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Immigration law is the name given to the branch of law that covers U.S. citizenship, loss of citizenship, and the admission and removal of aliens. Legal immigration involves immigrants, i.e., persons seeking a permanent residence card or "green card," and non-immigrants, persons seeking temporary entry to the U.S. under a non-immigrant visa category. Immigration also encompasses asylum, naturalization, denaturalization, deportation, as well as immigration crimes, including illegal immigration, or aliens who enter the U.S. and obtain work illegally. Please read on to find an immigration attorney, immigration lawyer, or to learn more about the new immigration law.

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Immigration: Green Card FAQs
Immigration is a frequent topic of discussion as of late. Get details about green cards, visas, and legal permanent resident status by reviewing the green card FAQs.
Deportation and Removal Process
The deportation and removal process is how non-citizens are expelled from the U.S. It's a complicated multi-step process with only two possible outcomes: You're allowed to stay or you have to leave. If you're involved in a deportation proceeding, it's important that you know how the process works.
Political Asylum
Political asylum is available to people already in the United States who fear returning to their home country due to actual persecution or have a well-founded fear of actual persecution because of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion.
Process for H-1B Visa
The process of obtaining an H-1B visa involves four distinct steps and takes a minimum of three months but may take as long as six months. The four steps involved in the process are: 1) wage determination, 2) labor condition application, 3) petition for H visa status, and 4) apply for visa.
K - 1 Fiance Visas
You must file a petition for a K-1 visa in the United States if you are an American citizen and you want to bring your foreign fiancé(e) to the US to get married. Both you and your fiancé(e) must be legally able and willing to conclude a valid marriage in the US.

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Visa Bulletin Cut-off Dates vs. USCIS Processing Times

I am from India and my sister filed an I-130 petition on April 11,2003 for me. In the November 2009 Visa Bulletin, the cutoff date is June 15, 1999. But according to the posted USCIS processing time for the Nebraska Service Center, the current date is August 1, 2004. What is the difference between the Visa Bulletin cutoff date and USCIS processing times? Please let me know if we can file form I-485 to proceed with the application for adjustment of status, or if we need to wait to hear back from USCIS. What is the next step?
Affidavit of Support Issues For a Disabled Petitioner

I want to marry someone from another country, but I understand I need tax returns for three years to marry. I have been disabled for 15 years can I still marry this person?
FB-4 Sibling I-130 Issues

In August 2006 my brother (a US citizen living in California) submitted an I-130 petition to bring me and my wife to the US from the UK where we live. Last week, he received notification that the petition had been approved, it was now being processed and would be forwarded to the US embassy in London, and that I should be hearing something within 60 days. My question is how long will it take to complete the whole process? I see the California processing center is working on applications from October 1999. Does this mean we have roughly another 7 years to wait? My final question relates to vacations - we've been to the US for the last 8 years on vacation. Will we be able to continue doing this now the I-130 has been approved? Many thanks.
Is There a Waiting Period to File a Visa Petition?

I became a U.S permanent resident through marriage to a U.S. citizen. My marriage was broken after 3 1/2 years. My husband filed for divorce, and I did not become a citizen until 5 years after being a LPR. I met this guy who is out of status and we are making plans to get married. Someone just told me I can not file an I-130 petition for him until I have been a citizen for 2 years. Is this correct?
Can This Petitioner File For Another Spouse?

I am recently divorced. I met a man who I am interested in marrying but, I am concerned. I filed for my ex-husband to get his green card and I wanted to find out if I file for this man to get a green card who is here on an expired visa, will there be a problem? I cannot help that I have fallen in love with yet another man who is not a legal resident, but this man is the best thing that has ever happened to me and I do not want to lose him. My ex-husband's citizenship was denied because we were not living together at the time he applied. We have been married for over 5 years so he reapplied without me. I was wondering will the application be flagged because my name is in the system with my ex-husband? How long should I wait in between filing for there not to be a problem? Will they make my new fiance go back to his country and re-enter or if we are married will they allow him to stay? I do not want to do a Fiance visa. We would get married and then apply.

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