Iraan, TX Immigration Law Firms & Lawyers

I am assuming that you are a U.S. citizen. You can file a petition for your husband. The whole process usually takes approximately 6 months to 1 year. If your husband has proof of admission, he can adjudicate his petition here. If not, he may have to go back to his country for consular processing.

Generally, an adult U.S. citizen may apply for both his parents simultaneously (through adjustment of status if they are located in the U.S., through consular processing if they are located abroad) in the "Immediate Relative" visa category for which visas are currently available. That same citizen also may apply for his sister, but in the Family-Based Fourth Preference (FB4) visa category, for which there is a many-year backlog for visas. The FB4 application now would be only an Application for Relative Alien Form I-130, and adjustment of status or consular processing for the sister will not be possible until that visa category becomes "current." It is impossible to determine how long the FB4 backlog will last, since a year's worth of backlog is not necessarily cleared each 12-month period, so for planning purposes it may be appropriate to expect a visa to become currently available in the FB4 category 10 - 15 years after a Form I-130 application is filed. As you can see, this rarely is a satisfactory immigration strategy and often it is helpful to explore other potential eligibilities for a sibling of a U.S. citizen. As a part-time worker/full-time student, If your earnings are insufficient to meet the requirements associated with the required Affidavit of Support that must be filed for each parent, then it will be necessary to have a "joint sponsor" with sufficient current income. It would be wise to engage an immigration attorney to represent you and your family in assessing eligibilities, options and strategies, and in assuring that applications are properly prepared and fully documented.

A step-child can file a relative petition for a step-parent as long as the marriage that created the parent-child relationship took place before the step-child's 18th birthday.