# Adjustment of Status Lawyer in Rockville, MD

> 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-rockville-md/

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

##### Services

Rockville is the Montgomery County seat, which means a good number of people reading this are already downtown for something else — a court date, a filing, a county office. It is worth knowing what part of an immigration case actually happens near you, and what part does not happen anywhere in particular.

## What is local, and what is not

The legal test is not local. [Adjustment of status](/services/adjustment-of-status/) is federal, and a case filed from Rockville is decided under the same rules as one filed from Boise. If a page suggests your county changes the answer, it is selling you something.

What Rockville does determine is the practical shape of the case:

- **Your interview.** USCIS assigns your field office by **ZIP code**. Rather than print an answer that may be stale by the time you read it, check the [USCIS Office Locator](https://egov.uscis.gov/office-locator) for your address.
- **Your biometrics.** Fingerprints and a photograph, usually at the **Baltimore** Application Support Center — roughly an hour up I-270 and I-95. Worth planning around, because a biometrics appointment is not something you reschedule casually.
- **If a case ever reaches a courtroom.** Maryland's immigration courts sit in **Baltimore** and **Hyattsville**; the current list is on the [EOIR court listing](https://www.justice.gov/eoir/find-immigration-court-and-access-internet-based-hearings). Most adjustment cases never go near one.

## If you came on a work or student visa

If you arrived on an employment or student visa — including the ones tied to the research and biotech employers along the I-270 corridor — and you are now married to a U.S. citizen, your case turns on status history more than on paperwork. How you entered, whether there was a gap between a graduation and a job, whether an employer's petition lapsed: those are the facts that decide whether adjustment is available at all, and they are worth establishing before anything is filed.

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.

## Talk to us

If you want to know whether you are eligible before a form is submitted, that is the conversation to have first.

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