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patel1229

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I am US Citizen and have some questions about sponsoring my mom.
She is currently in US on visitor visa(She has 5 years of visa) and her I-94 is expiring on 1/15/06.
1. Can I apply for I130+485 while she is in US?
2. Her I-94 is expiring in 1 month- is she be out of status after that?
3. Will she be eligible for advance parole?

Please help
 
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patel1229 said:
I am US Citizen and have some questions about sponsoring my mom.
She is currently in US on visitor visa(She has 5 years of visa) and her I-94 is expiring on 1/15/06.
1. Can I apply for I130+485 while she is in US?
2. Her I-94 is expiring in 1 month- is she be out of status after that?
3. Will she be eligible for advance parole?

Please help
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File for her before her I 94 expires. That will make her in Adjustment of Status and will not have to go back. Also she will be eligible for Advance Parole. But you need to move fast. Send the packet ASAP.
 
patel1229 said:
I am US Citizen and have some questions about sponsoring my mom.
She is currently in US on visitor visa(She has 5 years of visa) and her I-94 is expiring on 1/15/06.
1. Can I apply for I130+485 while she is in US?
2. Her I-94 is expiring in 1 month- is she be out of status after that?
3. Will she be eligible for advance parole?

Please help
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1. YES.
2. Overstaying the visa is not a problem for a parent of U.S. citizen.
3. Yes. If she wants to go back while her case is processing, she can apply for AP.
Good luck!
 
A# on forms

Is it necessary for a naturalized citizen sponsoring parents to put down an alien number on froms (I-864, I-130) or is it ok to just write N/A.
 
They don't have an alien number yet, USCIS will assign one with the receipts of the applications. So will be N/A or none.
 
A# for naturalized citizen sponsor

Cherr1980,

I was actually referring to the sponsor's A#, not the beneficiary's. For example on form I-864, if I'm a naturalized citizen sponsoring my parents, am I required to write down an alien number that was once assigned to me even though my current status is a USC? Same thing on form I-130, question # 10.
 
Mimmi said:
Cherr1980,

I was actually referring to the sponsor's A#, not the beneficiary's. For example on form I-864, if I'm a naturalized citizen sponsoring my parents, am I required to write down an alien number that was once assigned to me even though my current status is a USC? Same thing on form I-130, question # 10.
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Yes you do. Even if you became a USC, A# has sticked to you for whole life. Look at your Naturalization Cert., it is there too.
 
amishah said:
Yes you do. Even if you became a USC, A# has sticked to you for whole life. Look at your Naturalization Cert., it is there too.
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I dont understand this. Once you become a USC, you are no longer an alien, so the A# is not valid anymore. :confused: :confused:

Clarifications/explanations anyone?
 
ari4u said:
I dont understand this. Once you become a USC, you are no longer an alien, so the A# is not valid anymore. :confused: :confused:

Clarifications/explanations anyone?
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I think that is one of the difference in Naturalized Citizen and born Citizen.So if they wants to track your history, they can use that A#.
 
ari4u said:
I dont understand this. Once you become a USC, you are no longer an alien, so the A# is not valid anymore. :confused: :confused:

Clarifications/explanations anyone?
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That's what I thought when I was petitioning for my parents, so I put N/A on I-130, I-864. Although I did not have a problem with it, I think since it is on the natz cert, it should appear on other forms.
 
ari4u said:
I dont understand this. Once you become a USC, you are no longer an alien, so the A# is not valid anymore. :confused: :confused:

Clarifications/explanations anyone?
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Though one is no longer an alien once s/he becomes a US citizen, yet still s/he would always remain in the category of 'naturalized citizen', which means his/her status and citizenship will only be known thru his/her Alien Number. S/he should mention his/her alien number every where wherever it is required. That number will remain with him/her during the whole life and it never expires.
 
amishah said:
I think that is one of the difference in Naturalized Citizen and born Citizen.So if they wants to track your history, they can use that A#.
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Can't they track your history through the Naturalization Cetrificate number? I would think that this would give them all the info they need, including the A#, if they really need it.
 
I think that the certificate number doesn't give any information or only the information which is on the certificate, where as A# has all of your immigration history.
 
Mimmi said:
Can't they track your history through the Naturalization Cetrificate number? I would think that this would give them all the info they need, including the A#, if they really need it.
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I don't know how they related the cert# with other info. May be it is not giving them enough info as A# can give.
 
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