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repete12747   0

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Our grandson is here on a student visa.

We applied for Legal custody of him.

The Judge felt that he is much better off here than in Russia. Custody was granted.

What do we need to do to get him a green card

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RICARDO4EVA2 Mentor

RICARDO4EVA2   194

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What do we need to do to get him a green card

How old is he....? the adoption has to be done by age 16 to benefit .. i might be wrong.

Current cut off date F2A - Current 

Brother's Journey (F2A) - PD Dec 30, 2010


Dec 30 2010 - Notice of Action 1 (NOA1)
May 12 2011 - Notice of Action 2 (NOA2)
May 23 2011 - NVC case # Assigned
Nov 17 2011 - COA / I-864 received
Nov 18 2011 - Sent COA
Apr 30 2012 - Pay AOS fee
Oct 15 2012 - Pay IV fee
Oct 25 2012 - Sent AOS/IV Package
Oct 29 2012 - Pkg Delivered
Dec 24 2012 - Case Complete
May 17 2013 - Interview-Approved

July 19 2013 - Enter the USA

"... Answer when you are called..."

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Jojo92122   1,924

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Our grandson is here on a student visa.

We applied for Legal custody of him.

The Judge felt that he is much better off here than in Russia. Custody was granted.

What do we need to do to get him a green card

You need to go see an experienced immigration attorney. You may not be able to get a green card for your grandson.

A grandparent cannot petition for a grandchild. A parent can petition for a biological child or adopted child.

You have legal custody from a family court. Legal custody is not the same as a legal adoption.

You don't appear to me to have the required legal family ties that would allow you to petition for your grandson. An experienced immigration attorney may have an option for you.

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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A U.S. citizen cannot petition for a grandchild.

Even if you had adopted your grandson, a requirement for immigration would be that both parents are dead, that the child is under the age of 16, and that the adoption was not performed in order to obtain immigration benefits to the U.S. Not knowing the particulars of this case, but knowing that you most likely have no adopted him yet, you may have to move to Russia in order to avoid child abandonment charges when sending him back to his home country.

Sorry if this sounds harsh. Just getting right to the point.

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.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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