Immigration Lawyer for Post, TX
Post · Family Petitions
Post is about 41 miles
from this office.
Planned on paper in 1907. Your case works the same way.
You want to petition for your husband, your mother, or the child who has been waiting longer than anyone expected. You have heard three versions of how it works, and one of them came from somebody who is not a lawyer.
You have driven past the courthouse at 300 West Main a thousand times without ever needing anything inside it. C.W. Post laid this town out on paper in 1907, before anyone lived in it. That is the whole problem: there is nothing here to check.
So check us instead.
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The plain-English answer for Post
For a family in Post, a family petition is how a citizen or permanent resident asks the government to formally recognize a relative, and it is filed with USCIS rather than at the Garza County Courthouse at 300 West Main. Where you live decides one thing: which office interviews you.
- Spouses, parents and minor children of U.S. citizens are immediate relatives under INA § 201(b), with no annual cap and no line. Everyone else waits in a preference category under INA § 203(a).
- Whether the case finishes here or at a consulate turns on INA § 245. Subsection 245(i) still matters in a town built on oilfield work if a qualifying petition was filed on or before April 30, 2001.
Why this town matters to the file
A town planned in 1907, and a work history that will not sit still
Take US 84 north off the Caprock and you are at the office in about 41 miles. This office is in Lubbock. There is no Post office and this page is not going to imply one. C. W. Post founded this town in 1907 after buying 200,000 acres of ranchland, and Postex Cotton Mills began production here in 1913 with 250 employees.
The county still runs on oilfield services, farming and ranching, and the oilfield part is what complicates an otherwise clean file. Service work follows the rig, not the county line, and a man who has done it ten years has lived in more places than his mailing address suggests. A family petition asks where you lived and when, in order, with dates. Reconstructing a decade of that after filing is slow and expensive. Doing it before costs one conversation. Kids here come up through Post ISD.
Post ISD enrolls 649 students. Garza County runs on oilfield services, farming and ranching, and the town itself was drawn on paper by C.W. Post in 1907 before a single family lived here. Plans on paper are not a foreign idea in Post. A family petition is one more.
The local roadmap
How a family petition runs from Post
Immediate relative or preference category changes everything that follows, including whether there is a wait at all.
A petition somebody filed for you decades ago can still change the path under § 245(i). In a town this old, ask every time.
Biometrics at the Lubbock ASC, 3502 Slide Road, a weekday morning, about 41 miles by US 84 north. Forty-one miles, and we set it against your rotation.
The USCIS Oklahoma City Field Office, 3101 Technology Drive, 361 miles from the office.
We will tell you what the law actually allows, not what you want to hear.
Local resources
English and adult learning near Post
A family petition does not come with an English test. The case that usually follows it does. Once a relative is here and eventually files for citizenship, reading, writing and speaking English becomes a requirement, and for a lot of long-settled families that is the step that stalls everything years later. Garza County has no class site, so the nearest seat is part of the plan from the start. A law office prepares the case. A classroom prepares the person.
Nearest classes
Adult Education at Region 17, Lomax Building
ESL, citizenship and GED preparation, free. There is no class site in Post.
Questions we get from Post
Your interview is at the USCIS Oklahoma City Field Office in Edmond, Oklahoma.
Every Post ZIP returns that office. Dallas is the district, which is administrative and not an interview location, and mixing up the two is why other pages get this wrong.
The first conversation, easily. The two appointments, with notice.
Appointment dates come from the government, not from us, and they come with lead time. We plan around a rotation rather than against it.
Often, yes. Bring whatever you have.
Old petitions, old addresses and old paperwork can change the path. A petition filed on or before April 30, 2001 is the one that matters most.
They're two different steps in two different places.
Biometrics are at the Lubbock ASC on Slide Road, about 41 miles from Post. The interview is north, past Amarillo. One case, two trips, opposite directions.
Not automatically, and any office that tells you she does is guessing.
The Supreme Court settled this in Scialabba v. Cuellar de Osorio, 573 U.S. 41 (2014), and it went the narrower way. Automatic conversion and keeping the original priority date are not available to every aged-out child.
No. The first conversation happens by phone.
You don't spend a morning and a tank of gas finding out whether you have a case. You spend it once we know you do.
It can, and it's worth finding out before you file anything else.
A qualifying petition filed on or before April 30, 2001 can change whether the case finishes in this country or at a consulate under § 245(i).
Post.
Let's talk.
One call tells you which category your relative is in, whether anything already filed changes the path, and what the next twelve months actually look like. If the answer is not yet, we'll say so.
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