About visiting relatives or immigrant visas in the United States! When can my daughter apply if my mother marries to America? Can we join you?

It is really bad for parents to get married after their stepchildren 18 years old. American immigration law is so strange!

The following is the blog content of an immigration lawyer.

The problem of stepchildren or stepparents immigrating to the United States

American citizens or green card holders can apply for stepchildren to come to the United States, but they must meet the following conditions: the marriage of stepfather (mother) must be born before the stepchildren reach 18 years old. That is to say, when the stepfather (mother) gets married, if the stepson is over 18 years old and the stepfather (mother) gets married, then,

Similarly, if the stepfather (mother) gets married and the stepson has 18 birthday, the adult stepson can't apply for the stepparents to come to the United States. Under this immigration law, sometimes there will be an embarrassing situation: if you are an adult American citizen, you want to apply for your father to come to the United States, but your father has remarried when you are an adult. In this way, immigrants originally called the family reunion program can only apply for your father to come to the United States, and your father's wife can't come. This has become a family separation plan.

If you really pass 18, is there really nothing you can do? There is a way to get to America.

You can ask your stepfather (mother) to apply for a K4 visa, and your mother (father) is a K3 visa. Because of this visa, only children under 2 1 year old are required. But after coming to America, K3 can get a green card, but K4 can't. Once K3 is converted into a green card, your stepparents' K4 and visa will be invalid.

K 1 visa (unmarried visa) only requires children under 2 1 one year old to travel together (K2). But if you 18 years old or older (parents just got married), your K2 can't be transferred to a green card.

You can't figure out such an immigration law: since the Immigration Bureau knows that you 18 is over, it still gives you a visa (K4 or K2), but you won't be allowed to change your green card when you come. Isn't this the immigration bureau that naturally creates illegal immigrants?

Therefore, the pass rate of K visa (so-called fiance/wife visa) in the United States is extremely low, because it is extremely unreliable.