First I'd like to thank everyone in advance for answering my questions and for sharing any insights.
I'm currently 25 years old turning 26 next month. I arrived in the US when I was about 6 years old on a Visitor’s Visa with my mother and younger brother. My father had already arrived a few month's prior.
I attended primary school in the US and around 2001, about the time of my high school graduation, a judge formally granted my entire family Withholding of Removal Status.
Right now I am gainfully employed in the IT Field and am trying to pursue Immigration through Employment (EB-3). The corporate lawyer hired for my case is very wary of my status to the point where he doesn't want file anything in fear of negative repercussions (deportation). He actually recommended that I leave the US to return to my original country, Philippines and obtain an H1-B visa, to which I wasn’t in agreement with.
My father who was in the same boat has already filed for Immigration through Employment years ago and has since then been approved and him and my mother now have Permanent Resident Statuses.
I also have a younger sister, who was born in the US who is currently 16 years old.
From my research and what I’ve read here it seems like having a WOR status puts you in a difficult scenario. Where you are in the US legally but your avenues of progression are limited or none.
If anyone has any advice or insight to my situation I would greatly appreciate it.
I'm currently 25 years old turning 26 next month. I arrived in the US when I was about 6 years old on a Visitor’s Visa with my mother and younger brother. My father had already arrived a few month's prior.
I attended primary school in the US and around 2001, about the time of my high school graduation, a judge formally granted my entire family Withholding of Removal Status.
Right now I am gainfully employed in the IT Field and am trying to pursue Immigration through Employment (EB-3). The corporate lawyer hired for my case is very wary of my status to the point where he doesn't want file anything in fear of negative repercussions (deportation). He actually recommended that I leave the US to return to my original country, Philippines and obtain an H1-B visa, to which I wasn’t in agreement with.
My father who was in the same boat has already filed for Immigration through Employment years ago and has since then been approved and him and my mother now have Permanent Resident Statuses.
I also have a younger sister, who was born in the US who is currently 16 years old.
From my research and what I’ve read here it seems like having a WOR status puts you in a difficult scenario. Where you are in the US legally but your avenues of progression are limited or none.
If anyone has any advice or insight to my situation I would greatly appreciate it.