CASE: I-751
APPLICANT: Turkish
LOCATION: New Jersey
Our client contacted our office in September of 2014 regarding her I-751 application.
She is from Turkey and she married a U.S. citizen in February 2010. Through her marriage, she obtained a 2-year conditional green card in June of 2011. Her conditional residency terminated in June 2013.
To comply with immigration requirements, our client and her husband should have filed an I-751 Joint Petition to Remove Conditions before June 2013. However, due to financial and health related reasons, they could not file the I-751 application on time.
However, the USCIS still allows I-751 applicants to file late as long as there is a “good cause” for the late filing. She retained our office on October 1, 2014 and our office prepared an I-751 application for our client with bona fide marriage evidence and a letter to explain their late filing.
On October 17, 2014, our office filed an I-751 application to the USCIS with affidavits of applicant and her husband to explain their late filing and other joint documents to demonstrate the bona fideness of their marriage.
There was no RFE issuance or interview request for our client’s I-751 application. As a result, on May 27, 2015, the USCIS approved our client’s I-751 application and our client received her 10-year green card.