 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | You're engaged or married to a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, and all you want is the right to be together in the U.S. Should be easy, right? It's not. Information can be hard to find, the government bureaucracy isn't helpful, delays are inevitable. Worst of all, there wasn't an easy-to-use guide through the process -- until now. Fiancé & Marriage Visas makes obtaining a visa and green card as painless as possible. It helps you decide the fastest and best application strategy for you, whether you are married or unmarried, living in the U.S. or overseas. With this friendly, comprehensive book, you can: understand the immigration process make your way through the bureaucracy repare for meetings with U.S. officials learn how to prove your marriage is real deal with the two-year testing period Plus, Fiancé & Marriage Visas gives you helpful advice on protecting and renewing your green-card status. It also provides samples of essential forms, and shows you how to find them online. The 5th edition is completely updated throughout, covering the latest fees, sponsorship requirements and changes to the application process. It directs you to the most current forms online, and provides up-to-date sample forms to guide you. |
Average Customer Rating:   Excellent Step by Step Guide This is an excellent product for anyone trying to find their way through the US Immigration maze. It offers helpful advice that most importantly is correct. While trying to find information to help with the mountain of paperwork you have to fill in and collect, I've seen so much bad and faulty advice given out on forums that in the end I gave up trying to find any help online and just used this book.
Details step by step how to fill in forms. What information to collect. What to take to interviews. For the many different types of marriage visas. I like to think that its thanks to this books clearly outlining clearly just what was needed and in what format that we were able to submit all our paperwork and get our interview and green card all within 60 days.
I highly recommend this book for anyone even thinking about marrying someone from outside the USA so that you have a clear idea of what to do before you get married. Excellent layman's guide to marriage-based immigration This is an excellent overview of marriage-based immigration for non-lawyers. The book is easy-to-read and easy-to-follow. You don't have to have a law degree to be able to read this book. It is written for people who have little or no experience with legal jargon.
This book lists and compares immigrant and non-immigrant visa options for couples, one of whom is a non-citizen. The book offers pragmatic advice, provides an overview of the immigration process, provides checklists of forms and documents which need to be filed with government agencies and consular offices,and provides a timeline of steps that need to be taken. The book includes some, not all, of the necessary forms with instructions for filling them out and filing them. The book also includes the all-important warnings of types of situations where couples should consult an immigration attorney.
I heartily recommend this book to people facing the marriage-based immigration process. This is not a reference book for immigration lawyers. It provides almost no citations to statutes, regulations and decisions. We used a Paralegal to file our family petition Hey, I wanted to buy this book, (I'm N. American USA) My husband is from Central America.
When we were engaged, we had alot of immigration questions that weren't answered online. He needed to get a US driver's licence, as he has an international one.
We used a paralegal to help us file our family petition. The filing form was 400 to the US, and her fee was 1,500 or so. We did recieve a letter that he is in process in two weeks and we were finally able to get him a driver's licence. We had a few setbacks because some DMV locations wanted a visa stamp on his passport. Ironically the DMV location that had a huge line, overlooked that, and the DMV with no customers turned us away, so any wonder why this one dmv location (Miami) (Northside) was so packed and others so empty! We have to pay another 500 or so for a request for pardon, and then I guess wait it out. We got married at the courthouse, civil ceremony for about 140. I was nervous because I didn't know what to expect there. They did not mind that he didn't have the Visa stamp on his passport, also there were only 10 chairs for your guests at the ceremony. So we've been married just 3 months so far! Good luck, and I hope this helps someone. And I will try to post when we have more info. Take Care! It Worked For Us My husband and I used this book to do AOS in the US. He was approved for his green card in under 100 days with NO hitches at all. This book was very useful and easy to understand. The sample forms were very good. I've already passed it onto a friend who will be applying for a spousal visa! Check the publication date. The book is well written and full of good information, but the copy I bought was written before 9/11 (2001), so it doesn't reflect any changes that resulted from that exposure of immigration vulnerability. |  |
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