SaraL

My friend, a US citizen, married a foreign man. The foreign man had a stepson aged 17 who came to the US on a student visa.

After the stepson arrived in the US, my friend filed an adjustment of status for the stepson. This is allowed by a stepparent if the stepchild became a stepchild before he is 18.

Now, an interview has been scheduled.

Is the issuance of a green card a fait accompli?

I have a friend who has been trying to get an answer to the same question. Problem is he comes from a country that will not give him another passport because he has emigrated to this one and the relationship between the two countries is hostile. His current passport is full of stamps. So for practical reasons he cannot leave the US until he gets citizenship.

Mermaid,

No, what you described is advance parole, which allows him to return to the US. This is not a passport or a passport substitute.

Seeking info about getting a "white passport."

Here is the situation. A US friend married a foreigner who now has his green card. He hails from an obscure country and his passport is nearly filled with visas and stamps due to his previous international travel. For reasons to long to explain, he cannot get a new passport or get pages added to it.

Until he can apply for US citizenship three years from now, he needs to do some international traveling but after about two more trips his passport will be filled with stamps and he will not be able to travel.

I have heard he can get a "white visa" from the US government which will allow him to travel under US passport before he is a citizen.

Does anyone know about this?

A friend married a foreign woman. She just got her green card.

Meanwhile, her minor daughter came to the US on a student visa.

The mother wants to file an adjustment of status for the daughter.

The regs seem to say that the mother must first file a I-130 petition and obtain an immigrant visa number before she can file AOS, unless she can claim derivative status.

But the regs also seem to say derivative status is only for asylum and refugee cases, neither of which apply here.

So, if we have read the regs correctly, the mother must file the I-130, then wait for an immigrant number, then file the I-485.

Is that correct? If so, how long will she wait for the number? Does the filing of the I-130 allow the daughter to stay in the US after her student visa has expired as would the filing of an I-485 or does she need to leave the country?

Many thanks for any help.