Family Visas

Rockville Maryland Family Visa Lawyer

Fiancé Visas, Marriage Visas, and Family Visas

Ahmad Law Offices, can help you with all of your family visa needs, including fiancé visas and marriage visas. The information on this page serves only as a broad overview of family visa law and should not be considered legal advice. For more specific information about fiancé visas, marriage visas, or other family visa options, please contact our offices Rockville, Maryland, or Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to schedule a consultation with Ahmad Law Offices. We provide immigration and visa services for people throughout the United States.

Fiancé visas, Husband/Wife Visas and Family Visas

A lawful permanent resident is a foreign national who has been granted the privilege of permanently living and working in the United States. If you want to become a lawful permanent resident based on the fact that you have a relative who is a citizen of the United States, or a relative who is a lawful permanent resident, you must go through a multi-step process.

• First, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) must approve an immigrant visa petition, I-130 Petition for Alien Relative for you. This petition is filed by your relative (sponsor) and must be accompanied by proof of your relationship to the requesting relative.
  
  
• Second, the Department of State must determine if an immigrant visa number is immediately available, even if you are already in the United States. When an immigrant visa number becomes available, it means that you can apply to have one of the immigrant visa numbers assigned to you. You can check the status of a visa number in the Department of State's Visa Bulletin.
  
  
• Third, if you are already in the United States, you may apply to change your status to that of a lawful permanent resident after a visa number becomes available for you. This is one way you can apply to secure an immigrant visa number. If you are outside the United States when an immigrant visa number becomes available, you must then go to the U.S. consulate servicing the area in which you reside to complete your processing. This is the other way in which you can apply to secure an immigrant visa number.

Eligibility

To be eligible to sponsor a relative to immigrate to the United States you must meet the following criteria:

• You must be a citizen or a lawful permanent resident of the United States and be able to provide documentation proving your status
• You must prove that you can support your relative at 125% above the mandated poverty line.

If you are a U.S. Citizen, you may petition for the following foreign national relatives to immigrate to the United States, however, you must be able to provide proof of the relationships:

• Husband or wife
• Unmarried child under 21 years old
• Unmarried son or daughter over 21
• Married son or daughter of any age
• Brother or sister, if you are at least 21 years old
• Parent, if you are at least 21 years old

If you are a lawful permanent resident you may petition for the following foreign national relatives to immigrate to the United States; however you must be able to provide proof of the relationships:

• Husband or wife
• Unmarried son or daughter of any age

We invite you to contact our offices to learn more about our experience and the people we have successfully helped obtain family visas. We keep our fees affordable and accept Visa and MasterCard through PayPal for your convenience. We have interpreters available, and speak Spanish, Arabic, Urdu, French, and Hindi in the office.