{"id":2137,"date":"2018-02-08T07:59:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harringtonlawassociates.com\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2024-06-06T17:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:42:43","slug":"family-based-visa-immediate-relatives-i-130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myhlaw.com\/es\/family-based-visa-immediate-relatives-i-130\/","title":{"rendered":"IMMIGRATION: Immediate Relatives (I-130)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>There are essentially two kinds of visas that allow you to bring a family member to live in the US: (1) immediate family members and (2) other relatives.\u00a0 This articles focuses on visas for immediate relatives.<\/h4>\n<p>It makes a big difference whether you are trying to get a green card for an immediate relative or some other family member.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In short, it&#8217;s much easier and\u00a0<em>much\u00a0<\/em>faster to apply for an immediate relative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, what is an \u00abimmediate relative\u00bb?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spouse<\/li>\n<li>Unmarried Child (under age 21)<\/li>\n<li>Parent (if you are over age 21)<\/li>\n<li>Orphan adopted abroad<\/li>\n<li>Orphan to be adopted in the U.S.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Immediate Relative Immigrant Visas (Unlimited)<\/b>: These visa types are based on a close family relationship with a United States (U.S.) citizen described as an Immediate Relative (IR). The number of immigrants in these categories is not limited each fiscal year. Immediate relative visa types include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IR-1: Spouse of a U.S. Citizen &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/visas\/en\/immigrate\/family\/immediate-relative.html\">Learn More<\/a><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This articles focuses on visas for immediate relatives, such as spouses, parents or children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[179,253,256,193,255,174,180,251,252,257,254],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration","tag-attorney-jeff-harrington","tag-attorney-jeffrey-harrington","tag-family-visas","tag-harrington-legal-alliance","tag-i-130","tag-jeff-harrington","tag-jeff-harrington-esq","tag-jeffrey-harrington","tag-jeffrey-harrington-esq","tag-relative-visas","tag-visas-for-relatives"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myhlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}