A lawyer tips on the petition for an alien relative and How to fill out the Form I-130 to Immigrate a Spouse

Show Notes:

00:00 A breakdown of how to complete an actual I-130 family petition a form.

00:35 The form I-130. This is the petition for an alien relative, so this is where you are petitioning your spouse and you want to make sure that you complete this form as thoroughly as possible

00:46 Remember the petitioner is the U.S. citizen, so if you are a U.S. citizen through naturalization, you used to have an alien registration number.

01:46 You do want to enter your social security number. You want to enter your last name, first name and middle name, and you want to make sure that you have typed incorrectly. You want to enter the city or town that you were in and your country of birth, your date of birth, and your sex, male or female,

02:18 Make sure your address is correct because if it’s wrong, you’re not going to get your receipts. So don’t forget the apartment number or floor number, whatever it is that pertains to you. But make sure it’s complete.

03:09 You do want to fill out 13A since when have you been living at that address

03:42 The dates don’t have to be precise. They can be approximate, but you want to enter the month, day and year.

04:08 If this is the only marriage, then you’re just going to mark one in this box.

04:38 Make sure that you mark down if you’ve had other previous marriages

05:08 Your current status, of course, is married because you’re filing for your spouse. And you want to enter here your date of marriage, of your current marriage, not any previous marriages

05:30 Under the name of all spouses, of all your spouses, if this is the only marriage you have been, you only need to complete the first one and where it says date marriage ended, you can leave that blank. If you were previously married, then you want to enter the name of your previous spouse. And if you were married more than two or three times, you want to go to the last page and enter that information and we’ll show you that at the very where you can enter this

06:05 They want to know where your father was born and where he resides now.

06:52 You’re going to mark down whether you’re a U.S. citizen or a legal permanent resident to lawful permanent resident. And if you got citizenship through your birth or through naturalization or through your parents

07:54 If you are a lawful permanent resident, then you need to include this information, your class of admission and where you were admitted in the state you were admitt

08:09 Employment history, so if you are currently employed, this is where you put your current occupation and the date that you started

08:57 Biographic information. So you interfere Hispanic or Latino or not Hispanic, and if you’re Hispanic, you are lawfully legally by the Supreme Court

09:27 This is where you’re going to talk about your spouse, the foreign national who is going to be applying for adjustment of status

10:01 The U.S. social security number, if they’ve never worked in the U.S. before and they’ve never had an a number before or work authorization, they are not going to have a social security number so you can leave that blank.

10:14 Beneficiary’s name, this is important information because it’s used for your background check. And especially if you have a common name, it’s really important that you put your name as thoroughly as possible.

11:04 Other information about the beneficiary, this is where you put the birth city, country and the sex of the beneficiary

11:39 We’re going to go to the beneficiary’s physical address and if they are currently here in the U.S. and it should be the same address is the petitioner.

11:58 Other address information, you provide the address in the United States with the beneficiary intents to live.

12:28 Information about the…

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