My wife and I are contemplating moving to the US and we are trying to understand how long the green card process can take. My wife is a US citizen and I am a Canadian citizen. We both currently reside in Toronto.
The way we have have been advised to approach this by immigration lawers is to enter the US (I would be able to enter with a 6 month stamp as a Canadian citizen) and apply for an AOS inside the US and submit the I-130 at the same time with my wife being the sponsor and another person to co-sponsor (along with any other paperwork and supporting documents that are neccessary). From what I have understood, this would be much faster than applying from outside the US. If we decide to move, we would be staying in Texas and submitting all the paperwork from there.
I have spoken to different lawyers and immigration consultants and done some researching online to find out how long the whole process could take and I have been getting different numbers. Some people tell me it will take as little as 2-3 months, others say 5 months, 6-8 months while the published stats on VJ shows 10 months.
For anyone who applied for the green card using spousal sponsorship after entering the US from Canada, how long did it take to get the green card (from document submission to receipt of Green Card)?
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Hi Everyone,
My wife and I are contemplating moving to the US and we are trying to understand how long the green card process can take. My wife is a US citizen and I am a Canadian citizen. We both currently reside in Toronto.
The way we have have been advised to approach this by immigration lawers is to enter the US (I would be able to enter with a 6 month stamp as a Canadian citizen) and apply for an AOS inside the US and submit the I-130 at the same time with my wife being the sponsor and another person to co-sponsor (along with any other paperwork and supporting documents that are neccessary). From what I have understood, this would be much faster than applying from outside the US. If we decide to move, we would be staying in Texas and submitting all the paperwork from there.
I have spoken to different lawyers and immigration consultants and done some researching online to find out how long the whole process could take and I have been getting different numbers. Some people tell me it will take as little as 2-3 months, others say 5 months, 6-8 months while the published stats on VJ shows 10 months.
For anyone who applied for the green card using spousal sponsorship after entering the US from Canada, how long did it take to get the green card (from document submission to receipt of Green Card)?
Thanks.