If you’re a United States citizen or are a green card holder (lawful permanent resident), you can bring eligible family members to the U.S. To do so, they need to apply for a family-based immigrant visa so they can become lawful permanent residents themselves. Our experienced immigration lawyers can help you and your family members collect all the documents and fill out the paperwork they need to apply. Working together, we can help you complete all the steps that can bring your loved ones to the U.S. to stay.

Your status determines which relatives or future relatives may be eligible to immigrate. In order to sponsor a family member, you must be a:

• U.S. citizen
• Green card holder (permanent resident), or a
• Refugee or asylee admitted within the past 2 years

Your status determines which relatives or future relatives may be eligible to immigrate. In order to sponsor a family member, you must be a:

• Husband and wife: To immigrate through this process, your spouse must either be a Lawful Permanent Resident or a U.S. Citizen. The petition requires establishing that the marriage is bona fide and that a relationship existed between the spouses prior to their marriage, among other requirements.
• Sons and daughters or children of U.S. citizens or Lawful Permanent Residents. Petitions require that the family relationship be established by substantiating documentation in order to be approved. There are certain requirements that are different if the Petitioner is a U.S. Citizen or a Lawful Permanent Resident.
• Brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens: Only U.S. citizens may petition for their brothers and sisters to come and live in the United States. Permanent residents cannot petition for their siblings.

Visa Preference categories are grouped generally as follows:

• First preference: Unmarried, adult sons and daughters of U.S. citizens
• Second Preference: Spouses and unmarried children of green card holders and unmarried adult sons and daughters
• Third Preference: Married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens
• Fourth Preference: Brothers and sisters of adult U.S. citizens