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What do I have to do for my husband to live in the USA?

I am an American citizen living in Ireland with my husband. We want to move to America in a couple years but I am confused with the process. What exactly do we have to do to get him eligible to live and work in the US?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It will be easy since you are actually in Ireland yourself. You can actually go to the embassy and participate in the interview process. Since you will be dealing w. the State Dept. directly overseas you will be on a faster track.

    Check the State Dept. site and then check the site for the emabssy in Ireland. Get the forms and email them a few times in order to save time when you get there. Then go and get this out of the way now even if you are not moving yet as it will still be on record.

    In this day and age the US has no issue with the Irish. I am friends with a couple who are American and Irish..... her being the US citizen. They had researched this on the net endlessly. Apparently they showed with all sorts of documents being ready to go to it. They showed up at the embassy and in ten minutes the official just signed and stamped it as approved.

    I myself was born in England to a US military parent and a UK parent so I had both birth certificates and a US passport. I thought it would be nice to have a UK passport as well so I would here and there look up the laws and make some calls. It was all very confusing and nothing made sense. I did not need it but I would revist the the thought over years.

    A relative suggested that I just apply and then I would know what I needed to know and be able to go from there...... with appeals and such. So I just applied and a UK passport showed in my mailbox.

  • 1 decade ago

    Since you live with him in Ireland the process will be faster.

    About six months before you intend to move to the US you should file a form I-130 and G-325 directly with the US embassy in Dublin, this is called "direct consular filing." It's for Americans living overseas. You can find the forms here....

    http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb...

    If you've been married 2 years or more, at the time you file, you can get an IR-1 visa for your husband. The process is easy, you don't need an attorney.

  • 5 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    Sorry, don't know how to email you. You answered a question I asked and said you were having the same problem with your email. I installed the yahoo toolbar again and now all of a sudden it is working fine. So please try this if you are having difficulties with yahoo mail.

    Sorry, Don't know bout your husband.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Hire a Immigration Attorney.

    or

    Go to the State Department.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Visit or contact the local American embassy for forms and instructions

  • Raja
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Yakrider is right if you are smart enough to handle it yourself and have time to do it.

    Madan Ahluwalia

    Attorney

    www.ahluwalia-law.com

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