I was wondering I just received my U.S. Citizenship, my wife who is Italian citizen as I was wants to get her green card. Does she have to be in the U.S. to start this process? She's attending school back in Italy at this time.
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first decide if she wants to finish school there. if so then wait to file the I-130. she does not have to return to start the process.
2 :
No, she can apply at the local US embassy. It is a 2 step process. The first costs about $400 with DHS(dept. Homeland Sec.) and they will require a bunch of paperwork, marriage & birth certificates, some government forms, an interview, and passports and Italian ID. They if approved your case will be sent to the State department and after another $400 and an interview she'll have her green card. It took about 3 months for my wife here in Honduras. Applications take about a year if filed in the US due to the volume of cases. So she'd be better off in Italy, but you may need to be there for her interviews. Go to the USCIS website and you can find all of the forms on line (downloadable & printable) there as well as instructions for applying.
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NO!!! unless you want to take at least 3 years to get her to the United States. Provided you have not filed any immigration paperwork of any kind you may have an extra option. If she comes to visit you in the United States see an immigration attorney and ask them to change apply for a change of status from tourist to resident. At the same time submit the application for the spouse. Our attorney did this for us and the entire process only took 6 months from start to finish.
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no she can stay in italy
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