Legal Question in Immigration Law in California

As a US citizen, you can petition for both brothers (and their wives will be included, as well, as children under 21).

You shall file a separate petition for each brother.

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You can apply on Form I-130 for your brothers. You will have to do a separate I-130 for each one of them. The wait time may be as long as ten to twelve years before their cases can be processed for the green card (adjustment or consular processing). You cannot file for your sister in law. She will derive status from the appropriate brother for whom you are applying. For more information, please feel free to visit our website at www.visaserve.com.

You file for your two brothers and their derivatives are part of their petitions. These cases take longer than a decade, depending where you're from even longer, sometimes it takes so long that people never end up coming that way and get other routes to arrive sooner. Either that, or the person often has most of their adult life in another country and immigrates much later on, like for retirement!

It's best to explore other options first before relying on this avenue. Since the petition process takes so long, no one can predict just what will be required come time to do the immigrant visa. Therefore total fees for the whole case cannot be known. I like to simply charge for the petition and then separately for the immigrant visa when the priority date comes current.

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Alice M. Yardum-Hunter, Attorney at Law, Certified Specialist, Immigration & Nationality Law, State Bar of CA, Bd. of Legal Specialization

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