Is it ok for the older children of American immediate family immigrants?

American immigration laws allow American citizens to apply for green cards for their immediate family members, including:

1) spouse,

2) Unmarried children under 21year old,

3) Parents require American citizens to be over 2 1 year old. Immediate family members have priority when obtaining a green card, and there is no need for scheduling and quota restrictions.

When immediate family members apply for a green card, they need to pay attention to:

1) age. When the children of American citizens are over 265,438+0 years old, they are given the "first priority" through relatives immigration (children over 265,438+0 years old). The United States has quota restrictions on the first priority agenda and needs to wait. Except eligible "immediate family members", other types of relatives immigrants are subject to quota restrictions, and the specific quota is held by the State Council. The State Council in the United States issues no more than 226,000 relative immigrant visas each year, which also stipulates the proportion of each country.

2) marital status. If the children of American citizens under the age of 2/kloc-0 are married and no longer meet the application conditions, they must be arranged through the "third priority" of relatives and need to wait. Chinese mainland-born China people, the "third priority" schedule is now 65438+2002 10/.

Those who are over 2 1 year old may still retain the status of "children";

In some cases, children over 2 1 year can still maintain their identity. According to the Law on the Protection of Children's Identity of 6 August 2002, children over 2 1 can still maintain their identity. Considering the long process of applying for a visa, many children exceeded 2 1 in the process of applying for a visa, so this bill was issued. The Law on the Protection of Women's Identity stipulates that if an American citizen submits an I- 130 application for his child, the age of the child will be "fixed" on the day when the application is submitted. If the I- 130 form is submitted by a parent who is a permanent resident and the parent becomes an American citizen before the child reaches 2 1 year, the age of the daughter will be "fixed" on the day when the parents become naturalized.

If the Law on the Protection of Children's Identity is to be applied, several conditions must be met:

1) The beneficiary must be a visa application submitted after August 6, 2002.

2) Before August 6th, 2002, the beneficiary didn't get any final decision on the status adjustment or immigrant visa.

3) Strive to apply for becoming a permanent resident within one year after obtaining the visa opportunity. This article refers to the submission of Form I-824, Form I-485 or Form DS-230 within one year after the State Council notified that the visa was available.

If you apply for a visa after more than one year's notice in the State Council, you need to meet the following conditions before applying for the Law on the Protection of Children's Identity:

A as a beneficiary of an immigration application approved before 6 August 2002,

B before August 6th, 2002, there was no final decision on obtaining the immigration application.

C visa will take effect after August 7, 2006.

D. Meet other requirements of the Law on the Protection of Children's Identity.

The Law on the Protection of Children's Identity also provides for a special situation. If a permanent resident submits an I- 130 (second priority) application for an unmarried child, and then the parents of the permanent resident naturalize, the child will be 2 1 year old at the time of naturalization. After the parents are naturalized, the children's application for immigration is preferred (children of American citizens over 2 1 year old). However, the Law on the Protection of Children's Identity allows applicants to choose whether to stay in the "second priority" or switch to the "first priority". Applicants can view the length of the schedule. For example, for the shift in July of 20 13, the first priority of people born in Chinese mainland is June 2006 1, and the second priority of Class B is June 2005 1 1, so the waiting time for transferring to the first priority may be shorter. However, the Philippines is different. The first priority in the Philippines is July 2000 1, and the second priority of class b is February 22, 2002, that is, the waiting time of class b at the second priority is shorter than that of the first priority. (The above news comes from Chengdu Jiacheng immigrants)