AOS from VWP - Sweden

[perfect 39]

I have an acquaintance I recently met who came here from Sweden on VWP ten months ago with the intent to immigrate to help her single-parent son and his child after this wife left with another man. He had engaged a lawyer who told him that his mother could simply move here on VWP, wait 3 months and then adjust status. Well...whatever we know or think about that situation, rightly or wrongly, it worked as she received her EAD and ten year green card last week.

Her daughter (aged 32 and unmarried) has been visiting here on VWP every 6 months for a 3 month stay for the last 2 years, and has just arrived again for a 3 month stay. She told me that she had hassles getting through POE this time and they questioned her very thoroughly. She DOES have immigrant intent and has been looking at ways of moving here permanently for the last 2 years.

The lawyer that her brother and mother have used sucessfully before have now told her that she can stay here permanently whilst her mother (who just got her ten year green card) sponsors her. The lawyer stated that whilst the process can take as long as five years, the unmarried 32 year old daughter can remain in the USA until it is approved, that she doesn't need to return to her home country and wait it out.

I thought that was wrong information, but apparently the mother told me she had called the USCIS helpline and been told the same thing.

Can anyone clarify - as she doesn't want to risk being here illegally nad getting a ban of any kind.

Thanks

[Yodrak 7]

perfect,

If I were going to get a 2nd legal opinion, and I think that's a good idea, I'd get it from an immigration attorney - not from the USCIS 'misinformation line'.

Yodrak

I have an acquaintance I recently met who came here from Sweden on VWP ten months ago with the intent to immigrate to help her single-parent son and his child after this wife left with another man. He had engaged a lawyer who told him that his mother could simply move here on VWP, wait 3 months and then adjust status. Well...whatever we know or think about that situation, rightly or wrongly, it worked as she received her EAD and ten year green card last week.

Her daughter (aged 32 and unmarried) has been visiting here on VWP every 6 months for a 3 month stay for the last 2 years, and has just arrived again for a 3 month stay. She told me that she had hassles getting through POE this time and they questioned her very thoroughly. She DOES have immigrant intent and has been looking at ways of moving here permanently for the last 2 years.

The lawyer that her brother and mother have used sucessfully before have now told her that she can stay here permanently whilst her mother (who just got her ten year green card) sponsors her. The lawyer stated that whilst the process can take as long as five years, the unmarried 32 year old daughter can remain in the USA until it is approved, that she doesn't need to return to her home country and wait it out.

I thought that was wrong information, but apparently the mother told me she had called the USCIS helpline and been told the same thing.

Can anyone clarify - as she doesn't want to risk being here illegally nad getting a ban of any kind.

Thanks