Where Form 2220 Adjustments 2023-2024

Hi, my name is Pre and Arian. I'm an immigration attorney and the principal attorney here at Darian Immigration Law, located in White Plains, New York. A big portion of my immigration law practice focuses on helping people apply for adjustment of status, which is more commonly referred to as a green card. The situation often occurs where a U.S. citizen marries an immigrant spouse who entered the U.S. on a visa. Now, the immigrant spouse wants to adjust his or her status to permanent residence. In my experience, I have seen several major issues that people encounter when they try to do this process by themselves or through a non-attorney or an attorney who doesn't focus on immigration practice. The first mistake that I commonly see, and this is more specific to the New York region, is that the adjudication of the green card application can take 11 or 12 months at this time (June 2018). The processing times may vary from case to case, but the majority of mine are taking around a year from the date we file it to the interview. If you file and submit your Form G-639, your medical examination form, there's a good chance that it will expire before your green card application is adjudicated. This means you will be asked to resubmit a new one, and they can easily cost three to five hundred dollars for each medical examination. My recommendation is to not submit the G-639 along with all the other forms. Instead, submit everything else, such as the I-485, I-765, I-131, Affidavit of Support (Form I-864), and Form I-765. A few weeks after you file it and after you get your notices that say all the forms have been received, you'll get a courtesy letter that says, "Hey, you forgot to file...