CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

CLIENT: Korean

LOCATION: Cleveland Heights, OH

Our client came to the United States from South Korea with a F-1 student visa. He married a U.S. Citizen in May 2019 and retained our office on June 10, 2019 for his green card application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on July 17, 2019. 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 as well. On November 4, 2019, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, Ohio USCIS office. Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu, Esq. from our office accompanied our clients as well. Eventually, on the same day of his interview, his green card application was approved.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

CLIENT: Moroccan

LOCATION: Strongsville, OH

Our client came to the United States from Morocco with a B-2 visitor’s visa in October 2016. After her authorized stay period was over, she remained in the United States.  She married a U.S. Citizen in March 2019 and retained our office on March 19, 2019 for her green card application. Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on April 24, 2019.  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 as well. On November 1, 2019, our client was interviewed at Cleveland, Ohio USCIS office. Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu, Esq. from our office accompanied our clients as well. Eventually, on the same day of her interview, her green card application was approved.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

CLIENT: Taiwanese

LOCATION: New York, NY

Our client came to the United States from Taiwan with an H-1B work visa in 2018. She married a U.S. Citizen in November 2018 and retained our office on January 8, 2019 for her green card application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on January 29, 2019. 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 November 5, 2019, our client was interviewed at the New York, NY USCIS office. Eventually, on the same day of her interview, her green card application was approved.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

CLIENT: Filipina

LOCATION: Huntington Beach, CA

Our client came to the United States from the Philippines with a B-2 visitor’s visa in July 2018. She married a U.S. Citizen in October 2018 and retained our office on November 13, 2018 for her green card application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on December 26, 2018. 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 November 6, 2019, our client was interviewed at the Santa Ana, California USCIS office. Eventually, on November 7, 2019, her green card application was approved.

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CASE: Adjustment of Status Based on Approved K-1 Visa

CLIENT: Indian

LOCATION: New York, NY

Our client came to the United States in November 2018 as a K-1 visa entrant from India.  Our client is the beneficiary of an approved I-129F petition. She came to the United States as a K-1 Fiancée of a U.S. Citizen whom she married within 90 days of her entry. By law, if you married your petitioner-fiancé within 90 days of your K-1 visa entry, you are eligible to apply for adjustment of status (green card) in the United States. She married in November of 2018. 

Our client contacted our office again and consulted with us for her adjustment of status application. In fact, our office helped her K-1 visa processing. She retained our office again in December 2019. After the retention, our firm quickly prepared and filed the I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on December 5, 2018.  Things went smoothly and the receipt notices, and the fingerprint appointment all came on time.  

Thereafter, the USCIS scheduled an interview for our client’s adjustment of status application.  Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our clients via conference calls. On November 1, 2019, our clients were interviewed at the New York, New York USCIS office. Eventually, on the same day of the interview, her green card application was approved.

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CASE: I-130 (Petitions for Parent) and Adjustment of Status

CLIENT: Ukrainian

LOCATION: Parma, OH

Our client and his parents contacted our office in July 2018. Our client’s parents came to the United States in November 1994 with a  B-2 visitor’s visa. They have remained in the United States since then. While they were in the United States, they filed for asylum in the United States and were placed in removal proceedings. Their removal proceedings were terminated by the immigration judge and they have remained in the United States.

Our client’s son became 21 years old in March 2019. Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Applications on April 1, 2019.  Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and a work permit all came on time. On September 23, 2019, our clients appeared at their I-485 adjustment of status interview at Cleveland, Ohio USCIS Field Office. Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu from our office also accompanied our clients as well. 

Eventually, on the same day of her interview, our client’s mother’s adjustment of status application was approved. However, the USCIS issued Request for Evidence for our client’s father and requested the certified copy of his criminal record in the 90s. Our office filed the Response to RFE on October 16, 2019. On October 30, 2019, our client’s father’s adjustment of status application was approved.

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

CLIENT: German

LOCATION: Columbia, SC

Our client came to the United States from Germany in April 2019 as a visa waiver entrant. He married his U.S. Citizen same-sex spouse in June 2019.

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 Washington, D.C. where the same-sex marriage is recognized. Our client contacted our office and retained us right after they got married 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 June 24, 2019. 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 16, 2019, our client was interviewed at the Charleston South Carolina USCIS office. The interview went well and his green card application was approved on October 22, 2019.

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CASE: I-751

APPLICANT: Mexican

LOCATION: Fairborn, OH

Our client contacted our office in April of 2019 regarding his I-751 application.

He is from Mexico and he married a U.S. citizen. Through his marriage, he obtained a 2-year conditional green card in June of 2017. Thus, his conditional residency terminated in June 2019. 

To comply with immigration requirements, our client and his wife had to file an I-751 Joint Petition to Remove Conditions. He retained our office on April 23, 2019, and our office prepared an I-751 application for our client with other supplemental exhibits.

On April 24, 2019, our office filed an I-751 application to the USCIS with multiple affidavits from his friends and family members, joint bank statements, utility bills, joint tax documents, , and photos of our client and his wife to demonstrate the bona fideness of their marriage.

Several months later, the USCIS scheduled an interview for our client and his wife. On October 25, 2019, our client and her husband were requested to appear for the interview at the USCIS Cincinnati Field Office.  Prior to the interview, our office prepared them thoroughly in our office as well. The interview went well, and as a result, on October 28, 2019, the USCIS approved our client’s I-751 application. 

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

CLIENT: Iranian

LOCATION: Lakewood, OH

Our client came to the United States from Iran with a F-1 student visa in February 2013. He married a U.S. Citizen in August 2018 and retained our office on April 18, 2019 for his green card application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on May 22, 2019. 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 as well. On October 17, 2019, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, Ohio USCIS office. Attorney JP Sarmiento from our office accompanied our clients as well. Eventually, on the same day of his interview, his green card application was approved.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

NATIONALITY: Indian                                                                                                       

LOCATION: Charlotte, NC

Our client is from India who came to the U.S. on a F-1 student visa. In April 2018, our client married his current U.S. citizen wife.  He retained our office for his green card application. Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on October 5, 2018. 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 1, 2019, our client was interviewed at the Charlotte North Carolina USCIS office. Eventually, on October 11, 2019, his green card application was approved.

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