hi friends in this video I'm going to
speak about the three ways that you can
bring your spouse to the United States
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you have not yet done so so let's just
go right to it how do you bring your
spouse to the United States your spouse
may be in another country and may have
been visiting you here in the US since
you've been here and you've come to the
point where you're thinking I need my
spouse with me who doesn't need their
spouse with them and so what are those
three ways the first way certainly is to
apply for a green card for your family
to initiate or start the green card
process green card is also known as the
immigrant visa so you would follow the
i-130 petition family petition and your
spouse will go through the consular
process back in your home country if
you're eligible only if you are eligible
to petition for your spouse can you do
this meaning that you of yourself must
either be a green card holder or a US
citizen otherwise you cannot file the
i-130 petition to allow your spouse to
get an immigrant visa and come to the
United States permanently number two the
second way to bring your spouse to the
u.s. is through what we call
non-immigrant the
now non-immigrant visas are temporary
visas meaning that there's a duration on
it right the spouse may be able to come
here for three years six years depending
on the type of visa that you have sought
for him or her
what are those types of visas anyway
what are those non-immigrant visas that
you can consider applying for for your
spouse well first of all you must be the
primary holder of the visa right you
must be the principal applicant meaning
that you already have this visa and
you're not bringing your wife and maybe
your children who are under 21 and
unmarried you're bringing them here to
stay with you for that duration of your
visa so for example that e1 or e2 visas
those two visas that you one visa is for
spouse and children of e1 traders e to
visa is for the spouse and children of e
to treaty investors then you have the f2
which is a more common visa you may be
familiar with the f1 which is the
student visa so the f2 simply is the
visa that will allow your spouse and
children to join you here in the US and
of course you've heard of the H visas
that h-1b right temporary worker visa
programs there's the h-2a
there's the h-1b which is for aliens and
specialty occupation or profession
there's the h-2a which is agricultural
workers who are performing certain
agricultural services that are
unavailable here in the US there's the H
to be again agricultural workers then
you have the l2 visa which is for spouse
and children of l1 visa holders and it
goes on and on there's the old visa the
old three visa which will allow you to
bring your spouse and children under
that visa category and my free mini
guide which is linked below go ahead
download that guide for a better full
list of those visa categories that you
can consider based on your status if you
are l1 visa holder
certainly you can bring your spouse and
children over here on the l2 visa so
take a look at my free mini guide to see
what those different categories of visa
holders are and then thirdly the third
way that you can bring your spouse to
the u.s. is through a regular b2 visa
which is the visitor's visa if your
spouse wants to come here on vacation or
a very short stay he or she can obtain
the b2 visa to come visit with you maybe
for the summer and then go back home
strategically let's back up back up and
think about this from a strategic
standpoint you have to ask yourself
several questions before you could even
think about bringing your spouse to the
United States first of all you have to
ask yourself what is my status what is
my status do I have a green card
obviously am i a US citizen what is my
status because your status will
determine what strategy you can employ
right so for example if you have a green
card or US citizenship you could
petition for your spouse for permanent
residency number two are you as the
petitioner are you eligible to be a
sponsor if you were to petition for that
person for a green card meaning are you
earning enough money here in the United
States to be eligible to file for your
wife or your husband there's a very very
helpful tool on USCIS s website there's
it's a nice table that tells you what
the income requirement is with respect
to the affidavit of support I'm going to
put a link to it below in the
description box check that out as well
so that you can check your income to
determine whether or not you're eligible
to sponsor your spouse the other
strategic question that you need to ask
yourself is how long do I want my spouse
to stay here in the u.s. do I want my
spouse to come here temporarily
if so obviously and your non-immigrant
you have an on and
Fiza certainly you could bring your
spouse along for a temporary stay here
for the duration of that visa as well or
if you just want your spouse to come
here for the summer or for the holidays
then it just makes sense to have him or
her apply for the b2 visa rather than
going through a lengthy process to
obtain another visa type those are the
questions friends that I would say you
need to ask yourself when you're
thinking about bringing your spouse to
the United States did you find this
helpful if so go ahead comment below and
tell me what way did you use or pathway
did you use to bring your spouse to the
u.s. friends I'll see you in the next
one thanks so much for watching bye bye
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