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i am currently a greencard holder.my bf of 4 years came here in the US with a tourist visa. we decided to get married just this weekend. What visa can i apply for him?How long will that take to process?Anyone suggest a good lawyer here in Chicago who can process his papers faster..really need help

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Until you become a citizen all you can do is file the I-130, have him return to his home country, and then wait until a visa becomes available. Not sure how many years until the visa is available. Once you become a citizen the petition can be upgraded.

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Umm he will have to go back home I beleive and apply for him from there. As a green card holder you can apply for him but it can take years for a visa to become aviable. Then again I could be wrong... I am sure others with more information will chime in.

04-12-08 Married

06-11-08 Mailed I-130 Package

06-18-08 NOA1

08-08-08 NOA2

10-22-08 Interview USEM

10-28-08 Visa Received

11-01-08 POE

That was fast!

Got to love the fact my wife was preggy and even with a RFE @ NVC she was still here in under 5 months!

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Umm he will have to go back home I beleive and apply for him from there. As a green card holder you can apply for him but it can take years for a visa to become aviable. Then again I could be wrong... I am sure others with more information will chime in.

Were you a resident also when you applied for your wife's visa?how long did it take?

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I'm a US citizen so I didn't have to wait for a visa number to become aviable. As a green card holder you don't qualify for any kind of imigration benifits other then being here. Depending on the type of visa you came here on you will have to wait till your a citizen then you can upgrade your petition.

04-12-08 Married

06-11-08 Mailed I-130 Package

06-18-08 NOA1

08-08-08 NOA2

10-22-08 Interview USEM

10-28-08 Visa Received

11-01-08 POE

That was fast!

Got to love the fact my wife was preggy and even with a RFE @ NVC she was still here in under 5 months!

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Its' 5 years before a spouse of LPR can get a visa number, unless chicago girls gets her citizenship by then.

Marry here, file for I-130, have your spouse leave and go back to his home country and wait. He can possibly come to visit you on a tourist visa so make sure you send him a copy of the NOA1 to show to the consular officer for visa and to CBP office at POE.

Make sure he does NOT overstay his tourist visa I-94 or work, that could get you in trouble!

Best of luck on your visa journey!

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i am currently a greencard holder.my bf of 4 years came here in the US with a tourist visa. we decided to get married just this weekend. What visa can i apply for him?How long will that take to process?Anyone suggest a good lawyer here in Chicago who can process his papers faster..really need help

Currently there is no FAST process.. No lawyer will be able to "jump" start the process to make it faster....

A spouse of a LPR (greencard holder) would be classified as Family 2A (F2A). Currently it is a little more than 4 years for an available visa number...

Check out the most recent visa bulletin for current dates.

http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bull...letin_4587.html

Moving this topic to "Bringing family of permanent residents" forum, as this is not an AOS question, due to the fact a spouse of an LPR has no ability to directly adjust status to resident from a non-immigrant visa entry.

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YMMV

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I have a feeling the BF may have been here for a very long time, but unclear.

Which makes a difference.

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Its' 5 years before a spouse of LPR can get a visa number, unless chicago girls gets her citizenship by then.

Marry here, file for I-130, have your spouse leave and go back to his home country and wait. He can possibly come to visit you on a tourist visa so make sure you send him a copy of the NOA1 to show to the consular officer for visa and to CBP office at POE.

Make sure he does NOT overstay his tourist visa I-94 or work, that could get you in trouble!

Best of luck on your visa journey!

Do I need a lawyer to process the visa or we can fill up the forms on our own? he is on a tourist visa..he got multiple entry for 10 years because he was sent for a training for his company which has the base in california..this is his second time in the US

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Lawyer will not speed up the process for you.

The I-130 is fairly simple and I am sure you fill it out yourself.

Your best bet would be to become a US citizen as soon as possible... meanwhile he can visit you on a tourist visa... hopefully he will not be turned away at the POE because he's married and hence showed immigrant intent.

Do I need a lawyer to process the visa or we can fill up the forms on our own? he is on a tourist visa..he got multiple entry for 10 years because he was sent for a training for his company which has the base in california..this is his second time in the US

CR-1 Timeline

March'07 NOA1 date, case transferred to CSC

June'07 NOA2 per USCIS website!

Waiver I-751 timeline

July'09 Check cashed.

Jan'10 10 year GC received.

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. . . he is on a tourist visa..he got multiple entry for 10 years because he was sent for a training for his company which has the base in california..this is his second time in the US

Wrong visa to begin with.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

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