CASE: Adjustment of Status Based on Approved K-1 Visa
CLIENT: Korean
LOCATION: Dayton, OH

Our client came to the United States in June 2011 as a K-1 visa entrant from Korea.  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.  

Our client contacted our office initially in the middle of August and consulted with us for her adjustment of status application. She retained our office on August 23, 2011.  Our firm quickly prepared and filed the I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on August 29, 2011 one week before her K-1 authorized stay period expired.  Things went smoothly and the receipt notices, and the fingerprint appointment all came on time.  Her work authorization card was issued on November 9, 2011. 

It is not mandatory to have an adjustment of status interview for an applicant who entered on a K-1 visa.  However, the USCIS may require an interview to test the validity and bona fide nature of the marriage between the Petitioner and Beneficiary. The USCIS did not require an adjustment interview for our client.  On December 5, 2011, her green card application was approved.

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CASE: I-129F Fiance Petition and Fiance Visa

PETITIONER: Originally from Russia and current US Naturalized Citizen

APPLICANT: Russian 

Our client, the Petitioner, met his Russian fiancé online and they vacationed in Thailand early this year. A few months after he came back to the States and his fiancé, back in Russia, he retained our firm to get a visa for his fiancé. We informed him of all supporting documents we would need, helped him and his fiancé draft a letter in support of the fiancé petition, and filed the petition on March 18, 2010. On June 22, 2010, the I-129F fiancé petition was approved. Our client’s fiancé was then scheduled for a fiancé immigrant visa interview in early September 2010 at the US Embassy in Moscow. We prepared all forms and supporting documents for her interview and sent them by international mail to Moscow. She was also prepared prior to the appointment. On September 2, 2010, our client passed her fiancé visa interview. She would be reunited with our client in the U.S. soon and would get married within 90 days of her entry. From there she can apply for her green card.

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