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luisangel

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hello, im new to this forum.
My question is:

Im from Mexico and im 24 years old. My dad is resident and now he started his citizenship process (I think he may become citizen this year)
He got some letter saying that the we were acepted (my family and I) to get into the process to get a GC. That letter was kept by a friend of my dad and he gave it to him like 3 or 4 months ago. The letter was received by his friend back in 2004! so...it pass long time ago since then.
So my question is:

Im i still able to continue the process (I think there is a limit of time if in a certain amount of time you dont reply you will be considered as a not interested to apply). ?

Thanks
 
I don't understand quite well your question.

First, your father's citizenship process doesn't have to do with the letter. So your father is a LPR (legal permanent resident) but you are not? How your father got his gc? That is important to know IF you can apply as derivative status and what is your status in the country right now and how you enter. Those two things are very important.
When you are talking about "family" you mean who? your siblings? mother? or just you?

Second, the letter. What letter is that? What the letter says exactly and if that letters came from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services or from who?

Please clarify so then we can answer you correctly, thanks.
 
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is my father he's been in the us for years more than 10.
He is been residence for that long time or more i think.
and well he applied for citizenship years ago, i havent seen the letter, my mother told me. Im in the us as a tourist.
 
And how he got his resident status? through a family member or employment?
Well with too little information there is not too much I can tell you.

The only thing I know is that if your father gain his LPR status (no by as an immediate relative of a US citizen) after you were born and he was already married to your mother, then both can apply as follow to join. But you said that he is applying for citizenship...then things can be way different. If he gets the citizenship you will be in a category that must wait for a visa number to become available and will be some years of waiting since you are an adult over 21. Your mother instead can be consider an immediate relative of a USC so he would be able to apply for her right away. That is if he gets the citizenship, but you said that he applied years ago? and he still doesn't get the citizenship?

I hope you are not confusing "legal permanent resident" with "citizenship". They are two DIFFERENT things.
When you say that he has been living here for years, legally or not? there is a difference of living here for years as LPR and living here for years illegaly.
Citizenship or Naturalization is the process to become a US citizen. Before that you were a LPR.
So please clarify.
 
well...my dad got his residence by employment i think, nothing illegal.
Even last year he couldn't go out of USA since his residence expired i think and was waiting for the interview for citizenship and now he could travel outside the country (US).


It's my bad, i dont have much information about it.
I want to finish my major in some university here and also i have a godfather here (he is 100% american)
and he is offering a job for me here but i cant accepted since im with a tourist visa :(
 
Uhmm...you have to talk with your father to know all the situation correctly.
The other situation is that I evaluate one of the things that I said about follow to join and I made a mistake. Follow to join applies to you just if you were a child, means unmarried and under 21 years old.
Read this link:
http://uscis.gov/graphics/howdoi/childproc.htm#following

So he is waiting for the approval of his citizenship since last year?

Correct, you can't work in tourist visa and you shouldn't overstay either. My advice is that you should check with your father and then you can contact the Mexican Consulate or a Latin American association that sometimes offer immigration services and then with all that information you can ask them properly if there is something that you can do.

Good luck,
 
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