# Adjustment of Status Lawyer in Maryland

> Altius Immigration Law PLLC is a U.S. immigration law firm in Washington, D.C., serving clients in all 50 states. Principal attorney: André Matias. Practice areas: green cards, family-based immigration, employment-based and temporary work visas (H-1B, L-1, O-1, P-1), investment visas (E-2), adjustment of status, and citizenship & naturalization.

Source: https://altius.law/adjustment-of-status-lawyer-maryland/

Summary: What adjustment of status involves, and where in Maryland it actually happens — which office interviews you, where biometrics are taken, and which courts serve the area.

##### Services

Maryland runs adjustment of status through a small number of places, which makes the practical side of a case unusually predictable across the state.

- **One field office**, in **Baltimore**, handles the interviews.
- **Biometrics** are taken at the Baltimore Application Support Center.
- **Two immigration courts**, in **Baltimore** and **Hyattsville**, hear the cases that reach a judge — see the [EOIR listing](https://www.justice.gov/eoir/find-immigration-court-and-access-internet-based-hearings).

Office assignment is by **ZIP code**, not by proximity — confirm yours on the [USCIS Office Locator](https://egov.uscis.gov/office-locator); the nearest building is not always the assigned one.

## Two routes, two sets of questions

Altius focuses on **family-based** adjustment of status — a spouse, a child or a parent of a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Those cases usually turn on how you entered and what your status has been since.

The other route starts from work: a **J-1** or an **H-1B**, often tied to the research and biotech employers along the I-270 corridor, where permanent residence runs through an employer or a national-interest petition and the adjustment application is the last step rather than the first.

Which one you are on changes what has to be established before anything is filed. It does not change the law: [adjustment of status](/services/adjustment-of-status/) is federal, and no Maryland county has its own version of it.

## By city

- [Rockville](/drafts/adjustment-of-status-lawyer-rockville-md/) — the county seat, and the I-270 corridor
- [Bethesda](/drafts/adjustment-of-status-lawyer-bethesda-md/) — NIH and the biomedical employers
- [Silver Spring](/drafts/adjustment-of-status-lawyer-silver-spring-md/) — largely family-based, Spanish spoken
- [Baltimore](/drafts/adjustment-of-status-lawyer-baltimore-md/) — the field office and the court

USCIS publishes live processing times per office and form type, and they move. Check the current figure for your own office on the [USCIS processing times tool](https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/).

## Government fees

Adjustment of status carries several government filing fees, and they change. Confirm current amounts on the [USCIS Fee Schedule (Form G-1055)](https://www.uscis.gov/g-1055) or the [USCIS Fee Calculator](https://www.uscis.gov/feecalculator).

These are **government filing fees only**. They are **not** Altius Law's attorney fees.

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