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Hi,
I am a student on F1 visa which will expire 2011 and currently in my first year of a two year graduate program expecting to graduate in June/July 2009. Before I had my student visa I had a family immigrant petition filed for me by my mother in 2001 (approved - priority date is April 2001) at a time when I wasn’t married and 34 years by then. Now am married in 2004 with three kids.
I am planning to stay here in the US to work for a while after my course before returning home and, am not sure if my marriage status now nullifies my first filing made by my mother (who is not here in the US as at now – gone home for medical treatment) so I want to know if I can use that petition to file for a change of status from student visa to green card holder. In the meantime both my father and elder brother here in the US as citizens (naturalization). I checked the recent visa bulletin and saw that the current priority date is around June 2000, which means other things being equal; it will get to my priority date soon.
If as it is I cannot pursue the change of status with my mother’s filing, since I am here in the US can I use either my brother or my father to file for a new petition? If yes which of them do you suggest is more appropriate to guarantee quick processing? In that instance should I have to file all documents at a go including an application for Employment Authorization Document? For you information I have been issued my Social Security number and have been registered for the school’s Curriculum Practical Training program, but there is currently no job opportunities in the school for that program (it’s all federal job opportunities for which I don’t qualify), so we have been permitted to look for jobs outside campus but its proving difficult because employers want those who are fully authorized to work. Just to let you know I live in Denver, Colorado.
Thanks so much in advance and hope to hear from you soon. Best regards.
Bakerwtn
I am a student on F1 visa which will expire 2011 and currently in my first year of a two year graduate program expecting to graduate in June/July 2009. Before I had my student visa I had a family immigrant petition filed for me by my mother in 2001 (approved - priority date is April 2001) at a time when I wasn’t married and 34 years by then. Now am married in 2004 with three kids.
I am planning to stay here in the US to work for a while after my course before returning home and, am not sure if my marriage status now nullifies my first filing made by my mother (who is not here in the US as at now – gone home for medical treatment) so I want to know if I can use that petition to file for a change of status from student visa to green card holder. In the meantime both my father and elder brother here in the US as citizens (naturalization). I checked the recent visa bulletin and saw that the current priority date is around June 2000, which means other things being equal; it will get to my priority date soon.
If as it is I cannot pursue the change of status with my mother’s filing, since I am here in the US can I use either my brother or my father to file for a new petition? If yes which of them do you suggest is more appropriate to guarantee quick processing? In that instance should I have to file all documents at a go including an application for Employment Authorization Document? For you information I have been issued my Social Security number and have been registered for the school’s Curriculum Practical Training program, but there is currently no job opportunities in the school for that program (it’s all federal job opportunities for which I don’t qualify), so we have been permitted to look for jobs outside campus but its proving difficult because employers want those who are fully authorized to work. Just to let you know I live in Denver, Colorado.
Thanks so much in advance and hope to hear from you soon. Best regards.
Bakerwtn
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