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Asked on Nov 08th, 2016 on Immigration - Colorado
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My dad is a US citizen and I am an 19 year old immigrant with DACA . will he be able to help me fix my paper work or am I too late to get any help?
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If you entered the country legally, your father can probably assist you in adjusting status to permanent residence in the US without leaving. If not and as you are under DACA, you may be able to leave the US under an advance parole for emergency, school related, or business related reasons. If so, your parole back into the United States may make you eligible for adjustment of status. If neither of the two situations apply to you, you may still be able to obtain your residence status through the I-601A program under which your father would petition for you as his relative on form I-130, and when that is approved, you would be able to submit an I-601A request for a waiver of the 10 year bar for being here in the US unlawfully for a year or more. The I-601A adjudication would be based upon your establishing extreme hardship to your father if you could not return to the US. Assuming that the waiver is approved, you would complete your case by having it consular processed through the National Visa Center in the States and the US consulate or embassy in your home country. Kindly note that the I-601A program has a good rate of success, but also that its future may depend upon how vigorously Mr. Trump wishes to go after programs benefiting the undocumented.Due to the limitations of the Lawyers.com Forums, Alan Lee, Esq.'s (the "Firm") participation in responding to questions posted herein does not constitute legal advice, nor legal representation of the person or entity posting a question. No Attorney/Client relationship is or shall be construed to be created hereby. The information provided herein by the Firm is general, and requires that the poster obtain specific legal advice from an attorney. The poster shall not rely upon the information provided herein as legal advice nor as the basis for making any decisions of legal consequence.  
Answered on Nov 29th, 2016 at 5:56 PM

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