Very complicated(g4 visa)

[umdterrapins 0]

Sister has been a G4 dependent since she was 14 , she is now 30........she failed to make the 7 year requirement between age 13 and 21.....she failed by a few months and thus wasnt able to adjust to green card........shes been in the US more than half her life.....is there any legislation on the way to offer relief......is the anything she can do to adjust to green card??????

Im currently in the n400 process but sponsoring her would take over 10 years

[Boiler 45,956]

Does not strike me as complicated. Is she out of status if so when did she go out of status?

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

Sister has been a G4 dependent since she was 14 , she is now 30........she failed to make the 7 year requirement between age 13 and 21.....she failed by a few months and thus wasnt able to adjust to green card........shes been in the US more than half her life.....is there any legislation on the way to offer relief......is the anything she can do to adjust to green card??????

Im currently in the n400 process but sponsoring her would take over 10 years

It doesn't sound like there's any way she would be eligible based on the G4 parent. Even if she met the 7 years physical presence requirement, she would have needed to submit her AOS application before she was 25 years old.

There is no new legislation pending - at least not any legislation that has any chance of becoming law anytime soon. The DREAM Act keeps getting reintroduced in one form or another, but it failed to pass when the Democrats had control of both houses of Congress, and it's lost considerable support since then. The overall mood of the Congress, and the country as well, is to crack down on immigration rather than making it easier. This is understandable. In a down economy people are not disposed to allowing more immigrants into the country when the people who are already here are having a tough time finding work. If the economy improves substantially then there's a better chance of some form of immigration reform making it into law, but it will probably be focused on providing a path to legalization for EWI's, and not so much on providing a comparable path for visa overstays. The political reality is that Hispanics garner the bulk of the sympathy because of the sheer number of them that are here.

[umdterrapins 0]

It doesn't sound like there's any way she would be eligible based on the G4 parent. Even if she met the 7 years physical presence requirement, she would have needed to submit her AOS application before she was 25 years old.

There is no new legislation pending - at least not any legislation that has any chance of becoming law anytime soon. The DREAM Act keeps getting reintroduced in one form or another, but it failed to pass when the Democrats had control of both houses of Congress, and it's lost considerable support since then. The overall mood of the Congress, and the country as well, is to crack down on immigration rather than making it easier. This is understandable. In a down economy people are not disposed to allowing more immigrants into the country when the people who are already here are having a tough time finding work. If the economy improves substantially then there's a better chance of some form of immigration reform making it into law, but it will probably be focused on providing a path to legalization for EWI's, and not so much on providing a comparable path for visa overstays. The political reality is that Hispanics garner the bulk of the sympathy because of the sheer number of them that are here.

Thanks jim, you answered all my questions...good read