Family Immigration

Legal permanent residency is a foreigner, has permanent residence rights and privileges of labor in the United States. If you want to become a legitimate permanent resident, your relative is a US citizen or a legitimate permanent resident, so your relatives in America are sponsoring you and are about to immigrate to America. time

For an overview of the type of immigrant visa required by immigration law, please refer to the type of immigrant visa. Your relatives and you who are interested in immigrants must successfully complete certain steps of the immigration process before they can come to the United States. The main steps are as follows.

First, the USCIS must approve your sponsored relatives to submit an immigrant visa application for you, the I-130 heterosexual relatives apply. Next, most sponsors sign and sign in documents called affidavits to prove that there is sufficient revenue or assets to support intentional immigration, provide affordable financial support to their families It is necessary to undertake legal responsibility by doing. After completion, immigration applicant applies for immigrant visa.

Apart from the immediate families, immigrant categories of all families are heavily backlogged, especially for those immigrants to the United States. In fact, family immigrant applicants from China, India, Mexico, Philippines are facing waiting time of up to 20 years. According to the US State Department, about 3.9 million immigrants are waiting for immigration opportunities. There is a chart on the chain immigration on the White House website. It provides a series of data points indicating that legal immigrants are overwhelming the country. For example, this chart states "Every year, a larger population migrates than Washington, DC, USA". Actually it is correct, but this data point ignores the background and distorts the reality.

Family reunification is an important principle in managing immigration policy. In the family-based immigration category, US citizens and LPRs can take certain families to the United States. Family-based immigrants are accepted as a member of a direct family member of a US citizen, or through a family preference system. In order to balance the total number of immigrants arriving based on family relationship, Congress established a complex system to calculate the number of household priority visas available in any year. This number starts from 480,000 and is determined by deducting the number of direct relative visas issued last year and the number of foreigners "supposed" to the US in the previous year. Next, we add the number of unemployed preferential entry numbers from the previous year to the total to determine the number of retained visas allocated through the priority system.

One suggestion to reduce the level of migrant-related immigrants considered in the past is to reduce qualified family categories. For example, if immigration preferences exclude siblings (and their families) or US citizens (about 60,000 last year), this change in law will result in a "chain" of immigrants, a foreign born American citizen sponsorship It will be confusing to some extent. In addition to his or her brothers and sisters, brothers and sisters' spouse, and then a new immigrant spouse may sponsor their families indefinitely after becoming a US citizen. "Chain" immigrants are also affected by the elimination of immigration eligibility of foreign born adult married children born in the US (about 20,000 last year). Does this look abnormally harsh? The United States is the only industrialized country that provides immigration rights to such non-nuclear families.