Waivers of Immigration Violations

Immigration laws provide several waivers for overcoming prohibitions against receiving immigration benefits. A limited number of these waivers are discussed here:

• Application for Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver
  This application allows nonimmigrants in the United States, who have accumulated more than 180 days of unlawful presence in the United States and, thus, have become inadmissible, to seek a waiver of their ground of inadmissibility before leaving the United States for a visa interview at a U.S. consulate overseas.
• Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility
  The Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility allows eligible nonimmigrants, who are inadmissible due to certain grounds of inadmissibility, to request a waiver of those grounds in connection with their visa application, before a U.S. consulate outside of the United States, or their applications for adjustment of status or other immigration benefits before the USCIS or the immigration court inside the United States.
• Battered or Abused Spouses, Children, or Parents
  The Violence against Women Act (VAWA) allows battered or abused spouses and children of an abusive U.S. citizen or permanent resident sponsor, and parents of an abusive U.S. citizen sponsor, to self-petition for classification without the knowledge of the abusive sponsor.