refugee travel document. Persons who hold such status must have a refugee travel document to return to the United States after temporary travel abroad, unless he or she holds a valid advance parole document.

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Advance Parole Document

Advance Parole is an extraordinary measure used sparingly to bring an otherwise inadmissible alien to the United States for a temporary period of time due to a compelling emergency.

If you are in the United States and seek advance parole:

1. You may apply if you have an adjustment status application pending/you are a refugee/you are an asylee and you need to travel abroad for urgent personal or bona fide business reasons; or
2. You may apply if you have been granted Temporary Protected Status or another immigration status that allows you to return to that status after a brief absence from the United States.

If you are outside the United States and need to visit the United States temporarily for urgent humanitarian reasons, you may apply for an advance parole document, provided that you are unable to obtain the required visa to enter the United States.

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Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status

Some non-immigrants may apply for an extension of stay or change of status. Please contact us to determine if you can file to request extension of your stay or change your current status.

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Invitation Visa for Family or Friends

You may apply for a relative or a friend to get a U.S. visitor’s temporary visa to come for a short visit to the United States. You must submit an Affidavit of Support for each person you are inviting. As the sponsor you must show that you have sufficient income and/or financial resources to assure that the alien you are sponsoring will not become a public charge while in the United States.

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Work Authorization Renewal

Foreign nationals who have applied to adjust their status to permanent resident may obtain Employment Authorization Document. Employment Authorization Document is Suitable For:

• Foreign nationals who have filed an application for adjustment of status to lawful permanent resident (Green Card).
• Spouse of E and L visa holders.
• Spouse and children of J visa holders.
• F-1 students seeking optional practical training in an occupation directly related to their area of studies.
• M-1 student seeking employment for practical training following completion of studies.
• F-1 students offered off-campus employment under the sponsorship of a qualifying international organization.
• F-1, M-1 and J-1 students seeking off-campus employment because of severe economic hardship.
• Spouse and children of foreign government diplomats, officials, and NATO personnel.
• K-1 fiancé(e)’s or fiancé’s of U.S. citizens, or K-2 dependents.
• Personal or domestic servants of employers who enter U.S. as nonimmigrant under B, E, F, H, I, J or L visa.
• B-1 nonimmigrant domestic servants of U.S. citizens.
• B-1 nonimmigrant employees of foreign airlines.
• Foreign nationals granted status under the Family Unity Program.
• Foreign nationals who have been granted asylum in the U.S.
• Foreign nationals who have filed a complete application for asylum or withholding of deportation or removal.
• Foreign nationals in refugee status.
• Foreign nationals paroled as refugees.
• Foreign nationals under temporary protected status.
• Citizens of Micronesia or the Marshall Islands or Palau admitted to the U.S. as a citizen of the Micronesia or of the Marshall Islands.
• Foreign nationals who have applied for suspension of deportation.
• Foreign nationals who were paroled into the U.S. for emergent reasons or reasons strictly in the public interest.
• Deportable foreign nationals, granted voluntary departure with an evidence establishing economic necessity to work.
• Foreign nationals on V nonimmigrant status.
• Foreign nationals admitted as a parent (N-8) or dependent child (N-9) of an alien granted permanent residence
• Foreign nationals on T-2, T-3, T-4 nonimmigrant status.
• You should apply for an Employment Authorization Document (EAD) renewal six months before your original EAD expires.
• You may replace a lost, stolen, mutilated EAD or an EAD that was issued with incorrect information, such as a misspelled name.
• If the USCIS does not approve or deny your EAD application within 90 days (within 30 days for an asylum applicant), you may request an interim EAD document.

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Alien’s Change of Address

All Alien’s must file Alien’s Change of Address Card within 10 days of their change of address.

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Immigration Photographs

Photographs must be in color, passport-style, 2”x2”, taken within30 days of the date of the petition. The photos must have a white background, with no shadows and be glossy, unretouched and not mounted. The dimensions of the full frontal facial image should be about 1 inch from the chin to top of the hair.

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