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A Green Card holder (permanent resident) is someone who has been granted authorization to live and work in the United States on a permanent basis. Our experienced Immigration Lawyers in Manhattan at Law Offices of Norka M. Schell, LLC have handed thousands of Green Card applications through Family, Green Card through a Job, and Green Card through Refugee or Asylee Status and other ways to Get a Green Card. The focus of our Immigration Lawyers in Manhattan is to help our non-immigrant and immigrant clients to find real solutions to any immigration situation they may have whether they are currently in the United States or abroad.
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To promote family unity, immigration law allows U.S. citizens to petition for certain qualified relatives to come and live permanently in the United States. Eligible immediate relatives include the U.S. citizens:
Immediate Relatives (IR) have special immigration priority under the family-based category and do not have to wait in line for a visa number to become available for them to immigrate because there are an unlimited number of visas for their particular categories.
If a persons’ relationship does not qualify you as an Immediate Relative of a U.S. citizen, then she or he may be in what is called a family-preference category.