A green card case is a sequence, and the sequence is unforgiving: eligibility, then the right procedural path, then admissibility, then the interview. Choosing wrong at step two — adjusting status when the facts require consular processing, or the reverse — costs families years. Audu Law Firm handles permanent residence cases from strategy through the interview, including the difficult ones.
Two Roads to the Same Card
Adjustment of status
Applicants inside the United States who qualify file the I-485 and complete the process without leaving — with work and travel authorization available while the case pends. Eligibility to adjust depends on lawful entry and maintenance of status rules that vary by category, and the interview examines the entire immigration history under oath.
Consular processing
Applicants abroad — or those ineligible to adjust — complete the immigrant visa process at a U.S. consulate. For applicants with prior unlawful presence, departing for the interview can trigger reentry bars, which is precisely the trap that pre-filing analysis exists to catch, sometimes paired with a provisional waiver filed before departure.
When the Case Is Not Clean
Prior denials, fraud findings, unlawful presence, and criminal history do not always end a case — but they end unprepared ones. We analyze admissibility before filing, brief the problem head-on with evidence and law, and where a denial has already issued, evaluate motions to reopen or reconsider on the merits. Green card cases are won in the file long before the interview.
Consultations are conducted by Zoom. Immigration law is federal — we represent clients nationwide before USCIS.
Permanent residence is a sequence. Run it in order.
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