Sponsoring Family
Four questions before you petition for someone else
The last review on this site, and it is the first one again with the roles exchanged — because the person who was sponsored eventually reads chapter one from th
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Sponsoring Family
Sponsoring Family
Ask whether this is right for them, not only whether it is possible
Eligibility answers whether a case can be filed. It says nothing about whether moving is the right thing for the person moving, and that is a separate question
Sponsoring Family
Being honest with the relative who is waiting
A long case is lived by two people in very different ways. The one who files gets on with life; the one who waits often puts theirs on hold, and that is largely
Sponsoring Family
The commitment you are about to sign is a real obligation
Family categories carry a support commitment that is enforceable, lasting, and largely indifferent to how the relationship turns out. It is the part of sponsori
Sponsoring Family
What you must wait for, and what you can start today
Eligibility to petition depends on your own status and cannot be hurried. Almost everything else can begin immediately, and the families who understand that spl
Sponsoring Family
Now you are the one who files
At some point the person who was brought over becomes the person doing the bringing. The first chapter of this site reads very differently from that side of the
Settling In
Four questions for the first year
A review to run at six months and again at twelve, when there is no checklist left and it is genuinely hard to tell whether a household is making progress.
Settling In
The second year is often harder than the first
The first year has structure: everything is new, everyone helps, and survival counts as success. The second year has neither the novelty nor the scaffolding, an
Settling In
Keeping the immigration record clean during the quiet years
Once a family is settled, the immigration side goes quiet — and that is exactly when the habits that matter for every later application are either formed or not
Settling In
The paperwork of a previous life gets harder to obtain every year
Evidence of who someone was in Vietnam is easy to obtain in the first year and progressively harder afterwards. Almost nobody collects it until it is needed, wh
Settling In
Some things only elapsed time can produce, so start them before you need them
Effort shortens most tasks. A few cannot be shortened at all, because what they require is months passing. Those are the ones to start in the first weeks, long
Settling In
Nothing you built in Vietnam came with you, and that is a records problem
A person who was established, creditworthy and professionally respected arrives with none of it visible. Understanding why that is a records problem rather than