CASE: Marriage-Based Adjustment of Status.
NATIONALITY:Indian
LOCATION: Austin, TX
Our client is from India who came to the U.S. on a J-1 Visa in December 2006. He came to the U.S. for business training, but his J-1 program made him subject to the two-year foreign residency requirement.
In October 2013, our client married his U.S. citizen wife.
He is eligible to get a green card through marriage to U.S. citizen; however, before we can file his I-130/I-485 application simultaneously, he had to get a waiver of his two-year foreign residency requirement. Therefore, prior to his marriage, in order to get a waiver of his two-year foreign residency requirement, he consulted with our office and decided to retain our office.
Our office worked on our client’s J-1 waiver.. Eventually, the Indian Embassy issued a No Objection Statement for our client, and sent this letter to the State Department’s Waiver Review Division. On August 6, 2013, the Waiver Review Division issued a favorable recommendation based on the No Objection statement. The CIS has receipted the fee and issued an I-612 approval notice.
Our firm then prepared and filed an I-130 petition and I-485 adjustment of status application on October 25, 2013. Everything went smoothly and the receipt notices, fingerprint appointment, and work permits all came on time. Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our client through conference calls. On March 25, 2014, our client was interviewed at the San Antonio, Texas USCIS office. On the same day, his green card application was approved.