Morristown Family Immigration Attorney Discusses Sponsoring Your Spouse with a 601 Waiver
Just this week, a woman came to my office as a Morristown Family Immigration Attorney with her husband, they’d been married many years, and she had a very important question: I’m a citizen, can I sponsor my husband? The only tricky part was that he hadn’t come in with a Visa, they had come in across the border. They’d been married about 15 years. A few years ago I would have had no good solution, but fortunately, in March of 2013, President Obama initiated a program called the I-601 Provisional Waiver, and now I am able to give an affirmative response: yes, you can sponsor your husband in a scenario like this.
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One thing that I had to explain to her as a Morristown Family Immigration Attorney was in order for her husband to interview in the US, he had to demonstrate a lawful entry which this man could not. However, because of the I-601 Provisional Waiver, someone who is married to a citizen and can show extreme hardship to that citizen can be approved. A person could depart the US, interview with the US embassy back home, and after remaining outside the US for a week or two, re-enter the US, and obtain their green card in the mail.
If you have questions about sponsoring your spouse in New Jersey, contact our experienced Morristown Family Immigration Attorney.
This informational blog post was brought to you by Susan Scheer, an experienced Morristown Family Immigration Attorney.
