Ralls, TX Immigration Law Firms & Lawyers

The question is whether your selling activity will constitute unauthorized employment and the answer would seem to be whether your selling on eBay will be a regular business. If not, the activity would not violate H-1B or H-4 status.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.

There are lots of laws but without doing an individual assessment of your situation it is impossible to advise you. I suggest setting up a paid consultation with an immigration attorney who can review all of the relevant facts and ask you lots of questions to determine what if any relief may be available to you.

The mother can file immigrant petitions for her children any time, even tomorrow. The petitions' approval will take about a year. After the petitions are approved, the children will have to wait for their priority date: only 23400 visas are given every year for unmarried children of U.S. citizens, and 23400 visas per year - for married children of U.S. citizens; so, the children of the person in your case will have to wait until all the people who got their immigrant petitions filed (and approved) before them receive their visas; right now, the wait time is 7 years for unmarried children (19 years for citizens of Mexico, 15 years for citizens of the Philippines) and 10 years for married children (19 years for Mexicans, 20 years for Filipinos) It makes sense to file the petitions, anyway. First, because neither the waiting times nor the filing fees are likely to get any smaller. Second, the waiting time does not start until you file the petitions. And, most importantly, your grandchildren must be under 18 when the petitions are filed; otherwise, they will not receive visas under their parents' approved petitions.