Immigration Forum / USA / September 2004

I'm a canadian citizen who was not born in Canada and hence can
participate in the Green Card Lottery.
But I'm planning to move to the US on a TN-1 Nafta visa.
Does enlisiting myself in the Green Card Lottery can reduce my chances

Hi, I am currently attending at Community college under F-1 visa. In
my school, they have business class call "Business Co-op experience".
If I take that class, do I have to apply for the OPT or CPT. Besides,
if I take that class and don't report it to my Int' Advisor, am I in

Hey all -
Can a person be promoted to a senior position while his or her
application is pending (or under review) with DOL for Green Card?  If
not, is there any way one can avail the promotion without jeopardising

Do I have to go to the lawyer to make this petiton. Everything seems
pretty straight-forward... just complete I-130 form. Should I attach
something else?
Thanks.

I married on VWP and left the US. I returned on a seperate VWP to assist
in an emergency and am now left with little option but to try to stay
this time. So I am applying now for AOS.
Because I have never had a medical examination (well one mandated by INS

I am posting here to find out something for a friend in India.
She is engaged and her fiancee lives in the US. He is there on a
pritical Stay. They wanna get married, and now he told her that he got
a passport (4Page passport) but he can´t travel to India. Anywhere

I am writing this for my husband. His oat ceremony is next week on
wednesday. As I have read from the other posts he will be asked to
surrender his greencard.
Since he is a commuter (I live in Toronto and he is working in NY), how

I would appreciate your input in the following:
If I have already applied for green card, concurent filing, through my
employer, what is the latest that I can include my wife on the
application if I didnt originally include her (we were married before

My wife is in the process have becoming naturalized and should be a
U.S. Citizen within a year.  She has a 10-year old brother in Malaysia
living with her parents.  I know that once she is a U.S. citizen, she
will be able to sponsor her sibling, but that process could take 12 or

If a relative petitioned via I-130 has previously been out of status
in the US on an H1B (departed before 3yr expiration but not paid for
an extended duration during the 3 yrs), will this affect eligibility
for the I-130 petition?  The period between the overstay and the

Has anybody attended the London Consulate for H1 Visa. can you please
let me know the experience and what documents are being asked for.

I recently got a legal name change, and I applied for a replacement
green card. However, at that time I had not gotten the name on my
passport changed yet. The immigration official told me that once the
name on my passport had been changed, I could recieve a temporary green

I became US Citizen yesterday - finally.  Now I would like to sponsor
my parents and siblings.
Question is I have a brother who is 14 years old.  Do I need to
sponsor him or should I just sponsor my parents and when my parents

How may times can an individual get a re-entry permit? Can they apply
for multiple re entry permits over a period of time (say 10 years).
Eg. the person wants to get a reentry permit and leave the country.
They come back after 2 years and after a couple of months if they want

I am not a US citizen and neither is my wife. We have lived there for
many (dozen) years before, and went back to our home countriy
recently. And now that she is pregnant with our first baby, we decided
to give (well it's not our decision per say) our baby the best, the