CASE: Asylee Adjustment of Status
CLIENT: Chinese
LOCATION: Albany, NY
Our client came to the United States from China on an F-1 student visa, and through our legal assistance, he was granted asylee status in December 2016 at the New York Immigration Court.
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, an asylee may apply for lawful permanent resident status after he or she has been physically present in the United States for a period of one year after the date he or she was granted asylum status. Around December 2017, one year after he got his asylee status in the United States, our client contacted our office again and sought legal assistance for his adjustment of status. We prepared and filed his I-485 Adjustment of Status Application on December 19, 2017. Everything went smoothly and the receipt notice and fingerprint appointment all came on time.
Prior to the interview, we thoroughly prepared our client via conference calls. On July 11, 2018, our client was interviewed at the Latham, New York USCIS Field Office. Attorney Sung Hee (Glen) Yu accompanied him at the interview as well. The interview went well, and after the interview, the USCIS approved our client’s Adjustment of Status application. He is now a permanent resident of the United States.