Immigration Q&A: After being arrested at the airport with someone else’s passport, you are eligible to apply for a green card for ten years

Immigration Q&A: After you were arrested at the airport with someone else’s passport, you are eligible for a green card for ten years (Alberta Times) I came to the United States in 2005 with someone else’s passport, but I was arrested at the airport…

Immigration Q&A: After being caught at the airport with someone else’s passport, I am eligible to apply for a green card for ten years (Alberta Times) I came to the United States in 2005 with someone else's passport, but I was arrested at the airport. My cousin-in-law later bailed me out. Now, I am in the middle of my second appeal. My husband holds a green card, but his English is very poor and he cannot take the citizenship test. However, my husband’s sister just passed naturalization this year, can she apply to me? Am I eligible to apply for a ten-year green card? A recent USCIS policy memorandum allows household members with non-immigrant status to convert to visitor status (B-2). Does this policy apply to my situation? Can I apply? Answer: Because you have been in the United States for less than ten years, you are not eligible to apply for a ten-year green card (cancellation of removal order). Even if you have been in the United States for ten years, your ten years have been frozen since the USCIS notifies you to go to immigration court, and you cannot accumulate time. The recent new policy memorandum that allows family members with non-immigrant status to transfer or extend B-2 status in the United States does not apply to you because it only applies to "household members" who are currently in the United States legally and are non-immigrant status residents who have long-term residence in the United States. These are people who live regularly with a person whose primary nonimmigrant status is a person and who maintain a nuclear family-like relationship and care.