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Best wishes for the marriage you are planning. Here are a few details that should prove helpful for your considerations: There is no visa category for fiances of U.S. Permanent Residents. Each time a person enters the U.S. with a visitor's visa, she must have a genuine intention to stay temporarily and then return abroad in compliance with her visa - she is not permitted to enter with a visitor's visa while intending to marry you and live here permanently. If your fiance were to overstay her visa, if she came to the attention of immigration authorities she would become subject to being placed in removal proceedings, but generally the immigration authorities do not put much effort into addressing visa overstays and only take action when brought to their attention through a criminal arrest or similar matter. Once you become a naturalized U.S. citizen, you would be able to sponsor your wife to adjust status to become a Permanent Resident notwithstanding that she had entered the U.S. lawfully and with inspection but then had overstayed her visa. Generally, one may file a petition for naturalization 90 days before the end of the 5-year period applicable to most people. You might want to consider engaging an immigration attorney to prepare your naturalization petition package so you may file it at the earliest possible date and so you may maximize the likelihood of efficient and prompt processing/approval. The Atlanta Field Office of the USCIS has been taking approximately four months to process naturalization cases that can be adjudicated at the time of the naturalization interview and examination. For cases that cannot be finally adjudicated at the interview/examination, for example cases that lack some of the necessary supporting documents, delays then can take an additional nine months or even longer.

By your green card preparation forms, you could mean either I-130 petition for alien relative or I-140 petition for alien worker or I-485 application to adjust status to permanent residence or DS-260 application for immigrant visa. If on either of the first 2, you can add your son in the next phase of the case, either on the I-485 or the DS-260. That assumes that you will both be interviewing at the same time at the same place. You would be filing another form I-485 or DS-260 on behalf of your son at the same time that you are submitting your applications. If you have already filed your I-485 or DS-260, you would be filing the same forms for your son. For an I-485, there is a good chance that your adjudication will come prior to that of your son. For a DS-260, you would have better chance of having the files put together so that you can both interview at the consular post at the same time. Due to the limitations of the Lawyers.com Forums, Alan Lee, Esq.'s (the "Firm") participation in responding to questions posted herein does not constitute legal advice, nor legal representation of the person or entity posting a question. No Attorney/Client relationship is or shall be construed to be created hereby. The information provided herein by the Firm is general, and requires that the poster obtain specific legal advice from an attorney. The poster shall not rely upon the information provided herein as legal advice nor as the basis for making any decisions of legal consequence.

If he was deported because of a criminal record, he may be barred from returning for life depending on the crime involved.  Why was he deported (what did his deportation paperwork say)?