Okay, this is going to be a bit long, but please bear with me.
I live in the US. I’ve been here since 2007, when I was still under 21 years old. My dad had an H1-B visa, and he got us from the Philippines under an H4-Dependent visa. When we got here, the process for our green card started as soon as we were able to afford it, which was still within the expiration of our H4s. I met my now husband during that time, and we had high hopes that we could have regular visits to each other’s homes when my green card came out.
A couple of months, maybe a year and a half, since the submission, we received the requests for the live scan, the medical, received our temporary travel documents, temporary work authorizations, basically the last step most people get before the actual card.
Fast forward to now. I’m married to my Canadian significant other, and still no green card. Our temporary papers have long expired, due to a long stall that happened with our green card due to a problem with my dad’s employer. My husband has decided to sponsor me, because at the moment, we can’t live in the same country for more than six months unless he applies to work here. Frankly, we both think it would be easier to just get me to Canada since he already has work there, and if he decides to apply for here, we might end up in the same situation.
So our question now is regarding my status.
I don’t know what status I should be. On one side, I have no green card and expired papers, so technically I think I’m undocumented. On the other side, I do have documents, I came here legally, and I have papers, although they are expired. So we think I qualify under the term "Implied Status", although we can't be 100% sure about this, and would really like to be sure before submitting anything. We don't want something as small as the wrong term to have our papers be rejected.
We’re having a hard time understanding the legalese for our paperwork, and we’ve gone a bit desperate. We figured we aren’t the only ones having or have had this problem, so hopefully we can get a bit of clarification and answers.
Like if you had gone through this, how?? And if you’re going through this, still how??
TLDR: My husband wants to sponsor me under Family class sponsorship, but I don't know what my status is to put on our paperwork, and so we can submit it to the proper channels.
Just any little piece of advice and help would be very beneficial for us. This is the biggest clutch to our submission, the final, final step before sending it out so we’re really nervous about the whole thing.
Thank you.
I live in the US. I’ve been here since 2007, when I was still under 21 years old. My dad had an H1-B visa, and he got us from the Philippines under an H4-Dependent visa. When we got here, the process for our green card started as soon as we were able to afford it, which was still within the expiration of our H4s. I met my now husband during that time, and we had high hopes that we could have regular visits to each other’s homes when my green card came out.
A couple of months, maybe a year and a half, since the submission, we received the requests for the live scan, the medical, received our temporary travel documents, temporary work authorizations, basically the last step most people get before the actual card.
Fast forward to now. I’m married to my Canadian significant other, and still no green card. Our temporary papers have long expired, due to a long stall that happened with our green card due to a problem with my dad’s employer. My husband has decided to sponsor me, because at the moment, we can’t live in the same country for more than six months unless he applies to work here. Frankly, we both think it would be easier to just get me to Canada since he already has work there, and if he decides to apply for here, we might end up in the same situation.
So our question now is regarding my status.
I don’t know what status I should be. On one side, I have no green card and expired papers, so technically I think I’m undocumented. On the other side, I do have documents, I came here legally, and I have papers, although they are expired. So we think I qualify under the term "Implied Status", although we can't be 100% sure about this, and would really like to be sure before submitting anything. We don't want something as small as the wrong term to have our papers be rejected.
We’re having a hard time understanding the legalese for our paperwork, and we’ve gone a bit desperate. We figured we aren’t the only ones having or have had this problem, so hopefully we can get a bit of clarification and answers.
Like if you had gone through this, how?? And if you’re going through this, still how??
TLDR: My husband wants to sponsor me under Family class sponsorship, but I don't know what my status is to put on our paperwork, and so we can submit it to the proper channels.
Just any little piece of advice and help would be very beneficial for us. This is the biggest clutch to our submission, the final, final step before sending it out so we’re really nervous about the whole thing.
Thank you.
