CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

NATIONALITY: India

LOCATION: Cleveland, OH 

Our client is from India who came to the U.S. on a F-1 student visa. In March 2021, our client married his U.S. citizen wife.  He retained our office on March 5, 2021 for his green card application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on March 16, 2021.  Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and work permits all came on time. Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our clients via conference calls. On October 22, 2021, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, OH USCIS office. Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu accompanied our clients. On the same day of his interview, his green card application was approved.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

NATIONALITY: Filipina                                                                                         

LOCATION: Tujunga, CA 

Our client is from the Philippines who came to the U.S. on a B-2 visitor’s visa in October 2008. Since then, she has remained in the United States. In March 2016, our client married her U.S. citizen husband.  She retained our office on March 24, 2021 for her green card application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on April 6, 2021.  Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and work permits all came on time. Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our clients via conference calls. On October 20, 2021, our client was interviewed at the Los Angeles, CA USCIS office. On October 21, 2021, her green card application was approved.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

NATIONALITY: India

LOCATION: Youngstown, OH 

Our client is from India who came to the U.S. on a B-2 visitor’s visa in December 2018. Since then, he has remained in the United States. In December 2019, our client married his U.S. citizen wife.  He retained our office on February 3, 2021 for his green card application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and Adjustment of Status Application on March 26, 2021.  Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and work permits all came on time. Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our. On October 25, 2021, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, OH USCIS office. Attorney JP Sarmiento accompanied our clients. On October 26, 2021, his green card application was approved.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

NATIONALITY: Ghanaian

LOCATION: Akron, OH 

Our client is from Ghana who came to the U.S. on a F-1 student visa. In December 2018, our client married his U.S. citizen wife.  He retained our office on March 2, 2021 for his green card application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on March 16, 2021.  Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and work permits all came on time. Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our clients. On October 22, 2021, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, OH USCIS office. Attorney JP Sarmiento accompanied our clients. On the same day of his interview, his green card application was approved.

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CASE: I-751 / Waiver of the Joint Waiver Requirement
APPLICANT: Filipina
LOCATION: Dallas, TX

Our client contacted our office in late January of 2021 regarding her potential I-751 filing. She is from the Philippines and married a U.S. citizen in August 2017. Through her marriage with a U.S. citizen spouse, she obtained a 2-year conditional green card in April of 2019. Therefore, her conditional residency terminated in April 2021.

Unfortunately, during their marriage, our client and her ex-husband went through struggles. They lived separately for a while and their divorce was finalized. We advised that we can help her file the I-751 application with a waiver of the joint filing requirement. We requested a waiver because our client entered into the marriage in good faith, but the marriage was terminated through divorce or annulment before they can file a joint petition.

On March 12, 2021, our office filed the I-751 application with various supporting documents to demonstrate our client’s bona fide marriage with her ex-husband.  Eventually, on October 14, 2021, the USCIS approved our request for the removal of conditions on her permanent resident status without even an interview. Now, she has her ten-year green card.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

NATIONALITY: Hong Kong                                                                                      

LOCATION: Medina, OH 

Our client is from Hong Kong who came to the U.S. on a B-2 visitor’s visa in October 2020. In January 2021, our client married her U.S. citizen husband.  She retained our office on February 9, 2021 for her green card application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on March 2, 2021.  Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and work permits all came on time. Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our clients via conference calls. On October 19, 2021, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, OH USCIS office. Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu accompanied our clients as well. On the same day of her interview, her green card application was approved.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Green Card (Same Sex Marriage Case)

CLIENT: Filipino

LOCATION: Marion, OH

Our client came to the United States from the Philippines on a B-2 visitor’s visa in April 2017. Since then, he has remained in the United States. In September 2020, he married his U.S. Citizen same-sex spouse in Ohio.

On June 26, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court held that restricting U.S. federal interpretation of “marriage” and “spouse” to apply only to heterosexual unions, by Section 3 of the defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), is unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. ___ (2013). After Windsor decision, the USCIS implemented a new policy that the USCIS officer must review immigration via petitions filed on behalf of a same-sex spouse in the same manner as those filed on behalf of an opposite-sex spouse. As long as a same-sex couple is married in a U.S. state that recognizes same-sex marriage, their marriage shall be considered a valid marriage under the immigration law. 

They married in Ohio where same-sex marriage is recognized. Our client contacted our office and retained us on October 2, 2020 for his I-130 petition and I-485 adjustment of status application. Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 petition and I-485 adjustment of status application together with all necessary supporting documents on October 23, 2020. Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and work permits all came on time. 

Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our clients via conference calls. On September 16, 2021, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, Ohio USCIS office. Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu accompanied our clients as well. Eventually, our client’s green card application was approved on October 13, 2021.

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CASE: I-130 (Petitions for Parent) and Adjustment of Status
CLIENT: Kenyan
LOCATION: Arlington, VA

Our client retained us to petition for his father who came to the U.S. from Kenya. Our client is US citizen by birth and his father came to the United States in 2003 as a G-4 visa holder. He contacted our office in January of 2021 and discussed with us a possible I-130 petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status application for his father. He retained our office on January 31, 2021. 

Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Immigrant Visa Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on March 4, 2021.  Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and work permits all came on time. On October 12, 2021, the USCIS approved our client’s father’s adjustment of status application.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

NATIONALITY: Macedonian                                                                                         

LOCATION: Parma, OH 

Our Macedonian client came to the U.S. on a F-1 student visa. In January 2021, our client married her U.S. citizen husband.  She retained our office on January 29, 2021 for her green card application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on February 5, 2021.  Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and work permits all came on time. Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our clients via conference calls. On October 13, 2021, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, OH USCIS office. Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu accompanied our clients as well. On the same day of her interview, her green card application was approved.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

NATIONALITY: Colombian                                                                                      

LOCATION: Parma, OH 

Our client is from Colombia who came to the U.S. on a F-1 student visa. In January 2021, our client married her U.S. citizen husband.  She retained our office on January 28, 2021 for her green card application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on February 2, 2021.  Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and work permits all came on time. Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our clients via conference calls. On October 14, 2021, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, OH USCIS office. Attorney JP Sarmiento accompanied our clients as well. On October 15, 2021, her green card application was approved.

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