Child Green Card Application

 

Us Citizen & Green Card Holder Apply For Child Green Card

Child green card refers to the application for child of US citizens or green card holders. Citizens can apply for single child and married child. Green card holders can only apply for single child, not married child.

If someone applies for a green card, the single child gets married during the application process and immediately loses eligibility and the application becomes invalid. Singles include people who have never been married, as well as people who have been divorced.

Can children of green card holders get green card? Green card holders can petition green card for their unmarried child (no matter what age). The unmarried children under 21 of green card holder’s unmarried child can get green card at the same time as derivatives.

US citizen or green card holder apply for child green card,general requirements:

1. Applicant is a US citizen or green card holder;

2. Provide proof of sufficient financial resources;

3. Proof of the relationship between the applicant and the beneficiary’s child;

Tips: Child in the immigration law include legitimate child, illegitimate child, stepchild and adopted child.

Special case:

1.  If the child is born in wedlock, the parents get married before the child is 18 years old;

2. the child is born out of wedlock:

if he father apply for a child, Before the child is 18 years old, the biological father is a legal guardian, or the child has established a true parent,child relationship when the child is 21 years old and single; if the mother apply for a child without the above requirement.

3. If it is a stepchild, the stepparent must be married, before the stepchild is 18 years old;

4. if adopted child, the adoption relationship is legally established, before the child is 16 years old.whether before or after the adoption, the adoptive parents have been the child’s guardian, for more than 2 years, and have lived together for more than 2 years.

5. If the adopted child’s siblings,adopted by the same US citizen, the adoption is  until the age of 18, regardless of whether the adopted parent, has been the child’s guardian for two years, and has lived with them for two years.

6. if  adopt an orphan,when an overseas orphan is 16 years old or younger, US citizen submits his/her immigrant visa application.

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