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Your Partner For Family-Based Immigration
Providing guidance to help make your relative a permanent resident of the United States, Berger, Berger & Sobieski is your trusted and experienced family immigration lawyer serving the entire US. Due to strict limits on permanent immigration, long wait times may be experienced for preference relatives, and immediate relatives have low or no wait times for visas. Note that green card petitions are currently experiencing longer than usual wait times. Call us at (716) 634-6500 today to book your family immigration consultation with our lawyers!
Family-Based Green Card Requirements
- If you plan on sponsoring your relative, you must file an I-130 petition.
- If a foreign relative lives in the U.S., a sponsoring relative must submit a Form I-130 petition, after the I-130 petition has been approved
- If the relative is outside of the United States, consular processing will proceed to obtain a family-based visa
- Any immediate relatives must file a Form I-130 petition for each family member they are sponsoring
- Documentation must be provided to prove a familial relationship
- Most family-based immigration needs affidavit support in addition
- US citizens can sponsor their:
- Spouse
- Children
- Siblings
- Parents
- Permanent Residents can sponsor their:
- Spouse
- Children (under age of 21)
How to Obtain K-1 Fiancé Visas
With the help of a lawyer like Berger, Berger & Sobieski, this Fiancé visa is available to the potential spouse of a United States Citizen. Below are the requirements to apply for the visa.
- The immigrating individual and the United States citizen must marry within 90 days of arriving in the U.S.
- The fiancé must be a U.S. citizen
- Both parties must be eligible to marry
- Both parties must have met in person within 2 years of filing for the K-1 visa, with limited exceptions
- Any prior marriage must be dissolved