How to Prepare and Send Immigration Applications

Your success in obtaining a green card, visa, or other immigration benefit depends in part on your ability to get the forms and documents done right. Forget to include a check -- or you write a check for the wrong amount? Your application will be returned to you. Enter inconsistent information? Your truthfulness may be called into doubt. Supply insufficient facts to prove your case? Your request for a waiver or other relief may be denied. That's why it's important to learn tips and best practices for preparing immigration applications ahead of time.

You'll also want to take steps to protect yourself against your application, or parts of it, being lost in the system. This is a not-uncommon problem. You don't want to find out the hard way that, without a copy of your application to replace one lost in the system, the immigration services may ask you to start the process over again.