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welcome welcome I am an immigration
lawyer in Brooklyn New York but I do
represent people all over the world in
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provides now in this video I'm going to
do part one of a series on the unlawful
presence waiver the i-601 a folks we're
talking about some complicated stuff
here okay
for the most part over the past year
most of my videos have been what I would
say on the surface of immigration law
meaning that they were easy stuff okay
they were stuff that were easily
digestible stuff that a lot of people
just had questions about quite frankly
and I talked about those issues right I
answered questions and certainly I'm
going to continue to do that
but in this series friends we're gonna
go a little deeper we're gonna go under
the surface and we're gonna really
uncover what this i-601 a unlawful
presence waiver is and who is eligible
for it because friends not everyone is
eligible for this one and you need to
definitely understand how this works
because the filing fee number one is
very high for the i-601 a waiver and you
don't want to throw away your money by
filing this waiver and you're not even
eligible for it so we're gonna do a deep
dive okay and I want you to stick with
me because it's gonna be a great time
let's just get into this one okay the
first one what is the I 601 a waiver the
I 601 a waiver is a provisional waiver
of unlawful present meaning that you're
here in the United States and you crew
what we call unlawful present government
has
created this waiver to address the
problem of people who are here
unlawfully accrue an unlawful present
and that's the only issue that they have
right I'm not talking about folks who
have other problems such as a criminal
record because if you have a serious
criminal record you are facing another
hurdle the i-601 a waiver addresses the
issue of unlawful present only nothing
else not any other violations that you
may have committed such as fraud
misrepresentation criminal issues this
waiver does not address any of those so
this is for people who are clean you're
here in an unlawful presence but you are
otherwise clean for immigration purposes
you're basically forgiven for that
period once you are approved okay of
that waiver and at that point now you
are able to go back to your country and
be interviewed by the US Embassy for
your immigrant visa your green card
essentially okay now this is a step by
step process what else do you need to
know about this this waiver is for
people who cannot adjust their status
here in the United States
meaning that you cannot stay right here
and go through that one-step process of
getting your green card because of your
unlawful present or because you're not
an immediate relative of a US citizen or
potentially because you're not you don't
have you're not a victim of domestic
violence you're not a juvenile with a
delinquent you've not been neglected
abused as a juvenile you don't meet
certain eligibility requirements to
adjust your status therefore you have no
other option but to go back and
counselor process at the US Embassy in
your home country the second major point
about this waiver that you need to
understand is that it only applies to
people who have
we call a qualifying relative a
qualifying relative is what gets you
through the door with this waiver who is
a qualifying relative for the I 601 a
the qualifying relatives are two people
two two people guys either your US
citizen or green card holder spouse or
your US citizen or green card holder
parent that's it if you have children
who are born here US citizen children
does not mean that you can use those
children as a qualifying relative to get
this forgiveness to get this waiver it
doesn't work that way the government has
limited to two types of people two types
of relatives only and so if you have if
you do not have a US citizen or green
card holder parent or a US citizen or
green card holder spouse you cannot file
for this waiver it's out you can't do it
period
got to work with a lawyer to figure out
if there's another way but it gets
deeper than that folks because just
because you have a spouse or a parent
that is a qualifying relative does not
necessarily mean that you are completely
eligible for this because you have to
prove that those people you just need
one actually that your relative will
suffer extreme hardship should you be
sent back to Nigeria Philippines Jamaica
or wherever you're from China so extreme
hardship is a big burden a big burden
you can do it if you have the right
factors and we'll talk about what those
factors are in future videos so but
that's a lot to chew on that's a lot to
chew on in this short video I'm gonna
leave it here and I want you to comment
below and ask me a question related to
the provisional waiver the unlawful
presence waiver put your question below
and perhaps I'll address it in upcoming
videos in this series but for now
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do this I have a joke for you
now I'm not a comedian I'm not a
comedian I just want to say that but
here's the joke
you walk into a Jamaican restaurant to
order coffee how do you know that you're
Edit Jamaican restaurant and not it's
Starbucks huh this is what happened to
me this morning when I walked into a
Jamaican restaurant and I ordered coffee
they put evaporated milk in my coffee
okay you will not find evaporated milk
at Starbucks so that's how you know so
cheers to golden crust right golden
crust I bought my coffee from golden
crust this morning and they put
evaporated milk in my coffee oh my god
all right friends you have a good one
and I will see you in the next one bye
bye hi friends welcome to another
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