How to handle the immigration of American parents?

IR-5 is an immigrant visa for American citizens and their parents. It belongs to the fifth category of close relatives immigrants and does not need to wait for places.

Second, apply for qualification

American citizen: 2 1 year old and above, with financial security.

The definition of parents includes:

1. biological parents

2 adoptive parents, adoptive parents must meet the following three conditions.

(1). The adoption relationship must be established before the adopted child 16 years old.

(2) The adoptive parents have been the legal guardians of the adopted children for two years.

(3) The adoptive parents and adopted children have lived together for more than two years.

3. Stepparents: Stepparents must get married before their stepchildren reach the age of 18.

Third, the application process

1. Submit the I- 130 application to the designated immigration office, and the immigration office will process it for about 5-6 months. For details, please refer to the latest immigration processing schedule of American Legal Pool Network.

2. I-797 approval notice was received.

3. The Immigration Bureau transferred the case to the National Visa Center (NVC).

4.NVC accepts cases and sends bills.

5. After the payment is made by NVC, NVC sends the third parcel, and the beneficiary or agent completes the third parcel and sends it back to NVC.

6.NVC completed the pre-trial and handed over the case to overseas consulates, who conducted background checks on the beneficiaries.

7. About one month before the interview, the consulate sent a parcel to inform the medical examination and interview.

8. Immigration physical examination

9. Consular interview

10. Pass the interview, get an immigrant visa, and report to the United States within 6 months.

Further reading: precautions for American citizens to apply for parental immigration

1. Citizens applying for parents' immigration are two separate applications, that is, when citizens apply for immigration of either parent, the other parent cannot follow the immigration and needs to apply separately.

2. After being adopted by an American citizen, the legal relationship between the adopted son and his biological parents was terminated by adoption, so the adopted son can no longer apply for immigration to the United States for his biological parents and biological brothers and sisters after obtaining citizenship.

3. If the parents of American citizens are already in the United States and have entered the country as legal non-immigrants, they can apply for I-485 to adjust their status; Since there is no restriction on the number of immigrants, you can apply for I- 130 and I-485 at the same time, and the immigration office will get a green card after the interview.

The kinship between American citizens and their parents is extremely important in the examination of immigration applications. If the American citizen's father is not his biological father, but he married the American citizen's mother before the age of 18 and established a father-daughter relationship, the father still meets the requirements of American immigration law.

If the father of an American citizen is his biological father, but he is not married to the mother of an American citizen, he can also apply for immigration for his biological father under certain conditions. For example, before 18 years old, the biological father of an American citizen has become his legal guardian, or if an American citizen under 2 1 year old is unmarried, he maintains a true father-daughter relationship with his biological father.