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Green Cards for the Family
Posted on Oct 01 2022
Congratulations to our clients on getting their green cards!
ILCM began working with this family nine years ago when the father, Eh Kay, applied for legal permanent residence and later citizenship. We continued to work with him when he applied to bring his family to the United States. Kay’s ILCM attorney petitioned for his wife and son, but they were unable to leave the refugee camp in Thailand to get to an appointment at the U.S. embassy. Despite repeated attempts from the ILCM attorney, the U.S. embassy wouldn’t allow the process to move forward without their physical presence. With no other options, the case stalled for a long time.
After eight long years working to reunite this family, thanks to the refugee program and tireless advocacy, we were able to unite the family in Minnesota through the refugee process. After one year, we worked on adjusting their status and just this fall, the mother and son received their green cards!
Since Kay was already a U.S. citizen, and his son is under 18 years old, he derived citizenship from his father as soon as he received his card. Their daughter was born in the United States and his wife only needs to wait for a couple years before she can apply for U.S. citizenship as well, then all of their family will have a country to call their own.
We are honored to be part of this family’s immigration story and grateful to our partners and allies for helping us throughout this process – so many levels of the immigration system were used in this family’s reunification! We are also grateful to Kay and his consistent contributions as a frontline worker during the global pandemic.