A look at immigration history -- Overview of categories -- Short-term alternatives to a green card -- Will inadmissibility bar you from getting -- How long you'll have to wait -- Fiance and fiancee visas -- Green cards through marriage -- Your parents as immigrants -- Child immigrants -- Orphan immigrants -- The diversity visa lottery -- Amerasian immigrants -- Your brothers and sisters as immigrants -- Refugees and political asylees -- Veterans and enlistees -- Registry: for those in the U.S. since 1972 -- Cancellation of removal -- Adjustment of status -- Consular processing -- Private bills -- Inside the immigration bureaucracy -- Immigration forms: getting started -- Keeping, renewing, and replacing your green card -- How to find and work with a lawyer.
