How to get a green card
Provides information on how individuals that lack employer-sponsors can qualify to obtain permanent U.S. residence.
| Main Author: | Bray, Ilona M., 1962- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berkeley :
Nolo,
2014.
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| Edition: | 11th ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Your immigration companion
- Immigration then and now
- All ways to get a Green Card
- Short-term alternatives to a Green Card
- Will inadmissibility bar you from gettting a Green Card?
- How long you'll have to wait
- Fiance and fiancee visas
- Green Cards through marriage
- Your parents as immigrants
- Child immigrants
- Orphan immigrants in non-Hague Convention countries
- The diversity visa lottery
- Your brothers and sisters as immigrants
- Refugees and political asylees
- Military veterans and enlistees
- Cancellation of removal
- Adjustment of status
- Consular processing
- Deferred action for childhood arrivals
- U Visas for crime victims assisting law enforcement
- Acquiring citizenship through U.S. citizen parents
- Filling out and submitting immigration applications
- Tracking your application through the system
- Keeping, renewing, and replacing your Green Card
- How to find and work with a lawyer.