Immigration is often in the news, but few people understand who is actually able to apply for a U.S. green card. Many who do apply are denied. This book offers a helpful, step-by-step guide to discovering whether you match one of the green card categories available for people with no U.S. job offers, such as through family relationships, asylum, the visa lottery, and more.
The book takes readers through the entire application process, with the help of handy checklists of required forms and documents, tips for avoiding mistakes and dealing with legal complications and bureaucratic holdups, and sample forms.
This edition is completely revised to reflect the latest laws, contact information, and fees, plus critical new procedural information based on recent actions by the Trump Administration.
This book is not appropriate for people seeking temporary visas to the U.S. (such as tourist or student visas) or work-related green cards.
Table of Content
Your Immigration Companion
1. Immigration Then and Now
2. All the Ways to Get a Green Card
3. Short-Term Alternatives to a Green Card
4. Will Inadmissibility Bar You From Getting a Green Card?
5. How Long You’ll Have to Wait
6. Fiancé and Fiancée Visas
7. Green Cards Through Marriage
8. Your Parents as Immigrants
9. Child Immigrants
10. Orphan Immigrants in Non-Hague-Convention Countries
11. The Diversity Visa Lottery
12. Your Brothers and Sisters as Immigrants
13. Refugees and Political Asylees
14. Military Veterans and Enlistees
15. Cancellation of Removal: Do Ten Illegal Years Equal One Green Card?
16. Adjustment of Status
17. Consular Processing
18. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
19. U Visas for Crime Victims Assisting Law Enforcement
20. Acquiring Citizenship Through U.S. Citizen Parents
21. Filling Out and Submitting Immigration Applications
22. Tracking Your Application Through the System
23. Keeping, Renewing, and Replacing Your Green Card
24. How to Find and Work With a Lawyer
Index
About the author
Loida Nicolas Lewis is a former INS attorney with over 15 years’ experience handling U.S. immigration matters. Co-author of How to Get a Green Card, she is licensed to practice law in both New York and the Philippines.
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