{"id":587,"date":"2012-08-22T20:03:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T02:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2012-08-22T20:03:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T02:03:46","slug":"visa-waiver-program-entrant-applies-for-adjustment-of-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Visa Waiver Program Entrant Applies for Adjustment of Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;m from Germany and I entered the US through with the visa waiver.\u00a0My wife and I married and we applied for the green card but we filed it after the visa waiver expired.\u00a0At the marriage interview, I was told that they would not approve my green card because I overstayed and I needed to file an I-601 waiver,\u00a0Can you help us with this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no requirement for a visa waiver entrant to be in status when they apply for adjustment through a US citizen.\u00a0The officer who told you this is mistaken and we can speak to him or his supervisor to get this corrected without filing an I-601.\u00a0However, when a foreign national enters the US through the visa waiver program, they waiver many of their rights that they would normally have if they had used a visa.\u00a0One of these rights is the right to fight removal.\u00a0Since you have been present longer than 90 days, you may be removed (deported) without any right to a hearing.\u00a0Therefore, we must proceed cautiously to get your green card approved an issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m from Germany and I entered the US through with the visa waiver.\u00a0My wife and I married and we applied for the green card but we filed it after the visa waiver expired.\u00a0At the marriage interview, I was told that they would not approve my green card because I overstayed and I needed to file &#8230; <a title=\"Visa Waiver Program Entrant Applies for Adjustment of Status\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=587\" aria-label=\"Read more about Visa Waiver Program Entrant Applies for Adjustment of Status\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,30,10],"tags":[279,182,164],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-601-waiver","category-marriage-green-card","category-visa-waiver-program","tag-i-601-waiver","tag-marriage-green-card","tag-visa-waiver-program"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}