Margate, FL Immigration Law Firms & Lawyers

The status of your case appears to be that the 1-130 petition has already been approved and your brother is waiting for the priority date of 2007 to become available before he can immigrate. Currently the process is taking approximately 13 years for persons born in most countries of the world except for China, India, Mexico and the Philippines which takes longer. As your brother has already invested nine years in the process, he probably needs to only wait another four years or so to immigrate if from any country other than those four. If he has good education or working skills, he may be a candidate for employment-based immigration. If he has much monies, he could conceivably look at the US immigrant investor scheme to immigrate. For those options, he or you may wish to consult an immigration attorney for details.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 you are over 21 the fasted way is to file an I-130 and since your brother is a minor he can be included on their applications but some people do like to file a separate case just to be safe. Since you are a US citizen it will be a quick process so long as neither of your parents were ever in the US without authorization and do not have a criminal record. If you would like our assistance please call my office to set up a consultation. We charge $350 an hour but that would be credited to your case if you decide you want to hire us to assist your family coming over.

If the L-1A visa is rejected, there is a very strong possibility that the US consulate or embassy will revoke the visitors visa. From your situation, I would hope that the L-1A petition is based upon your employment with a company related to the one that you represented that you were working for when you applied for the visitors visa. If not, a consular officer could be looking at issues of misrepresentation also. 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.