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If I am to receive my green card some time this month of December 2013, for how long can I stay outside of USA to avoid any trouble?

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Answered by attorney Bruce A. Coane (Unclaimed Profile)
Immigration lawyer at Coane & Associates, PLLC
There is no bright line test, other than six months being generally safe, but even that is no guarantee. For those wanting to spend lots of time away, a reentry permit is recommended.
There is no bright line test, other than six months being generally safe, but even that is no guarantee. For those wanting to spend lots of time away, a reentry permit is recommended.
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Would they have to leave the country when the visa number becomes available or would they be able to adjust their status here in the US?

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Answered by attorney Michael Alexander Yurasov-Lichtenberg (Unclaimed Profile)
Immigration lawyer at Havens Lichtenberg PLLC
First, you need to understand that, after you will file immigrant petitions for your sons, no less than 8 years will pass before they will receive their visa numbers (if they were born in Philippines, visas will not be available to them for no less than 10 years; if they were born in Mexico - 20 years). If you become a U.S. citizen, and your sons remain unmarried, the waiting time will shorten by about 1 year Second, filing of an immigrant petition does not give them any legal status or a right to remain in the U.S. Third, even though your sons entered the U.S. legally, they are not not in any legal non-immigrant status and, under the law, they cannot receive green cards even after your petitions for them will be approved and their turn to receive immigrant visas will come. If they overstayed 180 days, they are barred from the U.S. for 3 years; if they overstayed 1 year or longer, they are barred for 10 years. It means that they have to go back to their country for 3 (or 10) years before they could use their immigrant visas to come and live in the U.S. You can ask the U.S. Government to waive the bar and permit your sons to enter the U.S. without living in their country for 3 (or 10) years - if you can show that keeping your sons outside the United States would cause you an extreme hardship. For example, if the parent is ill or disabled, and the child is the only person who takes care of the parent, the waiver can be granted. Under the current regulations, even if your petitions for your sons had been already approved, their turn to receive the visas had already come, and your application for a waiver were already granted, your sons would have to return to their country and go to U.S. Consulate for a visa interview. We are waiting for new regulations, but no one knows for sure when the new regulations will be implemented. And, in the years that will pass before your sons will become eligible to receive their visas, the regulations and the law are likely to change more than once. Under the present law, the only situation when your sons might receive green cards without leaving the U.S. (and without waiting quite a few years) is if they get married to U.S. citizens. If you do not expect this to happen, you might file the immigrant petitions for your sons now, and they might want to go back to their country so that, by the time their turn for receiving immigrant visas comes, they would already be outside the U.S. for the number of years prescribed by the law. I realize that this is not what you would like to hear, but this is an honest assessment of the situation you described.
First, you need to understand that, after you will file immigrant petitions for your sons, no less than 8 years will pass before they will receive their visa numbers (if they were born in Philippines, visas will not be available to them for no less than 10 years; if they were born in Mexico - 20 years). If you become a U.S. citizen, and your sons remain unmarried, the waiting time will shorten by about 1 year Second, filing of an immigrant petition does not give them any legal status or a right to remain in the U.S. Third, even though your sons entered the U.S. legally, they are not not in any legal non-immigrant status and, under the law, they cannot receive green cards even after your petitions for them will be approved and their turn to receive immigrant visas will come. If they overstayed 180 days, they are barred from the U.S. for 3 years; if they overstayed 1 year or longer, they are barred for 10 years. It means that they have to go back to their country for 3 (or 10) years before they could use their immigrant visas to come and live in the U.S. You can ask the U.S. Government to waive the bar and permit your sons to enter the U.S. without living in their country for 3 (or 10) years - if you can show that keeping your sons outside the United States would cause you an extreme hardship. For example, if the parent is ill or disabled, and the child is the only person who takes care of the parent, the waiver can be granted. Under the current regulations, even if your petitions for your sons had been already approved, their turn to receive the visas had already come, and your application for a waiver were already granted, your sons would have to return to their country and go to U.S. Consulate for a visa interview. We are waiting for new regulations, but no one knows for sure when the new regulations will be implemented. And, in the years that will pass before your sons will become eligible to receive their visas, the regulations and the law are likely to change more than once. Under the present law, the only situation when your sons might receive green cards without leaving the U.S. (and without waiting quite a few years) is if they get married to U.S. citizens. If you do not expect this to happen, you might file the immigrant petitions for your sons now, and they might want to go back to their country so that, by the time their turn for receiving immigrant visas comes, they would already be outside the U.S. for the number of years prescribed by the law. I realize that this is not what you would like to hear, but this is an honest assessment of the situation you described.
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Can my wife stay in the US if she is pregnant?

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Answered by attorney Richard Stephan Kolomejec (Unclaimed Profile)
Immigration lawyer at Richard S. Kolomejec
She can stay as long as you apply for her green card. The entire process takes about 3 months. The only issue is her intention at the time of entry.
She can stay as long as you apply for her green card. The entire process takes about 3 months. The only issue is her intention at the time of entry.