La Salle, TX Immigration Law Firms & Lawyers

You cannot change your status online, and a personal visit to the USCIS will gain you nothing. You wife has to file an immigrant petition for you (Form I-130). It should be filed together with your application for adjustment of status (Form I-485), employment authorization (Form I-765), advance parole (Form I-131), and your wife's affidavit of support (Form I-864). All these forms can be found at uscis.gov, along with the instructions for each form. Technically, one is supposed to be able to fill out and file all these forms just by following the instructions. Most people try - and go to an immigration attorney for help. The rest go to an immigration attorney after their done-by-themselves applications get denied and $1490 in filing fees paid to USCIS, lost.

Hello: *Consulate Processing* Consulate Processing must be completed. This allows the petition to first be sent to the National Visa Center, and then the appropriate documents and package to go to the U.S. Consulate or Embassy. If done correctly, you will be able to enter as a Lawful Permanent Resident and will be in the U.S. in less than one year. Of course the time might be a bit less or more depending on the backlog of the U.S. Consulate or Embassy and whether or not a Waiver of Inadmissibility is needed. This must be done for both parents.