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Many individuals are permanently or temporarily barred from obtaining immigration benefits based on prior criminal conduct or immigration violations. Many visa applicants are subject to 3, 5 or 10 year bars to obtaining legal status in the United States. An I-601 Waiver can be submitted to overcome these various bars in circumstances where an applicant has committed immigration fraud, has a criminal record, or has been unlawfully present in the United States for more than 180 days and is now outside the US.
The waiver is available for the fiancé of a citizen, the spouse of a citizen or permanent resident, and for the child of a citizen or permanent resident. A I-601, Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility, is filed to permit an alien who has been denied admission to the United States to gain admission as a lawful permanent resident or fiancé under certain circumstances. This waiver is based on extreme hardship to United States citizen or lawful permanent resident relatives of the alien which would result if the alien's inadmissibility cannot be waived.
A well-prepared I-601 Waiver application can mean the difference between being separated from your family for days or years. Do not try to prepare a waiver without first consulting an immigration attorney experience in preparing I-601 Waive applications.
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