Archive for September, 2009

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Immigration from India: Birth certificate problems

Pramod was born in 1967 in India. His parents did not report his birth. Reporting birth before 1970 was not obligatory in India. Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriage Act of 1969 made such reporting a legal obligation.

He obtained a document from the local government agency stating that his birth certificate was not available. This situation did not create any problem for Pramod until he applied for Green Card in February 2009 after getting married a girl he met at India booth at the Ethnic festival in Virginia. Since his wife became a U.S. citizen about a year ago, they filed Petition for Alien Relative (I-130).

He found out from his attorney that ration card along with his government-supplied non-availability of birth certificate document could also be used for his permanent visa application. The other option was to get a sworn affidavit executed by either the parents, if living, or other close relatives older than the applicant. As his father and mother passed away five and two years ago and getting such affidavit from his relatives in India seemed to be quite difficult, upon his attorney’s advice, he asked us to provide certified translation for immigration of his two documents in Marathi language.

Last month, he received a letter from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for fingerprinting. It seems that things are going well for him.

Getting Your Green Card

You may apply for Green Card under the following categories: (a) marrying an American citizen; (b) engaging to marry your U.S. citizen fiancé; (c) asking your family relatives (your father, mother, husband, wife, brother, sister, children over 21) who are “citizens” of United States; (d) asking your close family members (your father, mother, husband, wife) of Albanian origin, who have Green Card; (e) receiving employment offer from an American employer; (f) winning Diversity Visa Lottery in your native country; (g) investing your money in United States; (h) qualifying as special immigrant (recognized religious workers, foreign medical graduates, etc.); (i) requesting humanitarian protection (asylum, refugee) from persecution or fearing based on your race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group in your native country.

ACR Language Translation Services, subsidiary of ACR Systems Inc., founded in 1982, provides certified translation for Green Card when you apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS, formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service – INS) for its clients applying for Green Card (permanent resident visa) and U.S. citizenship.

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Are you eligible for Green Card Lottery?

Eligibility for Green Card Lottery program: Are you eligible?

Citizens from many countries are eligible to participate in Green Card Lottery (Diversity Visa) program. However, following countries are not included in the list: Brazil, Canada, China (mainland), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, The Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom (excluding Northern Island), and Vietnam. So, you are not eligible if you are a citizen of one of these countries. You need to check the listing of these countries in each year’s Diversity Visa program (stated as DV-2009 or DV-2010, etc.)

What happens if your native country’s name is on the list?

Well. That’s not the end of the world! You have all other options to get your Green Card.

Other options to get your Green Card

Green Card lottery program is not the only option that you have to get a Green Card. Your other options are: marrying American citizen (after getting fiancé visa), investing in the United States, getting a job offer from a U.S. employer, asking your American relative to apply for you,  applying as a special immigrant, and requesting humanitarian protection (asylum and refugee status) if you meet the conditions of being one.

Please remember that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS, formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service – INS) certification requirements of your documents for all Green Card applications.

Getting Your Green Card

You may apply for Green Card under the following categories: (a) marrying an American citizen; (b) engaging to marry your U.S. citizen fiancé; (c) asking your family relatives (your father, mother, husband, wife, brother, sister, children over 21) who are “citizens” of United States; (d) asking your close family members (your father, mother, husband, wife) of Albanian origin, who have Green Card; (e) receiving employment offer from an American employer; (f) winning Diversity Visa Lottery in your native country; (g) investing your money in United States; (h) qualifying as special immigrant (recognized religious workers, foreign medical graduates, etc.); (i) requesting humanitarian protection (asylum, refugee) from persecution or fearing based on your race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group in your native country.

ACR Language Translation Services, subsidiary of ACR Systems Inc., founded in 1982, provides certified translation for Green Card when you apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS, formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service – INS) for its clients applying for Green Card (permanent resident visa) and U.S. citizenship.

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Do I need to get apostille translated for USCIS?

When do you need apostille?

Apostille is an internationally accepted document certifying or legalizing your document (birth certificate, marriage certificate, police record, etc) that it has been issued properly by the right official agency. Apostille is generally required when you submit your documents to foreign government agencies, that is the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS, formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service – INS) when you apply for your Green Card (permanent resident visa).

What is apostille exactly?

Apostille refers to “certification” in French language and “legalization” in English language.

Rules relating to apostilles are stated in 1961 Hague (La Haye) Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents. See if related county is Hague Convention countries listing (HCCH).

Almost all apostilles contain the same information: type of document, agency that issued the document with the name, title and signature of the issuing official.

How can you get your apostille translated for the USCIS?

Many translation agencies provide apostille translation together with your other immigration documents. You may get discount by having more documents translated at once rather than translation of each individually.

Getting Your Green Card

You may apply for Green Card under the following categories: (a) marrying an American citizen; (b) engaging to marry your U.S. citizen fiancé; (c) asking your family relatives (your father, mother, husband, wife, brother, sister, children over 21) who are “citizens” of United States; (d) asking your close family members (your father, mother, husband, wife) of Albanian origin, who have Green Card; (e) receiving employment offer from an American employer; (f) winning Diversity Visa Lottery in your native country; (g) investing your money in United States; (h) qualifying as special immigrant (recognized religious workers, foreign medical graduates, etc.); (i) requesting humanitarian protection (asylum, refugee) from persecution or fearing based on your race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group in your native country.

ACR Language Translation Services, subsidiary of ACR Systems Inc., founded in 1982, provides certified translation for Green Card when you apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS, formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service – INS) for its clients applying for Green Card (permanent resident visa) and U.S. citizenship.

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About Us – User Agreement

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How can you get “certified” translation for USCIS?

If you need professional translation of your birth certificate, marriage certificate/license, divorce decree, diploma, transcript, police report, passport, apostille, driver’s license, military record, or any other document from your native language to English language and certified for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS, formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service – INS) to get your Green Card or U.S. citizenship, visit ACR Language Translation Services to get “instant” quote (”certified” translation fee and turnaround time).

This entry page contains the following languages: Albanian Amharic Arabic Azerbaijani Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Cambodian Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dari Dutch Estonian Farsi Finnish Flemish French Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Kazakh Korean Kyrgyz Laotian Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Malayalam Marathi Moldovan Mongolian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Pushto-Pashto Romanian Russian Singhalese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog Tajik Tamil Thai Turkish Turkmen Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese

Once you reach each language page, you will find specific information on translation of your birth certificate, marriage certificate/license, divorce decree, diploma and transcript, police (clearance) report, passport, apostille, driver’s license, military record, and other documents.

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Tourist visa created big problem for Maria!

Maria, from Mexico City, has been chatting with Paul, from Denver, Colorado, over the Internet. Their relationship reached a level where they decided to get engaged. In March 2009, Paul invited Maria to meet his parents. Maria landed in Houston, Texas and entered Customs as her first stop in the United States. Immigration officer noticed Paul’s letter to Maria indicating his intention to get married. And, to Maria’s surprise, he told her that she could not enter the United States and had to go back to Mexico.

What went wrong? Maria obtained tourist visa from the U.S. Embassy’s consular section in Mexico City. Tourist visa was not the appropriate visa for people who intend to get married as reflected in Paul’s letter. What a big frustration for Maria and Paul!

Now, Paul is working with an immigration attorney to find a solution. Getting fiance visa followed up by a marriage within 90 days seems to be the right direction. Paul will prepare an invitation letter. National Visa Center will send the papers to U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. Maria will submit certified translation of her birth certificate, single status statement, and few other papers to be able to come to the U.S.

Getting Your Green Card

You may apply for Green Card under the following categories: (a) marrying an American citizen; (b) engaging to marry your U.S. citizen fiancé; (c) asking your family relatives (your father, mother, husband, wife, brother, sister, children over 21) who are “citizens” of United States; (d) asking your close family members (your father, mother, husband, wife) of Albanian origin, who have Green Card; (e) receiving employment offer from an American employer; (f) winning Diversity Visa Lottery in your native country; (g) investing your money in United States; (h) qualifying as special immigrant (recognized religious workers, foreign medical graduates, etc.); (i) requesting humanitarian protection (asylum, refugee) from persecution or fearing based on your race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group in your native country.

ACR Language Translation Services, subsidiary of ACR Systems Inc., founded in 1982, provides certified translation for Green Card when you apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS, formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service – INS) for its clients applying for Green Card (permanent resident visa) and U.S. citizenship.

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Do you have to become U.S. citizen?

I have a Green Card. Do I have to become an American citizen?

No, you don’t have to. Green Card allows you to stay and work in the U.S. forever. However, getting American citizenship gives you the following privileges: to vote during general and local elections, work at public office (federal, state, and municipal), stay in your or any foreign country as long as you wish,  and get U.S. passport to visit many countries without visa.

Requirements for citizenship: You become eligible to be an American citizen after being permanent resident (Green Card holder) for five years. You need to stay in the United States more than six months a year with certain exceptions, have good moral character, and pass citizenship test of U.S. history and government. Make sure that you have the most recent book or test material as changes were made in 2008.

Are you eligible to be dual citizen? Before becoming an American citizen check if you lose citizenship of your country of origin. Many countries allow their citizens to have dual citizenship. In some other countries (Belgium, Bolivia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Venezuela, among others), you have to relinquish citizenship of your native country to become U.S. citizen.

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Immigration help for Amharic-speaking immigrants

Is there any source that provides immigration-related issues for Amharic-speaking people in the U.S.?

Yes, there are several: Immigrant Info has information on immigration, education, social activities, and employment for Amharic speakers.

African Immigrant and Refugee Resource Center (AIRRC) provides immigration assistance, career counseling, job search/placement, prejob guidance, computer training and referrals for other services including legal and health services. Also offers volunteer opportunities. Volunteers assist in writing grants, researching funding sources, and acquiring necessary donations. You can call: 415-433-7300; 415-433-7301; 415-433-7372 or send email message info@airrc.org to get “free” help and speak in Amharic language.

Ethiopian Community Mutual Assistance Association
552 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 209, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139. Telephone: 617- 492-4232.

New website Chora (Ethiopian Center for Educational Information) will soon cover immigration, visas, Green Card, work permit, and similar issues soon.

Getting Your Green Card

You may apply for Green Card under the following categories: (a) marrying an American citizen; (b) engaging to marry your U.S. citizen fiancé; (c) asking your family relatives (your father, mother, husband, wife, brother, sister, children over 21) who are “citizens” of United States; (d) asking your close family members (your father, mother, husband, wife) of Albanian origin, who have Green Card; (e) receiving employment offer from an American employer; (f) winning Diversity Visa Lottery in your native country; (g) investing your money in United States; (h) qualifying as special immigrant (recognized religious workers, foreign medical graduates, etc.); (i) requesting humanitarian protection (asylum, refugee) from persecution or fearing based on your race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group in your native country.

ACR Language Translation Services, subsidiary of ACR Systems Inc., founded in 1982, provides certified translation for Green Card when you apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS, formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service – INS) for its clients applying for Green Card (permanent resident visa) and U.S. citizenship.

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Welcome to Green Card and U.S. citizenship news blog. Read information and most recent news to get your Green Card or American citizenship easily and successfully. Learn from success stories of others and find links to expand your knowledge to live and work in the United States

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