Legal Question in Immigration Law in Georgia

Immigration,Keeping Me And My Wife Together

I have just married my wife in America and my passport runs out in a month and then I have to leave the Country.We have applied for me to get permenant status here but it will take at least three months to get a reply.Thus I have to leave,my wife cannot come to Britain where I am from with me because she is a teacher in a contract until the middle of next year,thus we are in a real dilemma.What can we do?Please help.Email me at [email protected].


Asked on 12/02/02, 12:39 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Carolyn Goldfarb Carolyn S. Goldfarb, Esq.

Re: Immigration,Keeping Me And My Wife Together

If you have already applied for adjustment of status(I-485)via a visa petition filed by your wife (I-130), I don't see what relevance your passport expiring now has to do with your staying in the US with your new wife or why you would have to leave the US because your passport is expiring. If you apply to the British Embassy for an extension of your passport, it will be extended long before you receive your geencard interview. And you only need a valid passport for INS to give you a temporary green card stamp. Many INS districts don't even care if you don't have a valid passport. They will give you an I-94 with a temporary green card stamp.

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Answered on 12/02/02, 12:53 am


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