Legal Question in Immigration Law in Maryland

It looks like your priority date is current. However, your mother should have notified the NVC about her new status of a USA citizen. Unless she notified them and asked them to upgrade your case to another visa category, the NVC has no means of knowing that your mother is a US citizen, and your case belongs to a visa category where your priority date is current.

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If you're in the Family 1st category, you're not exactly current yet with a Priority Date (PD) of 28-Sept-2003 and the Visa Bulletin showing 10-Oct-2003. Applying too early for a green card can cause your application to be denied.

Based on your information, when your mother became a USC your preference category was automatically converted to Family 1st (with a PD of 10-Oct-2003). But the U.S. Immigration Service would not have been aware of this without requesting to upgrade the petition. Depending on your age when your mother filed the petition on your behalf, you would have been Family 2A (15-Aug-2005) or Family 2B (01-Oct-2001). Obviously, Family 2A is a better category in this scenario -- however it is not available under the law.

But to further assist you I will need to know more about your petition to confirm that you are in Family 1st and can apply once the Visa Bulletin progresses.

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Note, most out-of-state attorneys can legally help you because we are permitted to practice federal immigration law outside of our state of jurisdiction.

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Michael A. Harris, Esq.

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