{"id":669,"date":"2012-08-25T13:17:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2012-08-25T13:17:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:17:56","slug":"green-card-holder-sponsors-wifes-adjustment-of-status-but-dies-before-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"Green Card Holder Sponsors Wife&#8217;s Adjustment of Status but Dies Before Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My husband was a green card holder filed AOS based on 245(i) for me on April of 2001.\u00a0 My husband died recently; I went to USCIS office in Houston to ask for an AP to attend husband\u2019s funeral abroad.<\/p>\n<p>I was told that my AOS application was \u201cdead\u201d since the petitioner-my husband, not a USC, died. I was also told to file an I-360 as widower.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the correct route to follow?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, widow self-petitions are only available for spouses of U.S. Citizens.\u00a0However, you may be eligible for humanitarian reinstatement of the I-130 which would allow you to continue to pursue the I-485.\u00a0Please contact our office for further details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband was a green card holder filed AOS based on 245(i) for me on April of 2001.\u00a0 My husband died recently; I went to USCIS office in Houston to ask for an AP to attend husband\u2019s funeral abroad. I was told that my AOS application was \u201cdead\u201d since the petitioner-my husband, not a USC, &#8230; <a title=\"Green Card Holder Sponsors Wife&#8217;s Adjustment of Status but Dies Before Approval\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=669\" aria-label=\"Read more about Green Card Holder Sponsors Wife&#8217;s Adjustment of Status but Dies Before Approval\">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":[152,72],"tags":[284,220],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-245i","category-adjustment-of-status","tag-245i","tag-adjustment-of-status"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","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=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}