Please Help Me!!!!

[drpreeti]

Hi everybody
I am new to this forum...so i was hoping somebody could answer my question.
My mom recently received her greencard and I was wondering if she could help me to get a green card too. While she was waiting for the gc i aged out. Now I am turning 23 and my visa is about to expire too. I read a little bit about the Child Status Protection Act, however, I don't know exactly what to do. Its hard because I have been living in the states for 5 years now and my parents are my primary financial caregivers. Please let me know my options. I applied for a student visa aswell but that is taking sooooo long too. Also applied for the DV-lottery in hope to get the gc somehow. I am really heart broken because I am in the middle of my medical school...pls help...Thank you

[PraetorianXI]

Under what category did your mother receive a GC? employment? family based? sponsored by whom?

Under what status and visa are you living in the USA? You applied for a student visa, but it is taking long but you are in the middle of Medical school? (makes no sense, how can you be studying without a visa)?

Either way, your mom can only sponsor your for a GC when she becomes a US citizen, which will take at least 5 years, and then file for you and you must wait until your Priority Date becomes current, and you will have to wait several years for that to happen.

[drpreeti]

Sorry for not explaining my case properly...I am in a foreign medical school, however, I live at the border of mex and us....The school is close enough at the border that I can still live in the states and travel to school accross the country everyday (sounds bad but its really not). Besides that my mom got her gc through employment. I thought i could apply for I 130 (it said - parents with gc can apply for I 130 if son or daughter is unmarried and over the age of 21) but of course there is a longer waiting list. I am confused of what i should do. The best bet is to wait till my student visa gets approved (which i sent in on nov 1st). Also at the border they have the green form that allows people to stay in the states for 90 days. I could use that but someone told me that after receiving that entry form I will have a hard time applying for any visas. Is that true????

[PraetorianXI]

Are illegally crossing the border everyday? What visa status are you in the US with?

Your mom can file for you, but the waiting time is LONG.

[PraetorianXI]

Your Family Based immigration category is F2B, and they are processing applications from Oct 15 1998. Meaning, it will be 10-12 years before you can get a GC through your mom in this category.

[drpreeti]

Thank you for the imformation. I really appreciate it.