# Adjustment of Status Lawyer in Silver Spring, 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-silver-spring-md/

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

##### Services

Altius focuses on **family-based** adjustment of status, and works in English, Portuguese, Spanish and French.

**Hablamos español.** If Spanish is the language you would rather have this conversation in, that is not a problem to work around.

## When a route opens after years here

A child turns 21, or a spouse naturalizes, or a petition filed long ago finally reaches the front of the queue — and suddenly a route exists that did not exist last year.

Those cases are rarely simple, and the complication is usually **the intervening years** rather than the current relationship. Time out of status, an entry that was not an admission, an old order nobody explained properly at the time: each of these changes whether [adjustment of status](/services/adjustment-of-status/) is available, or whether the route runs some other way.

The right first step is not filling in a form. It is establishing what your actual immigration history is — which sometimes takes a records request — and only then deciding what to file.

## Where it happens

- **Your interview office** is assigned by **ZIP code**; the [USCIS Office Locator](https://egov.uscis.gov/office-locator) gives the current answer for your address.
- **Biometrics** for Montgomery County applicants are usually taken at the **Baltimore** Application Support Center.
- **Maryland's immigration courts** sit in **Baltimore** and **Hyattsville** ([EOIR listing](https://www.justice.gov/eoir/find-immigration-court-and-access-internet-based-hearings)).

Silver Spring is on the Metro Red Line, so Washington-side appointments are straightforward; Baltimore is a drive worth planning for.

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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