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

CLIENT: British

LOCATION: Mount Vernon, NY

Our client came to the United States in July 2018 as a K-1 visa entrant from the United Kingdom.  Our client is the beneficiary of an approved I-129F petition. He came to the United States as a K-1 Fiancé of a U.S. Citizen whom he married within 90 days of his 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. He married in August of 2018. 

Our client contacted our office initially and consulted with us for his adjustment of status application. He retained our office on September 4, 2018. After the retention, our firm prepared and filed the I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on September 6, 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 call. On January 7, 2020, our clients were interviewed at the New York, NY USCIS office. 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: Nigerian

LOCATION: Cleveland, OH

Our client came to the United States from Nigeria with a F-1 student’s visa in August 2017. She married a U.S. Citizen in July 2019 and retained our office on September 6, 2019 for her green card application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on September 26, 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 at our office. On January 6, 2020, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, Ohio USCIS office. Attorney JP Sarmiento from our office also accompanied our clients. Eventually, on the same day of the interview, her green card application was approved.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

CLIENT: Thai

LOCATION: Akron, OH

Our client came to the United States from Thailand on a B-2 visitor’s visa in September 2010. He married a U.S. Citizen in March 2018 and retained our office on May 1, 2018 for his green card application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on May 21, 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 as well. 

On October 25, 2018, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, Ohio USCIS office. Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu from our office accompanied our clients as well. In July 2019, the USCIS issued a Request for Evidence and requested our client to submit more bona fide marriage documents and documents regarding his previous marital relationships with his ex-wife. Our client gathered documents and our office prepared and filed an extensive Response to RFE to the USCIS Cleveland Field Office. Eventually, on December 19, 2019, his green card application was approved.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

CLIENT: Portuguese

LOCATION: Cleveland, OH

Our client came to the United States from India (citizen of Portugal) on a F-1 student’s visa. She married a U.S. Citizen in May 2019 and retained our office on August 6, 2019 for her green card application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on August 19, 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 December 17, 2019, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, Ohio USCIS office. Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu from our office also accompanied our clients. Eventually, on December 18, 2019, her green card application was approved.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status
CLIENT: Filipina
LOCATION: Cleveland, OH 

Our client came to the United States in June 2018 with a J-1 Exchange Visitor visa from the Philippines.  Her J-1 visa was not subject to the two-year foreign residency requirement, so she could apply for the adjustment of status in the United States without a waiver.  She married a U.S. Citizen in May 2019 and retained our office on June 4, 2019 for her adjustment of status application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on June 17, 2019.  Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and the work permit all came on time. There was no Request for Evidence.  Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our clients at our office. On December 9, 2019, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, Ohio USCIS Field Office.  Attorney JP Sarmiento from our office accompanied them at the interview as well.  On December 9, 2019, her green card application was approved. 

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

CLIENT: Indian

LOCATION: Bay Village, OH

Our client came to the United States from India on a F-1 student visa. He married a U.S. Citizen in July 2019 and 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 August 28, 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. On December 9, 2019, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, Ohio USCIS office. Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu from our office accompanied our clients as well. Eventually, on the same day of the interview, his green card application was approved.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

CLIENT: Nigerian

LOCATION: Hicksville, OH

Our client came to the United States from Nigeria on a B-2 visitor’s visa in January 2016. He married a U.S. Citizen in June 2019 and 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 June 20, 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 December 9, 2019, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, Ohio USCIS office. Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu from our office accompanied our clients as well. Eventually, on the same day of the interview, his green card application was approved.

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CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status

CLIENT: Vietnamese

LOCATION: Newbury Park, CA

Our client came to the United States from Vietnam with a J-1 exchange visitor visa in 2006. She had government funding for her J-1 program, so she was subject to the 2 year foreign residency requirement. Though she married a U.S. Citizen in May 2016, she could not file her adjustment of status application without getting a waiver. With our office’s legal assistance, she was able to obtain a J-1 hardship waiver from the USCIS in January 2019. 

After the waiver approval and retained our office on January 28, 2019 for her green card application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and Adjustment of Status Application on February 13, 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 December 2, 2019, our client was interviewed at Chatsworth, CA USCIS office. Eventually, on the same day of her interview, her green card application was approved.

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CASE: I-130 and Consular Processing (Immigrant Visa) – Marriage-Petition

Our client is a U.S. Citizen who married her husband in Egypt in October 2018.  After the marriage, she came back to the United States to work and wanted to file the I-130 petition for her husband in Egypt.  She retained our office in October 2018 and our office prepared and filed the I-130 petition on October 22, 2018. This I-130 Petition was approved by the USCIS in February 2019. Once the I-130 petition was approved, she retained us again to bring her husband to the States via consular processing.

Once retained, we filed the immigrant visa packets to the National Visa Center on April 26, 2019, who in turn forwarded our client’s materials to the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. An interview notice was set for the client at the US Embassy in Cairo, and we prepared him for the interview. On November 26, 2019, the interview was conducted.  Eventually, after the interview, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt approved and issued his immigrant visa.

With the approved immigrant visa, our client’s husband can come to the United States immediately, and he will get his green card within two months of entry.

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

CLIENT: Thai

LOCATION: Garfield Heights, OH

Our client came to the United States in March 2019 as a K-1 visa entrant from Thailand.  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 June of 2019. 

Our client contacted our office initially and consulted with us for her adjustment of status application. She retained our office on June 4, 2019. After the retention, our firm quickly prepared and filed the I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on June 24, 2019.  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 14, 2019, our clients were interviewed at the Cleveland Ohio USCIS office. Attorney JP Sarmiento form our office also accompanied our clients. Eventually, on the same day of the interview, her green card application was approved.

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