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Green Card for Spouse

November 11, 2018 by Admin-ILM Leave a Comment

We have a lot of information on our website about how to get a green card for your spouse. A lot of people are using Google to find help with this issue. You see popular search phrases like “marrying a green card holder,” “US citizen marrying foreigner, ” “green card marriage process,” “marry an American citizen,” “how to get a green card through marriage” etc. Seeing how many people are searching prompted me to write this post to tie together our articles on Green Card Process Steps topic. We have articles on every aspect of the green card through marriage process.

US Citizen Marrying Foreigner

Let’s start with the simplest scenario, a US citizen marrying a foreigner, but that person did not enter the country illegally. If that situation fits you, we have an article, green card through marriage, which explains the process and what you need to do.

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Green Card For Spouse

If this is your scenario you are probably eligible for adjustment of status through marriage. We have an article on that as well. It describes how you can use adjustment of status to get your new status as a lawful permanent resident here in United States.

Marrying Someone outside of the United States

Sometimes a US citizen might marry someone in a foreign country and leave that person there to return to the United States. When the US citizen arrives in the US, they start the process of petitioning for their foreign spouse. If that is you, we have an article about this process as well, consular processing.

We also explain why the K-3 spouse visa doesn’t work anymore to help you bring your spouse here. Sometimes your foreign-born spouse will be able to enter the United States. If this happens your spouse may be eligible for the adjustment of status process.

Process for Marrying an Illegal Immigrant

A lot of foreigners in the United States are not in status, and a lot of them entered the United States without inspection, illegally. If you marry someone who went to illegally, it is not possible for that person to receive a green card in the United States.

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They will need to use the consular processing option. But, it is very important that they get the necessary waivers before leaving. Our article about the Green Card Application Process when marrying an illegal immigrant will help you understand the challenges you face.

Marrying a Green Card Holder

What about when a lawful permanent resident, a green card holder marries a foreigner? This situation provides special challenges. Usually, visa is not immediately available. We have an article about family immigration that covers this circumstance.

How We Can Help

If you need a green card for your spouse, contact us or schedule an appointment today. As our reviews show, we successfully navigate the green card marriage process for our clients.

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Keep Your Green Card

November 11, 2018 by Admin-ILM Leave a Comment

What do you need to do to keep your green card? Before answering, some history is in order. If you looked at our website, you can see that we try to have a lot of educational articles. These articles cover every aspect of US immigration. In looking over them, I noticed that we have many articles on the ways that you can get lawful permanent residency (LPR), a green card. But, we had little or nothing on maintaining your LPR status when looking for Green Card Process.

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To fix that problem, we recently added three new articles to the website. If you’re interested in learning about this issue, we have a general article on how not to lose your green card through abandoning it. This article goes over the various things people do, or failed to do, such that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will challenge that person’s LPR status. we make the Process To Get A Green Card simple for you.

Keep Your Green Card – Know The Rules

Once you know the rules so that you can maintain your status, you will see that one of the most common ways of losing your LPR status is by abandoning it. The classic way that this happens is by leaving the United States and remaining outside of the US for too long. Given this common problem, we offer two articles regarding it. There are various Green Card Process Steps that need to follow when reaching to the final process.

DHS Alleging Abandonment? All Is Not Lost

As a lawyer, I think it is always best to avoid a problem versus fixing it. If you subscribe to this philosophy, then you will want to read our reentry permit article. These permits are very handy for avoiding DHS’s charge that you have abandoned your residency.

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If you only discover this too late, and you have been out of the United States for too long, we also have an article on the returning resident visa. This visa can get you back into the United States. To use it, you must have a good reason for staying out of the US too long.

We Can Help

If you are in trouble with DHS, or suspect that you might be, for abandoning your LPR status, it would be a good idea to get some professional advice. Please contact us or book a strategy consultation.

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New Service – Review and Fix Your RFE

November 10, 2018 by Admin-ILM Leave a Comment

We are excited to post that we have added a new service here on the Immigration Law of Montana, P.C. website. In the busy life of an immigration lawyer, it is not always possible to get everything up on the firm’s website. This problem seems common to most lawyers, and a lot of small businesses. So we are trying to remedy that.

Why We Are Now Offering Our RFE Service

When prospective clients contact us, many times they sign up for our services. We then help them gain whatever immigration benefit they sought, like a green card for a spouse. Occasionally, after prospective clients have a consultation they will not hire us due to financial constraints. Instead they will try to do it on their own. Sometimes there are successful, congratulations to them. Other times they fail. They receive a Request for Evidence (RFE) from the USCIS. A lot of times when this happens, the client that has had the consultation will contact us for help with the RFE. We evaluate the RFE. A lot of times we take over the application to fix this issue. We also make sure that process concludes successfully for the client.

In providing this service, we realized that there are a lot of potential clients out there who never consulted an immigration attorney about the immigration benefit that they were seeking. Instead, they may be did some research on their own using the Internet and just tried it themselves. When these people get stuck, we want to now offer to help them. By this post we are announcing our new service.

How You Can Get Help With Your RFE Issue

If you do need help with an RFE, book a strategy consultation or contact us. Then send a copy of the RFE to us so that we can analyze it and offer you a report. You may be able to fix it yourself. Alternatively, you may need help. If you do, once we have analyzed your RFE, we will offer you a flat fee to fix it.

We are excited about offering this new service, and hope that it will be of use to clients who get an RFE from the USCIS.

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H2A Visa Montana North Dakota Wyoming

February 1, 2015 by Admin-ILM Leave a Comment

H2A visa? Well, that is what a lot of people type when looking for information on the visa for temporary agricultural workers. But, some people look for information on that visa using the term that the government uses, H-2A. People using different terms to search for the same thing present a problem for the person wanting to reach people with information. Google does not seem recognize H2A and H-2A as being the same thing.

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H2A Visa Solution

It wouldn’t make any sense to copy all the content over from my article on the H-2A visa in our guide to US visa types to a new page about the H2A visa. Google would probably penalize us for duplicate content. So in creating this post, I am pointing you to good information on the visa for temporary agricultural workers, our article on H2A visas in the guide.

How We Can Help

If your farm or ranch is located in Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming and you need temporary help, we can help with an H2A visa application. Please contact us.

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Check Visa Status

January 13, 2015 by Admin-ILM Leave a Comment

How do you check visa status? A lot of different visa types require that you first make an application to the USCIS here in the United States to get an approval. If the beneficiary of the visa application, the person who will receive the visa, is not in the United States the approval is then transferred to the US Consulate with jurisdiction over the beneficiary. The beneficiary is then required to apply for the visa. [Read more…] about Check Visa Status

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Immigration Law of Montana’s YouTube Channel

December 31, 2014 by Admin-ILM Leave a Comment

Previously, we did a blog post on Immigration Law of Montana’s social media sites, but neglected to include information on Immigration Law of Montana’s YouTube channel. We don’t have much yet, but plan more videos soon. Right now, all we have are a couple of videos on how to use the system that we use to process your immigration cases, LawLogix. The system is pretty self-explanatory, but for someone who does not have much familiarity with Internet-based forms it may prove more challenging, hence the videos. [Read more…] about Immigration Law of Montana’s YouTube Channel

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Immigration Law Of Montana Hours – 24/7 Kind Of

December 23, 2014 by Admin-ILM Leave a Comment

Immigration Law of Montana hours, 24/7 now? Kind of! With the arrival of the Internet as the method that most people use to search to find immigration lawyers today, and with the development of our 21st century 24/7 culture, Immigration Law of Montana, P.C. is pleased to announce that we are making it easier for our clients and potential clients to contact us outside regular business hours.  [Read more…] about Immigration Law Of Montana Hours – 24/7 Kind Of

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USCIS Courier Services – Policy Change

December 23, 2014 by Admin-ILM Leave a Comment

USCIS Courier Services? No matter how time sensitive your application to the USCIS, the USCIS has traditionally had a one-size-fits-all approach to providing evidence of your success or failure in seeking the benefit: your approval or denial notice arrived in a first-class mail envelope. Attorneys and other organizations filing large volumes of time sensitive applications have long requested that the USCIS enable the petitioner for the benefit to include a means of signing the approval notice back to the petitioner. In a recent press release, the USCIS announced that it has changed its policy. Petitioners may now include a prepaid air bill by the usual courier services, UPS and FedEx, that the USCIS will now use to return the original approval notice. [Read more…] about USCIS Courier Services – Policy Change

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