REUNITING FAMILIES ACROSS BORDERS
Maya Chosé has also devoted part of her legal career to one of immigration law’s most emotionally consequential areas: keeping families together. With more than twenty years of practice on family-based immigrant visas, she brings both rigorous legal strategy and genuine compassion to every case she accepts.
Her practice spans the full spectrum of family preference petitions — from immediate-relative cases for spouses, parents, and children of U.S. citizens, to the more complex preference categories that carry multi-year or multi-decade waiting periods. She is particularly sought after for matters involving nationals of China (mainland born) and India, whose petitioners face among the most prolonged backlogs in the family-based system and who require counsel deeply fluent in priority-date strategy, visa bulletin analysis, and proactive adjustment planning.
PRACTICE SCOPE
Family-Based Immigration Services
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Immediate Relative Petitions
Form I-130 filings for spouses, unmarried children under 21, and parents of U.S. citizens — with no annual numerical cap.
Preference Category Petitions
F1, F2A, F2B, F3, and F4 preference petitions, including strategic filing to secure the earliest possible priority date.
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Adjustment of Status
Concurrent I-130/I-485 filings, standalone adjustment packages, and post-approval interview preparation for USCIS and consular offices.
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Consular Processing
NVC submissions, DS-260 guidance, and coordination with U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide — including high-volume posts in China and India.
RFE & NOID Responses
Aggressive, evidence-rich responses to Requests for Evidence and Notices of Intent to Deny, with a strong record of successful outcomes.
Complex & High-Stakes Cases
Navigating the World’s Longest Backlogs: China & India
Family-based immigration from mainland China and India presents challenges that are categorically different from most other nationalities. Annual per-country caps, combined with extraordinary demand, create waiting periods that can stretch twenty years or more for certain preference categories. Families face shifting priority dates, aging-out risks for derivative beneficiaries, and the compounding complexity of maintaining lawful status throughout the wait.
Our office has built a concentrated expertise in guiding Chinese and Indian national families through these extended processes — including real-time visa bulletin monitoring, priority-date retention strategies following approved petitions, and Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) analysis to protect aging-out children in preference categories.
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