QUESTION: My sister filed an I-130 for me in 2001. My mother just got her green card. If my mother files an I-130 for me, do I keep my 2001 priority date for my mother’s I-130?

THE IMMIGRATION ANSWER MAN – ARI SAUER: No. Your mother can file a new I-130 immigrant petition for you (assuming you are not married), but the new I-130 will not have the priority date from your sister’s petition. The priority date for your mother’s I-130 will be the date that her I-130 is filed.

However, where the same petitioner files a new I-130 for the same beneficiary, and the old I-130 is still approved, then you can recapture the priority date from the old I-130. This rule does not apply here since the two I-130s are being filed by different petitioners.

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