{"id":46182,"date":"2020-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3717311.findlaw6.flsitebuilder.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/good-news-from-the-9th-circuit-court-expanding-u-visa-eligibility-for-spouses-of-the-primary-u-visa-applicant\/"},"modified":"2020-12-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T06:00:00","slug":"good-news-from-the-9th-circuit-court-expanding-u-visa-eligibility-for-spouses-of-the-primary-u-visa-applicant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoufferlaw.com\/es\/2020\/12\/good-news-from-the-9th-circuit-court-expanding-u-visa-eligibility-for-spouses-of-the-primary-u-visa-applicant\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news from the 9th Circuit Court expanding U visa eligibility for spouses of the primary U visa applicant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 3, 2020, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an excellent decision that will increase access to U visas for spouses of applicant\u2019s with pending applications.\u00a0 Previously, a crime victim had to include their spouse at the time of applying for the U visa, but yesterday\u2019s decision holds that an applicant can file a petition to include their spouse as a derivative in their case\u00a0even after their application has been filed\u00a0as long as the principal applicant marries their spouse before receiving\u00a0approval of\u00a0their U visa.<\/p>\n<p>If you got married after filing your application for U nonimmigrant status, please contact us to find out if you can add your spouse as a derivative in your case based on this new decision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2020\/12\/03\/18-35072.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2020\/12\/03\/18-35072.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 3, 2020, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an excellent decision that will increase access to U visas for spouses of applicant\u2019s with pending applications.\u00a0 Previously, a crime victim had to include their spouse at the time of applying for the U visa, but yesterday\u2019s decision holds that an applicant can file [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firm-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoufferlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoufferlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoufferlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoufferlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoufferlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stoufferlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoufferlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoufferlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoufferlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}