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Green Card Holder Sponsors Wife’s Adjustment of Status but Dies Before Approval

Updated August 15, 2026 by Immigration Lawyer Peter Messersmith

My husband was a green card holder filed AOS based on 245(i) for me on April of 2001.  My husband died recently; I went to USCIS office in Houston to ask for an AP to attend husband’s funeral abroad. I was told that my AOS application was “dead” since the petitioner-my husband, not a USC, … Read more

Categories 245(i), Adjustment of Status

I-360 for a Widow of Permanent Resident

Updated August 15, 2026 by Immigration Lawyer Peter Messersmith

My husband was a green card holder filed AOS based on 245(i) for me on April of 2001.  My husband died recently and I went to USCIS office in Houston to ask for an AP to attend husband’s funeral abroad. I was told that my AOS application was denied since the petitioner-my husband, not a USC, … Read more

Categories 245(i), Adjustment of Status
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