Family Based Immigration
There are many ways to obtain immigration status from your family. Options to apply through family based immigration are below.
Family Petitions
Is the procedure by which an U.S. Citizen or a legal permanent resident asks the government to grant an immigrant visa to a foreign relative. Those that are eligible include, parents, spouses, children, and siblings. However, legal residents can only petition for spouses and children. Call our office to find out if your situation corresponds to one of these possibilities and what options you have.
Fiance (E) K-1 Visa
The Fiance(e) Visa is a nonimmigrant visa that allows a foreign person to come visit
Their Fiance(e) for 90 days for a marriage ceremony to take place. Once the couple is married, the spouse may apply for permanent residency to remain inside of the United States. If, on the other hand, the couple decides not to marry, then the foreign Fiance(e)must return to their country of origin. Call our office if this is something you are interested in doing. We will evaluate your case and help you prepare the best visa application possible. We will accompany you in every step of the process and guide the couple until the fiancé(e) has obtained their Visa.
Nonimmigrant Visas for Husband Type K-3
​It is a nonimmigrant visa that allows the wife of an American citizen to enter the United States to see her husband and to apply for residency within the United States. This visa is not the residence but a permit to enter the United States to apply for residency.
Family Unity
A process that existed many years ago when immigrants applied for the amnesty of 1986. Under this process, an immigrant parent could ask for their child and their child could stay in the United States with a permit. The permit allows them to work while the family request is available to apply for residency.
Is the process by which we ask the government to grant us residence through an immigrant visa. This process is called “consular” because the process is carried out in the consulate of the country of origin of the immigrant applicant.
​A procedure in which an immigrant who is the spouse or father of a member of our armed forces or a veteran of the armed forces can ask the government for a special permit to process their residence within the United States without having to leave the United States.
A request for forgiveness is a procedure in which we ask the government to please forgive us for any violation of immigration laws that we have committed in order to obtain residency or maintain residency.