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That would depend on the reason why your application is denied. Without knowing that reason, one can't say. If your application is denied because you lack continuous residency, then you need to wait until five years minus 90 days after the date that you re-establish continuous residency. In...

Come on, just google it. https://www.google.com/search?q=6+months+continuous+residency The very first link is http://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/HTML/PolicyManual-Volume12-PartD-Chapter3.html It says: "An absence of more than six months (more than 181 days but less than one year (less than 365...

After thinking about it some more, all I can say is that it's complicated. Your sister-in-law is (in my non-expert opinion) definitely subject to a 10-year ban on entry to the US, since she overstayed her tourist visa by a lot, without extending, changing or adjusting status at any point, and...

I have answered your question for citizenship. As I already said, you need PR first, before you can apply for citizenship. Your question still makes no sense for PR. There is no set number of years that you "need" for PR because number of years in Canada is not a determinative factor in PR...

OK, but this much is indisputable: Once you enter on a tourist visa, regardless of your original intention, your status for that trip is tourist visa, unless you adjust or change status. Unfortunately, you cannot AOS to permanent resident when you already have a green card. Now, it's possible to...

Under INA 274A(a)(1), anyone who "conceals, harbors, or shields from detection" an illegal alien commits a federal felony. It is possible that providing a place to stay would qualify. Among the many issues is the timing -- if your sister-in-law had not (yet) overstayed her visa during those...

Applying for a tourist visa, knowing full well that the trip is not intended to be of a temporary nature. Renewing a green card after being out of the country for more than one year (ten years in fact) without applying for a returning resident visa. Petitioning for family members on the basis of...

Well, if it means anything, those family friends (by helping your sister-in-law commit immigration fraud) are themselves guilty of immigration fraud, and may end up prosecuted for it if they go to the authorities. This is a big reason why you should always either handle immigration matters by...

This is a complicated case, and you'll most likely need a lawyer. My own (non-lawyer) opinion is that marrying a US citizen will not work. In general, the law does not confer immigration benefits for "sham" marriages where the marriage is undertaken solely for immigration purposes. But even if...

Are you talking about citizenship and not PR? For citizenship, the requirement is three years in a four-year period.

Wow, thanks I didn't know that. Still, 9 FAM 41.31 N15 is, according to the title of the section, intended for "emergency temporary visits" to the US and it does not sound like there is anything even arguably temporary about what the OP's sister-in-law is doing, so it would not apply in this...

Your question makes no sense. There is no fixed number of years in Canada required for getting permanent residency, and there is no fixed number of years in Canada which guarantees permanent residency. It is sometimes possible to get permanent residency before ever entering Canada, for example...

You're not allowed to enter the US on a tourist visa while you're a permanent resident. The expiration of the green card does not, by itself, invalidate your permanent resident status. You can still renew a green card after it expires, as long as you are still a permanent resident. But in the...

If you are thinking at all about applying for US citizenship, then you'll want to be aware that being outside the US for more than six months at a time breaks your continuous residency for the purposes of applying for citizenship.

A trip abroad of more than one year automatically voids your continuous residency, except for a very narrow category of exceptions such as US military service or US government employment. You do not have an opportunity to prove you intended to maintain continuous residency. It is automatically...

A reentry permit is not a problem by itself. They'll just ask you to give your reentry permit back to them along with the green card when you take the oath. The absence of over six months creates an issue. It means you have to prove you maintained continuous residence (as opposed to them having...