AUDIENCE:
The main audience will be U.S. citizens and permanent residents engaged or married to noncitizens from around the world, who wish to learn about their loved one’s eligibility for a U.S. visa or green card and the procedures for obtaining one. (The foreign spouses themselves might use this book, though language barriers could be an issue). Beginning lawyers and paralegals needing a primer on the laws and procedures are also likely audience members.
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• Approximately 300,000 people apply for green cards based on marriage to a U.S. citizen or permanent resident annually. (Source: 2013 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/ois_yb_2013_0.pdf]
• The most complete, up-to-date, and user-friendly book on the market covering this always-important topic (as evidenced by it being one of the Nolo books most often translated into other languages without permission!)
• Written by an attorney with years of experience in successfully representing couples seeking fiancé and marriage visas, and thoroughly updated to reflect changes in application procedures, including a new system for determining when applicants residing in the U.S. can start the application process and get a work permit. [This year’s updater TBD.]
• Checklists and sample forms make the complex application process as easy as possible.
