When Rohan* filed for his green card, he and his American wife, Kristen*, had just returned from their honeymoon in Hawaii. They felt relaxed and blissful. Rohan decided to file his marriage-based green card petition on his own. Filling out the application and assembling the required documentation looked a bit time-consuming, but relatively simple. And,…
Mei’s parents immigrated from Taiwan to the U.S. decades ago. Her parents would take her to visit relatives in Taiwan from infancy until she left home for college. As an adult, Mei continued to travel to Taiwan to see family. Mei* met Yan-ting* during one of those trips. After that trip, Mei and Yan kept…
When Ji-hye* married her husband, she thought she found her happily ever after. Ji-hye came to the U.S. from South Korea to attend a university. She had dreamed of leaving her homeland to escape the sexual abuse she suffered for years at the hands of a family member. While in school, she began dating an…
That’s what Luca*, who has a green card and a fiancée living over overseas, asked us recently: What would be the quicker way for his fiancée Maja* to get a green card: If he married and sponsored her now as a green card holder or if he waited until he became a citizen and then…
Ricardo and his parents fled from El Salvador when Ricardo* was only a few months old. Fearing for their lives in their home country, Ricardo’s parents entered the U.S. unlawfully, living as undocumented immigrants in the Bay Area. Fast forward to 2017: Ricardo has been married for three years. He and his wife, an American-born citizen,…