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As far as I know, you have been eligible to apply for your parents' green card since the day you received your own green card. You don't have to be a US citizen to apply for your parents or siblings. Being a US citizen is only required for such instances like getting married to a non-US citizen...

I am a full-time student on F-1 visa. My plan is to graduate next year and apply for a PhD. Now, I have an opportunity to apply for permanent residency through my dad. I know that this process takes at least 1 year. If I start the process now, will this intervene with my acceptance to a PhD...

Hello, The situation is quite difficult here. Husband was granted political asylum in 2001. He applied for derivative for his wife and 2 children in 2002. However, due to personal reasons wife decides not to follow up on this derivative asylum. The case left pending. Now, in 2011 she decides to...

Here is our situation: Husband was granted asylum in the US a year ago. He applied for derivative asylum for his wife, who was living overseas. She just arrived in the US as a derivative asylee. As of right now, husband is eligible for a green card since he has been living in the US for one...

We have been looking for sample written tests in Indiana without any luck. The only sample questions we have are from the official Driver's handbook (not many of them). Please help us find sample tests for Indiana. Thank you!

Hi! You cannot receive any benefits while your case is pending. You can only receive them if you are granted asylum. Now, the presence of your lawyer is especially important since you have been referred to court. You will not be able to do things on your own during these complicated hearings.

Hi! If you have no plans of going back, you don't need to have a passport. Really, there is no point for you to have the passport since legally you cannot use in the US, even for travel. But if you somehow want to go back home and do something there, (like buying/selling house, selling your old...

After asylum is granted and papers for derivative asylum are filed, how long will it take on average to get derivative asylum or at least fingerprints check? I got a receipt notice that Refugee Asylee Relative Petition received on October 15. It has been more than a month, we didn't hear...

Hi. For Medicaid, food stamps and cash assistance you go to a local Family department. In my city it is called FSSA. If you are older than 65, for supplemental security income you go to a local Social Security Administration.

Hi. I believe you have more than enough. You will be granted asylum. I am confident. Don't freak out during the interview. If you have solid evidence submitted before, an officer will not be pressuring you.

To be more specific, the asylee is my father (I prepared all the docs for him). He applied alone, but my mother gets a derivative (automatic) asylum. He was interviewed in Chicago. The officer was the nicest person my father ever met. My father stumbled, forgot, messed up his answers, especially...

Hey, Mr. Bird! Did you get any results???

We got our answer very quickly. It took one month since the day we sent our documents of asylum application to have the answer from the office. We sent docs on July 28, the answer was stamped on September 3rd (yes, roughly one month). + 10 days of waiting before we picked up these docs. So I am...

Thank you for the clarification. May you please answer: do my father lose SSI once he gets a green card? Another question, some official documents say that asylees wait up to 10 years in a queue to get their green cards, however, some asylees get green cards right away. Why is that? My father...

OK guys, here is good news: My father, an elderly asylee, is eligible for Social Security Benefits, Medicaid, Cash, Foodstamps.