Essentially, anyone anywhere in the world could immigrate to the US if they have a sponsor in the US who can petition for them for an adjustment of status or for a visa.

The requirement is that an American relative is the one who would need to initiate the petition for a visa to start the citizenship process. This would be done on behalf of the foreign relative who is wanting to emigrate from their home country.

An adjustment of status application is a set of official forms that is submitted by an alien who is currently within the borders of the US, or who is already a resident alien. It is the step to be taken in order to change their status from a non-immigrant to that of an immigrant. This would also mean that they would become a permanent resident with that change of status.

Immigration to the US is based on a petition of a relative and can sometimes take quite a long time to process. For example, it can take up to 12 years for a brother or a sister of a US citizen to successfully go through the process. However, the process of citizenship to the United does not take as long if both the US citizen who initiates the petition and the foreign beneficiary are considered by the US immigration service to be “immediate relatives.”

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