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You can be a co-sponsor of your friend if you are a US Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident. Also, you need to make sure you meet the earnings requirement, as outlined on Form I-864P.

In your case, you may find that the immigration laws make it more difficult for you because the court is in a jurisdiction other than where you reside. There are no limited appearances for attorneys except for bond and custody situations. If you are not being detained by DHS at this point, any attorney asking for a change of venue would be liable for taking on your entire case unless relieved. Since that is the case, it would probably be better for you to obtain the services of an attorney in your place of residence to ask for the change of venue. Difficulties of course could be refusal of DHS to agree to a change of venue or that the attorney would be obligated to appear at the master calendar hearing in the airport district if the change of venue was not completed before the date of the hearing. 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.

The provisional waiver of inadmissibility only applies to those who do not have permanent resident status. It is the second large initiative of the Obama administration on immigration following its program of deferred action for childhood arrivals. Its purpose is to allow immediate relatives of US citizens (parents, spouses, and children between ages 17-21 and unmarried) who are able to be sponsored by the immediate relative to apply for and obtain a waiver of bars upon return (3 or 10 years for those who have stayed in illegally in the States for 180 days or one year respectively after April 1, 1997) if there is a qualifying family member (US citizen spouse or parent) who would suffer extreme hardship if the waiver was not approved. It has no applicability to your relatives if they are already immigrants.