Green Card for Teenagers & Out of Status Parents of U.S Citizens
The eligibility of children and parents of U.S. citizens who are out of status for adjustment of status remain one of the foggy areas of the immigration law. It is so unclear that even immigration experts misinterpret the law at times and give wrong counsel to prospective immigrants in the United States. Sometime ago my office represented a family with two children. One of the parents was a U.S. citizen, but the children were out of status. According to this family, two immigration attorneys informed them that it was not possible for the children to adjust their status in the United States since they were out of status. My office took the case and we succeeded in obtaining permanent resident cards for these two children to the amazement of the parents. The cloudy nature of this area of the law is not the fault of immigration experts who have drawn wrong conclusions in the time past. Immigration law in the Un...