Marlin, TX Immigration Law Firms & Lawyers

As the petitioner and sponsor, you must file form I-864 regardless of your employment status. If your income is insufficient to meet 125% of the federal poverty guideline, your joint sponsor's income must be sufficient to makeup the difference.

I strongly recommend an appointment with a competent and experienced immigration attorney. This is a complicated situation that can get worse with a conviction, among other arrests. It is time to review all of your options. Good luck.

Typical processing for citizenship cases across the country is from 6-10 months. Looking at the processing time chart for the Dallas field office, it says that the time for processing a naturalization case up to the date of interview is 7 months. If your daughter is 18 and over, she can file at the same time as you as long as she has fulfilled the required period of residence. If not yet 18, you would have to get your citizenship first and she would typically attain her U. S. citizenship upon your obtaining such if she is a permanent resident and living in your custody. She can ask U.S.C.I.S. for recognition of her U. S. citizenship status through the N-600 application for certificate of citizenship. 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.