When you’re filling out immigration forms with the intention of coming to the United States to live or getting your citizenship, you need to be very careful about the information you include and what you exclude. Not filling out your paperwork correctly could lead to...
Family Immigration
Will you lose your visa if you divorce your abuser?
Many people come to the United States through family-based immigration. Maybe your spouse got a job in the United States, and you followed them here. Perhaps you got engaged to someone and obtained a fiance visa. When your immigration status is a result of your...
Can you help your sibling come to live in the United States?
Living in a different country than your family can be quite hard. Although communication technology helps, a screen is no replacement for being able to hug your loved ones. Immigration can allow your family an opportunity to reunite. As someone already living in the...
Administration dedicates resources to family immigration
Earlier this year, the Administration established what it calls a “dedicated docket” to handle immigration cases that involve families who have come to the United States. Judges in selected immigration courts are supposed to work through these cases, many of them...
Learning more about fiancée visas
Some Pennsylvanians who are U.S. citizens fall in love with foreign nationals and want to marry them. The government has a special class of non-immigrant visas that are designed for foreign fiancé(e)s called K-1 visas. The U.S. citizen is required to file the petition...
How to maintain your permanent resident status
You’ve done the paperwork, and now you’ve got what you wanted the most: your Permanent Resident Card (Green Card). As a permanent resident, you can live, work and study in the United States like any other American citizen. However, the difference between you and a...
If your child is born in America, can you stay?
If you come to America to visit while you’re pregnant, something that you may have considered is that your child will be a citizen if they are born on American soil. Children born in America are always citizens (with exceptions for foreign diplomats), but that doesn’t...
Immigration for family members of asylum seekers and refugees
Given the current state of the world and the problems in progress across the globe, it is not uncommon for people to try to come to the United States as refugees or by seeking asylum. In Pennsylvania, people who are already in the U.S. under these rules will also be...
Can I renew my Green Card if I get divorced?
A foreigner can get a Permanent Resident Card (Green Card) with a two-year expiration date when they marry a U.S. citizen. After two years, they will have to renew it to stay in the United States. But what happens if the marriage does not work out? If you are a...
Legal wrangling over DACA continues with judge’s ruling
Immigration has been a primary topic of discussion in recent years. For Pennsylvania residents who are watching the legal back and forth amid political machinations, it can be worrisome as they are unsure as to how they will be impacted by it. One of the most...
