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

Our client came to the United States in March 2011 with a B-2 tourist visa from the Philippines. She married a U.S. Citizen in June 2011 and retained our office around the same time for her adjustment of status application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and Adjustment of Status Application on July 18, 2011.  Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, the 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. On September 19, 2011, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, Ohio USCIS. Attorney Sung Hee Yu accompanied them at the interview as well.  On the same day, her green card application was approved.

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CASE: B-2 Visa Extension / I-539
NATIONALITY: Korean
LOCATION: Cleveland, Ohio

Our client is a Korean national who came to the U.S. on a B-2 visitor visa. She wanted to visit her daughter who is studying in the United States. She consulted with our firm a few weeks before the expiration of her B-2 status. She wanted to extend her visit for six months to visit her sister and be with her daughter for a longer time.  We explained that the CIS has been more stringent on visitor status extensions.

Upon retention, we went into detail with her reasons for requesting extension. Her daughter was entering her senior year in high school, and our client wanted to be there as her daughter chooses a college and prepares for applications. We made sure all addresses, contact information, and dates on her statements were complete and accurate. We made sure all her plans were supported by corroborating evidence as exhibits to the application to avoid a possible Request for Evidence from the CIS.  Our office submitted letters from family members in the United States, an employment verification letter for her husband in South Korea, as well as financial documents from Korea. We filed the I-539 Extension Application on July 26, 2011 and her B-2 status extension was approved on August 11, 2011 with no Requests for Evidence.

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

Our client came to the United States in November 2007 with an H-2B temporary work visa from the Philippines. She overstayed and later on married a U.S. Citizen in February 2011. They then retained our office in March 2011 for her green card.

Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and Adjustment of Status Application on April 13, 2011.  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 July 11, 2011, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, Ohio USCIS.  We accompanied them at the interview as well.  On July 20, 2011, her green card application was approved and our client obtained her green card.

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CASE: Termination of Removal Proceedings for Adjustment of Status With CIS
CLIENT: Jordanian
LOCATION: Cleveland, Ohio

Our client is a Jordanian citizen who came to the U.S. on a B-2 Visa in 2008. She resides in the greater Cleveland area with her U.S. citizen husband.  They were married in 2006 in Jordan, and prior to retaining our firm, her husband filed an I-130 petition for her while she was in Jordan. Unfortunately, his I-130 petition was denied by the USCIS due to his failure to prove a bona fide marital relationship. Since our client’s husband filed the I-130 by himself, he could not provide sufficient supporting documents when the USCIS issued the Notice of Intent to Deny.  Eventually, this I-130 petition was denied in July 2007, so our client could not come to the United States with a valid immigrant visa.

Thereafter, our client’s husband mistakenly filed Form I-129F to obtain a fiancée visa for our client. However, a K-1 fiancé visa could not be issued because they were already married at the time of the filing.  Thus, this K-1 visa was subsequently denied by the USCIS in 2008.

Our client then came to the the United States with a B-2 visitor visa in December, 2008, but she did not leave the country even after her authorized period of stay was expired. She started to reside with her husband in Ohio. In March 2010, the DHS issued her a Notice to Appear. She was placed in removal proceedings.

They visited our office in early April of 2010.  Once retained, our office promptly filed an I-130 Petition with bona fide marriage evidence. Their I-130 interview was scheduled in December, 2010, and our office thoroughly prepared and accompanied them for the interview. The interview lasted two hours but the I-130 petition was eventually approved.  Our office represented her also at her Master Calendar hearings in Cleveland Immigration Court.

Once the I-130 was approved, our office filed a request to join in a Motion to terminate proceedings with the I-485 application and supporting documents. The DHS counsel in Cleveland agreed to terminate our client’s proceedings.  Ultimately, the Immigration Judge granted the Motion to terminate without prejudice and her case was transferred to the USCIS Cleveland Office for final adjudication.

Her I-485 Adjustment of Status interview was scheduled on June 28, 2011, and we accompanied our client and her husband at the interview.  After the interview, the CIS officer recommended her I-485 for approval.  Five years after their marriage, after struggling through the immigration system, our client finally has her green card.

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

Our client came to the United States in January 2010 with an H-2B temporary work visa from the Philippines. She married a U.S. Citizen in January 2011 and retained our office in February of 2011 for her adjustment of status application.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and Adjustment of Status Application on February 15, 2011.  Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and work permits all came on time. There was no Request for Evidence.  Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our clients. On May 10, 2011, our client was interviewed at the Cleveland, Ohio USCIS.  We accompanied them at the interview as well.  On May 16, 2011, her green card application was approved, and our client obtained her green card.

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

Our client came to the United States in 1996 with B-2 visa from Morocco.  However, she overstayed in the United States ever since without any change of status.  Our client got married to a U.S. Citizen in December 2010 and our client retained our office immediately to get assistance for her adjustment of status.  Our firm prepared and filed the I-130 Petition and Adjustment of Status Application on December 30, 2010. Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and work permits all came on time. There was no Request for Evidence.  Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu from our office thoroughly prepared our clients for their USCIS interview. On March 17, 2010, our client was interviewed in Cleveland, Ohio.  Attorney Yu accompanied them at the interview as well.  The interview went very well, and less than a week later, our client obtained her green card. For more success stories on our marriage-based green card cases, please click here. Also feel free to contact our office for questions.

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CASE: I-130 and Consular Processing – Marriage-Petition

CLIENT: Indian

LOCATION: Petitioner: Cleveland Ohio; Beneficiary: Pakistan

Our client is a U.S. citizen who married a Pakistani lady in Pakistan. He had his marriage ceremony with his wife in Pakistan, so he wanted to file an Immigrant visa for his wife by filing an I-130 petition.  It is important to note that an alien cannot adjust his or her status (gets a green card) outside U.S. by filing I-130 and I-485 simultaneously. The Petitioner also had questions on the fact that he was married before and filed an I-130 Petition for his previous wife. We explained that as long as that marriage was bona fide and the second one is bona fide (in good faith), there should be no problem.  Since the client’s wife was not in the United States, and their marriage occurred in Pakistan, our office promptly filed the I-130 and I-129K (for the wife’s K-3 visa) to the National Visa Center. 

The I-130 and I-129K were filed on May 21, 2010 to National Visa Center in New Hampshire.  Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices came on time. After the I-130 approval, we filed the immigrant visa packets to the National Visa Center, who in turn forwarded client’s materials to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. An interview notice was set for the client at the US Embassy in Islamabad, and we prepared her for her interview. On November 29, 2010, the beneficiary went to her interview in Islamabad, Pakistan and the officer right after informed them that the case was to be approved.

With the approved Immigrant visa, our client’s wife can come to the United States immediately, and she will get her green card.

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CASE: Adjustment of Status Based on Marriage
NATIONALITY: Filipino
LOCATION: Ohio

Our client is a Filipino national who came to the U.S. on an tourist visa back in 2002 and overstayed. On August 2003 he married a permanent resident. A petition was filed for her however since he was not a citizen yet, she could not apply for her green card. In the meantime to support herself she did various work, from hair and beauty to cleaning. Eventually her husband became a U.S. Citizen and she retained our office for her adjustment of status. One of her issues was that she was caught speeding and beating the red light on separate occasions, which led to Driving Without a License arrests and charges. She did not have the records nor any recollection of the disposition on those cases, nor did she know how many she had.  An immigration provision may make her ineligible for a green card with 3 Driving Without a License convictions. However, “Traffic Violations” do not make a green card applicant inadmissible. So our office obtained the court documents for our client, making phone calls and going all the municipal courts that adjudicated her case. Upon reviewing the documents, we deemed these were indeed traffic violations that should not prevent her from obtaining a green card.  She also only had one conviction for the no license charge as the others were dismissed. The green card application was filed in February 18, 2010. To avoid delays and potential Requests for Evidence, we included the traffic records with a notation that they were only traffic records which should not be an issue and that the others were dismissed. The case indeed did not have any delays nor Requests for Evidence, and our client was scheduled for her interview in May 27, 2010. Prior to the interview, despite the marriage petition already approved, our office prepared both the client and her US Citizen husband in case both are interviewed. Note that the I-485 interview notice did not stipulate that the husband would also be interviewed.  At the interview in Cleveland, the officer actually interviewed both the husband and the wife, and asked them questions on separate occasions regarding the validity of the marriage. It was a good thing they were both prepared. The interview thus went smoothly. On June 7, 2010, 10 days after the interview, and 8 years after she first arrived in the United States, our client finally received her green card.

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