Immigration Forum / USA / August 2006

I am canadian immigrant and I will be canadian citizen after two years.
I would like to know if I apply for green card after one year and get
the canadian citizenship during my green card process, will that affect
my green card application? if yes then what would be the best time to

I'm a UK citizen.  I came over to the US in 2003 on a 90 day visa waiver
program but never returned.  I married a US citizen and have lived here
ever since.
We never got round to filing paperwork with INS (we were too busy being

I am currently in Texas on a h-1b visa. I am a Canadian citizen, with a
masters degree in engineering. If i were to apply for permanent
resident status about how long would the process take? What are the
basic steps to apply for permanent residency, would my employer need to

The married will be less than 2 years at filing.... so should I do a K3 visa
(non-immigrant) for my soon to be wife or should I do CR1/IR1 visa
(immigrant) processing?
The foreign spouse is in Indonesia, and the USC lives in the US.

I'm writing on behalf of my best friend back in Toronto (a Canadian
citizen) who's planning on visiting my wife and I down here this
November.
What we're planning on doing is for him to take the train down from

I filed 2 I-130 Petitions. One for my father and another one for my mother.
USCIS sent me an approval notice saying it is approved and that the file is
being sent to the National Visa Center.
I received a notification from NVC saying they have received my mother's

I am currently in Texas on a h-1b visa. I am a Canadian citizen, with a
masters degree in engineering. If i were to apply for permanent
resident status about how long would the process take? What are the
basic steps to apply for permanent residency, would my employer need to

I have lived and worked in the US for the past 4 years on an L2 visa. My
husband and I are planning on moving to the Netherlands within three
months (I am a British citizen). He has a position with a Netherlands
company. I am hoping that my current employer will allow me to ...

I've read many times regarding the backlog reduction that the INS
was planning, but from looking at processing times, it doesn't seem
like it has happened.
We submitted an application for I-130 (unmarried son > 21 of US

Am I the only one feels this new process is unfair and unnecessary?
What GC holder hasn't already been fingerprinted and photographed
whey they got their greencards?   Now the governemtn want to treat
GC holders like a foreign tourist entering the US?

I want to move with my daughter to UK to be with Hubby, he already a citizen.
Prob is, ex hubby fighting...so I wonder, for visitation purposes, would he
be
allowed to get a UK visa (I think waiver out of question) to visit my

If anyone has applied for OPT (as F1 student) in the month of June to
the Texas processing center, I would really appreciate it if you could
let me know when you received the approval.  
Thanks,

The wait time for spouse of GC holder to get a visa is now 7-8 years.
So it is 7-8 years of seperation. I think it increased from 4.5 years?
Do people think it will increase anymore? Hopefully the spouses will be
reunited before they pass away.....:)

We want to sponsor my wife's parents over here. But my wife is in
receipt of EI due to unemployment. I do have enough income to be the
sponsor, though.
Is this case? Is my wife regarded as "receipt of social assistance

I am a mother of a 2 month old who's just got her US citizenship because of
her father being a US citizen. Her father and I have no intention of getting
married and I am the sole provider for my baby. I am of another nationality
and we (baby & I) live outside of the US. I would like ...