CASE: Joint Motion to Reopen / Adjustment of Status at the EOIR
CLIENT: Chinese
LOCATION: New York, NY
Our client is a Chinese citizen who currently resides in New York City with her US-citizen husband. Our client entered to the United States with a valid J-2 visa in January 1998. Later, she was granted withholding of removal in March 2007 by the Newark Immigration Court. She remained in the United States thereafter. With our office’s legal assistance, our client obtained her J-2 waiver in 2018.
In 2018, our client married her U.S. citizen husband. In January 2019, our client contacted our office and sought for legal assistance for her immigration matters. After consultation, our client retained us on January 7, 2019. Upon retention, we first filed her husband’s I-130 petition for her on January 18, 2019, and the USCIS approved the I-130 in September 2019. Once the I-130 petition was approved, we filed a Request to Join in a Motion to Reopen to the USICE-DHS office in Newark, NJ. Our cover brief explained how she got her withholding of removal status, approval of I-130, and her prima facie eligibility to apply for adjustment of status.
After the long reviewing period, the DHS office in Newark, NJ finally agreed to join in the Motion to Reopen and an assigned counsel signed on the Motion. In March 2021, the Motion to Reopen was granted by the Newark Immigration Court and our office immediately filed a Change of Venue Motion to move our client’s case from Newark to New York.
Once her case was moved to the New York Immigration Court, our office filed the I-485 Adjustment of Status Application and other supporting documents to the New York Immigration Court.