Family-Based Immigration Attorney in Hawaii

Family is everything. If you have a parent, child, or sibling living outside the United States, you may be able to bring them home — or keep your family together right here in Hawaii. At Noha Immigration Law, family-based immigration is one of our core areas of practice, and we take the privilege of guiding families through this process seriously.

For information about bringing a spouse or fiancé(e) to the United States, please visit our Marriage & Fiancé(e) Immigration page.

What Is Family-Based Immigration?

Family-based immigration allows U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents (green card holders) to sponsor certain relatives to live and work permanently in the United States. The process varies depending on your relationship to the person you’re sponsoring, where they currently live, and their immigration history.

It’s rarely a simple or quick process, but with the right guidance, it is navigable. Sherry has spent more than two decades working within and alongside the agencies that decide these cases, which gives her a perspective on the process that few attorneys can offer.

How Noha Immigration Law Can Help

Sherry’s 18 years with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — including time working alongside USCIS’s Fraud Detection and National Security Unit in both San Francisco and Honolulu — gives her an insider’s understanding of how family-based applications are reviewed and what the government is looking for.

We handle all types of family-based immigration matters, including:

Green cards (adjustment of status) based on parent-child relationships
Immigrant visas (consular processing) based on parent-child relationships
Green cards (adjustment of status) for siblings of U.S. citizens
Immigrant visas (consular processing) for siblings of U.S. citizens

What to Expect

If your case is straightforward, we’ll tell you that honestly, along with a clear sense of the timeline and what’s involved. If your case has potential complications — for example, a prior immigration violation, a criminal history, or previous visa issues — we’ll identify those early and work with you on the best path forward.

Immigration processing times can be slow, and waiting is genuinely hard. What we can promise is that you won’t be navigating it alone. Sherry will work with you directly, keep you informed, and be in your corner every step of the way.