Green card to work in the US

[JorgeEstLaz 0]

My wife and children are USC, I am Spanish but we are living abroad due to my job. 

Can I request a green card (or citizenship) in order to bring back my family and work in the US?

[Jeanne Adil 1,651]

She is the USC / she must apply for CR1 spouse visa

she will need US residency and be able to prove she meets the 125% poverty guidelines for her income

she also needs to have filed US tax returns for the last 3 years ( exclusion from owing is well over $100,000)

if she does not meet the 125% income guidelines,  she needs a USC cosponsor that can prove he/she can meet income requirements for all your family plus theirs

[aleful 1,905]

hi

 

no, that's not the way it works, you wife and children can come to the US and she has to file a petition for you to get a Green Card, the wait is over a year

 

if she can't get a job then she will need to find a joint sponsor because you can't become a public charge for this country

 

citizenship come at least after being a legal permanent resident for 3 years

 

 

 

[Boiler 43,388]

One of our friendly Mods will move your post to the correct forum, but yes your wife can sponsor you to move to the US and get a GC.

[aleful 1,905]

2 minutes ago, adil-rafa said:

She is the USC / she must apply for CR1 spouse visa

she will need US residency and be able to prove she meets the 125% poverty guidelines for her income

she also needs to have filed US tax returns for the last 3 years ( exclusion from owing is well over $100,000)

if she does not meet the 125% income guidelines,  she needs a USC cosponsor that can prove he/she can meet income requirements for all your family plus theirs

hi

 

not quite. the joint sponsor can be a legal permanent resident as well as a citizen. also, the joint sponsor doesn't count the petitioner's family.

 

the joint sponsor must have enough to cover him or herself, their family and the beneficiary, not the petitioner's whole family. the petitioner, in this case will file the i864 affidavit for her family, and the joint sponsor will file an i864 for himself, his or her family and the beneficiary, meaning the OP

[Jeanne Adil 1,651]

1 minute ago, aleful said:

hi

 

not quite. the joint sponsor can be a legal permanent resident as well as a citizen. also, the joint sponsor doesn't count the petitioner's family.

 

the joint sponsor must have enough to cover him or herself, their family and the beneficiary, not the petitioner's whole family. the petitioner, in this case will file the i864 affidavit for her family, and the joint sponsor will file an i864 for himself, his or her family and the beneficiary, meaning the OP

if the USC is not working then the joint sponsor has to include all

 

[aleful 1,905]

1 minute ago, adil-rafa said:

if the USC is not working then the joint sponsor has to include all

 

no,

wrong, the joint sponsor never has to include the petitioner's family, it doesn't matter if the USC petitioner works or not

 

that's why the petitioner has a joint sponsor to cover the beneficiary. the joint sponsor only has to cover his own family if he has one, but never the petitioner and his or her family.

[Boiler 43,388]

14 minutes ago, adil-rafa said:

if the USC is not working then the joint sponsor has to include all

 

USC's do not need to be sponsored.

[Jeanne Adil 1,651]

9 minutes ago, Boiler said:

USC's do not need to be sponsored.

i did not say she had to be sponsored 

i said she was the USC and had to sponsor him

and she had to meet income requirements for the entire family or get a cosponsor

(thinking she may not have been working now)

 

she and the USC children still have to be included in number of people that will be living in the house

Edited October 6, 2018 by adil-rafa

[Boiler 43,388]

She always has to be the Sponsor

 

If she can not meet the financial requirements then they need a Joint Sponsor.

 

Joint Sponsor sponsors him, not her and not the children.

[Jeanne Adil 1,651]

3 minutes ago, Boiler said:

She always has to be the Sponsor

 

If she can not meet the financial requirements then they need a Joint Sponsor.

 

Joint Sponsor sponsors him, not her and not the children.

didnt say that 

said they have to be included in the family size

iike everyone in my house had to be include for the poverty level guidelines 

if she has not been working in Spain 

then what

we just forget them in family size?

Edited October 6, 2018 by adil-rafa

[Diane and Chris 651]

@adil-rafa is referring to the income guidelines as the amount the co-sponsor(s) must prove that they make in order to sponsor the beneficiary plus their own (co-sponsor’s) family, I think. 

[Penguin_ie 5,984]

**** Moving from US citizenship to CR-1 spousal visa forum, as Op will need that type of visa, which leads to a greencard once he arrives, and several years later citizenship.  *****

[austex 42]

My USC husband and I lived in Australia and we did our CR-1.  My husband had to sponsor me and he did not have a job here until after we immigrated.  He did have ties here  - e.g. bank account. We had to prove we had money to sustain ourselves in case anything went wrong - e.g. USC husband couldn’t get a job.  The timeline it took for us was 10 months - from Australia.

it can be done from another country but it is not an overnight thing.

 

M.

[Ryan H 3,790]

7 hours ago, adil-rafa said:

She is the USC / she must apply for CR1 spouse visa

 

Incorrect, the USC must file a petition; it is the foreign spouse that applies for the spousal visa.