Keeping Your Family Together: Trusted Family-Based Immigration Attorney
Family is everything. The U.S. immigration system can easily tear loved ones apart. At Pastor & Associates P.C., we protect families with strong family visa immigration services. While our primary office is located in New York City, we provide services nationwide.
We know exactly how stressful this process feels. We educate families on every immigration sponsorship option. We strongly encourage you to schedule a consultation for your marriage visas and family petitions. We provide the zealous advocacy your family deserves.
Guiding You With Family Sponsorship
Securing lawful permanent residency is a difficult journey. You need a dedicated family-based immigration lawyer to guide you. We handle everything from routine applications to complex cases. Here is how a family immigration attorney from our firm can help you apply for different types of programs:
- Marriage-based visas: A marriage green card lawyer will help you prove your relationship is real. We build strong cases to secure a green card through marriage.
- Fiancé visas: Bringing your future spouse to the U.S. requires careful planning. A skilled fiancé visa lawyer handles the complex paperwork for you.
- Immediate relatives and parents: We file your I-130 petition quickly. A spouse visa attorney or family petition attorney can handle your parents’ green card application with great care.
- Family preference categories: Waiting lines can be extremely long. We explain all family preference categories to help sponsor your eligible relatives.
- Adjustment of status vs. consular processing: We evaluate whether you can pursue an adjustment of status inside the U.S. If you must leave, we handle complex consular processing abroad.
- Fraud allegations and prior marriages: The government constantly looks for fraud. We aggressively defend the rights of beneficiaries accused of prior fraud to keep your family sponsorship immigration on track.
Do not risk a painful family separation. We carefully compile your required supporting evidence to avoid disastrous mistakes. We monitor your specific processing timelines closely. We even help you map out your ultimate naturalization through family immigration pathways.
Commonly Asked Family Sponsorship Questions
The immigration process is confusing and intimidating. You and your family are what we care about, and we care about you. Our compassionate attorneys provide easy-to-understand answers to your questions.
Who is eligible to immigrate through family sponsorship?
Not every family member is eligible for family-sponsored immigration. An immediate relative of a U.S. Citizen includes a U.S. Citizen’s spouse, unmarried child under the age of 21, and a parent of the U.S. Citizen. Other family members fall into separate preference categories. We will help you know precisely what your category is.
How long does the process of family-sponsored immigration take?
This can be a complicated answer and the waiting periods vary considerably. Generally, the visas for most immediate relatives are processed significantly faster than those in other categories because the U.S. Congress places firm limits on visas in other categories, which are not changed for years at a time. Our law firm monitors every stage of your application and works vigorously to ensure the immigration service responds within an appropriate timeframe and does not unreasonably delay.
Can a U.S. Citizen sponsor family members for a green card?
Yes, U.S. Citizens enjoy the strongest family petitioning power. U.S. citizens can sponsor their spouses, children (regardless of age), parents, and brothers and sisters. Lawful permanent residents are also eligible to sponsor certain family members, but are not afforded the same ability to sponsor their siblings.
Contact Us To Schedule Your Family Immigration Consultation
We will work tirelessly to ensure that your family stays together. Contact Pastor & Associates P.C. for determined, compassionate immigration law support and guidance. You may reach us by calling 248-987-0757 or using our online contact form. We can also provide legal assistance to those who speak Arabic, Albanian, Spanish and Turkish.