How soon can my parents apply for a Green Card?

[newUSC 1]

Hi,

I'm a US Citizen and will file I-130 for my parents.

Once my parents arrive in the USA, how soon can they apply for a Green Card (Permanent Resident) and what form should they use to do that?

Thanks.

[TayRivers 4]

Hi,

I'm a US Citizen and will file I-130 for my parents.

Once my parents arrive in the USA, how soon can they apply for a Green Card (Permanent Resident) and what form should they use to do that?

Thanks.

You have to wait for the I-130 to be approved then your parents will need to file for a IR-5 visa from their home country. They can not just enter and then file for a greencard. They need the IR-5 immigrants visa before they travel to the US. They can not use a tourist visa to immigrate that would be visa fraud.

[Mononoke28 135]

Hi,

I'm a US Citizen and will file I-130 for my parents.

Once my parents arrive in the USA, how soon can they apply for a Green Card (Permanent Resident) and what form should they use to do that?

Thanks.

Once the USCIS approves their I-130s and the NVC process their cases, they will have an interview at the embassy. If everything is in order they will get their visas and their green cards should arrive in about 2-8 weeks after they enter they US. Nothing else to do after that.

Diana

[newUSC 1]

Thanks for the info.

Does it mean after they get their Green Card, they can file I-130 for their unmarried 19 yrs son (my younger brother who may not be able to go with them to the USA after I filed I-130 for my parents and him)?

Thanks.

PS: I heard from some friends who had their parents came to USA about 10 yrs ago via their son sponsorship (I-130) but they still had to wait some years before they could apply for Green Card (did not come to them automatically once they were in the USA). Is this still held true?

[TayRivers 4]

Thanks for the info.

Does it mean after they get their Green Card, they can file I-130 for their unmarried 19 yrs son (my younger brother who may not be able to go with them to the USA after I filed I-130 for my parents and him)?

Thanks.

PS: I heard from some friends who had their parents came to USA about 10 yrs ago via their son sponsorship (I-130) but they still had to wait some years before they could apply for Green Card (did not come to them automatically once they were in the USA). Is this still held true?

You send in I-130, once it is approved it is send to NVC, then they contact parents for choice of agent, then applicaton forms are then mailed to the choice of agent once completed these are returned along with fees and evidence, case is then forwarded to the embassy in your parents country where they will be interviewed. If they are approved at interview they will be issed with a IR-5 visa, this will allow them to enter the USA as an immigrant, apon entry they will get a stamp in their passports I-551 (temp greencard) this will allow them to work and travel until the actual greencard arrives in the mail, this will take about 6 weeks to come.

Yes they can file a I-130 for their son, as greencard holders.

The actual visa process for IR-5 is almost identical to the process for IR-1, Here is a link to the guide http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...page=i130guide1

[Mononoke28 135]

Thanks for the info.

Does it mean after they get their Green Card, they can file I-130 for their unmarried 19 yrs son (my younger brother who may not be able to go with them to the USA after I filed I-130 for my parents and him)?

Thanks.

PS: I heard from some friends who had their parents came to USA about 10 yrs ago via their son sponsorship (I-130) but they still had to wait some years before they could apply for Green Card (did not come to them automatically once they were in the USA). Is this still held true?

I don't know what your friends' parents' situation was but that won't be the case with your parents if you petition them.

Also, your parents can petition their unmarried son but it will take at least 5 years for the peitition to be approved and maybe another 5-10 years at the NVC while they assign him a visa number. So you're looking at a total of at least 10 years. It will be faster if your parents are able to become US citizens.

Diana

[TayRivers 4]

Thanks for the info.

Does it mean after they get their Green Card, they can file I-130 for their unmarried 19 yrs son (my younger brother who may not be able to go with them to the USA after I filed I-130 for my parents and him)?

Thanks.

PS: I heard from some friends who had their parents came to USA about 10 yrs ago via their son sponsorship (I-130) but they still had to wait some years before they could apply for Green Card (did not come to them automatically once they were in the USA). Is this still held true?

I don't know what your friends' parents' situation was but that won't be the case with your parents if you petition them.

Also, your parents can petition their unmarried son but it will take at least 5 years for the peitition to be approved and maybe another 5-10 years at the NVC while they assign him a visa number. So you're looking at a total of at least 10 years. It will be faster if your parents are able to become US citizens.

Diana

Where are you getting this info from, I-130 for a unmarried child under 21 can be approved with 3 - 6 months depending on service center and then how ever long it takes for an immidiate relative of LPR to get an interview in their own country. there is no wait for a child under 21.

if he is over 21 then he would be in class 2B and the I-130 would be approved within the normal processing time for I-130 and whould then wait at NVC for a visa to become available (about 9 year wait at this time), if they became citizens then the sons I-130 would be moved to catagory 1 and the wait for that catagory is about 6 years.

see here for full dates and countries, http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin...letin_4328.html

[Mononoke28 135]

You're right, I should have rephrased what I was thinking. I was doing the math in my head and wrote down the assumption that the brother would be 21 by the time the parents file for him since he won't stay at 19 years-old forever.

Diana

[Boiler 46,086]

A reasonable assumption. Woud then move from 2A to 2B.

Just noticed that Visa Numbers ae unavailable for 2A Mexico, so could be advanatgeous.

Edited September 4, 2008 by Boiler