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Please, I need a sound advice on how to legalize a 17 year old child who has been in the US since he was 1 year old. He is a great kid, intelligent, compassionate and loved by all his friends's mothers. The problem is, his parents are divorced, the mother went back to her country ( she is not a PR nor an USC) and his Dad married a USC but got divorced 3 years after which cancelled his dad's greencard application. The child now lives with his 75 yr old grandfather who is an USC himself and all his aunts are legal permanent residents. I s there a way his relatives could petition him to legalize his status? If not, what other options he has left to secure his future in the US. Thank you all in advance
Please, I need a sound advice on how to legalize a 17 year old child who has been in the US since he was 1 year old. He is a great kid, intelligent, compassionate and loved by all his friends's mothers. The problem is, his parents are divorced, the mother went back to her country ( she is not a PR nor an USC) and his Dad married a USC but got divorced 3 years after which cancelled his dad's greencard application. The child now lives with his 75 yr old grandfather who is an USC himself and all his aunts are legal permanent residents. I s there a way his relatives could petition him to legalize his status? If not, what other options he has left to secure his future in the US. Thank you all in advance
The 75 YO grandfather; was he born in the USA? If so, any of his kids including the one parent of the 17 YO would be citizens as well------no matter where they were born.
Otherwise; you would need to speak with an immigration attorney.
Someone would have to adopt him, but if his father no longer has a green card then it sounds like his parents are both back in their own country and maybe he ought to consider joining them. Family reunification and all --- some things are more important than money.
maybe he ought to consider joining them. Family reunification and all --- some things are more important than money.
Thanks for the reply.
Having him to stay in the US is not about the money. His mother is very well-off to her home country and in fact has been sending him allowances every month. I'ts about the culture he had known all his life.
That kid has been abandoned and whoever is on charge or legal custodian, needs to adopt him before he becomes an adult and nothing can be done. About sending him back with the parents? wow, what kind of parents deserve to see the son they left behind. In my opinion there is no family unity there, at all.
That kid has been abandoned and whoever is on charge or legal custodian, needs to adopt him before he becomes an adult and nothing can be done. About sending him back with the parents? wow, what kind of parents deserve to see the son they left behind. In my opinion there is no family unity there, at all.
I think an attorney is in order. And I DO NOT believe that going back to the parents who abandoned him is an option. Circumstances like this call for some thinking out of the box. I understand his adaptation to this culture, and I don't care from which country he or his parents hail. IMO, he needs to get a good immigration attorney and go that rout. I wish I could offer better advice. I wish you and he the very best of luck.
It does sound like his mother is still supporting him, that means she didn't actually abandon him but maybe she doesn't want him. If other relatives are providing him support, then I would think they can adopt him, there are those who use adoption far more fraudulently.
Yes an immigration lawyer because this is one of those gray zones.
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