amg

Hi,

I have an H1B and the company that I will begin working for shortly will sponsor my green card in the outstanding research category.

We recently found out that my husband may come to US from Britain on an L1 visa. Since he will be on an L1 and he will be part of my petition, are there any problems with adjusting L1 status to permanent residency.

Thanks,
amg

Ingo Pakleppa

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:38:04 +0000, amg wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > I have an H1B and the company that I will begin working for shortly will
    > sponsor my green card in the outstanding research category.
    >
    > We recently found out that my husband may come to US from Britain on an
    > L1 visa. Since he will be on an L1 and he will be part of my petition,
    > are there any problems with adjusting L1 status to permanent residency.

No problem whatsoever.

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Stephen Thompson

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:38:04 +0000, amg
wrote:

    >Hi,
    >I have an H1B and the company that I will begin working for shortly will
    >sponsor my green card in the outstanding research category.
    >We recently found out that my husband may come to US from Britain on an
    >L1 visa. Since he will be on an L1 and he will be part of my petition,
    >are there any problems with adjusting L1 status to permanent residency.
    >Thanks,
    >amg

If he has a L1A, it will be faster if he applied for a green card
(even with the ORC). I managed to get my L1A to a green card in about
5 months total (around Nov 2001 it ended)

Steve

amg

Thanks so much to both of you!!!

amg

Peter Newton

Steve - I am very interested in the short time it took for you to get from L1 to Green Card. Did your employer sponsor you? And which office did you go through?

Right now I am in US on L-1A and am applying for AOS based on marriage to USC (i.e. my employer is not sponsoring me).

Ingo Pakleppa

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:10:01 +0000, Peter Newton wrote:


    > Originally posted by Stephen Thompson
    >
    >> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:38:04 +0000, amg
    >
    >> wrote:
    >
    >
    >> >Hi,
    >
    >> >I have an H1B and the company that I will begin working for
    >> shortly will
    >
    >> >sponsor my green card in the outstanding research category.
    >
    >> >We recently found out that my husband may come to US from Britain
    >> on an
    >
    >> >L1 visa. Since he will be on an L1 and he will be part of my
    >> petition,
    >
    >> >are there any problems with adjusting L1 status to permanent
    >> residency.
    >
    >> >Thanks,
    >
    >> >amg
    >
    >
    >> If he has a L1A, it will be faster if he applied for a green card
    >
    >> (even with the ORC). I managed to get my L1A to a green card in about
    >
    >> 5 months total (around Nov 2001 it ended)
    >
    >
    >> Steve
    >
    >
    >
    > Steve - I am very interested in the short time it took for you to get
    > from L1 to Green Card. Did your employer sponsor you? And which office
    > did you go through?
    >
    > Right now I am in US on L-1A and am applying for AOS based on marriage
    > to USC (i.e. my employer is not sponsoring me).

L-1As indeed can often get the GC this quickly for two reasons.

First, the qualifications for an L-1A are the same (actually, even
stricter, I believe) as for an EB-1 GC that does not require a Labor
Certification. So you get to skip that step, which is usually by far the
longest.

And second, since the qualifications are similar, you should already have
the paperwork ready to file a GC petition.

If you file an I-140, then use consular processing, and everything goes
very smoothly, it can indeed be realistic to do it in five months.
Unfortunately, today the processing time for I-140s alone tends to be
longer than five months.

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everybody to seek competent legal counsel rather than relying on usenet
newsgroups.

Please support H.R. 539 and H.R. 832. More information at
http://www.kkeane.com/lobbyspousal-faq.shtml

Please visit my new FAQ at http://www.kkeane.com (always under construction)

My email address in usenet posts is now invalid for spam protection. See
my Web site for information on how to contact me.

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