Keeping Up With the Millennials in Spousal Immigration Processing

Keeping Up With the Millennials in Spousal Immigration Processing “Selfie stick. Snap. Upload to Facebook. 52 likes in a matter of minutes. These likes include people from all over the world who simply have to look at your Facebook wall to keep up to date with your life.” That’s how my “millennial” colleague Parveen Sehra described practicing immigration law to me recently. She added, “encountering 'millennial age' couples, between the ages of 20-40 has been an eye opening experience. These couples meet online, on trips, volunteering abroad together or in professional programs. They have fascinating backgrounds in terms of employment and travel history and are often interracial, intercultural or same-sex couples." For the practitioner these are the couples that keep our jobs interesting. There are many benefits to a spousal sponsorship case for couples like this. For example, many of them have an organized history of the couple’s interactions through Skype history, Watsapp chains, and Facebook posts. This all helps to establish that the relationship is in fact genuine in an application. It makes it much easier for practitioners to piece together the relationship development as opposed to just some photographs where the couple has to try and remember when and where they were taken.