by Peter Finch
As incidents of Filipino citizens flying to the United States or other countries and not returning home pile up, government and the foreign embassies were prompted to implement stricter measures in issuing visas.
When a foreigner crosses cultures just to acquire a Filipina bride, he has to go through numerous hassles, like complying with mountains of paperwork, spending hundreds of dollars and waiting for a long time before he can finally take his Filipina bride to his country. Processing the requirements for a fiancee or spouse visa takes time and the length of the waiting time depends on where you live.
You can either apply for a fiancee visa (K1 Fiancee Via) or a spouse visa (IR-1) for your Filipina bride, but you still have to comply with several requirements. There are many specialized lawyers that can help you with this. The law requires that you and your Filipina girlfriend must have been legally free to marry and if your girlfriend is granted a fiancee visa, you have to marry her within 90 days after arrival in your own country.
You may need to show documents to prove your relationship with your Filipina girlfriend so keep track of those emails you exchanged with each other, letters, photos, plane tickets and any other proof that you have a relationship going on.
To obtain a spouse visa for your Filipina bride, first of all you must get married so you can petition your Filipina wife to migrate to your own country. If you get married in the Philippines, you must comply with all the requirements of applying a marriage certificate and getting married whether in the church or civil ceremony.
You must not forget to bring important documents if you want to get married in the Philippines, like your US passport, an Affidavit from the US Embassy, a divorce decree or spouse's death certificate if you were previously married, proof that you have informed your parents if you are 22 to 24, or proof of parental consent if you are 18 to 21 years old. These are needed in filing for a marriage license. Your marriage must be authentic and valid under the Philippine laws, and only then can you file a petition to get a visa for your Filipina wife.
Here is a brief run on the procedures of acquiring a spouse visa. After you return to your own country, you should file a petition with the nearest office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) where your place of residence is covered. The INS will in turn send the papers to your Filipina bride for her to comply. You and your Filipina bride must return all required forms to the National Visa Center, who will in turn forward all of the documents to the US Embassy, including your Affidavit of Support.
Your Filipina bride will then have to wait for an interview with the consular officer in your Embassy who will determine if she will be issued a visa or not. If you join bride tours, they will take care of all the visa processing and immigration procedures but if you came on your own, you and your Filipina fiance will have to do the petitioning or applying of her visa.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
The V visa to spouses and minor children
by Anirban Bhattacharya
V visa is a temporary visa available to spouses and minor children (unmarried and under 21years of age) of U.S. lawful permanent residents or green card holders. The V visa has been especially formulated by the Legal Immigration Family Equity Act of 2000 (LIFE Act) to allow permanent residents of the U.S. to stay with their spouses and children while the immigration process proceeds.
Who all are eligible for the V visa?
To qualify for the V visa an individual:
Must be the spouse or minor child of a lawful permanent resident of the USA
Must be the beneficiary of an immigrant petition filed not after 21 December, 2000
Those living in the USA o Should be waiting for I-130, or o In possession of I-130, however, the beneficiary must be waiting for an immigrant visa number, or o Must have a pending application for adjustment of status or an applicant for an immigrant visa
Those living outside the USA
o Must have been waiting for an immigrant visa number for at least 3 three years o Must be still waiting for an immigrant visa interview
The V visa however, does not take in account whether the beneficiary is waiting for the approval of the I-130 or an F2A visa. In other words, with the V visa, a nuclear family can stay in unity. Moreover, spouses holding the V visa can get employment while children can go to school as long as the underlying immigration petition is valid. Moreover, v visa also allows international travel.
The V visa, however, is no longer useful since December 21, 2000. Since the date it was announced ineffective, more than 1,000,000 spouses and minors are waiting for immigrant visas without being allowed to live with their spouses/parents in the U.S.
However, non-immigrants including students, specialty workers, intra-company transferees do not have this kind of problem as their spouses and minor children automatically qualify for dependent visas and there are no numerical limits or processing delays associated with dependent visas. The current laws of immigration in US only disallow permanent residents to live in unity.
However, U.S. citizens do not experience major delays either when bringing their spouses and or minor children is concerned. All they have to do is file the I-130 applications for their dependants. Alternatively, they can also apply for a K visa if the process takes longer than usual.
The other similar area of interest is Second Passport, Diplomatic passport immigration, Economic citizenship program, Diplomatic passport, investment immigration, Second citizenship program.
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V visa is a temporary visa available to spouses and minor children (unmarried and under 21years of age) of U.S. lawful permanent residents or green card holders. The V visa has been especially formulated by the Legal Immigration Family Equity Act of 2000 (LIFE Act) to allow permanent residents of the U.S. to stay with their spouses and children while the immigration process proceeds.
Who all are eligible for the V visa?
To qualify for the V visa an individual:
Must be the spouse or minor child of a lawful permanent resident of the USA
Must be the beneficiary of an immigrant petition filed not after 21 December, 2000
Those living in the USA o Should be waiting for I-130, or o In possession of I-130, however, the beneficiary must be waiting for an immigrant visa number, or o Must have a pending application for adjustment of status or an applicant for an immigrant visa
Those living outside the USA
o Must have been waiting for an immigrant visa number for at least 3 three years o Must be still waiting for an immigrant visa interview
The V visa however, does not take in account whether the beneficiary is waiting for the approval of the I-130 or an F2A visa. In other words, with the V visa, a nuclear family can stay in unity. Moreover, spouses holding the V visa can get employment while children can go to school as long as the underlying immigration petition is valid. Moreover, v visa also allows international travel.
The V visa, however, is no longer useful since December 21, 2000. Since the date it was announced ineffective, more than 1,000,000 spouses and minors are waiting for immigrant visas without being allowed to live with their spouses/parents in the U.S.
However, non-immigrants including students, specialty workers, intra-company transferees do not have this kind of problem as their spouses and minor children automatically qualify for dependent visas and there are no numerical limits or processing delays associated with dependent visas. The current laws of immigration in US only disallow permanent residents to live in unity.
However, U.S. citizens do not experience major delays either when bringing their spouses and or minor children is concerned. All they have to do is file the I-130 applications for their dependants. Alternatively, they can also apply for a K visa if the process takes longer than usual.
The other similar area of interest is Second Passport, Diplomatic passport immigration, Economic citizenship program, Diplomatic passport, investment immigration, Second citizenship program.
About the Author
Myself webmaster of http://www.geraldassociates.com/ dealing in services Second Passport, Second Citizenship, Instant citizenship, Independent immigration, Diplomatic passport, Diplomatic passport services, Diplomatic passport immigration, Economic citizenship program, Diplomatic passport.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Immigration to the United States
Immigration to the United States of America is the movement of non-residents to the United States, and has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the American history even though the foreign born have never been more than 16% of the population since about 1675. The economic, social and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding race, ethnicity, religion, economic benefits, job growth, settlement patterns, impact on upward social mobility, levels of criminality, nationalities, political loyalties, moral values, and work habits. As of 2006, the United States accepts more legal immigrants as permanent residents than the rest of the world combined. [7]
Given the distance of North America from Eurasia, most historical U.S. immigration was a risky venture, which inspired myths and dreams of prosperity and opportunity not found in the Old World. Since the advent of international jet travel in the 1960s, travel to the United States has been made easy by plane, but remains difficult, expensive and dangerous for some illegally crossing the Mexican border at unauthorized points.
Immigration boomed to a 57.4% increase in foreign born population from 1990 to 2000. The public started to focus on existing immigration law and immigration outside the law, especially the 7.5+ million illegal alien workers with 12+ million household members already inside the U.S. and another 700,000 to perhaps more than 850,000 predicted for each coming year. At issue was whether the immigration laws and enforcement system were working as the public wanted them to work. Illegal household members from Mexico alone were estimated at over 8 million. [8].
Proposals were put forward to criminalize illegal immigrants, to build a barrier along some or all of the 2,000-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico, and to create a new guest worker program. Throughout most of 2006, the country and Congress saw itself immersed in a debate about these proposals. As of March 2007, few of these proposals had become law, though a partial border fence was approved.
Given the distance of North America from Eurasia, most historical U.S. immigration was a risky venture, which inspired myths and dreams of prosperity and opportunity not found in the Old World. Since the advent of international jet travel in the 1960s, travel to the United States has been made easy by plane, but remains difficult, expensive and dangerous for some illegally crossing the Mexican border at unauthorized points.
Immigration boomed to a 57.4% increase in foreign born population from 1990 to 2000. The public started to focus on existing immigration law and immigration outside the law, especially the 7.5+ million illegal alien workers with 12+ million household members already inside the U.S. and another 700,000 to perhaps more than 850,000 predicted for each coming year. At issue was whether the immigration laws and enforcement system were working as the public wanted them to work. Illegal household members from Mexico alone were estimated at over 8 million. [8].
Proposals were put forward to criminalize illegal immigrants, to build a barrier along some or all of the 2,000-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico, and to create a new guest worker program. Throughout most of 2006, the country and Congress saw itself immersed in a debate about these proposals. As of March 2007, few of these proposals had become law, though a partial border fence was approved.
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