Comprehensive family immigration planning for immediate relatives, preference categories, and high-stakes family reunification matters.
Family reunification is a cornerstone of U.S. immigration law, but navigating the various categories, wait times, and eligibility requirements demands careful planning. We provide comprehensive family immigration counsel for citizens and permanent residents.
Spouses, unmarried children under 21, and parents of adult U.S. citizens qualify as immediate relatives with no annual numerical limits. These cases can proceed without lengthy visa backlogs.
Other family relationships fall into preference categories with varying wait times. We help families understand realistic timelines and develop strategies to maintain status during extended waits.
For U.S. citizens engaged to foreign nationals, the K-1 visa allows entry for marriage within 90 days. We guide couples through the petition process, interview preparation, and post-marriage adjustment.
Cases involving prior immigration violations, criminal history, fraud allegations, or complicated family structures require sophisticated analysis and advocacy.
When you are the principal on a work visa, investor or green card case, your family's filings are timed to it: dependents are added at the right stage, travel is planned around interviews and pending applications, and consular processing is coordinated in whichever country each relative lives.
Let us analyze your family situation and develop a decisive plan for reunification.
Schedule Strategy SessionWhen your freedom, your family, or your immigration status is on the line, standard legal representation is not enough. Samper Law's Private Client practice provides highly discreet counsel powered by an insider's understanding of the justice system. Our private clients benefit directly from a legal team that has served on the other side of the aisle, former government prosecutors and federal judicial clerks who possess a deep, structural understanding of how state and federal agencies operate.
If you are facing criminal charges or complex immigration hurdles, our former prosecutors bring an invaluable edge. Having commanded hundreds of active dockets and executed dozens of jury trials for the government, we know exactly how district attorneys and government agencies build their cases. We use this insider perspective to anticipate their tactics, negotiate from a position of power, and engineer impenetrable defenses.
With experience clerking at the federal appellate level, our team knows exactly what arguments resonate with judges and how to navigate the complex procedural hurdles of the immigration and federal court systems.
We leverage this formidable government and judicial experience to fiercely protect your future, resolving highly sensitive matters with tactical precision and absolute discretion.
Schedule a Strategy SessionWe map each relative, their location and the categories open to them.
Prior visas, overstays and other history are reviewed before anything is filed.
The petition and supporting evidence of the relationship are prepared.
We file and track the case through USCIS and the National Visa Center.
Your family is prepared for the USCIS or consular interview.
We guide entry or adjustment of status and plan what comes after the green card.
A versatile litigator with a rigorous civil litigation foundation, Prarup delivers sophisticated, cross-cultural counsel for private clients, families, and individuals.
View Full BioStarting October 23, 2026, USCIS will give the next business day only to paper filing deadlines counted in days, such as RFE responses and appeals. A filing that must be made before someone turns 21 has to arrive before the birthday, even if it falls on a weekend or holiday. Electronic filings get no extra day at all.
Prarup Ghimire, Esq.Accurate as of October 19, 2026E-2 dependents have more flexibility than most families expect, and one hard limit most families discover too late. What spouses and children can and cannot do, and how to plan around age 21.
Lidice Samper, Esq.Accurate as of October 5, 2026The first bulletin of fiscal year 2027 brings EB-2 India and EB-5 unreserved India back from unavailable, but moves EB-2 and EB-3 backward for most of the world. Here are the October dates against September, the State Department's retrogression note, and what employers, self-petitioners, investors and families should do now.
Lidice Samper, Esq.Accurate as of October 5, 2026DHS removes the 2022 public charge framework effective September 18, 2026. Applications postmarked or filed electronically on or after that date are judged under officer discretion instead of the old definitions. Two lawsuits are pending in the Southern District of New York, and neither has stopped the rule.
Prarup Ghimire, Esq.Accurate as of September 24, 2026Reviewed by Prarup Ghimire, Esq.. Last updated .